Oxford Newswire Archive

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Oxdox International Film Festival from October 22-29 brings the best documentary films from around the world to Oxford. Over 50 films over 8 days in 8 venues.
Don’t miss this great opportunity to see a dazzling feast of films with the directors
who made them conducting post screening discussions.
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Alicia Gonzalez Gaitierrez, Prof of Languages and International Relations and Ivette Vega Hernandez, Psychologist and involved in producing Muchachas and Mujeres, two women’s tabloids, came and spoke at the Oxford Town Hall. They are both involved in the Federation of Cuban Women. Read more >>

Here is some of the background to the FBI's extraordinary seizure of indymedia hard drives in the UK. We don't yet know why they were seized, and indymedia's provider Rackspace has been gagged. It is an interesting coincidence that the European Social Forum in London starts next week. One of the things taken off-air was 'Radio RampArt', set up to provide coverage of the ESF:  http://radio.uk1.indymedia.org:8800/rampART, still off-air when I tried. The FBI's latest anti-free-press actions began at the beginning of October when they visited Indymedia's ISP demanding the removal of identifying information from photographs of undercover police officers that was posted on the Nantes Indymedia website. Below are the relevant pictures of Swiss undercover cops, who were spying on anti-G8 activists. Read more >>

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here's an excellent open source poem - originally penned by the radical Supergirly and performed at the October Hammer and Tongue poetry slam. feel free to adapt, adjust, alter, rewrite and forward forward forward..

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CORPORATE WATCH IS LOOKING FOR A NEWS EDITOR Read more >>

As I sit typing this at 14.20 local time on Thursday 7th October there is a bomb scare 100 metres up the road. A suspected car bomb near the UN guest house. Read more >>

There has recently been a lot of debate on oxford indymedia about the East Oxford Community Centre kitchen extension. In one comment, one contributor appealed for people to join the Community Association to have a say on how it is run. Here is the membership form, and the invitation letter from EOCA secretary, Cathy Spiers. I enclose it as a pdf and as a jpg picture, for those who don't have Adobe Acrobat. Read more >>

Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

Invites you to a seminar entitled

'The Saharawi refugee camps: death and stagnation in no man's land' by Fatima Mahfud.

1-2pm on Thursday 14 October 2004

Blackhall Seminar Room, Queen Elizabeth House
21 St Giles, Oxford

All Welcome
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A Public Art Project will use your memories to make a permamnent mark on the pavement! Read more >>

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Poetry and Prose needed for new magazine Read more >>

Hammer and Tongue poetry slam - Black History month special - the Zodiac, 190 Cowley Road

Tuesday October 5th - 8pm


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The last planes full of internationals leaves on Wednesday. Then those of us that are left will be staying unless evacuated. Everyone is waiting for the shit to hit the fan and the latest guess is tomorrow. Read more >>

The British Court of Appeal is hearing the case of 120 coach passengers who had their human rights violated on 22 March 2003 when they tried to attend an anti-war demonstration. The passengers were prevented from attending the demonstration by police who searched the coaches, then turned the passengers away from the legal demonstration, and illegally detained the passengers for more than 2 hours. This is first time the Human Rights Act has been used in Britain to challenge a police detentions of activists. Read more >>

and Bush, Sharon, Howard, and Berlusconi Read more >>

East Oxford Action is moving forwards Read more >>

Anti G8 meeting in Oxford at East Oxford Community Centre 7.30pm Thursday 7th October Read more >>