Oxford Anti-militarism Newswire Archive

A public meeting to build support for the campaign to stop Trident replacement. The vote will take place in Parliament this year. Read more >>

This December, witness one of the most important elections in the history of Venezuela, and of the hemisphere. On December 6, the people of Venezuela will exercise their right to vote in elections for deputies to the country’s National Assembly. Voters will decide whether to carry forward the Bolivarian Revolution by retaining a Chavista majority in the National Assembly or return the political intitative to the traditional elites represented by most of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD). Read more >>

Join CAAB every Tuesday at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill.
18.00-20.00 BST/GMT

Demos/vigils organised by the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases.

Menwith Hill is the largest US spy base outside the USA. Run by the National Security Agency (National Reconnaissance Office also present), it is situated in the Yorkshire dales, approximately 8 miles from Harrogate adjacent to the A59.

Menwith Hill is the largest intelligence-gathering, interception and surveillance facility outside the USA. The base is unaccountable, secretive, and out of control of the UK government. Read more >>

On 12th April 2015 we planted a Bombed Kaki Tree Junior of Nagasaki in Barracks Lane Community Garden in East Oxford. This is a descendent of a tree which survived the atomic blast at Nagasaki seventy years ago this year. Such trees are planted around the world as symbols of peace and healing as a part of the Kaki Tree Project. Read more >>

A march and rally to mark 'Keep Space for Peace' and 'Drones Action' week. USAF Croughton is a U.S.diplomatic, military, intelligence and drone warfare communications base Read more >>

60 Oxordshire peace campaigners and knitters helped to join the two nuclear bomb factories with a giant peace scarf. Read more >>

A peace event to mark the centenary of the start of World War 1, linking that to today. Read more >>

Responsible for probably the most significant information leak in military history, Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning was sentenced in August 2013 to 35 years in a US military jail.

The Private Manning Family Fund was set up to support Manning's Welsh-Irish family with the cost of prison visits to Leavenworth, Kansas. The family has previously self-funded four trips to the US but this time all flights were paid for by PMFF. We feel this is one practical way we can show our solidarity with Manning here in Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England.

Last week, Manning was awarded in absentia the Sam Adams Prize for Integrity in Intelligence at the Oxford Union. Report here. Photos in this article are mainly from this event and solidarity on the streets of Oxford beforehand.

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If media or academia really published a balanced "opinion" over war, they would always have to include, a genuine consideration of...law.

A particularly wretched self-serving Oxford "academic" called Professor Sir Hew Strachan, has been wheeled out by the British Establishment to front the link between World War One, and current British military..."thinking", which is...propaganda.

In the year 2014, the deliberate and cynical use, by academics, of ...propaganda, that leads to murder, must be legally challenged.
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Anti-drones activist speaking in Oxford as part of UK tour Read more >>

The Action AWE and Trident Ploughshares Burghfield Summer International Disarmament Camp continues until 7 September. Today, in a joint action with European anti-militarists, the site has been blockaded since early morning.

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Peace campers have taken a site next to AWE Burghfield and are asking for solidarity Read more >>

A UK nuclear warhead convoy tavelled through Oxfordshire on Tuesday 14th May 2013 from Burghfield Atomicb Weapon Establishment (AWE) near Reading. Read more >>

Peace campaigners disrupted a nuclear weapons production facility at Burghfield, near Reading this morning, as they blockaded a gate for 5 hours on Tuesday 7th May 2013. The action is part of an ongoing campaign to Scrap Trident and end investment in weapons of mass destruction. Read more >>

Video of ActionAWE shutting Tadley gate at Aldermaston AWE 10.4.13 Read more >>