Oxford’s ivory tower may not often feel the tremors of a thousand students pushing through police lines to protest Vince Cable‘s (non) appearance at the Exam Schools in collusion with the marketisation of higher education in Britain. However, some students at Wadham College have, this past week, renewed a tradition (alive since 2008) of bringing [...]
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Oxford Radical Forum 2011 – feminism, sex workers’ rights, open source, marxist ecology, Walter Benjamin, and the Arab revolutions …
Posted in campaigning, climate justice, education cuts, feminism, festivals, immigration/no-borders on May 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Women’s bloc @ #demo2010! Tweet-happy clown bloc of women’s resistance to the Tory cuts (including cuts to higher education) #oxuncut
Posted in feminism, festivals, revolution now, shock doctrine, Tory scum on November 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The women’s bloc is a clown bloc. At times we make sense, like this: 3/4 of those hit hardest by the government’s package will be women. Those paying for 66% of the cuts: women. Those received 23% less pay for the same work, nationally: women. Those worst affected by axed childcare: women. Those likely to [...]
an excerpt the @Oxfordgef Relationships-Sexuality-Feminism session yesterday
Posted in culture, feminism, festivals, gender on November 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
[Amazing poster and artwork generally for Gender Equality Festival is by Kate Pocklington @phorid - phorid.yolasite.com] People are so much better at making a good world in their hearts and in their beds than they are at making a good world out there in the world. The one has to be the rehearsal for the [...]
I don’t go to festivals. But I tried one.
Posted in culture, festivals on August 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
No great subject of reflection this time. I went to WOMAD this year. I’ve grown up in France, where this no real festival-going culture, and I have found during my 3 years in the UK so many assumptions and references that revolve around habituated knowledge of ‘Glasto’ or Secret Garden Party or Latitude or whatever, [...]
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- Those speculating were huddled by the auctioneer's desk trying to haggle over crisis-stricken families' houses amid the beautiful din #o4o ~ 2 weeks ago
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- #o4o action in Brooklyn Supreme Court kicked off just now, to resist banks' foreclosing on people's (cont) http://t.co/80aPmWLO ~ 2 weeks ago
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