Oxford Terror War Newswire Archive

With a fresh batch of 'secret' Wikileaks on Sri Lanka out yesterday, the 'private' visit of Dr. Liam Fox to Sri Lanka, as arranged for this weekend, is canceled.
Questions have been raised in UK parliament on the content of the 'private' meeting the Defence secretary had with Mahinda Rajapakse in the Oliver Messel Suite of the Dorchester Hotel in London, 1st December 2010.
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Sri Lankan Government spokesman and Mass Media and Information Minister Keheliya Rambukwella at the Cabinet Decision Media Conference held at the Information Department auditorium yesterday said that a new President was appointed to the Oxford Union since the term of the former President James Kingston ended the following day President Mahinda Rajapaksa was scheduled to address the Union.
Thats James Langman in the Hillary term. Read more >>

On the 3rd November (next Wednesday), the lovely lads from BAE will be enticing Oxford grad students into a career of death-dealing!

The benefit? £24,000 - £28,000, bonus (discretionary), welcome payment, pension scheme, 25 days holiday
The cost? Working for a company that sells killing machines indiscriminately, corruptly and illegally!

Fight war, not wars!
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On Tuesday 21 September 2010 a peace Plaque will be unveiled in Bonn Square, Oxford. Read more >>

Trident Ploughshares held a summer gathering recently (2nd-6th Sept) near AWE Aldermaston. Read more >>

Between May 21 and June 2, in London, Oxford and Brighton, there will be five screenings of the new documentary film, "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo," followed by Q&A sessions with former prisoner Omar Deghayes and journalist and co-director Andy Worthington. Come along and find out how to put pressure on the new government to secure the release from Guantanamo of Shaker Aamer.. Read more >>

Focuses on prisoners whose torture has been exposed by UK courts and is being investigated by police

Former prisoner Omar Deghayes and journalist Andy Worthington will be speaking at screenings across the country

"Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo" is a new documentary film, directed by filmmaker Polly Nash and journalist Andy Worthington (author of The Guantánamo Files). The film focuses on the stories of three particular prisoners - Shaker Aamer (who is still held), Binyam Mohamed (released in 2009) and Omar Deghayes (released in 2007) - and the tour coincides with a mounting scandal involving British complicity in torture, which focuses on Shaker Aamer and Binyam Mohamed.

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8THANNUALHUMANRIGHTSFILMFESTIVAL
26th February - 5th March 2010 Read more >>

Trial of the six activists arrested at the 'Die-in for NATO's Victims in Afghanistan' outside Britain's military nerve centre in Northwood earlier this year.

From 10am, Watford Magistrates Court, The Court House, Clarendon Rd, WD17 1ST
Map:  http://tinyurl.com/ygumwt6 Read more >>

The majority of people in Britain want the troops out of Afghanistan now. They know this war is unwinnable and unjustifiable. The demonstration on Saturday 24 October will give voice to that majority who say the troops must come home now.
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Wedding Party peace protest at UK Military HQ in Northwood on Wednesday 27 May 2009 against killing of civilians in Afghanistan, on second anniversary of US attack on wedding party, killing 47.
Pictures Copyright (C) Peter Marshall, 2009. All rights reserved. Read more >>

Peace women defeat Ministry of Defence in freedom to protest case

A Ministry of Defence (MoD) byelaw banning camping outside the Atomic Weapons Establishment Aldermaston was quashed by the court of appeal today. The case, heard on 26th November 2008, was an appeal in the Judicial Review of the Secretary of State for Defence's decision to introduce byelaws which would have criminalised camping as a form of peaceful protest.

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Over 600 Palestinians have been killed, thousands more injured and over a million without water or electricity.

Mass struggle needed for liberation!

Open public forum at Oxford Town Hall - 7.30pm Thurs 15th Jan Read more >>

US Special forces have attacked a Syrian town near the Iraq border, killing at least 8 people, including children, and wounding 14 others. This attack follows strikes on Pakistan earlier in the month. The Oxford Stop the War Coalition is organising an emergency protest. It will be at 6.00pm at Cornmarket (Carfax end) on Tuesday 28 October.
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A major blockade and protest is underway of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston near Reading to mark UN Disarmament Week. The Aldermaston Big Blockade, organised by Trident Ploughshares and supported by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), Block the Builders and the Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp [5] is seeking to disrupt work on existing Trident nuclear warheads and the facilities that will enable the development of their successors at Britain’s nuclear weapons research laboratory. Read more >>

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The next Peace Action is taking place on Thursday 25th September.
Come and join in! We'll be meeting outside Holborn Tube Station @ 1PM, before heading to an army careers office.
For more info, please contact:  peaceactionlondon@riseup.net
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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 >>

Two US B2 stealth bombers arrived at RAF Fairford at midnight on Monday 11th August and left on Friday 15th August. Read more >>

Has anyone seen the images on the outside of East Oxford Community Centre the one on the left looks like a squashed Princess Di and the other is obviously Saddam Hussain ?? Read more >>