Oxford Newswire Archive

22-10-2007 16:35 | 0 comment(s)

Common Ground Community Garden Evicted! For Now....

Press Release:

Common Ground Squatted Community Garden Evicted - For Now...

Below is an account of the eviction of Common Ground Community Garden. Please e-mail further enquiries to the following e-mail address: katesgrovegraden(AT)yahoo.co.uk

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20-10-2007 21:30 | 1 comment(s)

Activists set up "Camp Hope" at Gloucester Airport

Activists have set up Camp Hope at Gloucester Airport in a protest over proposed expansion and increased aviation at Staverton in Gloucester Read more >>

19-10-2007 14:15 | 1 comment(s)

Untrue Anti-Tatchell Smears Rebutted

A statement by friends of Peter Tatchell, written in co-operation with him asserting that the defamatory smears made against him in this thread are untrue. Read more >>

18-10-2007 12:55 | 1 comment(s)

"Common Ground" Community Garden Finally Evicted

Report on Thursday 18th Octobers eviction of Common Ground Community Garden. Read more >>

16-10-2007 19:50 | 0 comment(s)

"Indonesian territorial integrity" ...it's just a bloody map

An article exposing the UK Government's collusion with Indonesia in stopping the people of West Papua from voting for freedom from Indonesian colonial rule Read more >>

15-10-2007 13:55 | 4 comment(s)

Quick Update on Today's Oxford RBS Actions

Full report with photos to hopefully follow soon, but here's a quick summary! Read more >>

07-10-2007 20:59 | 1 comment(s)

RAF Croughton.... not just tea brewing....

More than 70 local people gather for protest and cakes at RAF Croughton, the US military listening base, just outside Oxford. Read more >>

07-10-2007 03:46 | 0 comment(s)

Corporate publishing houses

For all the bad press that they receive, a lot of people still believe that Western corporations are making some sort of contribution to improving the lot of people in the third world. Let me present a counter-example.

07-10-2007 00:01 | 2 comment(s)

Report from the Oxford Total demo

A brief explanation of some of the situation in Burma and a report on the demonstration in Oxford which took place on the 6th of October, 2007. Read more >>

06-10-2007 17:46 | 3 comment(s)

Total Totally Blockaded in Oxford

Protesters peacefully blockaded a Total petrol station in Oxford today, in support of the democracy movement in Burma (Myanmar); activists were there for two hours and seriously disrupted Total's business for the day. Read more >>

05-10-2007 15:05 | 0 comment(s)

7th Annual Claudia Jones Lecture by Theologian and BroadcasteDr. Robert Beckford

Seventh Annual Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture dedicated to the memory of the pioneer of Black journalism in Britain. This year's lecture will be delivered by Dr Robert Beckford, Reader in Black Theology and Popular Culture at Oxford Brookes University. An award-winning broadcaster for Channel Four, Dr. Beckford's lecture will explore how understanding "whiteness" offers an important strategy for community cohesion and democratic inclusion.
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05-10-2007 11:15 | 3 comment(s)

Burma: Pressure Shows Results : (Keep It Up: Sat :Tate 11am to T Sq)

last night the burmese "junta" agree to open talks with the democratically elected burmese peoples representation, after a meeting with the UN rep . . . .
The media spin of "doom doom" in the west, with the odd "deprioritisation" of this sort of mould-breaking news - with its echoes of the end of apartheid in south africa, or the irish peace processes "key moments" - is suspicious, but . . . . breaking news???? MUCH TO DO, keep up pressure, but FIGHT THE HYPE too! Read more >>

04-10-2007 20:52 | 0 comment(s)

Secret work on new nuclear warhead at Aldermaston

Insiders report that the Atomic Weapons Establishment has already commenced work on a successor warhead to Trident, despite there having been no parliamentary debate or vote on the matter.
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04-10-2007 00:36 | 1 comment(s)

Tara frontline Action -avin it

Tara Valley Action-resistance grows as 30 cultural conservationists stop destruction. Read more >>

02-10-2007 18:45 | 7 comment(s)

Anti-Total protest in Oxford

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29-09-2007 22:25 | 1 comment(s)

'Student Climate Project' takes off!

The 'Student Climate Project' is an exciting new activist project by student activists aimed at getting the wider body of students onboard the climate movement. The project holds its launch gathering from the 30th November to the 2nd of December, and has just launched online forums. Everyone is welcome to get involved! Read more >>

25-09-2007 14:30 | 0 comment(s)

Atomic Weapons Establishment a catastrophe waiting to happen

The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) and the Ministry of Defence have submitted a planning application for a new nuclear warhead component factory at the Burghfield site in Berkshire, yet the site has been struggling to remedy as many as 1,000 safety defects uncovered by the government's official nuclear watchdog. And it has only been allowed to remain open because the Ministry of Defence says the work it does is vital.
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24-09-2007 18:15 | 0 comment(s)

Strategy meeting for those up for acting against detention profiteers