Art of War : Nuclear Power
Larmee , 04-04-2011 - 02:04

Nuclear Power
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My march for the alternative
Player of Games , 30-03-2011 - 19:54

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.
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Review: Activism vs Slacktivism debate: but what happened to Hacktivism?
adelayde , 22-03-2011 - 10:14

I went along to St Annes College this afternoon to the debate Activism vs. Slacktivism, part of the eCampaigning Forum conference taking place on 22nd and 23rd March in Oxford. I wondered what it was all about.
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Food Not Bombs – I'm Loving It
Ronald M , 20-03-2011 - 20:26

Pictures from last weekend's free lunch
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Oxford's Big Society Hospital - Video & Photos
Player of Games , 19-03-2011 - 17:51

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.
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A feast of anti-cuts actions in Oxford
Player of Games , 18-03-2011 - 16:02

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.
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New Stroud Against the Cuts Website / Transport for March26th
SAtC , 16-03-2011 - 09:58

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:
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'Supplementary Questions' - Lockheed Martin and the English census
SP , 07-03-2011 - 22:23

"Do you think that paying an arms manufacturer £150 million to run a census is a good idea?" "How do you feel about being legally obliged to give your personal data to international arms dealers?". These are the questions we should be asking...
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Food not Bombs launch regular streetmeals in Oxford
munchathon-ista , 25-02-2011 - 00:02

Last weekend Oxford Food not Bombs did our first stand-alone street meal.

A quick report from a friendly food squirrel...
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Mike Marqusee at Oxford PSC meeting on March 8th
Pam Parsons , 19-02-2011 - 18:39

Tuesday 8th March Oxford PSC Monthly meeting 7:30 Oxford Town Hall. Mike Marqusee, author of “If I am Not For Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew” will speak about his book, and about his recent visit to Palestine where he met people facing eviction in Silwan and Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem and lawyers and activists working with them.

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Domestic extremists or domestic goddesses?
Mrs Overall and Lady Mopp , 16-02-2011 - 22:00

Aldermaston women in a spot of domestic extremism .....
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Anti- GM Protestors Target Oxford Tesco
Granwith Hulatberry , 15-02-2011 - 12:40

[Oxford] This morning, as part of a nationwide day of action on genetically modified (GM) products in UK supermarkets, two groups of protesters entered Tesco’s on Cowley Road in Oxford to warn customers who might be unwittingly buying GM products.
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Blackbird Leys - three days left to stop the council...
SaveTCP , 15-02-2011 - 08:29

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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