Oxford Globalisation Newswire Archive

Invitation to attend 'West Papua – The Road to Freedom', 2nd August 2011, Oxford, UK

West Papua has been illegally occupied by Indonesia for over 40 years. As part of the
ongoing campaign for freedom, the Free West Papua Campaign and the International
Lawyers for West Papua are honoured to invite you to a very special conference: West
Papua – The Road to Freedom.
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My account of Sunday's film screening in OARC - the Oxford Activist Resource Centre. Read more >>

On the 8th May OARC will be screening three Guerillavision films: Big Rattle in Seattle, Captal's Ill and Crowd Bites Wolf and then inviting a debate on whatever happened to the anti-globalisation movement. Read more >>

I went along to St Annes College this afternoon to the debate Activism vs. Slacktivism, part of the eCampaigning Forum conference taking place on 22nd and 23rd March in Oxford. I wondered what it was all about. Read more >>

The richest 1% of the world's people have 40% of the wealth.

Article taken from Issue 2 of The Ox-Fly - Oxford's radical newsletter:
 http://oxfly.theoarc.org.uk Read more >>

Save Our Services is a group of Oxford residents who have formed out of concern that the proposed public sector cuts will severely damage our community, and particularly the poorest people in it (a recent study found that the poorest 10% of people are set to lose the equivalent of 21% of their income). Read more >>

Report from demo tonight (Friday) and other news from Campsfield Read more >>

The General Election Read more >>

Come and hear how together we can fight sweatshops! Read more >>

40 NGO's and trade unions are calling for a mass protest at the G20 summit at the end of March under the banner of "Jobs, Justice and Climate." Read more >>

This is a response to a particularly bad Foreign Affairs article in which Collier, author of The Bottom Billion, suggests that what we need to combat hunger is to throw the peasant off the land, bring machinery to bear on agriculture, and plant GM crops.

It is, as Aal et al note, a full-speed backward vision of agriculture, filled with wild fantasies of infinite production and zero environmental or social consequences. Frankly, it's a Stalinist vision, one that owes more to the dreams and delusions of the 1950s than anything else. In the next issue of Foreign Affairs, Paul Collier presents his solution to the transportation crisis: nuclear-powered flying cars. Read more >>

A Public meeting and discussion with co-authors Caroline Lucas (South East Region MEP and Leader of the Green Party) and Colin Hines (Co-Director of Forum for the Future and former Head of Greenpeace International's Economics Unit).
Thursday January 29, 7.30pm - Assembly Rooms, Oxford Town Hall Read more >>

Oxford student recieves four-figure police payout for water bottle arrest debacle Read more >>

Does Oxford University own World Bank Bonds? Read more >>

Campaign for an Independent Inquiry into September 11th 2001
An Evening of Interactive Information and Discussion
Hosted by Calum Douglas - Researcher, Pilots For 911 Truth
7:30 pm, Thursday 11th September
Oxford Town Hall, St Aldates. FREE ENTRY Read more >>

A Female Protester has sealed herself into a tunnel under a hill upon which the Rath Lugh National Monument is positioned to stop construction of the M3 Motorway near the Hill of Tara. 100 protesters have now joined the protest at Rath Lugh.
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pills, profit protest chronicles the international aids protest movement 7.30 at the vaults an ganden on . Read more >>

A new blog has been launched by some folks in Oxford to document local resistance to the proposed Westgate development. Read more >>

An account of the Westgate Centre Tree Protest in Oxford drawing wider comparisons with the environmental and social problems we face in the world at large Read more >>

They still prevail but the contract rejections at Chrysler shook the UAW bureaucracy and the employers and are a glimpse of what is to come. And many of the new hires will likely be in the forefront of it. Read more >>