Oxford Culture Newswire Archive

03-06-2007 14:37 | 0 comment(s)

Support the Cuban People -- Help Send a Bookmobile to Cuba!

The US embargo on trade with Cuba continues. This summer Pastors for Peace will again challenge the blockade with a friendship caravan. A fully stocked bookmobile will accompany it. Before the revolution there were only 32 libraries in Cuba. In 2002 there were 400 public libraries and 6000 school libraries. Cubans are avid readers and life long learners but Cuban librarians struggle to meet their needs under the blockade. We urge you join us in sending books to Cuba! Read more >>

20-05-2007 10:04 | 6 comment(s)

Bollocks to Reading Borough Council! Community Garden opens on schedule.

Despite an injunction issued only two days before, the Common Ground Community Garden celebrated its opening on 19th May. Read more >>

08-05-2007 12:53 | 0 comment(s)

Testing week for visionontv 7-13th May

What is Undercurrents latest project all about? Read more >>

25-03-2007 15:03 | 3 comment(s)

NPower obtains High Court injunction to prevent press coverage of protests

Electricity giant Npower has obtained an injunction to stop protests and filming at the site of a proposed ash dump. Read more >>

27-02-2007 23:22 | 0 comment(s)

EOCC Social Club License Suspended & How You Can Help

The EOCC Social Club has had to suspend its own entertainments license to buy more time to prevent council from shutting them down. You have now been given the time. Read more >>

30-01-2007 09:26 | 0 comment(s)

Levellers Night with Dick Gaughan, February 18

19-12-2006 12:08 | 10 comment(s)

Organic needs defending, join the campaign

One of London's most fashionable restaurants, used by film stars and members of the Royal family, has become the first in the country to be fined for falsely claiming that meat used in a number of its dishes was organically farmed. Read more >>

12-12-2006 15:27 | 1 comment(s)

Diggers 350th birthday march and occupation VIDEO

April the 3rd, 1999

11 min video chronicle of the march and occupation of St. George's Hill in Surrey on the 350th birthday of the Diggers occupation of the same area.

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09-12-2006 10:49 | 0 comment(s)

Designer, Mask-Maker, Seamstress? (or just interested). We need you NOW.

27-11-2006 23:48 | 7 comment(s)

Oxford Shoppers Left Bemused By Consumer Cult

The Rev. E. Littlehelps, Lord High Purchaser of the Cult of Consumerism, explains in his own words what happened when a group of activists pretending to be corporation-worshippers descended on Oxford City Centre for International Buy Nothing Day. Read more >>

25-11-2006 19:24 | 1 comment(s)

Stop shopping, start living!

Buy nothing day; day of anti-consumerist action. Read more >>

18-11-2006 22:20 | 1 comment(s)

Buy Nothing Day!

calling all activists.... Read more >>

17-11-2006 13:40 | 0 comment(s)

Join a Choir!

After the incredible success of The Singing Estate, the Blackbird Leys Choir is looking for new singers from across the city. Read more >>

11-11-2006 23:09 | 1 comment(s)

25TH NOVEMBER – BUY NOTHING DAY

Open meeting for all interested in doing positive, imaginative actions for Buy Nothing Day Read more >>

09-11-2006 16:10 | 7 comment(s)

RECLAIM THE NIGHT March- Oxford- Tues 28th November 2006!

Oxford University Student Union is organising a Reclaim The Night march on the 28th November, protesting against violence against women and demonstrating for the right of women to walk the streets at night without fear. All women from Oxford and the local area are warmly invited to join the march- we want to unite the local community of Oxford for this march. The march will start at 6.30 on Cowley Place, progress across Magdalen Bridge, and end in a candlelit vigil on Broad St at 8. Read more >>

03-11-2006 19:31 | 4 comment(s)

Tear Down THe Wall!

Palestinian Solidarity Graffiti..... Read more >>

21-10-2006 17:38 | 1 comment(s)

Solar Editing – Report from Canary islands

Well its finely here, you can work away from the electric grid using small scale, light solar technology. Here is a setup for a solar powered video production/editing setup that fits in a small backpack. Read more >>

01-09-2006 01:13 | 0 comment(s)

Vine and Fig Tree Planters at Reading court

29th August 2006 – Reading Magistrates Court

Two people from the international Vine and Fig Tree planters (Post Protest Community) who planted trees in Aldermaston in August 2005 begin to augment the altering of matters by appearing in Reading court to initiate changes themselves. Read more >>

17-08-2006 21:27 | 1 comment(s)

STOP PRIVATISATION OF PUBLIC SPACE

HELP SAVE DAWSON STREET GARDEN - OXFORD. Read more >>

27-07-2006 21:25 | 2 comment(s)

Help Win New East Oxford Community Garden!

A one-off chance exists to create a true community public space & genuine vibe in Dawson Steet off the Cowley Road East Oxford.....
Instead a planning application to turn Dawson Street into an outside cafe and cycle park by local cafe owner has been submitted, despite immediate local objection to the further commercialisation/privatisation of our area. This call to action offers actual potential to make a real difference with one email from you! Read more >>