Oxford Ecology Newswire Archive

12 protestors blockaded a Shell garage in Reading last night, effectively stopping business for an hour. This action was taken in solidarity with communities struggling against destruction caused by Shell in Rossport, Ireland and the Niger Delta, Nigeria. Read more >>

Environment protesters have got into Didcot power station, Oxfordshire, and chained themselves to equipment taking coal to the boilers. Read more >>

Tickets for coach to climate demo now available.... Read more >>

Ever had the feeling that all politician’s are liars? Maybe when they tell you that thousands of pounds of debt just for getting an education is a good thing, or that it really was about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Ever thought that capitalism sucks, making the rich richer and screwing everyone else? Ever felt like staying in bed instead of going to work? Read more >>

Fundraiser for the People and Planet network.
EOCC Sat 30th Sept. from 8.30pm Read more >>

A local anti-climate change group in Wantage, Oxfordshire, is organising a big concert for climate action on the 2nd of December. It takes place in a tried and tested venue and is set to pull in hundreds of locals. The group aims to inspire them with our message about the need to tackle climate change. But we need support! Read more >>

British companies are profiting from masacres, human rights abuses and environmental destruction in the most blood-soaked country in the Western hemesphere. Read more >>

Eviction within weeks if not days! Read more >>

RWE NPower, the German-owed Power Company that runs the ageing Didcot "A" coal-fired power station is adamantly detrmined to destroy a beautiful lake in the Oxfordshire Green Belt by turning it into a Waste Dump for pulverised fuel ash (PFA) despite the existence of better alternatives. The Company has refused to look at recycling options, preferring instead to pay the paltry £2.00 per tonne landfill tax. The Station Manager has so often said "We are in the business of generating electricity, not selling Ash". So, because coal is cheap, Didcot burns more and more instead of gas, and generates more waste, more profits for its shareholders, and leaves a noxious legacy for future generations by its failure to address recycling alternatives, which other Power Stations have done. Read more >>

The Tara Foundation are calling for an International Solidarity Camp at Tara; as many people as possible, from as many countries as possible, to send one message to the Irish State and the property speculators and financiers who will benefit from it: that the M3 will not be permitted to go through the Tara-Skryne Valley. Read more >>

Next OCCC meeting: 7.30pm Weds 9th August, OARC East Oxford Community Centre, Cowley Road- all welcome Read more >>

Thursday 6th July

'Climate injustice in the Niger Delta: Ten years on from Ken Saro-Wiwa'

7-9 pm, Holywell Music Rooms. £3/£2. Read more >>

Oxford gets its own Critical Mass Read more >>

Another event in the COIN Speaker Series on Climate Change will take place on 22nd June - 'women and climate change, is the female of the species more deadly than the male?' Read more >>

A new report from Oxford Research Group examining the various threats to global security, and sustainable responses to those threats. Read more >>

** PRO-ACTIVE ANTI-WAR LIVE MUSIC!!!.**
ATTILLA THE STOCKBROKER, DAVID ROVICS, THE RUB,
TRACEY CURTIS, GAEA Hosted by BARAKA
FRIDAY 30th JUNE 9pm - late
E.O.C.C, COWLEY,OXFORD Read more >>

Organising meeting next Weds 7th June at OARC. Read more >>

Oxford Campaign Against Climate Change Open Organising Meeting Read more >>

COIN's Speaker Series returns with an event on climate justice - 'will climate change destroy any hope of equality for the worlds poorest people?'. Andrew Simms of NEF and Maria Adebowale of Capacity Global speak at Ruskin College, Thursday 18th May, 7-9 pm. Entry £3/£2. Read more >>

Public Meeting on climate chaos and radical options for stopping it:
Friends' Meeting house, St. Giles, Oxford
7.30 Wednesday 26th April Read more >>