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duncan | 10.03.2003 10:40

Brookes PEACE week, Monday 10th – Sunday 16th march 2003

Brookes university as communication space,

Oxford Brookes Peace Network
Oxford Brookes Peace Network


Oxford Brookes Peace Network


Brookes PEACE week, Monday 10th – Sunday 16th march 2003
National week of action Monday 17th – Sunday 23rd

Brookes university as communication space,

If you are opposed to war, marched in London on feb 15th, want to find out more, want to do something..

Come to the foyer space every lunchtime this week. We will be communicating with each other, what we can do, information about existing networks, what’s on. There will be events on as the week goes on

Monday – 1.30 “what to do when war begins…”
George Roe, Stop the War Coalition


Wednesday – film screenings: “not in my name” “Gandhi”


Thursday- report from 'People's Assembly for Peace'
Construction of Art piece, quilt?

"forum about the war including debate with guest speakers" 5.00-7.00, main lecture hall off the foyer of gypsy lane

all week there will be petitions, online forums, peace ribbons, etc

Wed 12th- 'People's Assembly for Peace', forum organised by Stop the War Coalition, from 10 am to 5 pm at Westminster Central Hall. 2 students have been elected to represent you, the Brookes students.

If you marched in London you took the first major step, now get involved, get your friends, gather at lunchtime, inform yourself, do what you can

 http://osstw.lautre.net/ Oxford students stop the war

please support this, oppose the war, find out what you can do, get involved

duncan
- e-mail: 02092997@brookes.ac.uk
- Homepage: http://osstw.lautre.net/

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Die In

10.03.2003 15:24

Monday 17th March - National "Die In Day"

Express to this government and its supporters what a
war really does, the suffering, pain and loss. We hope
groups and individuals will amass and demonstrate this
in city centres, air bases, oil, arms/financial
market offices etc, wherever visible. And that this
creativity is further expressed through street
theatre, image projection on public buildings,
adbusting, music, bloodied hands, air-raid sirens
shrines, wailing
women and "symbolic painting", to capture the
sentiment and creativity of the day.


this is the scheduled day the war begins

dunk

duncan


Brookes eh?

10.03.2003 19:25

I'm surprised the management allowed this. In fact, I'd be very careful how you plan the event because the reactionaries in charge of room booking/events have been known to pull the plug on a whole bunch of events.

Zz


Day 1- report

11.03.2003 12:05

Day 1- report
Day 1- report

Day 1- report

The main foyer space of gypsy lane university was turned into a communication space

we set up a table on canteen side of foyer, went around the canteen with posters and an orange wig and informed people of the week. some posters were put up around the college (not enough yet)

at 1.30 george, from stop the war coalition, talked about "when war begins..." after this there was some open discussion.

All in all about 10- 15 people attended

Emails and text messages have been circulated, asking people to get involved, spread word, view and contribute to the virtual thread of this week at indymedia  http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=56568&group=webcast

the college paper said it will do an article and follow the events of the week as they progress. Stewart, the communications officer, tried to get us computer hook ups so as we can have a few computers hooked straight up to the thread on the indymedia website. Hopefully these will be up and running today or Wednesday

the school beside us, Cheney school, are having a strike on Thursday against the war, 4 of their students were at Sundays direct action at fairford airbase. We might be able to do something with them on Thursday lunchtime. I hope we can invite them in to participate.

Yesterday evening a board in the foyer space had student union stamped posters outlining our objectives and extra valuable information put on it. Today the board is still there but the posters are not, they will be put back up soon, during lunchtime

“Brookes Stop the War Coalition” has existed in Brookes since Sept.2001 so this is what we are called. There are hundreds of staff and students who have been involved in meetings and events and are on the contact list, so hopefully they will all be aware of this weeks activities and with that come and get involved in the lunchtime activities, as well as informing others in the university of what is going on

Thursday is still planned as the big day, we will have our 2 delegates reporting from the “people peace forum” in London, the quilt making and that night the main event: the open forum with guest speakers.

The following evening we are hoping to have more people lending their voices to oppose Andrew smith M.P. and from that getting involved with the other networks that are already active in oxford in opposing the war.

duncan
- Homepage: http://easa.antville.org/topics/fuspey/


day 2 – report

12.03.2003 19:24

day 2 – report

the table with the posters on it had not been touched,
announcements were made again in the foyer space and in the canteen

only a handful of people came to the stand at the start

later mat came along and it was decided to liven things up a bit, he was introduced as a tombstone seller of sorts, and he expected do be doing lots of business
a “bounce for peace” mechanism was made up, what looked deceptively simple and just a piece of card with “bounce for peace” written on it, was in fact hooked up by a complicated hi-tek system to the soldiers in the front line, so by bouncing on it that told them yet another person was against the war. That was a bit of fun but at least it broke the seriousness of what we were up to, some people played along. Along with this we were turning a normally controlled area into more of a “our area” by fun and inclusive means

a board was taken over and onto this a few posters put up, along with a plain one as a “feedback” system. No one contributed to it

a reporter from the college media came over to witness the goings on and she took a few photos

duncan


Open Forum about the war with guest speakers

12.03.2003 19:46

NO WAR ON IRAQ
Open Forum about the war with guest speakers

Peace week @ Brookes university
main event

Thursday 13th march 2003.
5.00-7.00
main lecture theatre, gypsy lane campus.

Fiyaz Mughal guest speaker
Nancy Lindisfarne oxford artists against the war
Jonathan Neale oxford artists against the war
Nabil Hamdi Brookes lecturer on world development
Andy Kilmister Brookes lecturer on economics
Haluk Sezer Brookes lecturer on economics
Michael Evans globalise resistance
George roe Brookes staff, stop the war coalition
Ian Simpson east oxford community centre
Student from OSSTW oxford students stop the war

the student union has backed the Brookes stop the war coalition, it represents nearly 10,000 of you
It is likely that the war on Iraq will start on Monday the 17th of march, 5 days away

This is a forum to find out

- why the war is wrong
- what you can do about it
- the wider and deeper reasons for war, how it's linked to globalisation and neo-liberalism
- about growing worldwide reactions against the war and unfair politics behind it
- information on many oxford based peace networks

all events of the week are being covered by the web based open network, independent media centre, indymedia  http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=56568&group=webcast
Your contributions and links are most welcome there

Brookes stop the war coalition

duncan


how effective non violence can be

12.03.2003 20:46

how effective non violence can be
how effective non violence can be

c/o wolfgang

duncan


Day 3- report

13.03.2003 12:26



Day 3- report

We got in at lunchtime and again the table and the board had been left alone.

We brought in a tv and video unit and put on “gandhi” the film, with a few posters around it. Mhari brought her sterio and played her “songs of freedom and rebellion” we brought in a few metres of white ribbon and safety pins and from that got busy making peace ribbons, the idea being that they might have a strong visible affect around the college. People started coming up a little bit, we got proper stop the war petitions. The board we made the previous day that hung above our stand had been taken away. We got a board and “war will start in 5 days- what will you do” was written in big bold visible lettering. We went around the canteen and surrounding areas informing people of peace week and Thursdays forum, while giving out flyers about it

Today was a busy day as some seminar or open day was on. There were a lot of parents in the foyer, some had a look, most avoided us.

33 people signed the petitions and many people put on peace ribbons

at 3.30 mike mc clusky, the site services manager came over and told us to turn off the music, as it was not allowed, he then came back and told us to take down our stand, as we had no permission for it. I asked him what we could and could not do. We closed up and went to mike newell, another management person and he told us we could not have space as that is policy.
That area is for the things management wants up. The day we inquired there were 4 stands up in the foyer; anti smoking, fair trade, and 2 others
Barclays often are there. We asked him how this is the case, the college does not want a clutter up foyer, full of different stands from diff college societies. Is this not a healthy sign of college communication and diversity? It appears not. Our foyer is part of the sales pitch of the business of brookes university.

The forum is arranged for tomorrow evening at 5.00 and there will be a gathering of sorts at lunchtime in the foyer

I had a discussion with one elderly gentleman who was telling me about how saddam has to go, I was informing him of worse evils in the world like the millions dying due to unfair social, economic systems and the rising network of people who are finding out about things and with that taking action

 http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=29627 is a very good article to read about "The Rise of Open Source, Network-Based Movements"

duncan


War on IRAQ

18.03.2003 12:43

When war breaks out and the march starts, who is it that the march is meant to help?

I mean the war is going to help the people of Iraq as once Saddam has gone they will be able to spend the money that they get from there oil and spend it on Health and Education. This is what the money is meant to be spent on now, but their leader thinks its better spent on Palaces for him and his family. For that reason alone he should not be aloud to lead the country.

Then there is the matter of protecting the innocent, everyone agrees that war is a dangrous thing, but so is living in Iraq under Saddams leadership. People shouldn't be publicly murdered or gassed because something hasn't gone the right war for the leader of the country.

Any person that is accountable for war crimes shouldnt be leading a country, he has had the opportunity to leave the country but he has said he wouldn't. There is no one else to blame for this situation other than him.

Therefore when war starts think about who you are marching for, if you want to save lives, stay in your lectures and places of work as this is the only option for peace.

TJ


Stop the War Coalition. Objectives+ tj answer

18.03.2003 15:01

Aims and Objectives of the Stop the War Coalition


The aim of the Coalition should be very simple: to stop the war currently declared by the United States and its allies against ‘terrorism’. We condemn the attacks on New York and we feel the greatest compassion for those who lost their life on 11th September. But any war will simply add to the numbers of innocent dead, cause untold suffering, political and economic instability on a global scale, increase racism and result in attacks on civil liberties. The aims of the campaign would be best expressed in the name Stop the War Coalition.

 http://www.stopwar.org.uk/#aims explains further

TJ
see
 http://www.chrononhotonthologos.com/lawnotes/usbomber.htm


the U.S. has bombed 23 countries
since World War II


Average 1 country per year

pushing its empire, if you dont like it you get bombed

they say they are tryign to oust a bad man, bolox ,they are after the oil.

going against the U.N is illegal, does that not make gweorge bush, tony blair and all the soldiers up for warcrimes.

time and time again, the u.s fail to follow through on promised aid and suport after a strike, just see afghanistan, still a mess, more so than it was. only 5000+ innocentt civilians dead

9.11 happened 3000 died, every month that amount are dying in iraq due to sanctions, iraq is bombed every 2 days, destroying infrastructure

quarter million innocentt iraqi civilians expected to die in this war,
what could it spark?
will london or new york be targeted by terrorists, chances are yes

what will it achieve?
a better democracy for all iraqis?

or a US run state in the middle east

who is showing that they are the world military power? US

US and leading "developed" nations still are the cause of 7,000,000 lives lost every year by unhealthy economic systems, ie; WTO and IMF, this is the real war, its always on.

by protesting when war starts it is hoped that the country is shut down, blair loses job and new govt immediatly pulls britain out of war. civil disobedience on this scale might encourage US people to do same and stop needless death

duncan


teach in at brookes

18.03.2003 19:11

teach in at brookes

when war begins.......

on the day of war the students and staff of oxford brookes university will gather outside the main entrance to gypsy lane at 1.00 in protest against the war

this will be followed by a teach-in outside the student union building, on the grass

this is an open invitation to anyone who wants to find out why the war is wrong and what you can do about it.

there will be discussions on direct action, the consequences of, and legal issues, what to do if arrested etc. also banners made and actions planned

then at 5.00 we will congregate on london road, outside, the uni, and make our way to the city centre for 6.00, for the city protest.

come along, bring ideas, friends, football, frisbie, musical instruments, camera etc

again, this is open to all, so bring your friends and also spread word.

brookes stop the war coalition

duncan
- Homepage: http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.asp


stop the madness

19.03.2003 17:05

stop the madness
stop the madness

250,000 innocent civilians are expected to die

a massive humanitarian disaster is expected

stop the madness

the attack will probably start tonight

if so
inform others of the teach in, 1.00 day after attack;tomorrow thursday

come and participate

5.00 gather on london road and march to carfax for 6, where we will meet up with the rest of those in oxford opposed to war.

spread word, get invovled, do what you can

duncan


oxford brookes protests against war

21.03.2003 09:35

Brookes Stop the war coalition

Today - Friday 21st Meet at Carfax at 12.00 and 6.00 to protest against war

In Oxford, thousands of people converged on Carfax tower, holding a rally at 6pm before civil disobedience blocked three bridges. There were reports of police over-reaction to the sit downs. See pictures.

 http://uk.indymedia.org/

a few hundred gathered outside and took part in the rally outside brookes yesterday
there was a teach-in on the grass of the S.U

after this students and staff converged on the gyspy lane corner and headington road. Protestors came down from headington and the two groups merged. The protest moved out onto the street and succeeded in stopping all traffic going into town, despite some confrontation with police and their horses.

at carfax there was a rally at 6pm before civil disobedience blocked three bridges. There were reports of police over-reaction to the sit downs. Many brookes students converged at and participated in the protest on cowley road roundabout.

There were three arrests

Thank you to all who participated and supported

 http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=56568&group=webcast

duncan


Update and review on events

24.03.2003 12:01

later this week the Oxford Brookes Peace network will be holding a meeting for a review and reflection on the anti-war activities and on how people feel about the war itself. As well as planning further actions and events. Place and time to be announced.

Keiran
mail e-mail: keiran_bridgwater@hotmail.com


real casualties of war

24.03.2003 15:42

 http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2003/03/224418.php
shows the real casualties of war

duncan


BROOKES PEACE NETWORK- events today and sat +

27.03.2003 10:07

BROOKES PEACE NETWORK- events today and sat +
BROOKES PEACE NETWORK- events today and sat +

BROOKES STOP THE WAR COALITION
BROOKES PEACE NETWORK

this months OBSCENE paper has a few pages on "peace week", check
it out


hi all
things are still moving here, kieran will have the "brookes
peace society" up and running soon

today, thursday the 27th there is a meeting in

"forum and reflections on the war"
gibbs 215 5.00- 7.00
with guest speaker fiyaz mughal
(lib dem councillor and ethnic minorities spokesperson)

this will be informal and a chance to get feedback after the
demo last thursday the 20th, day X, where:

a few hundred gathered outside and took part in the rally
outside brookes
there was a teach-in on the grass of the S.U

after this students and staff, @ 50, converged on the gyspy lane
corner and headington road. Protestors, @20, came down from
headington and the two groups merged. The protest moved out onto
the street and succeeded in stopping all traffic going into
town, despite some confrontation with police and their horses.

at carfax there was a rally at 6pm before civil disobedience
blocked three bridges. There were reports of police over-
reaction to the sit downs. Many brookes students converged at
and participated in the protest on cowley road roundabout.

There were three arrests

Thank you to all who participated and supported

it has been felt that there is still a gap between muslims and
non-muslims, invitations have been given to the islamic society
to co-operate in a united peace movement, to inform their
members of the peace activists and an open invitation to
participate in any way. but there is still only a very minimal
presence of this. fear and opression have been given as reasons
for this, but a united peace movement should get rid of these
and other rascist issues through solidarity, listening and
understanding

hopefully more muslims will participate this evening, please
inform others

uni ends this week for the easter, so email and the indymedia
thread will become the main ways of communication

stop the war coalition have called for actions in every city
this weekend, so there is

"all of oxford walking for peace"
meet 12.30, sat 29th march
menzil way (off cowley road, beside mosque) to peacefully march
to braod street.

this will end with speakers and more things happening, more of
that later.

please bring lots of colour, and lots of white things; torn up
old sheets, old teeshirts, make doves.

it will be a day of peacefull activity, creativity, learning and
FUN



 http://www.brookes.ac.uk/other/unison/demo2003.html
shows pix from demo at brookes on thr 20th march.
mat leads the music and the conga to the teach in, thats from
the UNISON website, its linked from the brookes website

 http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?
article_id=56568&group=webcast is the main coverage of brookes
activities, please contribute to this, (if you open it then save
it in your favourites folder it is easier for accessing later)

 http://osstw.lautre.net/ is
Oxford Students Stop the War
there is a main forum space there

it is great to know why the war is wrong and to march or engage
in direct action for peace, but the biggest thing you can do is
to inform more and more people. so that they come to the next
event. if you against the war, do what you can to inform others

please add any comments to the indymedia thread too

peace is more FUN

duncan
mail e-mail: 02092997@brookes.ac.uk
- Homepage: http://easa.antville.org/topics/fuspey/


posters swiped???/

27.03.2003 15:05

the posters for todays meeting have all been taken down, despite being official with the S.U stamp

we have been told that uni security and site services are pro war, when we asked them were they reponsible, they said no before a rant about "would sadam allow free speech in his country"

the event will happen
we had another demo in the foyer to inform people about tonight and the march on saturday

below is a link to more casualties of war
The following web sites include photos that are horrific and
distressing so please be warned if you wish to open them.



 http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/03/1588323.php

duncan


oxford Brookes peace network- update 280303

28.03.2003 12:00

oxford Brookes peace network- update, fri 28 mar 03

there was a meeting last night:

"forum and reflections on the war"
gibbs 215 5.00- 7.00
with guest speaker fiyaz mughal
(lib dem councillor and ethnic minorities spokesperson)

All the posters were put up around college for it were taken down, they were S.U stamped. This might have been done by site services, as it is rumoured they are pro-war but there is no proof of this


Uni breaks up today for the easter break.
It would be great if people keep involved and encourage others to do so also.

There are about 15 different anti war groups or networks working around oxford, linking up with them might be the most productive thing but we also can meet and organize events, whatever they might be.
email  takeaction_2002@yahoo.co.uk to get involoved

We are having an

unofficial brookes peace network meeting
monday 31st march 2003
Teach-in site, 1.00

There is talk of trying to develop more creative inclusive events or systems: artistic leaflets and street theatre events. ??
Next term will have a “diversity week” and maybe we can organize something for that.
We might be also able to organize a “party for peace” in southpark???
There are 3 schools just next to us. it would be very good for all of us if we could work together to do something…

Please think about that there is not peace on this planet, our home; earth.
It is up to all of us to do what we can to try to bring more peace
Communication is the key
Working for peace is far more FUN than fighting war


this war is illegal, immoral, unjustified, greedy, opposed by a massive world majority including the UN, expanding the unfair US led economic empire and killing hundreds of innocent children, old people, women and men

 http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2003/03/224418.php
shows who

a massive humanitarian disaster is expected

do what you can to oppose it

peace

dunk

dunacn


Oxford AntiWar website

31.03.2003 11:48

brand new, but a fair bit on it already - definitely worth a look:
 http://www.oxfordantiwar.org.uk/

Mark


community divisions

31.03.2003 15:34

Personally I feel dissappointed with the weak response from muslims and ethnic minotiries of Oxford. As a muslim student myself I am sure that we are in fact a majority if we stand together over this issue of war, the sad part of the war is that not only are the lives of Iraqis in potential danger, but so are the lives of British young men and women out there in Iraq. It is in no way unpatriotic to want to see an end to the bloodshed started by two extremely unreliable leaders. In fact we are as a united country showing more support for the troops if we want to see them all successfully home, what right do two leader's like Bush and Blair have, to want to send British men out to their deaths, in a war which is clearly for oil and wealth that will benefit the exact group of politicans who state that they are aiming to create such havoc for the 'best interests of the majority'. Are the lives of your sons, daughters and husbands to be risked for such imperial greed; our own primeminister announced that once the war is over he will re-build Iraq, give the Iraqi people new homes, new schools, Hospitals, etc; however in 1997 this is something that he promised the British people, do we have improved standards of public service? No, clearly not!
Finally I would like to talk about the matter of how few Muslims have been involved in the number of Anti-war meetings held. Some I understand are afraid, this is due possibly to recieving abuse, or racial discrimination. Number one, any racial discrimination, particularly direct abuse of any sort is by law considered illegal. In essence it is alot easier in todays society to express your opinion, whether it is shared by the state or not, as muslims or those who are non-muslims, but come from Ethnic minorities, should understand that there would be no such thing as anti racial laws today, if our predeccesors had not protested against the segration of coloureds and whites. Mohammed Ali, the boxing champion, as an isolated individual opposed to fighting for America in Vietnam,which resulted in him being sent to prison, he had to pay a huge sum of money to the courts and state, and for what? Because he opposed an unjustifiable war. This is a man who fully understood the consequences of his actions, and at the end of the day he stood corrected. But in the now, as protestors we do not face imprisonement, protesting can be peaceful, there are laws which protect us as protestors, whether we are a united body or individuals.
If you agree with me then have your voices heard, speak out because as citizens of this country, who pay the taxes it is us that the government should listen to.

Sakeena
mail e-mail: salis_18@yahoo.com


"oxford peace space"

01.04.2003 11:21

"oxford peace space"
"oxford peace space"

"oxford peace space"

last Saturday, One overheard police estimate was up to 2000 protesters in Oxford demanding an end to this illegal and immoral war in Iraq. ( http://uk.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=60268&group=webcast shows pix)

marched from menzil way to broad street, then there was speeches

after about 10 few people went to the plain, (the roundabout where cowley road, st clements and iffley road converge)

10 or more police came and removed them with threats of arrest.
they sat on the side of the road and had a peace camp with guitars, songs, etc

a few more people came and they went back onto the plain. white streamers were put on trees and lamp posts, peace banners were put up and songs were sung,

later a big peace flag arrived and people took it in turns to run around the roundabout, there were continuous revolutions for about 3 hours, it was fun, it did not piss people off, cars honked horns, strangers joined the group, strangers did a few revolutions with the flag. it was a lovely safe atmosphere. the police did pass by on a few occasions but did nothing

about 9.00 we left

2 shrines were left, nelson, a big teddy bear sat under the tree facing the cars coming form oxford, with a white peace poppy and 2 candles.

in the centre of the circle, where there had been a little house, 5 burning candles were left, and a small handmade cross with "the innocent" written on it.

the banners, a white boiler suit, and ribbons were left

it was very peaceful and traces were left.

that night nelson was stolen???

more people have contributed to this space, it is becoming a place for communication for the peace people of oxford

go there, see who is there, contribute something

it is the "oxford peace space"

duncan
- Homepage: http://uk.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=60268&group=webcast


US = nazi regime

01.04.2003 17:51

US = nazi regime
US = nazi regime

the US is forcefully expanding its empire which is immoral, illegal, unjustified and unwanted by the majority of people.

it is killing innocent civilians, it calls its actions "the war against terror" its response after sep 11th. CIA has said no link between iraq regime and al-quida. CIA also say iraq is not a threat

this war is about one thing- controlling and owning the oil.

also US led policies, along with other G8 nations. are responsible for up to 7,000,000 deaths every year due to its unhealthy and unfair economic systems, through IMF and WTO. this is the real war

millions worldwide are informing themselves. and with that taking action to oppose this evil empire.

we are fighting back by educating ourselves, choosing what to buy, upsetting unjust global economic mechanisms by non violent direct action.

if you doubt this, remember that feb 15th, was the largest organised protest in world history, up to 20 million worldwide

this is the age of the NETWORK

duncan
- Homepage: http://easa.antville.org/stories/336841/


The Plain

04.04.2003 14:23

I know this is a bit late but there is a meeting at the Plain today ( the round-about connecting st. clemens, cowley rd, iffley rd and oxford city centre). 4pm, banner making, singing, guitar playing, join us if you can. Or go lobby andrew smith at Rose Hill community centre at 5.30 til 7.30 (although the people at the plain will probably be making their way over there at 5.30ish)

Leg
mail e-mail: 02103085@brookes.ac.uk


students rebelling and rioting

02.05.2003 11:47

In the 1960s, a student at Harvard Law School addressed parents and alumni
with these words:

The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are filled with
students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our
country. Russia is threatening us with her might. And the republic is in
danger. Yes! danger from within and without. We need law and order! Without
law and order our nation cannot survive.

There was prolonged applause. When the applause died down, the student quietly
told his listeners: "These words were spoken in 1932 by Adolf Hitler."

from Howard Zinn's Declarations of Independence

duncan


war is bollocks

07.05.2003 17:59

war is bollocks
war is bollocks

a fine banner from some of the oxford brookes peace network, out protesting in the sunshine in london in april

dunk


indymedia oxford, FUSPEY lecture no 2,

08.05.2003 15:02

indymedia oxford, FUSPEY lecture no 2,
indymedia oxford, FUSPEY lecture no 2,

hi lads



there is a few things on here in brookes,

things are open to the public, so if you know of anyone tell them to come along, many of the talks are in the evening

tonight is:
________________________________________________________-
AFRICA- why are millions dying every year
and
What you can do about it

Demba Dembele, economist from Senegal speaks about the growing worldwide network “world bank boycott”

Brookes university, main lecture theatre 6 – 7 pm, 8 may 2003

for more info see www.wbbeurope.org
___________________________________________________________-

we are showing undercurrents 10 min film re "imf and world bank" first from ruff cuts 11.

on tue or wed next week we are having a major event 2- 6pm, with guest speakers

at lunchtimes we will be showing undercurrent films, possibly open screenings in the main foyer space

also indymedia oxford is being created and we hope to do a piece for indymedia about brookes and its hold on educational space.....more on that later

on thr may 15th i am giving the 2nd FUSPEY (fun, sustainable, peaceful, existence ) lecture, looking at; networks (both real and virtual), EASA (european architectural student association), ECO CITY BANJA LUKA, ECOTOPIA, indymedia oxford, brookes peace network, RTS (reclaim the streets) critical mass, architecture, art to challenge.

lots of stuff, trying to generate discussion here in brookes architecture students and others into "what is architecture, whers is it going?" so if you want to come along to that and get involved please do


thats about it, call me if you are interested in anything further
or add your views to another interesting project; ECO CITY BANJA LUKA


 http://easa.antville.org/stories/348675/ IS re the temporary ECO CITY BANJA LUKA communication space

possible opening of INDYMEDIA OXFORD next monday, possibly in ruskin college?? @ 7pm

any of you ideas on public exhibitions of indymedia and associated stuff around town; public libraries, schools, unis, pub places???

a few of us here want to do something like this in our PUBLIC SPACE.

talk soon

dunk

duncan
mail e-mail: 02092997@brookes.ac.uk
- Homepage: http://easa.antville.org/topics/fuspey/


WORLD BANK BOYCOTT- feedback after event

09.05.2003 10:24

WORLD BANK BOYCOTT


last night we had an economist from senegal, demba dembele, talk to us about the world bank and its negative affects on africa and in particular senegal.

he was joined by a lady from india too.

basically WTO, IMF, world bank, pump money into "developing nations" knowing full well that it comes right back to the leading nations through debt.

a new global network has started up from some "developing nations" and grown into a very well worked out system BOYCOTT WORLD BANK, it tries to get groups to not support the world bank by not usings its BONDS.

already many city municipalities, universities and groups have signed up to this boycott, its modelled on the method which got rid of apartheid in south africa. cities in the united states which have signed up are
san fancisco
boulder
milwakee

university of new mexico
wadham college, oxford, england

we are trying to get brookes to sign up to this boycott, we encourage you to find out about the boycott at
 http://www.wbbeurope.org/

and try to get your uni/ group to sign up

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with very very short notice we managed to get about 20 people at the event. it was very well recieved

at 6.00 the undercurrents film- "world bank, IMF, WTO " was shown

more people have expressed an interest in this BOYCOTT, so people hopefully will organize and form an action group with the objective of getting BROOKES to sign up to this boycott.

if anyone is interested they can email me
duncan  02092997@brookes.ac.uk

other websites which have this boycott featured by us are
 http://www.wbbeurope.org/
 http://easa.antville.org/topics/WORLD+BANK+BOYCOTT
 http://www.oraiste.com/
 http://easa.antville.org/stories/348675/#376796

dunk


Lobbying of Andrew Smith by Oxford Pledgers

09.05.2003 19:01

Lobbying of Andrew Smith by Oxford Pledgers
Lobbying of Andrew Smith by Oxford Pledgers

Our gallant, warrior MP Andrew doesn't look at all comfortable as the Oxford Pledgers make their views about his pro-war stance known.

Rupert
mail e-mail: rupertmow@hotmail.com


welcome to the idea of FUSPEY

10.05.2003 01:06

welcome to the idea of FUSPEY
welcome to the idea of FUSPEY

welcome to the idea of FUSPEY

FUN-SUSTAINABLE-PEACEFUL EXISTENCE

Make this home for everybody
and have fun doing it

4pm to 7pm Tuesday 13th May


Come to the Main Lecture Theatre at Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane for an afternoon of films, activities, talks and discussions with guest speakers. Find out more about who is doing what in Oxford and how you can get involved.

And more: party, make music, make posters, make love and get people talking.

What’s on

Undercurrents Films: Globalisation and the Media, Seize the Day (excellent world music)

Guest speakers

Lucy Ford- Lecturer in International Relations- international security and sustainability.
Pritam Singh- Senior Lecturer, Business School- the global implications of the neo-conservative agenda in the USA.
Paul Kingsnorth- author and Journalist- Pockets of Resistance. www.paulkingsnorth.net
Andy Taylor- conflict, respect and compassion.
Richard Thompson- Quakers and peace.
Fiyaz Mughal- Liberal Democrat Councillor- activity in the local community

Plus: pick up info. about upcoming events being organised by FUSPEY and other societies and organisations.

For more information on FUSPEY see  http://www.geocities.com/fuspey/ or email  fuspey@yahoo.co.uk

links to speakers
1
Lucy Ford- Lecturer in International Relations- international security and sustainability.
email -  lford@brookes.ac.uk web -
 http://www.isn.ethz.ch/

2
Pritam Singh- Senior Lecturer, Business School- the global implications of the neo-conservative agenda in the USA.
email -  psingh@brookes.ac.uk web-
 http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/business/

3
Paul Kingsnorth- author of "ONE NO, MANY YESES
A Journey to the heart of the global resistance movement"
and journalist for the Ecologist,
email -
 paul@paulkingsnorth.net
web -
 http://paulkingsnorth.net/

4
Andy Taylor- conflict, respect and compassion.
email -
 ray@andy-taylor.org
web -
 http://www.cnvc.org/main.htm

5
Richard Thompson- Quakers and peace.
web -
 http://www.abingdon-quakers.uklinux.net/OQC/oqc.html

6
Fiyaz Mughal- Liberal Democrat Councillor- activity in the local community
email-
 fiyaz@fiyaz.freeserve.co.uk
web -
 http://www.visitoxford.org/oxford/Members.nsf/Councillors/By+Committee/C67D6BE96701464480256BAE005BB3AE?OpenDocument

FUSPEY
mail e-mail: fuspey@yahoo.co.uk
- Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/fuspey/


FUSPEY lecture tonight

15.05.2003 14:03

FUSPEY lecture tonight
FUSPEY lecture tonight

Thursday 15th May 2003

Day of stuff

Screenings, discussions, lecture, wine reception

A talk about some of the most amazing things going on in the world today, come along and
Be amazed

FUSPEY lecture, film preview (first FUSPEY film: chasing lizitzky) and wine reception
Main lecture hall, Oxford Brookes
6pm Thursday 15th May 2003

A discussion about the NETWORK, revolution, ECO CITY BANJA LUKA, EASA, ecotopia, indymedia oxford, WORLD BANK BOYCOT, reclaim the streets, art, architecture, peace activisism.

 http://www.geocities.com/fuspey/
is the website, its an open system, add your views and comments, all feedback welcome

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GLOBALISATION AND THE MEDIA, main lecture hall, 1-2pm
WORLD BANK BOYCOTT, gibbs 110,5-6pm
FUSPEY lecture, main lecture hall, 6 onwards
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GLOBALISATION AND THE MEDIA, screening of award winning documentary followed by discussion

The United States has spend the last fifty years constructing the present New World Order. Aided by its powerful military resources, alongside the IMF, World Bank and the World Trade Organisation, the rules of global trade have been largely imposed to serve its own interests. Globalisation and The Media explores the role of the media in this corporate led takeover of global resources.

 http://www.oxdox.com/oxdoxhtml/oxdoxweb/films/globalisation.html
 http://www.cultureshop.org/details.php?code=GTHEM
 http://www.zmedia.org/WTO/N30.htm
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The World Bank Boycott is an international campaign that demands an end to socially and environmentally destructive World Bank policies and projects through grassroots financial and political power.AND ITS GOING TO REALLY DO IT TOO.
 http://www.wbbeurope.org/

_____________________________

A talk about some of the most amazing things going on in the world today, come along and Be amazed

FUSPEY lecture, film preview (first FUSPEY film: chasing lizitzky) and wine reception Main lecture hall, Oxford Brookes
6pm Thursday 15th May 2003
A discussion about the NETWORK, revolution, ECO CITY BANJA LUKA, EASA, ecotopia, indymedia oxford, WORLD BANK BOYCOT, reclaim the streets, art, architecture, peace activisism.
check out the website, its an open system, add your views and comments, all feedback welcome

 http://www.geocities.com/fuspey/

duncan
mail e-mail: 02092997@blurb1916
- Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/fuspey/index.html