Oxford Anti-racism Newswire Archive

Video of today’s lollypop action. Read more >>

Demo in oxford city centre TODAY 6pm against sham handing over of Iraq
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Pleased to announce that Wiltshire BBC, who were planning to interview the BNP about Unite Against Fascism leafleting have pulled the item. Read more >>

Please distribute this widely - and please do complain to the BBC straight away. Read more >>

Please join Anti-racist campaigners from across the West Country to leaflet Calne this Sunday (6th June) against the far-right BNP. We will be assembling at 11:00 in the car park of St Edmunds Church, Oxford Road. Read more >>

A group of people from Oxford Palestine Solidarity Campaign went to join the PSC demo in Trafalgar Square on May 15th. Here are the photos! Read more >>

Have your say in the future direction of the peace movement. Please come to the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Swindon Stop the War Coalition on 27th April, at 7:30 in the Friends Meeting House, Eastcott Hill. Read more >>

Nazi BNP vote doen (sorry for late posting) Read more >>

Photos of the Anti-War march in London, March 20th 2004. (set 3) Read more >>

Photos of the Anti-War march in London, March 20th 2004. (set 4)
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Photos of the Anti-War march in London, March 20th 2004. (set 2) Read more >>

Photos of the Anti-War march in London, March 20th 2004. (set 1)
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WHAT IS RACE? Beginning April 20, 2004. Tuesday evenings for 10 weeks.
A course lookig at 'race' from the birth of racism to the contemporary racism of immigration policy in an era of globalization to be held at the Oxford University Department of Education. Read more >>

come and help leaflet - 13th March Read more >>

a report of today's demo for the closure of Campsfield Read more >>

Big demo at Campsfield immigration prison on Saturday November 29, 12-2pm outside Campsfield main gates, 3pm in Broad St Oxford, bike ride to Campsfield from St Giles 10am, coaches from Oxford, Birminghma, london,etc. Rhythms of Resistance, Oxford samba band, Bill Morris, ex-detainees. 10th anniversary of opening; Campsfield not to be closed but expanded. Read more >>

Andrew Smith is the MP for East Oxford and a cabinet minister. I have just sent him the letter below asking him to condemn the racism that is being expressed about asylum seekers in relation to the new asylum centre in Bicester. Read more >>

Below is a worrying article about the increased activity of national front in Oxfordshire, that I found in this weeks oxford times. Read more >>

Campsfield House is an Immigration Detention Centre at Kidlington, six miles from Oxford. It is a prison run for private profit by Group 4, supervised by Home Office immigration officials. It used to be a youth detention centre, but it re-opened as an Immigration Detention Centre in November 1993. The local parish council was opposed to it, but their wishes were overruled by the Home Office.

There are 200 detainees in Campsfield House. Most are political refugees fleeing danger, torture and even death from countries such as Nigeria, Algeria, Ghana, Turkey, India and Zaire. They are held without charge, without time limit, without proper reasons given, and without proper access to legal representation. Amnesty International report that these are breaches of internationally recognised human rights. The former Chief Inspector of HM Inspectorate of Prisons (Judge Stephen Tumim) and The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture have condemned conditions at Campsfield House.

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Chief Minister Modi of Gujurat in India is visiting the UK 17/8 to seek British corporate investment. Member of the Hindu far-right party which admires Hitler, in February 2002 he told police chiefs not to intervene to save the lives of Muslims being massacred by Hindus in communal riots - or 'pogroms' as they were called in the 1930s. The result - 3000 died. He is also the Minister responsible for the infamous Narmada dam project. Asian groups will be protesting at his visit to Wembley, London, 17 August THIS SUNDAY!!!! PLEASE JOIN THEM. Read more >>