Lighting up Cornmarket in protest
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.
Oxford Rides the Wave of Climate Protests
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.
Old Man of The Sea Comes to Oxford
Joining the campaigners in Cornmarket, the old man of the sea turned up to let everyone know that he could be in charge if we don't do something now about our lifestyles...
Climate Justice Fast Making Its Mark
We're doing our bit in Oxford as part of the UK initiative of a 'rolling fast' - nearly at Copenhagen - whew...
Check out this story on www.ips.org.
Israel refuses to recognise animal rights
errmm... no surprise that the Israeli government coalition equates animals with inanimate objects. Shame that they feel so threatened that they treat indigenous peoples worse than that...
Check out this story on ow.ly.
Watch out, watch out, there's a camera about...
Police are gathering the personal details of thousands of activists who attend political meetings and protests, and storing their data on a network of nationwide intelligence databases, reports The Guardian.
On top of South Oxfordshire
Well done to the climate campaigners currently atop Didcot power station. Shame on the media for not reporting it fully - this link is to Indymedia. There are NO HEADLINES on major broadcast networks that I've seen. I suppose they are just looking for confrontation rather than what's actually happening, as usual. Best of the worst at BBC news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/8327068.stm, nothing on Sky, ITN, Channel 4... and, oh yes, the Oxford Mail managed to spot it archive.oxfordmail.net/2006/11/3/112592.html
Check out this story on www.indymedia.org.uk.
Shministim join protest at Bil'in
At today's Bil'in demonstration we were joined by around 200 people, including many Israeli shministim who have chosen to refuse to join the army but, instead, to fight the occupation with their brothers and sisters from around the world.
18yo Israeli AR imprisoned
Efi Brenner, 18, from Rishon Le Zion (a suburb of Tel-Aviv), is a familiar figure among young anti-Occupation and animal rights activists in Israel. He was sentenced today to his first prison term of ten days (more terms in prison are likely to follow), which he serves in Military Prison no. 6 near Atlit.
Update on Israeli Activists 23rd Oct 09
Latest news on the imprisonment of Efi Brenner and others.