Oxford Newswire Archive

22-07-2003 00:07 | 0 comment(s)

Council walkout sparked by GM Motion

There was an unprecedented walkout of opposition Green, Liberal Democrat and Independent Working Class Association (IWCA) Councillors at a full meeting of Oxford City Council today (21st July). Read more >>

21-07-2003 16:49 | 0 comment(s)

Art in Action 2003, Waterperry Oxfordshire

26th annual feast of arts and crafts in a quiet Oxfordshire village, featuring the skills of around 300 outstanding potters, weavers, painters etc.... Read more >>

21-07-2003 13:54 | 1 comment(s)

World Trade Organisation Meeting

Meeting for Oxford activists against the WTO ministerial in Cancun. Read more >>

20-07-2003 17:14 | 1 comment(s)

Fairford Tattoo: making the connection

Do you think there is a connection between bombers and fighters? Do you care? The answer to one or both of these questions at USAF Fairford seemed to be no. campaigners from Oxford tried to help visitors to the tattoo make this jump. Read more >>

20-07-2003 14:33 | 0 comment(s)

unFairford: A talk by Damacio Lopez on Depleted Uranium

A talk by DU expert Damacio Lopez in Fairford Community centre on 20th July 2003 to coincide with the arms-fair. Read more >>

18-07-2003 10:58 | 2 comment(s)

US christians uses video to crusdade in Iraq

Forget Titanic. Forget Star Wars and Gone With the Wind. They are small fry compared to the Jesus Film, which has been watched by more than two billion people. And now the people behind it have their eyes on a new goal... Iraq.
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16-07-2003 14:16 | 0 comment(s)

Full details of LIBERTY report into policing at USAF Fairford

Casualty of War - 8 weeks of counter-terrorism in rural England
Liberty Report: 15 Jul 2003

An investigation by human rights group Liberty into the policing of peace demonstrations at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire, during the recent invasion of Iraq has revealed fundamental breaches of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Download full 13 page Liberty report:

http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/issues/pdfs/casualty-of-war-final.pdf
Read more >>

15-07-2003 20:47 | 0 comment(s)

Damacio Lopez in Fairford on19th July 2003

!! Exciting News !!

Damacio Lopez, a leading Depleted Uranium Expert is coming to Fairford to speak on the middle Saturday of the Rogue International Arms Traders' War Tattoo !! Read more >>

14-07-2003 08:07 | 0 comment(s)

Demonstrate against Sharon

Airel Sharon coming to London - Demonstrate! Read more >>

13-07-2003 13:47 | 4 comment(s)

Castle Mound out of Bounds - Imprisoned by Fencing

Oxford Castle Mound is no longer accessible to the public due to the recent erection of fencing around its base, in order to restrict access during the redevelopment of the castle and prison site. Read more >>

12-07-2003 12:53 | 1 comment(s)

STOP EUROPE'S LARGEST ARMS FAIR

It would be great to see as many people from the Oxford area as possible at the protests against the DSEi.

Many thousands are expected and these demonstrations will also serve as a European focus for anti-WTO dissent in solidarity with those in Cancun, Mexico as called by People's Global Action. Below is the Disarm DSEi call to action. Read more >>

11-07-2003 22:42 | 1 comment(s)

~~@ purple~peace~pixies @~~ at the Fairford RIAT

Gather a peace pixie posse of between 3 and 7 people, come and play and sing and bring peace, light and laughter to these rural lanes. Scatter purple petals, hand out sweeties and leaflets, be a pixie tour guide for a day or more, tell the RIAT tourists that pixies want the Cotswolds back for good.

~ * ~ @ War is Terrorism @ ~ * ~ @ Peace is Fun @ ~ * ~ Read more >>

09-07-2003 10:50 | 2 comment(s)

War Tattoo at RAF Fairford

Over the weekend of the 17th- 20th July, there will be an "air tattoo" held at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire . Read more >>

07-07-2003 14:20 | 2 comment(s)

The Hospitality of Swiss Police

Switzerland the home of modern day human rights? An historical connection lost on the Swiss police on Sunday 1st June, 2003 against anti-G8 protestors in Lausanne, where police repression was taken to another level. Read more >>

06-07-2003 14:11 | 6 comment(s)

OXFORD SOCIAL WANDER- saturday 120703

Everyone is welcome to join on this OXFORD SOCIAL WANDER, meet
menzil gardens @ 4.00 next Saturday.

We might stop in the half moon for a quick pint to quench the
thirst, after the first little leg of the wander, and im sure we will have a few more later

Hopefully the sun will be as plentiful as it was a few weeks ago
Tell everyone, get your friends and your grannies to come, get them to announce it in the bingo hall

Lets socialize more

dunk
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06-07-2003 11:23 | 1 comment(s)

Anti War Network & publicity

The Anti War Network is open for any group representative and individual to share ideas, advertise events, mutual assistance and support. It has no religious or political bias. It relies on people getting involved. There are stalls run by different groups every Saturday 12 - 2pm. Next meeting 15th July,7.30pm Friends Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford Read more >>

05-07-2003 23:00 | 3 comment(s)

Fairford, 4 July 2003

Declaration of Independence from USA: More pics, short report below pics Read more >>

05-07-2003 21:17 | 2 comment(s)

Adbusting in Oxford

Another Oxford Subvert Read more >>

04-07-2003 21:22 | 2 comment(s)

Fairford Independence from America Day

First pictures from Fairford of the Gatecrashers' Stroll and Declaration of Independence from America. Read more >>

03-07-2003 19:48 | 16 comment(s)

how SOCIAL is oxford?

Oxford is full of diversity; town and gown, rich and poor, black, white, brown, asian, african, student, homeless, imigrant, student, native

how social a place is it?
there was talk of an Oxford social forum
how inclussive would this be? Read more >>