Oxford Public sector cuts Newswire Archive

Anthony Grayling, founder of the controversial 'New College of the Humanities', which will charge £18 000, was interrupted while speaking at St. Antony's college yesterday by protesters who tried to give him all their stuff in exchange for some education. Read more >>

The Big Society Hospital returned to Oxford on Saturday as activists fro Oxford Save Our Services, Keep Our NHS Public, and several other groups converged on Cornmarket to highlight the disastrous implications of the NHS reforms & cuts. Would you let a Big Society volunteer operate on you? Read more >>

It's often easy to slag off public services - many say they're expensive, bloated, and only exist to pay public sector workers gold plated pensions. But enough about what the Express and Mail say. Here's a video about one Oxford resident who is reliant on public services. Services that are about to be cut. Read more >>

Public sector cuts being introduced by the coalition government are having an overwhelmingly negative impact on public and voluntary sector organisations providing services for refugees and asylum seekers in Oxfordshire. Read more >>

I've been noticing short political rants in all sorts of interesting places around Oxford... I can only conclude squirrels are getting active against the cuts. Read more >>

Witney youth centre was closed on 5 May. Read more >>

Oxford Save Our Services was at the May Day march, and sent us these glorious pics. Read more >>

As the County Council on Tuesday voted to cut funding for 36 youth centres, campaigners fighting to save youth services said “this is not over yet.” Read more >>

Oxford Save Our Services and Save All UK Youth Centres have jointly launched a postcard campaign to put pressure on David Cameron to stop the county council’s youth club cuts. Read more >>

Last Saturday up to 500,000 people joined the TUC's March for the Alternative. Many hundreds, if not thousands, of other people protested against the Con-Dem cuts in different, spikier, ways. Here's my story and reflections. Read more >>

Today campaigners staged a 'big society hospital' in Cornmarket. Patients were operated on by volunteer doctors recruited from shoppers in central Oxford in a satire of the government's 'big society' plans that imagine volunteers can take on the roles of skilled public sector workers. Read more >>

Anti-cuts campaigners are ramping up the pressure to fight cuts in our public services. Here's a selection of protests and meetings that you can get involved in. Read more >>

Stroud Against the Cuts has a new website:  http://www.stroudagainstcuts.co.uk/

There are several coaches going from the area, leaving at different times and from different places. See the details below: Read more >>

If you live in Blackbird Leys, or anywhere else in Oxford, you have just two days to lodge an objection to a Planning Application from the Council to itself for a new swimming pool.
Oxford City Council is pressing ahead with its scheme to close down two leisure centres (Temple Cowley Pools & Fitness Centre, and Blackbird Leys Swimming Pool) and build a brand new pool in Blackbird Leys next to the existing Leisure Centre. The existing centres could be refurbished and improved for £3m, while a new 25m pool will have a capital cost of over £9m. Does this make financial sense or offer value for money when there are cuts to frontline services happening across the city?
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With Oxfordshire County Council set to vote through its budget cuts at the County Council meeting on Tuesday 15th February, you have the right to make your views known.
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On Sunday 9th January, anarchists from Oxford joined a march in Witney, David Cameron's constituency.

Article taken from Issue 3 of The Ox-Fly - Oxford's radical newsletter:
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There has been a lot of talk in the anti-cuts movement about the importance of 'winning the argument'. This strategy holds that the best way to go about fighting attacks on wages, living conditions and services is to point out the flaws in the pro-cuts arguments and suggest alternative policies which would avoid the need for cuts.

Article taken from Issue 3 of The Ox-Fly - Oxford's radical newsletter:
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Keith Mitchell and the County Council are zealously pushing ahead with destructive cuts. Targeted for closure are 20 out of the county's 43 libraries.

Article taken from Issue 3 of The Ox-Fly - Oxford's radical newsletter:
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Two local groups experienced the harsh reality of our "democracy" this month. Politicians claim to represent and listen to us. The campaigners decided to put this to the test.

Article taken from Issue 3 of The Ox-Fly - Oxford's radical newsletter:
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People from all over Oxford come together today to protest against the government's cuts. The march, organised by Oxfordshire Anti-Cuts Alliance, will highlight the massive public opposition to the cuts.

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