Oxford Globalisation Newswire Archive

UK demands more liberal emissions regulation, and stops forward plans for the new EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Read more >>

The next alternative academics workshop is this Sunday! Read more >>

Good news about Aubonne Bridge case, police being charged. Read more >>

Hilary Benn is in Oxford on Thursday 27th January 2005. Read more >>

Come play at the Powwow Water Open day until 7pm today at Oxford Business Park South Read more >>

January 20th - London meeting to plan for 2nd April Euro Day of Actions for Migrant Rights Read more >>

From 8 a.m. this morning, a group of people has occupied a crane of the Minatec building site in Grenoble (france), to stop work for the day. The occupying ones, supported by protestors on the ground, unrolled a banner against nanotechnologies and distributed leaflets to passers by inviting them to come to join them (see leaflet below in french).

Minatec is set to be the largest centre for Nanotechnologies in Europe and is currently being built next to the site of the super-collider in Grenoble.

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Activists in Grenoble France occupy construction site for Minatec Nanotech centre Read more >>

The Heavenly Righteous Opposed to Nano-tech Greed manifested at a conference of potential investors in the nano-technology industry today. Harry Swan, once in charge of PR for Monsanto and now trying to sell nano-tech to investors, was presented with a Can of Worms Award. Read more >>

Stagecoach Boss Brian Souter - one of the most homophobic rich men in britain who has personally bankrolled anti-gay campaigns - has announced that he will be using nanoparticle fuel additives in all stagecoach buses in the UK - Nanoparticle pollution from car exhausts is already a leading cause of child death - how can you claim to be environmentally friendly by adding more nanoparticles???
another nasty corporate person backing another nasty corporate technology? - more reason to boycott stagecoach... Read more >>

wesite hacked Read more >>

Zoe Broughton of Undercurrents will be giving a talk and video screening on "The News You Don't See on The News" at Oxford Brookes University this Thursday at 6pm. Read more >>

A talk will be held at this week's Contemporary Ideology Forum at Oxford Brookes University tomorrow:
"Manufacturing Dissent: Contemporary Art Institutions and the illusion of dissent".

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"Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" will be shown at Oxford Brookes University this Thursday the 11th of November. Read more >>

An open meeting, led by a panel of local speakers, to discuss the implications of Bush's re-election. Read more >>

DEMONSTRATION
Oxford Says No To Bush - British Troops Out Of Iraq
Saturday 30 October 2004
Assemble 12.30, Manzil Way (off Cowley Road)
March to town centre for rally with speakers
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Rising Tide the Climate Justice Network, is having a gathering for all those who want to tackle climate change. The event will have a varied and exciting programme with theatre and cabaret to break up the more serious stuff. It is at the Sumac Centre in Nottingham from 4pm Friday 1st October to 2m Sunday 3ed October. Price £15 - £35 depending on income. Read more >>

Oxford Trades Council 'celebrated' the '84 -5 Miners' Strike, without making any attempt to learn political lessons from that catastrophic defeat for organised labour. Read more >>

On Thursday in Oxford Town Hall we heard the most extraordinary and chilling testimony from a man who lives under the threat of imminent death. Luis "Lucho" Hernandez is the President of the main trade union (SINTRAEMCALI) in Colombia's third city, Cali. At the end of August a plot was discovered to assassinate leading left politicians, human rights defenders and trade union leaders, a plot whose tentacles reach to the top of the Colombian government, as far as President Uribe himself. Lucho was one of the people listed for murder.
In his speech to us, Lucho Hernandez did not dwell on the threat to himself, but gave a riveting account of the background reasons for the assassinations of over 3,500 trade union leaders in Colombia in the last 15 years. He sketched out graphically the reasons for this violence - the ruthless IMF/WTO-prescribed privatisation of the Colombian economy, which can only be carried out by killing the opposition to it. The British government is Colombia's second biggest donor of military aid after the US, and Tony Blair one of President Uribe's strongest supporters.

The document below is a necessarily detailed account that gives incontrovertible proof of this most recent assassination plan, and the imminent threat to the lives of a number of named individuals, including Lucho. Please read it and please act with the greatest urgency. Read more >>

PUBLIC MEETING Read more >>