Oxford Repression Newswire Archive

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just a small report on today's "naming the dead" action on cornmarket street Read more >>

Action organized in Oxford by Oxford PSC Read more >>

A demonstration is planned for Saturday the 27th of November to call for the closure of Campsfield House in Oxfordshire, one of the centres where refugees are imprisoned while their claims are being read. It commiserates 11 years of the centre's existence and pledges contnued support for the people held inside. Read more >>

A report from the Organisation for Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) about attacks on women by religious extremists. For more information on OWFI, see their website at  http://www.equalityiniraq.com. No, folks, not all Iraqis or Moslems are saints, any more than we are. With this level of violence and chaos in a country, there will always be wolves who roam and attack at will (eileen) Read more >>

We know that major new attacks on Iraq's cities are imminent, with the prospect of thousands more killed and maimed civilians. Thursday's Naming the Dead and Die-In at 3.00pm in Cornmarket will give you a chance to express your sorrow and indignation over those already unjustly killed. Read more >>

Women in Black (WIB) will be joining the Oxford Stop the War Coalition on Saturday 30th October to say “No to Bush – British Troops out of Iraq”, on the eve of the US presidential elections. 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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Dracula pays EDO/MBM a visit and sends an open invitation to all other ghouls, ghosties and creatures of the night... Read more >>

Love to dance in the streets?
Appreciate the energy and strength samba can give a crowd?
Want to reclaim public space, support worthy causes at legal
demos, or defy an authoritarian police ban on political samba?
Enjoy playing drums, or dressing in crazy beautiful costumes? Read more >>

Mohammed, a children's aid worker and independent journalist in Rafah, reports on recent events in Jabalya, Gaza. Read more >>

Catch-22: Indymedia internet servers in London have been disappeared into U.S. custody, but we don't know where they went or who took them, as the hosting company refuses to tell us. We can't generate any corporate media interest because there are not enough facts available to make a coherent story, but unless we can generate interest we will never be able to put enough pressure on the authorities to get any facts out of them. Read more >>

Here is some of the background to the FBI's extraordinary seizure of indymedia hard drives in the UK. We don't yet know why they were seized, and indymedia's provider Rackspace has been gagged. It is an interesting coincidence that the European Social Forum in London starts next week. One of the things taken off-air was 'Radio RampArt', set up to provide coverage of the ESF:  http://radio.uk1.indymedia.org:8800/rampART, still off-air when I tried. The FBI's latest anti-free-press actions began at the beginning of October when they visited Indymedia's ISP demanding the removal of identifying information from photographs of undercover police officers that was posted on the Nantes Indymedia website. Below are the relevant pictures of Swiss undercover cops, who were spying on anti-G8 activists. Read more >>

Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

Invites you to a seminar entitled

'The Saharawi refugee camps: death and stagnation in no man's land' by Fatima Mahfud.

1-2pm on Thursday 14 October 2004

Blackhall Seminar Room, Queen Elizabeth House
21 St Giles, Oxford

All Welcome
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The British Court of Appeal is hearing the case of 120 coach passengers who had their human rights violated on 22 March 2003 when they tried to attend an anti-war demonstration. The passengers were prevented from attending the demonstration by police who searched the coaches, then turned the passengers away from the legal demonstration, and illegally detained the passengers for more than 2 hours. This is first time the Human Rights Act has been used in Britain to challenge a police detentions of activists. 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 >>

In the early hours of this morning there was a major invasion in the centre of Nablus, not far from Al Najah university. Six people were killed, one of them a girl of ten years old. Around thirty were injured, nearly all of them children. At least two of the injured are still in critical condition.
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I write this from Kabul where I can hear rockets exploding in the background. Read more >>

anti bush graffiti in oxford, and questioning what uk/us justice really means. Read more >>

DO THEY WANT TO STOP US DEMONSTRATING AT CAMPSFIELD ALTOGETHER?

The police have, in the last few months, started to use intimidating tactics against what are normally peaceful and not very large demonstrations at Campsfield immigration prison. On the latest one, the intimidation reached heights of absurdity. Read more >>