Oxford Social Struggles Newswire Archive

17-03-2006 21:49 | 0 comment(s)

All Day Extravaganza - Jericho Community Boatyard Benefit Saturday 18th March

at the East Oxford Community Centre, 10am til 2am! Featuring:
The Bedouin Cafe... breakfast served 10am+ Family Atmosphere, Acoustic Music, Poetry, Stories, Face Painting, Food & Bar
THE G's, Ned & Jerry (The Egg), Cornelius from 9.30pm (upstairs) Baraka (psy-trance).. £5 adv/conc £8 door Under 12's FREE

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13-03-2006 11:23 | 0 comment(s)

UK companies in Iraq: new report from Corporate Watch

Corporate Watch is a small independent research organisation, based in Oxford. We publish research to help those resisting corporate power -- check out www.corporatewatch.org.uk

We also bring out a newsletter every two months, and a news update on web and email every two weeks. To subscribe to either of these, please see our website, or give us a call on 01865 791 391 Read more >>

11-03-2006 00:31 | 0 comment(s)

The Real Oxford Union First Annual Address

TUC Deputy General Secretary gives the first Real Oxford Union Annual Address. Read more >>

09-03-2006 20:39 | 3 comment(s)

Life without Water? public meeting

22nd March is World Water Day and the World Water Forum (WWF), (private sector think tank) is being held in Mexico City. Read more >>

07-03-2006 08:45 | 3 comment(s)

Anti-poverty campaigners ask “Where next after Make Poverty History?

Oxford World Development Movement (WDM), leading global justice campaigners and founding members of Make Poverty History are organising a conference in Oxford asking ‘Where next after Make Poverty History?’ Read more >>

21-02-2006 17:45 | 0 comment(s)

Public Meeting on British companies in Colombia 22nd Feb

Speakers/Discussion/Information

Wed 22nd February 7:30pm - 9.30pm

St Colomba's URC Church,
Alfred St, Oxford
(Alfred Street is off The High, opposite The Mitre pub) Read more >>

17-02-2006 15:46 | 0 comment(s)

Taste of Palestine events - tickets selling fast!

Tickets are selling fast for the Taste of Palestine event at the Asian Cultural Centre on 25 Feb, 7-11pm. Read more >>

17-02-2006 13:28 | 2 comment(s)

Swiss police acquitted in Aubonne Bridge trial

Two Swiss police officers who nearly killed climbers Martin Shaw and Gesine Wenzel by cutting their rope during the protests against the G8 in Evian, 2003 have been acquitted of causing severe bodily harm with negligence after a private prosecution. Read more >>

11-02-2006 22:56 | 3 comment(s)

worker from occupied argentinian factory speaks in oxford

On Monday 13 February Jose Julian Pununuri, a worker from the worker-occupied Zanon ceramics factory in Argentina, will be speaking in Oxford as part of a national speaker tour organised by No Sweat and the Argentina Solidarity Campaign. Read more >>

11-02-2006 03:31 | 0 comment(s)

Bolivarian and Alter-Globalist Youth Groups in Mexico

Today, a considerable number of young members of the PRD [Party of the Democratic Revolution] have characteristics that are very distinct from those of the ex-members of the PRI [Institutional Revolutionary Party - in power for decades until recently], founders of that party. The new generations lean toward an “alter-globalist” ideology. Read more >>

09-02-2006 22:58 | 3 comment(s)

Where next after ‘Make Poverty History?’

Anti-poverty campaigners ask “Where next after Make Poverty History?” Read more >>

06-02-2006 17:40 | 2 comment(s)

talk: Palestine, the current situation

Jennifer Lowenstein, Visiting Research Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University will be giving a talk on “Palestine: the current situation. Read more >>

05-02-2006 00:50 | 4 comment(s)

Stop Red Ice: End Planned Murder of 300,000 Canadian Seals In March

Canada is a leader in the abolition and antiwar movements.
Please stop a tiny number of fishermen and international furriers who
are keeping Canadian seal clubbing going long after
it has ended in the UK, US and elsewhere. Read more >>

03-02-2006 19:57 | 1 comment(s)

12th Feb: speaker from worker-occupied Zanon factory in Argentina

Monday 12th February, 12.30pm, The Okinaga Room, Wadham College, Parks Road: Speaker meeting

Goodheart Seminar Room, 8pm, Wadham college: Film showing Read more >>

31-01-2006 22:24 | 0 comment(s)

Vigil at Carfax for Iraqi casualties

Today's attack on British troops in Umm Qasr and yesterday's attack in Amarah means that we have reached the 100 mark for British casualties in Iraq. Read more >>

26-01-2006 17:32 | 0 comment(s)

Season of Palestinian films

Palestinian film series being held at Oxford Brookes University, starting from Wednesday the 8th of February

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21-01-2006 01:13 | 1 comment(s)

Demolition of a Community - St Agnes Place, London

Legal support required to assist High Court action to block illegal demolition of Victorian Terrace Housing by Lambeth Council and property developers at St Agnes Place where 150 people were recently evicted and made homeless from London's oldest squatted street. Read more >>

16-01-2006 18:46 | 0 comment(s)

First student anti-sweatshop week of action

The first national student anti-sweatshop week of action will take place 11-18 February 2006. Read more >>

08-01-2006 15:17 | 1 comment(s)

Palestine events in Oxford (Jan06)

Below is a list of upcoming events in Oxford (and Reading) during January 2006, re Palestine. Read more >>

03-01-2006 11:30 | 0 comment(s)

Public talk: South Sudan

Two major civil wars and decades of neglect have taken its toll on South Sudan: it is one of the poorest and most underdeveloped places in the world. Nine of out ten people live in poverty, and only one in every five children attends primary school. Read more >>