Oxford Technology Newswire Archive

15-10-2011 10:28 | 0 comment(s)

Weekly blog roundup

The following is drawn from a variety of local activist blogs

18-06-2011 15:13 | 1 comment(s)

Poster/flyer for July's OARC film screening

Who are these people that call themselves hackers? Those that believe that technology exists to be appropriated and subverted for whatever purpose? Those who oppose corporate control over inventions? If you part with good money for something, is it not yours to do what you will with it? Not according to the likes of Microsoft, Apple, Sony and their ilk… Read more >>

22-03-2011 10:14 | 3 comment(s)

Review: Activism vs Slacktivism debate: but what happened to Hacktivism?

I went along to St Annes College this afternoon to the debate Activism vs. Slacktivism, part of the eCampaigning Forum conference taking place on 22nd and 23rd March in Oxford. I wondered what it was all about. Read more >>

20-04-2010 10:59 | 0 comment(s)

Erasing David - Feature Documentary about Civil Liberties and Privacy

ERASING DAVID is a feature documentary about privacy and surveillance in the UK. Director David Bond went on the run for a month and hired the best two private investigators in the UK to track him down using his personal data. The film is a riveting exposé of our digital age that plays like a Hitchcockian thriller – both chilling and very funny. Showing at the Oxford Phoenix Cinema Read more >>

14-08-2009 08:24 | 2 comment(s)

Cowley Road CCTV - BBC breach charter with one sided debate

Radio 4's Reality Check didn't check reality when it came to surveillance cameras along the Cowley Road, East Oxford Read more >>

30-07-2009 15:18 | 0 comment(s)

Wanted: computer games expert to help develop nuclear weapons

This is an excellent job opening for anyone who likes violent computer games and wishes to contribute to defending the realm from North Koreans and aliens. The British nuclear deterrent is certainly safe in AWE's hands. Read more >>

13-05-2009 22:42 | 2 comment(s)

CCTV Planned for East Oxford Community Centre?

Help reverse community centre CCTV decision. Read more >>

26-03-2009 01:14 | 0 comment(s)

NO CCTV Meeting - 30th March, 8pm The Mitre, High St, Oxford

No CCTV Oxford's next meeting. Read more >>

10-02-2009 22:01 | 6 comment(s)

Police bail sysadmin in animal rights extremism probe

Here is the latest from the register about the arrest related to the latest imc server seizure. The arrested man is a sys admin who hosted several servers including the indymedia server. Apparently this is enough to get you held for 8 hours and bail conditions. But the comments get it -

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/10/indymedia/comments/ Read more >>

25-01-2009 10:31 | 2 comment(s)

No CCTV Meeting 27th Jan

No CCTV on the Cowley Road next steps Meeting 27/1/09 Read more >>

18-01-2009 22:16 | 0 comment(s)

Where is proven need for Cowley Road CCTV?

As the council and police prepare for the Monday 19th January 2009 ceremonial switching on of the CCTV cameras on the Cowley Road, East Oxford, campaign group No CCTV asks where is the proven need for the cameras? Read more >>

24-06-2008 18:36 | 2 comment(s)

Cowley Road Carnival - Help campaign against CCTV

The Cowley Road carnival is taking place on Sunday 6th July and campaign group No CCTV (www.no-cctv.org,uk) are looking for volunteers to help distribute campaign materials at the event. Read more >>

30-04-2008 12:29 | 2 comment(s)

VisionOnTv DVD now available to download

The First VisionOnTv dvd is now available to download by bit-torrent Read more >>

10-01-2008 12:25 | 0 comment(s)

Polar Bears Populate Welsh Coal Mine

A video about a climate action that happened before xmus. Read more >>

23-10-2007 22:26 | 3 comment(s)

Campaign website against CCTV on Cowley Road

A campaigning website against the proposed CCTV scheme for the Cowley Road has been set up at

http://www.no-cctv.org.uk Read more >>

25-09-2007 14:30 | 0 comment(s)

Atomic Weapons Establishment a catastrophe waiting to happen

The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) and the Ministry of Defence have submitted a planning application for a new nuclear warhead component factory at the Burghfield site in Berkshire, yet the site has been struggling to remedy as many as 1,000 safety defects uncovered by the government's official nuclear watchdog. And it has only been allowed to remain open because the Ministry of Defence says the work it does is vital.
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01-08-2007 18:44 | 0 comment(s)

Farms Destroyed by Global Warming

Global warming is the most serious threat facing planet.

We have an opportunity, and an obligation, to lead in solving this global crisis by investing in clean and safe electricity, efficient buildings and a less polluting transportation system.
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26-07-2007 16:00 | 1 comment(s)

Activists Attack "Clean Coal"

Performance Activists hit Oxford, one of the worst hit areas in the recent floods, in a bid to highlight that "Clean Coal" is not a genuine solution to Climate Change. Read more >>

11-06-2007 18:04 | 3 comment(s)

TV has to change

The is a new video portal that wonts to over through the US government and save the planet for corporate corruption. They have a criminal history you can find there plan here:

http://visionontv.net Read more >>

08-05-2007 12:53 | 0 comment(s)

Testing week for visionontv 7-13th May

What is Undercurrents latest project all about? Read more >>

19-04-2007 21:33 | 1 comment(s)

gathering anticivilization 2007

After the success of the last gathering in Tavertet, we are calling for a new one this year. It will take place the 8, 9, 10 and 11 of September. Read more >>

09-04-2007 17:54 | 0 comment(s)

Fusion Power against Global Warming

Nuclear Fusion for eletricity generation is closer than we think Read more >>

28-03-2007 15:28 | 2 comment(s)

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer to Speak at Oxford Students Union Next Week

Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer, Steve Ballmer takes time out from his busy schedule to talk to students and members of the public on the subject of technology and its effects on the modern media, and in turn politics. Read more >>

27-03-2007 00:26 | 1 comment(s)

Announcing IMC-UK-PHOTO

A new indymedia mailing list has been created to help facilitate communication and collaboration between photographers working on environmental and social justice reporting. If you regularly go out to document protests etc with a camera, please join this list. Read more >>

24-11-2006 00:20 | 13 comment(s)

Public meeting on humane research

PUBLIC MEETING
on
“HUMANE ALTERNATIVES TO ANIMAL RESEARCH: THE WAY FORWARD FOR 21ST CENTURY MEDICINE”

Oxford Town Hall
Tuesday 28th November
7.30pm
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