Oxford Newswire Archive

Land battles, loss of community, decline of shops for supermarkets, war and a real history of hwo villages are disappearing. Read more >>

Local Council leader Keith Mitchell has displayed an almost superhuman amount of ignorance in an email to people organizing against the forthcoming WTO meetings in Cancun, Mexico. Read more >>

Oxford City Councillors have been sent the attached letter asking for the City Council to pass a resolution to boycott world bank bonds until the World Bank agrees to 3 demands.
1. An end to structural adjustment and related policies of privatisation and austerity;
2. 100% debt cancellation for impoverished nations and illegitimate debt;
3. An end to World Bank support for environmentally destructive projects, especially oil, gas, mining, and dam projects.

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Oxford war tax resister, Brenda Boughton, aged 78, was given 28
days to
> pay the £310 of taxes (plus £50 costs) she has been withholding in
> protest at their use by the military.
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Jenny Stanton, Ag MacKeith and myself are off to Ramallah from 3 to 13
> September, primarily to develop friendship links between the women of
Oxford
> and Ramallah.
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Ive been waiting to see some news on the the Big green gathering, so i though i might write some... Read more >>

On Sunday, 17th August, a group of around 75 folk gathered beneath balloons in Parliament Square, London. Read more >>

Blackbird Leys IWCA responds to the Oxford Mail’s attack on Jane Lacey and the parish council over their protests against the disregard shown by Thames Valley Police towards the feelings of the community. Read more >>

Campsfield House is an Immigration Detention Centre at Kidlington, six miles from Oxford. It is a prison run for private profit by Group 4, supervised by Home Office immigration officials. It used to be a youth detention centre, but it re-opened as an Immigration Detention Centre in November 1993. The local parish council was opposed to it, but their wishes were overruled by the Home Office.

There are 200 detainees in Campsfield House. Most are political refugees fleeing danger, torture and even death from countries such as Nigeria, Algeria, Ghana, Turkey, India and Zaire. They are held without charge, without time limit, without proper reasons given, and without proper access to legal representation. Amnesty International report that these are breaches of internationally recognised human rights. The former Chief Inspector of HM Inspectorate of Prisons (Judge Stephen Tumim) and The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture have condemned conditions at Campsfield House.

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Chief Minister Modi of Gujurat in India is visiting the UK 17/8 to seek British corporate investment. Member of the Hindu far-right party which admires Hitler, in February 2002 he told police chiefs not to intervene to save the lives of Muslims being massacred by Hindus in communal riots - or 'pogroms' as they were called in the 1930s. The result - 3000 died. He is also the Minister responsible for the infamous Narmada dam project. Asian groups will be protesting at his visit to Wembley, London, 17 August THIS SUNDAY!!!! PLEASE JOIN THEM. Read more >>

I have just asked the Oxford City Council at their monthly meeting for the South, West and Central areas to stop using Nestlé ices in the City parks. Read more >>

Rising Tide and London Rising Tide took to the streets and offices of London today in protest at the continuing climate crimes perpetrated by large corporations in their lust for fossil fuel profits. A specific target was the World bank whose involvement with the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan piepline (through the IFC) is just the lastest environmental crime from which it hopes to profit. Read more >>

British Waterways, the government body which regulates most canals and rivers in this country, is now clamping down on our freedom to travel the waterways. They are trying to force everyone into costly carpark-like moorings. Read more >>

Charges have finally been dropped against the four activists who blocked the runway of Brize Norton in an attempt to disrupt preparations for war. Read more >>

largest representation and gathering of architectural students in Europe are petitioning George Bush to change US energy policy and support the Kyoto agreement Read more >>

A sort of international you show me yours and I'll show you mine Read more >>

New Corporate Watch newsletter out now - nuclear waste, Shell, Nike, DSEI, Iraq, Zimbabwe, health privatisation and more. Read more >>

What I saw in Rome Read more >>

new graffiti Read more >>

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