Oxford Newswire Archive

Climate campaigners have this morning shut down N-Power’s flagship coal plant at Didcot in Oxforshire.



The twenty peaceful protesters rode their push-bikes past security guards at 4.30am this morning before splitting into two groups. One team has shut down the giant coal conveyors which feed the boilers at the plant, while a second group of nine men and women has climbed the inside of the iconic 200m-high chimney and reached the top. They say they have enough food and water to stay in place for ‘weeks, not days’ - during which time the plant will be unable to operate. Already the activists in the chimney are securing the route behind them to ensure they can’t be reached by police and security guards. Read more >>

Shell's high-profile annual recruitment event at Oxford's Randolph Hotel was disrupted last night when members of the audience invaded the stage and took over the event. Around 20 campaigners from Thames Valley Climate Action [1] targeted the 6.30pm event in protest at the company's major involvement in Canada's Tar Sands, as well as their collusion in human rights abuses in Nigeria and Ireland, their destructive drilling in the Arctic, and their contribution to climate change. Read more >>

Shell's annual graduate recruitment event aimed at schmoozing Oxford University students was disrupted by local activists tonight who heckled, switched off displays and audio equipment, gave an alternative speech and chatted to the students. Read more >>

BP's flagship annual recruitment event at Oxford's Randolph Hotel was disrupted last night when members of the audience jumped on the stage and took over the event. Around 20 campaigners targeted the 6.30pm event in protest at the company's recent decision to extract oil from Canada's Tar Sands. Read more >>

Trial of the six activists arrested at the 'Die-in for NATO's Victims in Afghanistan' outside Britain's military nerve centre in Northwood earlier this year.

From 10am, Watford Magistrates Court, The Court House, Clarendon Rd, WD17 1ST
Map:  http://tinyurl.com/ygumwt6 Read more >>

Thames Valley Allience for Conservation. Public Meeting. Presentations with questions and audience discussion afterwards Read more >>

The majority of people in Britain want the troops out of Afghanistan now. They know this war is unwinnable and unjustifiable. The demonstration on Saturday 24 October will give voice to that majority who say the troops must come home now.
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Join us for an action skill share on Sunday 11 October. All welcome
 http://tvca.ox4.org/swoop.php Read more >>

A short story about Claire Arthur, an activist who decided to deliver a giant 'good luck' to Gordon Brown this week after hearing that he intended to go to December's UN climate talks in Copenhagen. Read more >>

Last Wednesday afternoon, 9 Sept, the Climate Rush held a Green Fayre in the centre of Aylesbury with guests Caroline Lucas and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and I went to photograph them. Photos Copyright (C) 2009, Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.
The Climate Rush are continuing on their tour and are now at Stroud. Read more >>

Activists from Don't Build Kingsnorth have today invaded the Dartford offices of construction giant Laing O'Rourke. The protest is against the company's bid to build Britain's first coal fired power plant in 30 Years at Kingsnorth in Kent.
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here's a handy map of arms dealers in Oxford Read more >>

The offices of People & Planet, located in Union Street behind East Oxford Primary School were broken into again last Sunday. Read more >>

People from Oxford helped to peacefully but determinedly occupy one of the roads leading to the BNP's festival of hate for 5 hours on Saturday in Codnor, Derbyshire in spite of police efforts to clear the road and one very weak attempt by a group of BNP thugs to get through - the rest kept there distance and eventually turned back. So much for the master race. Below is a more report from the Unite Against Fascism website on the protest Read more >>

Radio 4's Reality Check didn't check reality when it came to surveillance cameras along the Cowley Road, East Oxford Read more >>

Coach now leaving St Giles at 7.30 am on Saurday 15th Read more >>

Rally to support Vestas Workers called by Oxford & District Trades Union Council,
Wednesday 12 August, 12 noon, Bonn Square, Oxford City Centre Read more >>

OXFORD AND DISTRICT TRADES COUNCIL CALLS ON ALL TO SUPPORT THE RALLY TO SAVE VESTAS WIND TURBINE FACTORY

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Saharawi students due to attend a course in the UK have been prevented from travelling, interrogated and violently assaulted by the Moroccan police. Please contact the Moroccan Ministry of Justice and the British Ambassador to Morocco to help ensure their safety. Read more >>

Journalist Bibi van der Zee reports in the New Statesman on the recent Peace News Summer Camp in Oxfordshire. Read more >>