Oxford Public sector cuts Newswire Archive

11-02-2011 17:27 | 0 comment(s)

Anti-Cuts demo in Swindon - This Thursday!

Upcoming anti-cuts demo in Swindon - Read more >>

01-02-2011 18:17 | 0 comment(s)

Oxford Brookes Anti Cuts and Fees

Is this the end of public education in the UK? Read more >>

31-01-2011 17:31 | 0 comment(s)

More photos and audio from Oxford UKUncut Vodafone demo

Here are some more photos and an audio report from the UK Uncut demonstration held in the Vodafone shop in Corn Market Street, Oxford on Sunday 30th January. Read more >>

31-01-2011 08:24 | 0 comment(s)

OACA called Oxfordshire library read-ins - defend our libraries

Authors, trade unioinsts, library and anti-cuts campaigners, councillors and members of local communities will unite in defence of Oxfordshire library service on 5th Feb in a series of read-ins that are part of the Camaign for the Book national day of action called by author Alan Gibbons. Read more >>

30-01-2011 16:54 | 0 comment(s)

Oxford Education Campaign meeting!

Weekly consensus based campaign meetings @ Ruskin College, Walton St
Oxford OX1 2HE - 8pm Monday Read more >>

30-01-2011 13:24 | 11 comment(s)

Vodafone closed down in Oxford for refusing to pay taxes.

Six protesters from UK Uncut closed down the Vodafone store in Cornmarket today in opposition to the company's dodging £6bn in taxes. Read more >>

30-01-2011 10:59 | 0 comment(s)

Saving Temple Cowley Pools at the Council - Video

The video of the Full Council Meeting where members of the Save Temple Cowley Pools Campaign addressed and questioned the labour administration in full here:

http://www.oxford.gov.uk/PageRender/decCD/FullCouncilVideo24January2011.htm
From about 11 mins 15 seconds.... Read more >>

25-01-2011 18:25 | 0 comment(s)

Coach Oxford to London - 29 Jan - Anti-cuts, Save EMA

There's a national protest against fees and funding / EMA cuts in London this Saturday - it was mentioned at the OEC meeting that Oxford Right To Work have organised a coach but will have to cancel it unless more people use it. People seemed very up for getting some good action done. Should be good in its own right, and it should give us food for thought re. tactics for March.
It's £5 waged, £10 unwaged, leaves St. Giles at 9.30 and leaves London (Malet St. area) at 4.30. Read more >>

24-01-2011 19:00 | 1 comment(s)

Temple Cowley Pools plea receives tepid reception at Council meeting

At this evening's Oxford City Council meeting the eloquent and impassioned speeches made to Councilors by members of the Save Temple Cowley Pools campaigned received a tepid response from councillors, especially those of the ruling labour party, responsabile for plans to close the pool and fitness centre. Read more >>

23-01-2011 18:46 | 0 comment(s)

Oxford Education Campaign meeting!

Weekly consensus based campaign meetings @ Ruskin College, Walton St
Oxford OX1 2HE - 8pm Monday Read more >>

15-01-2011 22:03 | 0 comment(s)

The Case to Close Temple Cowley Pools is Crumbling...

We are getting more and more information, mostly forcing it out of the council via Freedom of Information requests, that refutes all the arguments they have used to push forward with their scheme to close TCP. Read more >>

13-01-2011 21:06 | 1 comment(s)

Democracy Dead in Oxford City...

The Labour administration running Oxford City Council has stopped yet another way of interacting with the general public. Lack of accountability and transparency is becoming a trademark for them, as they ignore the largest ever petition in the city's history, councillors refuse to talk to their voters, and now this... Read more >>

15-12-2010 19:15 | 0 comment(s)

Uninvisible Rally

This lunchtime saw Bonn Square in Oxford briefly transformed into Hyde Park, as a “Speakers' Corner” gave local people the opportunity to make their voices heard. Disabled people, parents, job seekers, teenagers and young people facing an insecure future, as well as older people facing poverty and discrimination, all spoke out about the damage that the cuts will do to their lives and their community. Read more >>

13-12-2010 11:22 | 1 comment(s)

Democracy or Dictatorship

Today at 5 pm in Oxford Town Hall, the Labour led city council are planning to vote for the 'strong leader' system of governance, in other countries known as dictatorship.Be afraid. Be very afraid. Be shocked.
Be angry THEN DO SOMETHING! Read more >>

11-12-2010 00:05 | 0 comment(s)

A to Barclays (Oxford)

On Saturday 27th November, around 600 Oxford workers, pensioners and students protested against the cuts. It looked set to be a routine A to B march, but the mood was lively, and some surprises were in store!

Article taken from Issue 2 of The Ox-Fly - Oxford's radical newsletter:

http://oxfly.theoarc.org.uk Read more >>

10-12-2010 23:58 | 2 comment(s)

Tory cuts... and Labour cuts (Oxford)

The Tory-led County Council plan to close nearly half (20) of our local libraries. A similar number of youth centres are to be closed down, with over £4 million cuts to youth services announced. This is an attack on the standards of living that we have fought for over decades of struggle.

Article taken from Issue 2 of The Ox-Fly - Oxford's radical newsletter:

http://oxfly.theoarc.org.uk Read more >>

10-12-2010 23:55 | 0 comment(s)

Radcliffe reclaimed (Oxford)

In Oxford, 500 people gathered on Cornmarket to protest against cuts to education, and ended up occupying the famous Bodlean Library for over 28 hours. Students from local schools and colleges joined those from Oxford Uni, Brookes and Ruskin.

Article taken from Issue 2 of The Ox-Fly - Oxford's radical newsletter:

http://oxfly.theoarc.org.uk Read more >>

10-12-2010 23:52 | 0 comment(s)

Roaming marches stun Oxford

Large anti-cuts marches disrupted Oxford city centre on 30th November, briefly occupying County Hall, Barclays, Lloyds, and Castle Mound, disrupting traffic, roaming through streets and shopping centres.

Article taken from Issue 2 of The Ox-Fly - Oxford's radical newsletter:

http://oxfly.theoarc.org.uk/ Read more >>

10-12-2010 17:47 | 3 comment(s)

Protest in David Cameron's constituency against youth centre cuts

Protesters from a group called UK Save Our Youth Groups are gathering in David Cameron's constituency of Witney, Oxfordshire. Read more >>

04-12-2010 15:31 | 1 comment(s)

Oxford Top Shop targeted in tax dodge demo

Protesters from the group UK Uncut blockaded the entrance to Top Shop to demand that Government cuts tzar, Britain's ninth-richest billionaire and serial tax dodger Phillip Green, pay his £300,000,000 tax bill. Read more >>

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