Oxford Repression Newswire Archive

PLEASE JOIN THE MARCH IN LONDON THIS SATURDAY WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT !

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Let us unite and be together and fight for human rights and for freedom of movement. Read more >>

WESTBORO Baptist Church openly support the Orlando nightclub mass murder where fifty LGBT clubbers got murdered by the armed fanatic, tweeting that the killer "came from God", and that the victims will "rot in hell". At the same time as the Florida shootings, another fanatic, this time a white, Christian fanatic, was tooled-up with automatic rifles, handguns and bombs, ready to do the same thing to LA pride, and yet, the media refuse to label the second man a terrorist, proving double-standards when it comes to reporting news which does not correspond with a global anti-Islam agenda, and the War On Terror. Read more >>

Oxford City Council is trying to secretly make a Public Space Protection Order against live-aboard boaters in Oxford effectively removing them from the City. The Scrutiny Committee will be considering this at the Town Hall at 18.15 on 7-3-2015. Please come and show solidarity against this draconian plan. Read more >>

Campaigners and Green Assembly Members lobby Mayor over London visit.

Campaign group Free Tibet has challenged Mayor of London Boris Johnson to invite the Dalai Lama to meet him during his trip to London.

The Tibetan spiritual leader and bête noire for the government of China visits the capital this weekend and next week (1) Read more >>

Campaigners and Green Assembly Members lobby Mayor over London visit.

Campaign group Free Tibet has challenged Mayor of London Boris Johnson to invite the Dalai Lama to meet him during his trip to London.

The Tibetan spiritual leader and bête noire for the government of China visits the capital this weekend and next week (1) Read more >>

Campaign group Free Tibet has asked Oxford City Council to extend an official welcome to the Dalai Lama when he visits the city on the 14th of September. So far, the council has not responded,leading to fears it is wary of offending the Chinese government. Read more >>

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18 months after the 2011 Census, court cases are dragging on against a tiny proportion of those who resisted the Census on anti-war and privacy grounds, mainly but not entirely because of Census data processing contracts with Lockheed Martin (England and Wales) and CACI (Scotland). For background and other reports on this, see the Indymedia census topic, Count Me Out and Ethical Census.

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In faraway Sri Lanka, which is never faraway for the political manipulations through the Oxford University using the Oxford Union, amidst contradictory accounts, an email from James Kingston, then president of the Oxford Union dating back to sometime after december 2010 is revealed.
Despite credible allegations that the PR outfit Bell Pottinger organised the whole event, James Kingston comes up with a different version and stands 'by my invitation to the President, and had looked forward to his speech with great excitement'. James Kingston also seems to assert that no one else holds power in the Oxford Union while claiming ownership for the decision to pull the plug on the 'largest demonstration seen in the history of Oxford' Read more >>

Deborah's Census case was heard in Reading Magistrates Court on Monday 14 May. She was found guilty, fined and is minded not to pay the fine. Read more >>

An update on some of the court cases involving those who refused to complete the 2011 Census on anti-war and anti-surveillance grounds amongst others. Many objections were directly related to arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin's contract to process census data. The CPS has started dropping cases. This is the latest information we have. Please get in touch if you have more up-to-date info on any of these cases (or others). Read more >>