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The fourth grassrootsgathering (gg4) took place in Limerick from the 15th to 17th March 2003. Below is what was sent around advertising the event. Scroll further down for an account of what went on.

The fourth grass roots gathering will be taking place in limerickthis weekend at locus. we will be meeting at 9pm on friday night towork out the agenda and timetable for the weekend. workshops and discussions will start on saturday and sunday mornings at 10am and monday will be Patricks day for peace in limerick so bring your costumes.

there will be two main themes to this gathering:

• civil disobedience, direct action and non-violence - purposes, objectives and methods;
• organising and coordinating decentralised networks locally, nationally and internationally.

there will also be a diversity of other workshops covering community, environmental and global justice activism.
bring your sleeping bags, warm clothes, food donations (ask in your local healthfood store or market) and any interesting reading materials you'd like to share.
a phone number will be made public that you can ring on friday to find out the location of locus.

Workshops / Timetable:

List of Workshops needs to be broken down into time table. As well as the workshops there are several areas which need to be dealt with:

• G.N.A.W. (purposes and methods as possible areas of discussion; also effectiveness of focus on shannon)
• Co-ordinating and Decision Making (delegate system, consensus, feedback mechanisms, public debate, internet)
• grassroots gathering (future direction, regional/local gatherings, campaigns?, network?)

A lot of the workshops suggested will be part of these discussions, others will take place in parallel.

Timeline:

Friday: 9PM? opening meeting: circle/small group/forum?, discuss and adapt timetable and agenda, areas of discussion; Suggest additions, deal with issues arising.

Saturday:

8.30AM Begining of breakfast

9AM? Yoga/Tai-Chi, etc;

10AM? Opening meeting: Circle?;

11AM? workshop time;

1PM {begining of lunch} Workshops of short duration and small discussion groups;

2.30PM Lunch meeting: Circle?, timetable, agenda, issues arising;

3PM workshop time (including workshops of short duration and small discussion groups;

6.45PM {begining of dinner} workshops of short duration and small discussion groups;

7.45PM evening metting: circle?, timetable, agenda, issues arising, feedback and discussion of day, proposals for consideration;

9PM song and dance.

Sunday:

8.30AM Begining of breakfast

9AM? Yoga/Tai-Chi, etc;

10AM? Opening meeting: Circle?, timetable, agenda, issues arising, feedback and discussion;

11.30AM? workshop time (including workshops of short duration and small

discussion groups;

2PM? Lunch meeting: Circle?, timetable, agenda, issues arising,

proposals for consideration;

3PM? workshop time (including workshops of short duration and small

discussion groups;

5.30PM? Forum: feedback and discussion of meeting, final proposals for

consideration, small discussion groups;

7PM {begining of dinner} Final metting: circle?, Decisions;

9PM - song and dance.