Oxford Anti-racism Newswire Archive

A few hundred Palestinians, Internationals and Israelis peacefully marched today from Bethlehem to the checkpoint which separates the city from Jerusalem, protesting enclosure of the city and the continued occupation. Read more >>

In an act of protest against the threats of military intervention by the U.S and its allies in Iran, five Iranian asylum seekers set off on foot from Birmingham on the 12th of March to join the national anti- war demonstration in London on the 19th of March. They arrived in Oxford yesterday, and left for London this morning looking tired, but encouraged by their welcome. Read more >>

You won't hear about the story of my Palestinian friend Ali Zbeidat and the threatened demolition of his "illegal" home, either from the hundreds of international correspondents in Jerusalem or from the Hebrew media - not even from those remarkable Israeli journalists Amira Hass and Gideon Levy, two lone beacons inside Israel in the campaign for justice for the Palestinians. Read more >>

CIVIL LIBERTIES UNDER THREAT: HOW THE WAR ON TERROR IS A WAR ON OUR FREEDOMS Read more >>

Oxford Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and the Oxford Ramallah Friendship Association are holding an evening of Palestinian food, music, poetry and story-telling, to raise funds to bring children from the Al Amari refugee camp near Ramallah, to Oxford this summer. Read more >>

Oxford Chabad Soc. Holocaust Memorial Lecture with Janina Fischler-Martinho Read more >>

January 20th - London meeting to plan for 2nd April Euro Day of Actions for Migrant Rights Read more >>

Two Plaestine Solidarity Events in Brighton next Week Read more >>

Political activist from Bangladesh will be deported from Heathrow Terminal 3 Flight GF2 on Friday 24th. Check in opens at 6.30 when I will start flyering passengers. The flight is at 9.30am. PLEASE come and help! Airport security means the more people the safer it is. If you can't come, fax the airline on Thursday 23rd: Gulf Air: 0208 600 1715/0208 600 7460. He has been in detention, separated from his wife and 2 children, and it is likely he will be killed on his return. Model Fax attached. email with ideas/more info. Read more >>

Last Saturday 27th November, between 50 and 100 people gathered outside Campsfield Removal Centre to demonstrate about the unjust imprisonment of migrants which has now been happening at Campsfield for eleven years. Read more >>

“Keep Azim in Oxford” Campaign
Candle Vigil outside St John's College
Tuesday 23 November 2004 (Today!)
17:30 - 18:30
Bring candles, yourself, and your friends.
Sign letters and petitions.
(Town AND Gown Welcome!) Read more >>

Gypsies are facing eviction from their own land this week,
despite an all-party commission's recommendation today
(8 Nov) that a duty be placed on local authorities to provide
spaces for caravan parks.
Families at Twin Oaks, Ridge, near South Mimms are now
dug in waiting for Blair to act: will they get a place to go
or see their caravan site bulldozed, as happened at
Chelmsford earlier this year. Read more >>

A demonstration is planned for Saturday the 27th of November to call for the closure of Campsfield House in Oxfordshire, one of the centres where refugees are imprisoned while their claims are being read. It commiserates 11 years of the centre's existence and pledges contnued support for the people held inside. Read more >>

Bicester group urges community to welcome refugees

Bicester Refugee Support today urged local residents not to let the appalling way they have been treated by the Home Office affect their attitude towards future residents of the Accommodation Centre which is to be built near the north Oxfordshire town.
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Dracula pays EDO/MBM a visit and sends an open invitation to all other ghouls, ghosties and creatures of the night... Read more >>

Observadores Internacionales Electorales
Selma James y Nina López
(con vídeo clips)
y
Estreno del documental:
La Revolución Bolivariana: Trabajadores petroleros ¡Presentes!

Contribución de Identidad Bolivariana, Países Bajos

Sábado 18 de septiembre 15:00-18:00
Trinity United Reform Church, Buck St, Londres NW1
Metro Camden Town Entrada a pie de calle, servicios disponibles en las cercanías
Entrada: £3 asalariados; £1.50 sin sueldo

Se celebrará la victoria del referéndum con música y refrigerio.
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July 2004, 34minutes, Spanish with English subtitles, VHS PAL/NTSC
Produced by the Bolivarian Circle of the Global Women’s Strike
Venezuela is the world’s 5th largest oil exporter, yet 80% of its population lives in poverty. In 1998 President Hugo Chávez was elected to use the oil revenue to tackle poverty. In April 2002 a coup against him was defeated by the millions who took to the streets. A few months later the élite and the CIA paralyzed Venezuela’s oil company PDVSA to bring Chávez down. Oil workers took over and worked round the clock to recover production.
In this documentary José Bodas, Luís Felix Marín, Jesús Montilla and Tania Suárez tell how they saved PDVSA and how they are organizing to “put the oil industry at the service of humanity”.
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Open meeting of Bicester Refugee Support - Tuesday, 21 September 2004 at 7.30 pm
in Bicester Methodist Church, Sheep Street, Bicester Read more >>

DO THEY WANT TO STOP US DEMONSTRATING AT CAMPSFIELD ALTOGETHER?

The police have, in the last few months, started to use intimidating tactics against what are normally peaceful and not very large demonstrations at Campsfield immigration prison. On the latest one, the intimidation reached heights of absurdity. Read more >>

Campsfield Immigrant Detention Centre is a place where innocent people are made to suffer. It has a 10-year history of brutality, suicide-attempts, hunger strikes, and
massive protests. In 2002 the Government finally admitted that it was "unsuited to the needs of the 21st century", and announced its closure. But instead, the Home Office has now sent Cherwell District Council a planning application to expand it from 180 to nearly 300 places.

All detention centres are trouble - for the innocent people inside and everyone who lives near them. But big detention centres are real trouble. Read more >>