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The last seven days in news, comment, and campaigns from in and around Oxford.
The UK Tar Sands Network is happy to announce the release of a new report “Risking Ruin: Shell’s dangerous developments in the Tar Sands, Arctic and Nigeria”, in partnership with the Indigenous Environmental Network and Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation.
The report profiles Indigenous communities impacted by Shell’s operations in Canada’s Alberta Tar Sands, Aamjiwnaang First Nation’s territory in...
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UK Tar Sands Network Posted by LilkaSo, we've finalised our poster design for the Fringe festivals we're playing this year. (Reminder: you can still contribute to getting Lashings to Edinburgh, and snap up some awesome goodies, by donating through our Wefund page.) I thought it might be interesting to do a breakdown on how the poster image has been developed, especially since there was a certain amount of...
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Lashings of Ginger Beer We've always been intrigued when the Council claims that the cost of running TCP is over half a million pounds a year, especially when the Head of Finance tells us that the only numbers in the accounts for FY2010/11 are £85,000 for maintenance and under £150,000 for utilities.The Council, by a sleight of hand, and claiming that "the figure has been arrived at through professional...
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Save Temple Cowley Pools For immediate release: 17.5.2012
Report to be launched in London on Friday at a public meeting before the delegation travels to The Hague for next week’s Annual General Meeting of Royal Dutch Shell.
London, UK – This Friday 18th May the Indigenous Environmental Network in partnership with Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation are launching an Indigenous-led campaign against Shell and its harmful...
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UK Tar Sands Network Brilliant letter in the Oxford Times last week - apparently it was sent in before, but 'held over' during the elections (!!!) - surely Temple Cowley Pools can't be an election issue?! And we'd never thought of the OxTimes as political, but will watch for other 'signs' of Labour-leaningness.Here's the text in full - the only issue we have is that the Author talks about the new pool being Olympic...
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An unexpected opportunity for action took place today when people on a demo at Occupy Brookes spotted the University VC leaving the building and decided to confront her...
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Occupy Brookes demo
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Oxford Indymedia (promoted news wire) James Styring Tuesday 15th May 2012
In my twenties I was a hot-under-the-collar leftie and would never in a million years have imagined celebrating a Conservative politician’s success. more
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Cyclox Posted by Lashings of Ginger BeerCisgender privilege checklistArgentina grants new legal rights to trans people:"Adults who want sex-change surgery or hormone therapy in Argentina will be able to get it as part of their public or private health care plans under a gender rights law approved Wednesday.The measure also gives people the right to specify how their gender is listed at the civil...
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Caroline Lucas is stepping down as Green Party leader. The news is awash with it, and the skeptics are out: Can anyone replace such a prominent and popular leader? Who will take the party forward? Is Caroline acting in haste?
A good leader in British politics, in my experience, is not a nice leader. They have to have experience in governance, be ruthless in achieving their agenda...
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The Top Soil Hi Tar-Monster Trashers,
Last week saw a flurry of tar sands actions for International Stop the Tar Sands Day all over the world. As well as catching a Tar Monster in the streets of Oxford we marked the day by being part of the launch of the new film ‘Taking on Tarmageddon.’ The UKTSN team are now busy getting ready to work with our friends from Alaska and Canada to confront Shell...
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