Oxford Free Spaces Newswire Archive

Eviction of the sunset cottage Ocset social centre Read more >>

OCSET Meeting - June 2nd, 6.00pm - Sunset Cottage, 78 St Clements Read more >>

Tomorrow (Tuesday 25th May) there will be a DIY cafe at Ocset (78 St Clements), possibly followed by a film screening. Food for donations, or free if you're really skint. Arrive early to help cook, stay late to help clear up. Read more >>

There is a monstrous "development" plan for the actual OCSET (the Oxford social centre), part of which consists in using the fantastic garden and put loads of modern posh condos/flats instead...

Saturday (May 22nd) all day at OCSET: let's enjoy the garden and make it as nice and useful as it can be!!! Read more >>

Check out the link below to find out what will happen when the currently squatted Sunset cottage and the neighbouring house are demolished and 18 apartments are built on the space occupied by 2 fine houses with beautiful gardens in the hart of the East Oxford conservation area. Read more >>

If you are at all interested in creating an alternative in the here and now get involved the space is open to all sorts or happenings both cultural, political and community. Read more >>

New social centre on the Cowley Road Oxford has become a Thing of Beauty!! Read more >>

Come to South Parks on Sunday 2pm for a Hippie Activivst Picnic! Read more >>

Here are a few pictures of artwork from OCSET, taken before the eviction announced for tomorrow... enjoy! Read more >>

Quick last-minute callout for people to help defend OCSET tomorrow morning.

Come at 10am, 220 Cowley Road :) Read more >>

If you value your local social centre get down to OCSET asap help needed urgently.

Love OCSET xxx Read more >>

OCSET has been running many community workshops, events, cafes, gardening and kids spaces for the last 4 weeks. Read more >>

The landlord recently sent a letter to OCSET, the new social centre in Oxford, to go to Court this Thursday for a possible eviction. Instead, OCSET has been trying to reach agreement with the landlord. Here's OCSET's proposal. Already more than a hundred people from the local community signed the proposal in support of OCSET, and the local green counsillors are also very supportive (who could be against it?). However the landlord hasn't replied to our proposal yet. Read more >>

OCSET, the new Oxford social centre, 220 Cowley Road, received today an eviction notice, actually there will be a hearing in court next Thursday (29th). Read more >>

Around 80 people turned up tonight in Oxford to hear the SchNEWS crew in their 10th Anniversary Tour, hosted by Oxford Indymedia. The evening was a complete success; very inspiring to see how much you can achieve just by believing in what you are doing, just by really doing something concretely! This is what direct action is all about: do something, right here, right now! Read more >>

Christ Church College is pushing development plans to build houses that are 'not practical for an affordable housing scheme' in a location that is both Green Belt and a Conservation Area. Binsey was where Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland, Gerald Manley Hopkins wrote about the Binsey Poplars and a historic site of pilgrimage for St Frideswide, patron saint of Oxford. Read more >>

Open next Tuesday 20th 7:00pm: DIY Cafe; come and eat great food! Read more >>

Free Community Office Space to be opened at OCSET Read more >>

The is a problem with videoing in the alternative as the is always a small number of "conspiracy" minded people who feel that "they are out to get them" and in the majority of alt-meetings the are no clear guide lines to allow a consensus on the subject of openness/closeness, thus videoing is often band. At the ESF the are clear principals that every one involved agrees with thus a real consensuses is possible if people are interested in achieving one. At the beginning of the meeting I put to the chars a good workable proposal about filming the meetings that would have clearly respected peoples need not to be filmed for whatever reason real or imagined. Read more >>

A new space was squatted this week, there's lots of potential for good stuff to happen. We're at 220 Cowley Road. Read more >>