Oxford Newswire Archive

OCSET, the new Oxford social centre, 220 Cowley Road, received today an eviction notice, actually there will be a hearing in court next Thursday (29th). Read more >>

Download your Blair heckling video here! Read more >>

Undercurrents alternative News is Back! Read more >>

Have your say in the future direction of the peace movement. Please come to the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Swindon Stop the War Coalition on 27th April, at 7:30 in the Friends Meeting House, Eastcott Hill. Read more >>

Info/Press Officer job at Corporate Watch.
Deadline for applications, Friday 23rd April 2004. Read more >>

TROOPS OUT – BUT THEN WHAT? Oxford Stop the War Coalition Meeting
Thursday 22nd April 7.30 Oxford Town Hall Read more >>

Vigil for Mordechai Vanunu,Cornmarket Street by St Michael at the Northgate, Oxford. Wednesday 21st April from 5.00pm to 7.00pm. Wear black if possible. Read more >>

Oxford Indymedia are building a network of computers assembled from scrap, as a community resource, to be deployed at the OCSET community centre (220 Cowley Road, Oxford). Read more >>

A group of Oxford folk, brought together by the recent Schnews gig and the new social centre, decided to bring eyewitness reports direct to local shoppers today. Read more >>

NEW and TRUE story telling in Cornmarket Street (near Northgate Tower) from 12 til 4pm.
Readings from Jo Wilding and others eye witness reports of what is really happening.
Come along for support, to take part in the readings, to be enlightened or entertained. Read more >>

Around 80 people turned up tonight in Oxford to hear the SchNEWS crew in their 10th Anniversary Tour, hosted by Oxford Indymedia. The evening was a complete success; very inspiring to see how much you can achieve just by believing in what you are doing, just by really doing something concretely! This is what direct action is all about: do something, right here, right now! Read more >>

Christ Church College is pushing development plans to build houses that are 'not practical for an affordable housing scheme' in a location that is both Green Belt and a Conservation Area. Binsey was where Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland, Gerald Manley Hopkins wrote about the Binsey Poplars and a historic site of pilgrimage for St Frideswide, patron saint of Oxford. Read more >>

Open next Tuesday 20th 7:00pm: DIY Cafe; come and eat great food! Read more >>

Free Community Office Space to be opened at OCSET Read more >>

On 10th April, 50 young people set out on the 40 mile march to Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment. The march, organised by Youth & Student CND, was to protest against Britain's nuclear weapons. Read more >>

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Around 40 marchers left Oxford just now. Read more >>

An exhibition in Gloucester of photographs of last year's protests is closing today. Read more >>

The is a problem with videoing in the alternative as the is always a small number of "conspiracy" minded people who feel that "they are out to get them" and in the majority of alt-meetings the are no clear guide lines to allow a consensus on the subject of openness/closeness, thus videoing is often band. At the ESF the are clear principals that every one involved agrees with thus a real consensuses is possible if people are interested in achieving one. At the beginning of the meeting I put to the chars a good workable proposal about filming the meetings that would have clearly respected peoples need not to be filmed for whatever reason real or imagined. Read more >>

A new space was squatted this week, there's lots of potential for good stuff to happen. We're at 220 Cowley Road. Read more >>