Oxford Repression Newswire Archive

Warning!!! Read more >>

Slavoj Zizek, a leading philosopher and theorist, came to speak at the Oxford Amnesty lecctures on the theme of Asylum, Migration and Displacement. Read more >>

Open letter to the European ESF movement Read more >>

A PROPOSAL from the one of the practicality group - AGENDA FOR 29th UK MEETING - please add to it.

The last meeting had no agenda or agreed facilitator we need to change this if the ESF is not to descend into a farce. Read more >>

The European Social Forum is supposed to be a non hierarchical gathering of grass roots alternatives to the traditional political process. Read more >>

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:: A MOVEMENT OF MOVEMENTS : CALLING ALL ANTI CAPITALISTS ::
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Since 1999 Mayday has re-established itself as a focus for anti-capitalists to gather and to celebrate our collective visions and mark our past struggles. Read more >>

Five minute video of interviews with the Littlemoor Four of Pink Castle fame. The four defendents, from Totnes, Oxford, Somerset and Wales, were just about to enter the court for a 'retrial'... Read more >>

The ESF is boring – stuck in its way – but the are real people involved and it will be a huge gathering of alternatives… here are some views from the meeting. Read more >>

On Saturday 29 November, over 200 people from all over the country gathered for a demonstration outside Campsfield House Immigration Detention Centre, the scene of frequent protests, hunger strikes and a riot, to mark its 10th anniversary. Read more >>

5 minute video about abuse of police powers at a demo in Newbury. Read more >>

a good demo Read more >>

After the police told the organisers of the Campsfield 10th anniversary protests that the planned demonstration couldn’t go round the back of the detention centre where detainees can come out into a yard and hear the demonstration, three banners mysteriously appeared snagged high on the perimeter fence last night. Stating ‘No One is Illegal’, ‘No Deportations’ and ‘No Detentions’, these banners were clearly visible to detainees inside providing a much needed morale boost for the asylum seekers, who quite often spend more than a year locked up with no trial and no charge waiting for their applications to be considered. Read more >>

The charge of criminal damage to Fairford main gate was dropped against
one of the defendants today. One free, two to go! Read more >>

It happened in oxford and is continuing in Palestine all the time Read more >>

This afternoon, as part of the international day of protest and action against Israel's 'security wall', protesters in Oxford (wearing huge white cardboard boxes on their heads :) attempted to give the local weekend shoppers a glimpse of life in occupied Palestine. Read more >>

November 9th is International "Stop The Wall" Day, with protests and actions to raise awareness of the apartheid "security" wall being built in the West Bank.
We need people to come to Bonn Square, 1-3pm, to form Oxford's own "Wall", by wearing large cardboard sections, linking arms to form an inpenetrable security shield!
It should be lively! Read more >>

Help needed in Oxford to raise awareness of the apartheid wall being built in the West Bank. Read more >>

is wilkie really an antisemite, or a victim of the anti-anti-semites? Read more >>

It isent finished yet... but good anuf to whatch so thought I would post it anyway (: Read more >>

IMC video comeing soon. Read more >>