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Reclaim the Cowley Rd Carnvial on Sunday

Not the Cowley Rd Carnival | 01.07.2011 08:20 | Culture | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | Oxford

Are we happy with the officially sanctioned corporately sponsored festival in the park and paying to see commercial musicians? Don't we miss the localness and simple vibe of the Cowley Rd Carnival? If David Cameron wants us to have street parties, why don't we just have them?

Our carnival's been stolen ... let's steal it back!

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It appears that the Cowley Rd Carnival has ended up up a blind alley, the now festival in the park, that has nothing to do with the original spirit of the Carnvial, that began as a Reclaim the Streets event, is a cultural kettle, taking away our freedom of expression and right to celebrate in our local community, channelling it into a corporate, council and police sanctioned commercial-fest where we pay to see commercial acts, nodding our heads obediently along to the music, like good little sheep, mind the gap, keep to the right.

Print out this poster and post it around, make your own, place it over the officially sanctioned Carnival posters, that must have cost a packet to produce, tell others about it, get out on the streets on Sunday 3rd in whatever way you can and let's take back the Cowley Rd Carnival.

Not the Cowley Rd Carnival

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Carnival site not accessable to wheelchair users

01.07.2011 20:30

Piece written about carnival in local paper few days ago, and selfish comments added

I hope the city council will realise that blocking the carnival taking place in the Cowley Road where it belongs will prevent many disabled people enjoying the event or taking part unless they happen to have special wheelchairs which can be used on uneven ground/grass.

Will the council be providing these special chairs for wheelchair users who need them? Will we have to book them in advance? And what about elderly or blind people who find walking in a park like South Park more difficult than along a road/pavement?

Could it be that in these days of equality that we, the 'physically challenged' have again been forgotton?”

Lord Peter Macvay, OX2 6EG says...
4:41am Sun 26 Jun 11

What are you talking about, disabled people have much more space and safety in South Park than on the Cowley RD during the Carnival as all the pavements/roads are so cluttered that it would be dangerous for a blind or unstable Elderly person to even try to walk a few yards.”

CLLR KEN TIWARI, Old Marston Oxford says...
10:22am Sun 26 Jun 11

Ironically for some people, nothing is-
Right, I suppose ?

Cllr ken Tiwari (parish councillor/R&S/Oxford),”

King Joke, OX1 4LX says...
12:50pm Mon 27 Jun 11

Every silver lining has a cloud on the OM!

wheelchair user

what happened?

04.07.2011 18:35

I didn't see this callout until after the event; did anything happen?

k

Big fat zero

07.07.2011 22:01

Nothing. Everyone thought that someone else would do it, someone else would be there so they they/we did not have to do anything. Many of us were recovering from the night before. Never mind. We just might get around to doing it in time for next year's carnival. I suppose we should start with the Carnival committee in a couple of months time really but that would be even more boring so why not lets plan to steal back the carnival again next year and then remember to get up in time to do it. Maybe we could leave it to the disabled wheelchair users to do it for us.

lone ranger