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Weekly Blog Roundup: 23 May

aggrobot | 23.05.2011 10:37 | Oxford

A brief roundup of the best posts to Oxford blogs which we'll try and post weekly. Its just links and summaries of posts by radical Oxford bloggers. If you have a blog you think we should add, chuck it in the comments.

Don't worry, its the Big Society Hospital!

"Bad Science" and bad science.

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Fairer Farming Future

Here is the link to the new initiative from FoE, please sign up and make your voices heard a… Read more

Date Rape is a Crime

Dates for your diary

Posted by Lashings of Ginger BeerRead more

Officer A3002 is Guilty of Misuse of Law

Intro to the Spanish Protests

Job opportunity: researching queer-identifying religious young people

Academic Roundup

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NHS petition hand-in to Nick Clegg

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ON YER BIKE: Goodbye to a friend who was a true inspiration

Tuesday 17th May 2011
By James Styring »

EVERY now and again, you come across someone truly inspiring. Someone who makes perfect sense and who in turn helps you to make sense of what you're striving to achieve.
For me, one su… Read more

Links roundup

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The greenest government ever?

Friends of the Earth and Stop Climate Chaos are organising a PUBLIC MEETING in Witney on 25 May. Full details are:
Wednesday, 25 May 2011, at 7:30pm
The Gallery Room
Corn Exchange
Witney
OX28 6AB

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Feminism and Men

Dear Readers,Apologies for the lateness of this post - there have been some technical problems with the Blogger site over the past few days.However, we hope you'll find it was worth the wait for this post by our newest guest blogg… Read more

Sex work, sex workers, prostitutes notes provoked by a friend and a link slamming the IUSW

I don’t want this post to become a stubborn outpost of resistance, especially as the views I express(ed) in it are based on intuitive thinking and *not* an extensive research project into the sex industry. I h… Read more

ON YER BIKE: Hitting the road in harmony with two-wheeled pals

Wednesday 4th May 2011Â Oxford Mail
By Honour Tomkinson

People definitely talk about their cars as persons and describing your motor as a he or a she is not frowned upon, as far as I know. Boats too, even more so, but bicycl… Read more

On Yer Bike: Tweed Run turns back time

Tuesday 10th May 2011 Oxford Mail

By James Styring

WE WERE walking near Spitalfields Market in East London when our path was blocked by a cavalcade of hundreds of tweed-clad cyclists. They weren't just wearing tweed jackets, but th… Read more

Open Sauce the Radical X collective's new feminist pornography project that playfully questions the notion of plagiarism and embraces the erotics of cross-fertilisation, blending and borrowing.

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OXFORD RADICAL FORUM

Please check out the PDFs of Oxford Radical Flyers I’ve made (slap-dashly) here:

GENERAL PROVISIONAL O.R.F. timetable : provisional orf timRead more

Links roundup

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Lashings in Dublin!

Posted by GalateaGratuitous Photo Post today, a… Read more

preparing for research on the rise and fall (and rise) of Climate Camp

From: All news

Dear lasophielle readers,

Sorry for my long silence.

If you would like to look at a mind-map – still under construction – of my thoughts for looking at the rise and fall (and rise) of Climate Camp for my 15,000 word disse… Read more

Biofuels, the UK's false solution to Climate Change

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Eddie Izzard says Yes to AV

From: All news

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Links Roundup

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Sieze the Day in Oxford 27 May

Note received from Greenpeace – I love Seize the Day – hope some of you can make it to the gig!

Hi,

this is to let you know about a really exciting event we’ve organised for Friday May 27th.

The excellent Sei… Read more

Dublin here we come!

Posted by Annalytica

Lashings will… Read more

The little things

Posted by AnnalyticaFeminists like to make a fuss over the little thi… Read more

Squatageddon - Cops Raid UK Social Centres

The riot police have today begun raiding London social centres in a move presumably meant to intimidate anyone considering protesting against the sycophantic drivel of tomorrow's royal wedding.… Read more

My political awakening

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