Oxford Globalisation Newswire Archive

Camp for Climate Action 2006 needs YOU! Read more >>

This is probably too late for physical support, but the Fairford 5 could do with help towards expenses or just messages of support. Read more >>

After the aquittal of the cops, we can't just let them get away with what they did, we are appealing! Read more >>

Today, a considerable number of young members of the PRD [Party of the Democratic Revolution] have characteristics that are very distinct from those of the ex-members of the PRI [Institutional Revolutionary Party - in power for decades until recently], founders of that party. The new generations lean toward an “alter-globalist” ideology. Read more >>

Hey man, enough with articles that criticize street vendors. We´re all in it together. What´s the big deal? Don´t have any money? Go out and sell something. Don´t have a steady job? What do you want it for? It´s a drag dealing with the boss, bad pay, and lousy hours. On the street, you are the king or improvisation.
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The new Oxford Colombia Solidarity Campaign launches this Thursday 16th February. Read more >>

Anti-poverty campaigners ask “Where next after Make Poverty History?” Read more >>

Diaz school story Read more >>

The first national student anti-sweatshop week of action will take place 11-18 February 2006. Read more >>

A group of local artist were told “you can have a free reign” to paint murals on a wall on Cowley Road owned by a local estate agent in Marston Street

After deciding to illustrate a poem written by local Poet Nyarai Humba and spending many hours researching photographs they then spent two days in the freezing cold painting the mural.

Over the weekend they had so much public support for the mural, the artists were constantly fed mince pies, cups of tea and mulled whine by passers by as they painted. So you can imagine the shock and horror they experienced to find the poem had been painted out by censors the day after it had been finished. Read more >>

In Reading last night, around 20-30 anti-capitalists, environmentalists, students and others marched from the Reading International Solidarity Centre, to make a free cafe and anti-World Trade Organisation demonstration outside Starbucks in the town centre. Protesters moved quickly into the Oracle Riverside - busy private land on both sides of the canal which is lined with posh restaurants, bars and the cinema between the huge Oracle shopping center and it's multi-story carpark.
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OSEF is back. The Oxfordshire Social Enterprise Forum’s Executive Committee is holding a celebratory re-launch event from 4.15 to 6.30pm on Wednesday December 14th at the Said Business School, Oxford University, Park End Street, Oxford. Read more >>

Oxford and Brookes students take part in Buy Nothing Day, a day of action against consumerism, aiming to make people think about the consequences of their excessive shopping habits. Read more >>

Stop the cuts
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On the 1st of October, East Oxford Community Centre will be the scene of a long night of punk bands, DJs, spolen word, acoustic acts and art displays. The funds raised will be used to cover costs involved in the protests against the G8 and for the London group Campaign Against Climate Change. Read more >>

A protest against at Oxford University's Said Business School, where profit comes before people via unethical means, exploitation and repression. Read more >>

The local No2ID group for Oxfordshire, based in Oxford, is meeting this week to discuss opposing the introduction of ID Cards and the Database State, and are part of the national No2ID Card campaign ( http://www.no2id.net). Read more >>

I found this brilliant subvertisement on Crown St in East Oxford last night. Cool, folks. Read more >>

A group called the Abu Hafs al Masri Brigade has claimed responsibility for London blasts in a statement posted on an Islamic Web site.

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Personal account of some of my experiences Read more >>