Oxford Newswire Archive

06-07-2004 10:27 | 0 comment(s)

Oxford Sea Green Singers in Leeds Music Festival

04-07-2004 17:00 | 1 comment(s)

Video of Sainsbury’s Blockade

Short exciting video of one of the Sainsbury anti-GM blockades at Coleshill near Birmingham last Thursday night. Read more >>

03-07-2004 14:52 | 2 comment(s)

Some photes from the Sainsbury's blockade in Birmingham

Some photes taken at the Sainsbury's blockade in Birmingham which held for over 6 hours. Read more >>

03-07-2004 12:47 | 3 comment(s)

A Bush success story. Disarmament much slower than expected. Postponed elections openly been talked about. Only presidential elections this year, may be. Increase in security violence (people being killed and disabled);most probably not Taliban. I have given a short personal account and then a few articles to brouse. Read more >>

02-07-2004 16:44 | 6 comment(s)

Sainsburys birmingham depot blocked

Sainsbury’s was blocked from 0130 am until 0700 am when the activists decided to call it a day. The protest was due to start at 11 o’clock pm as a coordinated national protest aimed at Sainsburys for supplying milk from GM fed cows, the action done in support of local farmers who have been campaigning for a better deal on their non GM contaminated milk. Read more >>

01-07-2004 18:39 | 10 comment(s)

Bulkington Fields travellers site violently evicted

Travellers at Bulkington Fields, Warwickshire were violently evicted by Constant And Co bailiffs on Wednesday morning.
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30-06-2004 22:02 | 3 comment(s)

New prisoner, Dave Edwards needs your support

A new political prisoner in the Midlands, UK would welcome your letters of support, particularly as he is on hunger strike. Read more >>

28-06-2004 12:41 | 4 comment(s)

show your anger at the sham handover TODAY

Demo in oxford city centre TODAY 6pm against sham handing over of Iraq
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27-06-2004 12:51 | 2 comment(s)

Fairford Anti War Protestors to uphold international law at Court of Appeal

Fairford Anti War Protestors to uphold international law
at The Court of Appeal, The Strand, London, 10am 29th June - 1st July Read more >>

26-06-2004 11:48 | 5 comment(s)

Afghanistan: Doesn't look good

I live and work in Afghanistan and hope to keep some people informed of what is happening here from the ground. Read more >>

25-06-2004 08:50 | 2 comment(s)

Stop the War Coalition protest at labour's big converstaion

We received a tip off that top government minister Charles Clark would be holding a “big conversation” meeting in Swindon on Tuesday, so 6 of us from the Stop the War Coalition leafleted the meeting with our banner outside (despite terrible rain). Read more >>

23-06-2004 20:08 | 1 comment(s)

Commuter Cyclists' Triumph

The Oxford Commuter Challenge 2004 showed that for short city journeys using a car is by far the slowest way to get around – a real waste of time unless you’re carrying a heavy load. Cycling and walking are convenient, fun and healthy – and they’re actually quicker, too. At 8.15 am on 15 June, cyclists took 10 mins to cross the city, while doing the same journey by car took the same amount of time as walking. See report and photos, follow links below. Read more >>

22-06-2004 10:39 | 8 comment(s)

fuckin cool billboard alteration!!

war is absolutely fuckin discusting !! Read more >>

22-06-2004 00:28 | 2 comment(s)

If it's free, it's not allowed! - Oxford party closed down

On Saturday night a wonderful free party on the outskirts of Oxford was closed by police. Read more >>

21-06-2004 15:22 | 3 comment(s)

Death in the Community

Here are some photos from the vigil for Robin who was killed by 4 police officers in East Oxford. Read more >>

21-06-2004 12:26 | 1 comment(s)

Local singer publishes on the web

A local political singer-songwriter has published his lyrics on the web for everyone to see and comment on. Read more >>

17-06-2004 11:13 | 3 comment(s)

Video Activists to run cinema at Glastonbury festival.

Undercurrents, a media charity will celebrate its tenth birthday by screening a decade of their award winning films at Britain's largest and most popular festival. Read more >>

16-06-2004 23:37 | 4 comment(s)

UN warns Caterpillar may be implicated in human rights violations

**For immediate release**

On 28th May 2004 the Special Rapporteur on the right to food for the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights – Jean Ziegler – wrote to Jim Owens, CEO of Caterpillar Inc., to express deep concern "about the actions of the Israeli occupying forces in Rafah and in other locations in Gaza and the West Bank, using armoured bulldozers supplied by your company." (1)
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16-06-2004 22:09 | 1 comment(s)

Birmingham Indymedia screening Thurs 17th June

Arms Dealers, War and Refugees: Breaking the Cycle

17th June 2004 8:35pm @ the mac – Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham

Birmingham Indymedia presents an evening of films during Refugee Week drawing out the links between the (heavily subsidised by the West) arms trade, people displaced by war and occupation, and their resistance. We will be discussing the films with the film-maker of “My Dear Olive Tree” whose first experience of political dissent in Britain was the DSEi Arms fair protest in September 2003.
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