Oxford Globalisation Newswire Archive

As part of yesterdays day-of-action against short-haul flights, called for by Plane Stupid, there were direct-actions and protest against travel agents in Reading.

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Those of you who have been around long enough will know that R.S.I are escorts and have allegedly been using undue force against detainees. GEO is the private company that runs Campsfield detention centre. Read more >>

The Greens have asked Planning Enforcement Officers at the City Council to investigate the legality of two new Subway Restaurants that have recently opened in East Oxford - one on St. Clement's and another on the Cowley Road. Read more >>

British companies are profiting from masacres, human rights abuses and environmental destruction in the most blood-soaked country in the Western hemesphere. Read more >>

It’s difficult to imagine Oxford University professors having cosy chats with seasoned mercenaries. It’s even more difficult to believe that there is a strong link between leading Oxford University academics and men who are paid to go to war and whose only loyalty is to their bank accounts. Or is it? Read more >>

// CAPITALISM SUCKS! - DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE IMF AND WORLD BANK!

// MEET AT REAR OF RISC, 35 - 39 LONDON ST, READING @ 12PM, SAT 16TH SEPTEMBER! AND DRESS SMART... :) MAP @ WWW.RISC.ORG.UK Read more >>

Film Screening:

// CROWD BITES WOLF! ON THE EASTERN BLOCKADES...

See what happened when the International Monetary Fund and World
Bank held their annual meeting in Prague. Want a clue? They ran away
a day early...

// WHEN: MONDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER, 7.30PM

// WHERE: RISC, CONFERENCE ROOM, 35 - 39 LONDON STREET, READING - MAP @ WWW.RISC.CO.UK
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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 >>

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 >>

This Tuesday members of Oxford World Development Movement staged the "G8 Olympics" in Cornmarket Street to draw attention to the lack of aid and debt relief for countries of the developing world, and to highlight the unfair trade rules which make and keep them poor. Campaigners dressed as Bob Geldof and Bono cheered on as others dressed as Blair and Brown failed to deliver on aid, debt and trade, while corporate fat cats pocketed lucrative contracts. 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 >>

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

Submissions are wanted for Corporate Watch's 10th Anniversary Special poetry collection.
See Call for Submissions below

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Linacre College, Oxford University, is hosting two scholarships on "water sustainability" funded by Coca Cola, which has been condemned as "a champion of the unsustainable use of water globally." Please write letters of protest. Read more >>

New film about 9/11 showing at Brookes Uni, plus talk by ex-MI5 whistleblowers David Shayler and Annie Machon Read more >>

22nd March is World Water Day and the World Water Forum (WWF), (private sector think tank) is being held in Mexico City. Read more >>

STILL RUNNING! Read more >>

Oxford World Development Movement (WDM), leading global justice campaigners and founding members of Make Poverty History are organising a conference in Oxford asking ‘Where next after Make Poverty History?’ Read more >>

This Fairtrade Fortnight, events across Oxford are exploring the impact of Fairtrade – as well as the wider global networks that come together in this city considering issues of the empowerment and representation of voices from the global South. Read more >>

Bush recently dropped into Kabul and talked of the fantastic progress there has been here. Read more >>