Oxford Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

Here are 2 films just out from the Crude Awakening action that several people from the Oxford area went to... Read more >>

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

In the current global credit crisis Cuba is an inspiration ... Read more >>

An excellent day of action, including the closure of three BP petrol stations! Read more >>

No Tar sands and Boycott BP sprayed onto walls in Wantage and Grove. Read more >>

Corporate sleaze-merchants trying to recruit graduates in Oxford got another rough ride at the hands of local activists. Read more >>

Check out the 53rd episode of Dissident Island Radio, broadcast live on 19 February 2010... Read more >>

Come along and try free vegan food and support us helping people to learn to eat less or no animal products:-
for personal health,
for the environment, reducing carbon emissions,
to enable enough food for the starving millions in the world
and to stop the abuse and slaughter of millions of animals. Read more >>

Low Carbon East Oxford public meeting! Read more >>

Three climate activists are this morning due in Westminster Magistrate’s
Court charged with criminal damage against the Canadian High Commission in
London following an action to stop the Tar Sands.. Read more >>

A candlelit vigil at St Michael's in Cornmarket helped bring home the message that climate change affects everyone, and everyone can do something about it. Read more >>

On Saturday 5th December in Cornmarket, three intrepid climate campaigners braved the weather and the Christmas shoppers to bring a little bit of Climate Action to the streets of Oxford.
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Three Indigenous Canadian women will visit the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) London headquarters tomorrow to demand that they stop financing one of the world’s most polluting projects – the Tar Sands. Read more >>

**Action Beyond Leaders**
-Empowering Students in the fight against Climate Change

Meeting on Friday 13th November at 1pm in RadCam square

Explore consensus decision making through an open meeting, planning for positive change in the university.
Have your say on climate change and the action that we need to take against it. Read more >>

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A couple of weeks ago mischief-makers disrupted a Shell careers talk in Oxford, in solidarity with those around the world affected by their operations. This is the video of the action... Read more >>

We defeated E.On’s plans to build the first coal-fired power station in over 30 years, which is definitely something to be proud of. But, as this week’s actions have shown, the fight against coal is far from over and concerned individuals are showing no sign in slowing down their activities. Read more >>

At 4.30 am, the nine occupiers of the chimney stack at Didcot power station came down and were immediately arrested. That brings the total arrests to 20, after the 11 locked on to the coal conveyors were arrested in the first 24 hours. Read more >>

Climate campaigners have this morning shut down N-Power’s flagship coal plant at Didcot in Oxforshire.



The twenty peaceful protesters rode their push-bikes past security guards at 4.30am this morning before splitting into two groups. One team has shut down the giant coal conveyors which feed the boilers at the plant, while a second group of nine men and women has climbed the inside of the iconic 200m-high chimney and reached the top. They say they have enough food and water to stay in place for ‘weeks, not days’ - during which time the plant will be unable to operate. Already the activists in the chimney are securing the route behind them to ensure they can’t be reached by police and security guards. Read more >>

Shell's high-profile annual recruitment event at Oxford's Randolph Hotel was disrupted last night when members of the audience invaded the stage and took over the event. Around 20 campaigners from Thames Valley Climate Action [1] targeted the 6.30pm event in protest at the company's major involvement in Canada's Tar Sands, as well as their collusion in human rights abuses in Nigeria and Ireland, their destructive drilling in the Arctic, and their contribution to climate change. Read more >>

Shell's annual graduate recruitment event aimed at schmoozing Oxford University students was disrupted by local activists tonight who heckled, switched off displays and audio equipment, gave an alternative speech and chatted to the students. Read more >>