Oxford Newswire Archive

29th August 2006 – Reading Magistrates Court

Two people from the international Vine and Fig Tree planters (Post Protest Community) who planted trees in Aldermaston in August 2005 begin to augment the altering of matters by appearing in Reading court to initiate changes themselves. Read more >>

Indymedia shows its brightest colours Read more >>

The new Anti-Semitism Read more >>

Maximum Support and Publicity Needed Read more >>

HELP SAVE DAWSON STREET GARDEN - OXFORD. Read more >>

RWE NPower, the German-owed Power Company that runs the ageing Didcot "A" coal-fired power station is adamantly detrmined to destroy a beautiful lake in the Oxfordshire Green Belt by turning it into a Waste Dump for pulverised fuel ash (PFA) despite the existence of better alternatives. The Company has refused to look at recycling options, preferring instead to pay the paltry £2.00 per tonne landfill tax. The Station Manager has so often said "We are in the business of generating electricity, not selling Ash". So, because coal is cheap, Didcot burns more and more instead of gas, and generates more waste, more profits for its shareholders, and leaves a noxious legacy for future generations by its failure to address recycling alternatives, which other Power Stations have done. Read more >>

A 'package' of information, including up-to-date info on the whereabouts of the Camp. The plan of the area around the base, and a detailed description of the best viewing points for plane spotters have been removed as they turned out to be copyright. You can find them here:
 http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/spotting/brize_norton.html. In any case, be very cautious if visiting point N (Viscount Industrial Estate) after 5.00pm - 2 of us got locked in! Read more >>

A peace camp was established at RAF Brize Norton yesterday (Saturday) to monitor the use of the airfield following reports that it (along with RAF Mildenhall and Prestwick Airport) had been used to refuel planes carrying bombs from the US to Israel. Read more >>

Anarchists, peaceniks, sambistas and hula-skirted murderers in the heart of Oxfordshire. Read more >>

While peace protestors and activists block one gate - a covert group from London including a full pink samba band blocked the second busy gate on carterton highroad. Read more >>

an Israeli activist has been seriously injured, apparently brain damaged, by Israeli police Read more >>

Heres a photo of a new mural on the cowley road in east oxford. Read more >>

A protest called at very short notice outside the main gates of RAF Brize Norton had the unexpected effect of closing the main gates, and possibly the entire base, to all traffic for nearly two hours. Brize Norton is one of the RAF bases reportedly being used to refuel planes delivering bombs from the US to Israel for use in the ongoing massacre of Lebanon. Meanwhile a peace camp is being established nearby to watch for further such flights. Some photos of the day are attached, and with a bit of luck a movie of the more exciting bits should materialise here later. Read more >>

Around two dozen peace activists from all over Oxfordshire, held a dignified protest outside the main gates of RAF Brize Norton on Wednesday 9 August. This was the first of two protests to be held at the base against its use by U.S. planes transporting armaments to Israel. The local group was joined by well-known peace campaigners Kate Hudson of CND and Pat Arrowsmith.We were all videoed to bits, to the disgust of some.The second protest will be held on Saturday 12 July, from 12.00. I have more, but similar, pics if required. Read more >>

The Tara Foundation are calling for an International Solidarity Camp at Tara; as many people as possible, from as many countries as possible, to send one message to the Irish State and the property speculators and financiers who will benefit from it: that the M3 will not be permitted to go through the Tara-Skryne Valley. Read more >>

Peace campaigners in Swindon were in attendance at the annual “Lanterns on the Lake” event at Coate Water, to highlight the reason for the event – the anniversary of the world’s first, and hopefully last, act of nuclear warfare, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and also to publicise the protest at Brize Norton this coming Saturday. Things got a bit heated when an Israeli man and his wife took exception to the leaflets being handed out, but fortunately it ended with handshakes and good wishes. Read more >>

This RAF base is being used to refuel American transport aircraft taking weapons to Israel for use in Lebanon. This is active military support for Israel by the British government, three protests and a peace camp are already planned in response. Read more >>

Please try to come to one of these, if only for an hour or so. No arrestable actions are planned. Bring banners, binoculars, a thermos etc. Read more >>

In the last few weeks, an increasing number of horrible, very upsetting photos of the massacres committed by Israel have been coming out of Lebanon.

The alternative media are doing everything possible to break the censorship of images that was enforced by the Corporate and authoritarian State media which only show a sanitized war, disinfected images of material destruction.

The smuggling and widespread dissemination of images from The Realm of The Real that are coming out out of Lebanon and Gaza now make all of us uncomfortable. For those of us who do editing and publishing work, they bring up the awful worry of "is this appropriate?" Read more >>

Early this morning Trident Ploughshares activists boarded a US military plane at Prestwick Airport in the process carrying out an investigation of the involvement by the British authorities in covert and active collusion in Israeli war crimes in Lebanon. Read more >>