Oxford Newswire Archive

This is a personal report from the adventure of a lost samba band who finally managed to block the A9 for some time around 7am on Wednesday (6th) morning... Read more >>

The Green Party of England and Wales today condemned the policing of the G8 protests. Read more >>

Corporate Watch update from the G8 summit - 5th July  http://corporatewatchuk.blogspot.com/ Read more >>

A demonstration was held at 6.00pm in Oxford city today in solidarity with the protests in Edinburgh. Up to 100 people turned out to hear speakers from various groups, a samba band and street singers. Pictures and audio are below. Read more >>

A couple of shots of Oxford anti-G8 protest Read more >>

Local Solutions for a Global Crisis

Vaults and Garden Café, Radcliffe Square, Oxford

Entry Free - complementary organic wine and nibbles Read more >>

Abusive policing mars demonstration of solidarity with Zimbabwean hunger strike. Read more >>

Some photos from the parliament and Queens' palace in Scotland. Read more >>

We are anti-capitalist because we do not believe that capitalism can be consistent with democracy, social justice, environmental sense or the fight against AIDS: an argument, via Starbucks and Bill Gates, for why the South is all of us. Read more >>

Think this artical by Marco of Eurodusnie is worth a look for thoughs wondering what the actavist respons to the G8 is all about.
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G8 and the comeback of the alter-globalists

Geschreven door Marco van Duijn

Wednesday, 29 June 2005

A great deal has changed since the alter-globalisation movement put itself in the spotlight during the WTO summit in Seattle. The global mobilisations against free trade summits reached a peak in Seattle and almost a year later in Prague, during the annual meeting of the IMF and the World Bank. The end of the alter-globalisation movement was accompanied by an orgy of violence during G8 summit in Genoa (2001) and briefly following the events in New York on September 11. This summer another G8 meeting will take place in Scotland. While the world leaders of the eight most powerful countries entrench themselves in a golfing resort behind seven kilometres of fencing, the alter-globalists are preparing a comeback. Read more >>

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON 6 JULY? Read more >>

there's a stack of several dozen bowls and plates behind the old opium den restaurant (the purple one at the bottom of george street). if anyone's going up to the rural convergence space in scotland and hasn't left yet, go get them and bring them up! Read more >>

Demo to support the Zimbabwean hunger strikers and all detainees

Campsfield Detention Centre, Kidlington

Saturday 2nd July 12pm - 2pm Read more >>

Officials in the Zimbabwe government have publicly said Britain is training spies, mercenaries and agents to destabilise the country and is sending them into Zimbabwe under the guise of returning failed asylum seekers.

On arrival the deportees are invariably met by Mugabe’s secret police, detained, tortured and interrogated. Some of the deportees have not been heard of since. Their families, both in Zimbabwe and in Britain, report that the last they heard of them was that they had been picked up by the secret police.
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The activist community, especially the anarchist community, discriminates against middle aged people. We get photographed by so called "cop watch" activists at demonstrations for no other reason than being middle aged Read more >>

Cycling as Part of the Vision for Oxford, meeting Wednesday 6th July Read more >>

Oxfordshire residents went to Campsfield House Removal Centre near Kidlington today to offer support for the detainees who are on hunger strike over conditions inside and are grieving the suicide of one Zimbabwean man yesterday morning. They will go there again tomorrow. Read more >>

The young man who died was called Ramazan Komluca, he was Kurdish. Read more >>

"I will walk out against war and poverty on Wednesday 6th July but only if 50 other school students will make this same pledge."
— Alys Elica Zaerin, convenor of School Students Against War Read more >>

Although intended to be humourous this gives some insite into life in Kabul for internationals Read more >>