Builders throw noxious substance, hospitalizing two. Oxford University attempt to ban protest with injunction.
On Thursday, around 30 protestors against Oxford Universities new animal labs assembled as usual on South Parks Road, for their peaceful demo. Despite the builders removing the previous contractor's equipment trying to drown them out, they made themselves heard as usual. Obviously that was not good enough, as one of the builder through something over the wall blocking of the site. It was a white noxious substance which burned the skin and marked clothes.
It narrowly missed a 4 year old child, but two older women were not so lucky, and had to go to hospital for treatment, as the substance irritated eyed and skin.
The police arrested one worker on the site, who has been released on police bail.
Meanwhile, yet another in the infamous series of injunctions brought under the Protection of Harassment Act is going to come to court this Tuesday, in an attempt by Oxford University to trample over the right to protest. It seems they are against free expression, and claim that the protestors are being violent - funny, we dont see any Oxford Uni workers getting hospitalised...
Contact Oxford University at
University Offices
University of Oxford
Wellington Square
Oxford OX1 2JD
Telephone: 01865 270 000 / 008
Fax: 01865 280 569
Email:
council.sec@admin.ox.ac.uk
End the violence. Protect your Rights. The time to take Action is now...
It narrowly missed a 4 year old child, but two older women were not so lucky, and had to go to hospital for treatment, as the substance irritated eyed and skin.
The police arrested one worker on the site, who has been released on police bail.
Meanwhile, yet another in the infamous series of injunctions brought under the Protection of Harassment Act is going to come to court this Tuesday, in an attempt by Oxford University to trample over the right to protest. It seems they are against free expression, and claim that the protestors are being violent - funny, we dont see any Oxford Uni workers getting hospitalised...
Contact Oxford University at
University Offices
University of Oxford
Wellington Square
Oxford OX1 2JD
Telephone: 01865 270 000 / 008
Fax: 01865 280 569
Email:
council.sec@admin.ox.ac.uk End the violence. Protect your Rights. The time to take Action is now...
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oxford university injunction
16.09.2004 02:26
Instead of banning us from most of oxford town, as the university demanded, we have ended up with a 50 metre exclusion zone around the lab. This does not apply on thursday's when up to fifty people will be allowed to protest directly opposite the site.
They even tried to stop us shouting. The Judge didn't agree with them.
The protests continue......
passing by
stop the lab
19.10.2004 10:16
Thursday 4th November, 7pm, Oxford Town Hall, St Aldates, OX1
Oxford University is planning to build a massive new research centre in the heart of their science area in South Parks Road, to carry out experiments on animals.
They claim their research is necessary, but in seeking to justify the laboratory, the University has lied repeatedly to the people of Oxford. The truth is, that the purpose behind the current expansion in the vivisection industry is to increase the profits of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.
Please come along to this very important meeting and have your say; this is an opportunity for the residents of Oxford as well as the students and workers at the University to finally hear the truth about the laboratory and about the wider issues of vivisection.
Everyone is welcome - Come and discover the disturbing truth behind Oxford University's cruel deception
dick davies