Oxford Globalisation Newswire Archive

Celebrate mayday with the Peacenik Pirates in bath. Activities include info stalls, music, poi lessons and bucaneer antics. DROP ANCHORS NOT BOMBS! Read more >>

Two events are on in Oxford this week as part of the Global Week of Action ( http://www.april2005.org/). Read more >>

E.Y.F.A and Gluaiseacht Anti-War Winter Meeting. Lots of talk of a Europen wide anti-war network, possebilerty of funding for a europen wide video production, screening caravan. Read more >>

From little seeds do they grow .... Read more >>

The OXFORD ACTION RESOURCE CENTRE (OARC) is now open for campaigning, meetings, alternative media, and other uses.

It is located in Room One upstairs in the East Oxford Community Centre, Princes St and Cowley Rd.



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The World's Water: should it be privatised? - PUBLIC MEETING - 7.30pm -
Wednesday 13 April
Oxford Town Hall

Every year over two million people die because of the unclean water they are forced to drink. Many more - particularly women and children - have their lives disrupted by the need to walk miles to collect water.
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A ONG-BRAZIL Cearah Periferia e Fortaleza, demite, persegue e veta politicamente pessoas do Movimento popular de Fortaleza, utilizando o recurso dos cidadão da cidade de OXFAM na Inglaterra. Read more >>

Lebanon's opposition staged the biggest show of force in the nation's modern history from slain ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's graveside Monday, taking a thunderous oath to break Syria's ruthless stranglehold and tear apart President Lahoud's police state of "secret service phantoms."
Between 1.5 and 2 million opposition activists converged on Beirut's downtown Martyrs Square and surrounding neighborhoods to mark the lapse of one month on Hariri's assassination. They shouted slogans demanding the resignation of all security commanders in Lebanon because of dereliction of duty in stopping the assassination. Read more >>

anyone in a social movement organization - will vote on each section and on the overall WSF Economic proposals before the next forum. Then depending on if the vote is near equal (40 to 60 percent either way) then the 2 groups should split up as they are clearly polarized. Read more >>

They play music and are heading for scotland... Read more >>

Join the Oxford Fairtrade Coalition for a dinner in honour of REGINA JOSEPHS, a Fairtrade banana farmer from Dominica.

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A Fair Trade market will be held in Gloucester Green this weekend. Read more >>

From the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, 'the North' from Seattle to Genova, and the 'War on Terror' in New York, Afghanistan, and Iraq. It is the story of men and women around the world who resist being annihilated in this war. Read more >>

Oxford-Leon Link present a Nicaraguan Day and Salsa Evening

FRIDAY 25TH FEBRUARY, ASSEMBLY ROOM, OXFORD TOWN HALL (ST ALDATES)

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Fairtrade Fortnight takes place from the 1st to the 13th March, and a wide range of events, talks and activities are taking place across Oxford over the Fortnight and beyond. Read more >>

A public meeting with speakers including George Solomou of the Territorial Army. A lance corporal in the Royal Army Medical Corps, he has publicly declared he will not fight in Iraq and is the first UK soldier to call on other soldiers to "speak out or opt out". Read more >>

For the first time in their 7 year history activists from Mexican pressure group CIPO-RFM will be speaking in the UK on the dates shown below. Please support these people the repression they are currently getting from the Mexican state is getting worse. Read more >>

Thursday 10 February
5PM
Tanner Room, Linacre College Read more >>

Barclays funding dodgy initiatives...again Read more >>

TARGETTED ARREST OF ACTIVIST IN OAXACA, MEXICO POINTS TO INCREASE IN REPRESSION OF INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES FIGHTING FOR THEIR EXISTANCE. Read more >>