Oxford Culture Newswire Archive

The annual Human Rights Film Festival at Oxford Brookes Uni is back again for the third year running. Last year's was excellent; this year's programme includes Atom Egoyan's "Ararat", and much more. Admission's still free too.
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oxford indymedia will soon have a physical space for a media centre in the new Oxford Action Resource Centre. Read more >>

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Lebanon's opposition staged the biggest show of force in the nation's modern history from slain ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's graveside Monday, taking a thunderous oath to break Syria's ruthless stranglehold and tear apart President Lahoud's police state of "secret service phantoms."
Between 1.5 and 2 million opposition activists converged on Beirut's downtown Martyrs Square and surrounding neighborhoods to mark the lapse of one month on Hariri's assassination. They shouted slogans demanding the resignation of all security commanders in Lebanon because of dereliction of duty in stopping the assassination. Read more >>

Stitches in Time has been extended to 22nd April. I've added some more pictures too to whet your appetite. Read more >>

Workshops on the state of the local media led by local journalists. Contributions from Indymedia peeps, plus showing of Robert Greenwald's recent film Outfoxed (starts at 11.15am), a stunning and stylish indictment of Rupert Murdoch's Fox News.Venue Oxford & Cherwell College. For more info: www.oxnuj.org.uk/localnews.php. Free. Read more >>

Fabulous embroidery from the Xhosa of South Africa and from Palestine. Read more >>

They play music and are heading for scotland... Read more >>

An exhibition of traditional Palestinian embroidery and South African story telling through tapestry. Presented to you by Keiskamma Art Project (www.keiskamma .org) and Network of Oxford Women (NOW) for Justice and Peace (www.nowpeace.org.uk) Read more >>

This is the first event in Oxford Women's International Festival 2005, running from Tuesday 1st to Sunday 20 March in the Museum of Oxford. The Festival is in its sixteenth year, and the programme is, if anything, even richer and more varied than before. Most events are free, and many are in or near the city centre. For more details see www.oxfordwomen.co.uk. Read more >>

The CONTEMPORARY IDEOLOGY FORUM seminar series (semester 2) starts today (24 February) with Andrew Smith (MP) talking on 'Political campaigning and its effectiveness: Getting the Message across' Read more >>

Oxford's 16th International Women's Festival starts on Tuesday March 1st and runs for nearly 3 weeks. This year the theme is clothes - women as workers and wearers. There's a rich and varied programme, mainly free, usually open to both sexes,including a day forum on sweated labour in the garment trade (see posters at www.nowpeace.org.uk). More details/posters will appear here shortly. Read more >>

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Oxford-Leon Link present a Nicaraguan Day and Salsa Evening

FRIDAY 25TH FEBRUARY, ASSEMBLY ROOM, OXFORD TOWN HALL (ST ALDATES)

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Black History Month Read more >>

STRICT ADHERENCE TO ANY RELIGIOUS DOGMA IS INTELLECTUAL SUICIDE. Read more >>

For the first time in their 7 year history activists from Mexican pressure group CIPO-RFM will be speaking in the UK on the dates shown below. Please support these people the repression they are currently getting from the Mexican state is getting worse. Read more >>

oxford graffiti,part nine of a series Read more >>

UK demands more liberal emissions regulation, and stops forward plans for the new EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Read more >>

DON'T MISS THE 4 NATION SLAM
AT THE ZODIAC IN OXFORD(Cowley Road)
ON Tuesday 1ST FEBRUARY
The UK competes with USA, Canada and Irland
Click and listen to 6 minutes of last month's Hammer&Tongue event... Read more >>