Welcome to the archive Grassroots Gathering web site. 

The material from the previous gatherings and from groups like DGN and GNAW had become scattered over at least half a dozen web site and some material had vanished from the 'live' web all together.  I've recovered most of this and posted it all onto this single site to make finding 'historic' material easier.

One of the main groups organising protests against Dublin's EU summit in May has criticised an anonymous smear campaign aimed at undermining the right to protest.

Demonstrators challenge anonymous smear campaign against right to protest 

27 March 2004

DEMONSTRATORS CHALLENGE ANONYMOUS SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST RIGHT TO PROTEST

Cork activists of the Grassroots Network are on their way to Dublin for the major mobilisation in the capital this weekend.

The arrests of three protestors in Dublin last night (Tuesday night) have been branded by protest organisers as simply the latest in a campaign of garda harassment in the run-up to next weekend's protests.

Dublin Grassroots Network, which is organising a Mayday weekend of events for an alternative Europe, today condemned the repression of activists campaigning against the World Economic Forum in Warsaw.

May Day organisers condemn Polish represssion

PRESS RELEASE Dublin Grassroots Network April 28th

Dublin Grassroots Network reject in the strongest possible terms allegations made in recent television news that our Saturday "Bring the Noise" march has been "cancelled".

We have shown that it is not so easy to take away democratic freedoms. You can break people's bones. You can throw them in jail. But they will still assemble. And they will not give up the right to protest so easily.

The Dublin Grassroots Network has expressed concern at the non-reporting of injures caused by the Garda attack on demonstrators on the Navan road on Saturday evening.

URGENT NEWS RELEASE Dublin Grassroots Network May 3, 2004 For immediate release

INJURED PROTESTERS WERE DENIED ACCESS TO HOSPITAL

The Dublin Grassroots Network has expressed concern at the non-reporting of injures caused by the Garda attack on demonstrators on the Navan road on Saturday evening.

Spokespeople for the Dublin Grassroots Network welcomed this afternoon's High Court decision, which overturned the District Court's refusal to grant bail to May Day protestors. Twelve men had been refused bail by Judge Coughlan in the District Court at Cloverhill this morning in connection with minor charges arising out of Saturday's protest march from O'Connell St. to the Phoenix Park.

Attempt to criminalise protest overturned

NEWS RELEASE Dublin Grassroots Network May 5, 2004 For immediate release

The four spokespeople for the Dublin Grassroots Network, which organised most of the May Day protest events, today resigned their positions.

May day spokespeople resign en masse

RESS RELEASE Dublin Grassroots Network May 13, 2004