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Direct action gets satisfaction:)
Below is a quote we featured in our previous post.
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What we mean by direct action
Direct action involves taking action for ourselves, tackling a problem directly without appealing to any authority to act on our behalf.
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Building for change from the base upwards
This may be stating the bleeding obvious but, projects and campaigns based in and focused on their locales are undertaken by people living there.
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Featuring: Community gardens, city farms, organic gardening & food
Regular readers of this blog will be well aware that decentralising and localising our food production and supply systems is something we're very…
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Thought for the day:)
This was first posted on the D.I.Y.
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Long term plans…
On occasions, we take a step back to review what we do with At the grassroots, decide what is and isn’t working, and then make the necessary changes.
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May 2025

From the archives - TALK ON COMMUNITY ACTIVISM
This post was published a short while ago on our sister blog – Stirrings from below. As it concerns our approach to community action in the past, we…
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A little word about our funding...
We don't get any!
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Onwards and upwards...
This post was first published just over a month ago on our sister blog, Stirrings from below. It was one of a series of fairly introspective posts…
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Expropriation of land
We do occasionally dig back into the Alternative Estuary archive to see if there’s anything worth re-posting here on At the Grassroots. The piece below…
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Holding neighbourhoods together
Regular readers of this blog will be aware that we’re passionate about building for change from the grassroots upwards.
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From the source to the mouth...
With At the grassroots, as well as encouraging and supporting projects that empower people at the grassroots, we also support initiatives that help…
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