Oxford Newswire Archive

Climate change activists have scaled a tower on the coal pile at Didcot power station and unfurled a large orange banner with the words 'climate crime' on it. This is to hightlight that coal fire power stations such as Didcot are not a feasible or sustainable future for energy supply. It is also to bring attention to the days of action against climate change taking part later in the summer as part of Reclaim Power - see www.reclaimpower.org.uk - and likewise the Camp for Climate Action - www.climatecamp.org.uk Read more >>

Targeting the press in the next Arab tragedy, under 'self-defense' and Holocaust Immunity Read more >>

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// FILM SCREENING: Atenco - Breaking the Seige!

// WHEN: 7.30pm, Wednesday 19th July

// WHERE: Room 3, RISC International Solidarity Centre, 35-39 London Street, in Reading town centre


May 3rd 2006: As Mexican Police violently attack the peoples of Texcoco & Atenco, Mexico City for selling flowers, the residents display their dignity, humanity and bravery in their steadfast resistance, which continues......


Hosted by Chi'iltak (Reading based anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian Zapatista Solidarity group).

Email:  chiiltak@hotmail.co.uk
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Hello Everyone,
I just want to express my sincere gratitude to everyone, for their help and support. I am here today because of you guys. I am so honored to have met some of you and to even know your names. Thank you very much. May GOD grant all our wishes and GOD bless everyone of you. Thank you very much.
Antony





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THE HOME OFFICE INTENDS REMOVING Antony Aghayere, and "deport the evidence" of its brutality to refugees, on Thursday evening (13th July) at 22:00 aboard Virgin Atlantic Flight VS651 from Heathrow to Lagos, Nigeria. Read more >>

raditionally, British media reporting of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been heavily biased in favour of the United States’ major ally in the region, Israel. A 2002 Glasgow University Media Group report found that television broadcasters were six times as likely to present Israeli attacks as “retaliating” or in some way hitting back as Palestinian attacks. This caused many viewers to believe that the Palestinians were to blame for the conflict. (Greg Philo and Mike Berry, ‘Bad News from Israel‘;
 http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/sociology/units/media/israel.htm) Read more >>

Oxford World Development Movement (WDM) will be staging the "G8 Olympics" in Oxford City Centre on Tuesday 18th July at 1pm to draw attention to the fact that the promises made at last year's G8 Summit by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have not been kept. Oxford WDM members dressed as Bob Geldof and Bono will be judging others dressed as Blair and Brown in a triathlon of debt, aid and trade. Read more >>

‘Please, deliver us from this racist prison of Colnbrook immigration removal centre.
We have been detained indefinitely without having committed any crime; our only one crime is to claim asylum in the UK.
1.Some of us still have appeals pending; our countries are not safe for us to go back voluntarily.
2. Some of us who want to go back, but we are hostage, SERCO (the private company that runs the centre) is making money from us.’
Colnbrook detainee Forum Read more >>

This covers from the end of Bitola to Tirana Read more >>

ITV interview - video Read more >>

Afghanistan as usual Read more >>

Here is the first exclusive show on our P2P TV channel - offlineTV - there will be new content every day.

If anyone has a good quality short film that they wanna show, upload it to the scratch channel

 https://channelguide.participatoryculture.org/?q=viewchannel/878 Read more >>

Join a BETA test of the Internet TV Revolution. Read more >>

Thursday 6th July

'Climate injustice in the Niger Delta: Ten years on from Ken Saro-Wiwa'

7-9 pm, Holywell Music Rooms. £3/£2. Read more >>

An international group of animal rights campaigner hold highly visible protest in Oxford against the University's new animal laboratory. Police wrong footed completely, and protestors manage to march through Cornmarket and be highly visible despite earlier attempts at state repression of all protests. Read more >>

Oxford gets its own Critical Mass Read more >>

MEXICAN EX-POLITICAL PRISONER ALEJANDRO CEREZO SPEAKS IN READING 27 JUNE

// A VOICE OF RESISTANCE AGAINST REPRESSION!

// MEXICAN EX-POLITICAL PRISONER - ALEJANDRO CEREZO - SPEAKS IN READING!

// DATE / TIME - TUESDAY 27TH JUNE, 8.30PM

// VENUE - ROOM 3, RISC, 35-39 LONDON STREET, READING

// FREE / DONATION Read more >>

Police repression against animal rights protestors at protest at University of Oxford honorary degree ceremony. Five arrested. Numerous people assaulted and injured by Thames Valley who then forcibly moved the demo so it was effectively hidden. Read more >>

(I think we should point out that both the writer and the victim of these dreadful incidents have been Oxford residents for the last few years, so it is legitimate for them to publish to Oxford Indymedia. eileen)
Necati was raped and tortured by Greek coastguards on the island of Crete in 2001, while an immigration detainee. Today, 5 years after the event, 5 men found guilty in 2004 (though charged with lesser crimes of abuse and sexual assault) remain in uniform. An appeal that we understand will see their acquittal today takes place in the absence of Necati and in the absence of his evidence. Necati's letters to the court have been ignored, and his attempt to telephone the court revealed astonishing bias in favour of the guilty coastguard officers. such is justice in Greece. The Prime Minister's office and the President's office have so far declined to comment. Read more >>

120 migrants detainees on hungerstrike in Campdfield Immigration Removal Center, near Oxford, went on hungerstrike last week to protest against conditions. Here is a letter some of the hungerstrikers wrote for the press. Read more >>