Oxford Repression Newswire Archive

20-11-2007 13:45 | 2 comment(s)

Oxford / Burma solidarity march

As part of an ongoing expression of solidarity with the people of Burma, Saturday 17 December witnessed a march of 200 people through Oxford Read more >>

11-11-2007 18:02 | 1 comment(s)

Press Release: Three Arrested @ Common Ground Community Garden

(Sorry this is a little late, we've been veerrrrryyyyyy busy! Thanks for your continuing support!) Read more >>

11-11-2007 17:57 | 0 comment(s)

Occupation Struggles Heat Up In Reading

In Reading, as the entire town is flogged off to international money-men and and the needs of the people go ignored, its difficult to make the priorities and forces running our neighbourhoods and our world, and the injustice that results, more obvious. But two ongoing struggles in the Katesgrove area of the town do just that. Read more >>

04-11-2007 12:04 | 1 comment(s)

November 10th. Anti Separation Wall Action in Cornmarket

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 10TH 12-2PM. ACTION AGAINST ISRAEL'S ILLEGAL SEPARATION WALL IN PALESTINE. CORNMARKET (St Michael's tower end), CENTRAL OXFORD

Please join Oxford Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Oxford Women in Black and others for a vigil to mark the International Day of Action against the separation wall in Palestine

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18-10-2007 12:55 | 1 comment(s)

"Common Ground" Community Garden Finally Evicted

Report on Thursday 18th Octobers eviction of Common Ground Community Garden. Read more >>

16-10-2007 19:50 | 0 comment(s)

"Indonesian territorial integrity" ...it's just a bloody map

An article exposing the UK Government's collusion with Indonesia in stopping the people of West Papua from voting for freedom from Indonesian colonial rule Read more >>

07-10-2007 20:59 | 1 comment(s)

RAF Croughton.... not just tea brewing....

More than 70 local people gather for protest and cakes at RAF Croughton, the US military listening base, just outside Oxford. Read more >>

07-10-2007 00:01 | 2 comment(s)

Report from the Oxford Total demo

A brief explanation of some of the situation in Burma and a report on the demonstration in Oxford which took place on the 6th of October, 2007. Read more >>

06-10-2007 17:46 | 3 comment(s)

Total Totally Blockaded in Oxford

Protesters peacefully blockaded a Total petrol station in Oxford today, in support of the democracy movement in Burma (Myanmar); activists were there for two hours and seriously disrupted Total's business for the day. Read more >>

02-10-2007 18:45 | 7 comment(s)

Anti-Total protest in Oxford

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24-09-2007 00:15 | 0 comment(s)

Stop Genocide of Baloch People in Iran and Pakistan

APPEAL TO WORLD : Stop Genocide of Baloch People in IRAN and PAKISTAN Read more >>

12-09-2007 00:52 | 2 comment(s)

Zimbabwean women on hunger strike in Yarl's Wood IRC

The hunger strike by five Zimbabwean women who are being held in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Center enters it's third day today. The women are protesting against their continued detention and impending deportation to Malawi. Read more >>

08-08-2007 20:26 | 0 comment(s)

Immigration Minister 'arrested' for locking up migrants at Campsfield

Members of the Campaign to Close Campsfield held a very successful demonstration yesterday (7 August) outside the Campsfield immigrant prison, in an effort to "redress the balance of reportage" on the detainees escape last Saturday and to show the detainees inside that "not everyone goes along with the mood of hysteria." There were loud shouts of "Freedom!" and "Thank you very much!" from the main accommodation block, which protesters addressed using a megaphone across the prison's unused, weed-grown football pitch. Read more >>

02-08-2007 12:35 | 0 comment(s)

Campsfield Detentainees Confront Home Office Officals

Following Tuesday night's large, disciplined yard-protest and Wednesday morning's hunger strike, two Home Office representatives were called to Campsfield on Wednesday afternoon to hear the detainees' grievances. The pair, including the Assistant Director of Escorting Services at the Borders and Immigration Authority (Philip Schoelenberger?) were confronted by an angry, articulate, multi-national delegation of 22 detainees in a meeting that lasted 2 and a half hours. Read more >>

18-07-2007 09:46 | 1 comment(s)

Stop Cowley Road CCTV!

Your chance to stop CCTV along the Cowley Road (from The Plain to The Regal)..... Read more >>

22-06-2007 13:27 | 0 comment(s)

SPEAKing out at the Oxford Encaenia ceremony 2007

the campaign against the oxford lab continues...... Read more >>

02-06-2007 18:08 | 0 comment(s)

June 9th marks the first national rally of the ENOUGH! Coalition

The ENOUGH! coalition is organising a major national demonstration and rally to take place in London on the afternoon of 9 June 2007 - the international day of action to mark the 40th anniversary under the slogan: "The World Says No to Israeli Occupation". Read more >>

02-06-2007 17:40 | 0 comment(s)

Oxford Women in Black members to join Enough march for Palestine on June 9th

Oxford Women in Black members will move their protest against the Israeli occupation of Palestine to London on June 9th to join with thousands of other protestors who are saying Enough! to 40 years of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories. Read more >>

30-05-2007 23:40 | 5 comment(s)

the truth about oxford university and thames valley police

a report on the outcome of the oxford trial of the lab protesters as published in arkangel:

http://www.arkangelweb.org/international/uk/20070530speak14.php Read more >>

23-05-2007 13:03 | 1 comment(s)

Court Demo - Defend Common Ground Community Garden!

At the beginning of this year a group of friends came together with a shared purpose: to create an open space within Reading's concrete jungle, where people could take a breather from the stresses of modern life and relax with their friends and neighbours. Having discovered a plot of land within the Katesgrove area, left to ruin by Reading Borough Council, they got to work. Read more >>