tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44304725696086942672024-03-12T17:26:37.359-07:00Oxford Left AlternativeNews and information about Oxford Left AlternativeSite Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.comBlogger196125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-90754886100686504242012-03-30T23:53:00.000-07:002012-03-30T23:54:00.486-07:00Alternative Conference for the Rio Summit<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></p><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: inherit; width: 743px; "><tbody style="line-height: 1.22em; "><tr style="line-height: 1.22em; "><td align="left" valign="middle" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><img align="absMiddle" alt="" height="37" hspace="10" src="http://i33.tinypic.com/2nvyn20.png" width="37" style="line-height: 1.22em; " /><strong style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: 16px; ">Campaign against Climate Change <span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.campaigncc.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color:#000000;"></span></a><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.campaigncc.org" class="parsedLink" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">www.campaigncc.org</a></span></span></span></strong></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></p><h1 class="title" style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Alternative Conference for the Rio Summit</h1><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: 14px; ">PLEASE CONTACT <a href="mailto:info@campaigncc.org" class="parsedEmail" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">info@campaigncc.org</a> IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DO A SELF-ORGANISED WORKSHOP</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: medium; "><strong style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Saturday 16th June to Sunday 17th</strong></span><br /><strong style="line-height: 1.22em; ">(the weekend preceding the summit </strong><strong style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Wednesday 29th to Friday 22nd)</strong></p><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><strong style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Tahoma; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: medium; "><a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; "><img alt="" height="100" src="http://www.campaigncc.org/sites/www.campaigncc.org/files/soaslogo-100height.jpg" width="87" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 1.22em; " /></a> <img alt="" height="100" src="http://www.campaigncc.org/sites/www.campaigncc.org/files/rio+20%20copy.jpg" width="207" style="line-height: 1.22em; " /> <img alt="" height="100" src="http://www.campaigncc.org/sites/www.campaigncc.org/files/CCClogo100.jpg" width="100" style="line-height: 1.22em; " /></span></span></strong></p><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Organised by the Campaign against Climate Change with the <a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; "><strong style="line-height: 1.22em; ">School for Oriental and African Studies</strong></a> (SOAS) Department for Development Studies.<br /><br />Taking place at the central London Universities - SOAS, the Institute of Education (IOE) and University College London (UCL). Opening plenary in IOE, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, Russell Square Tube. Map <a href="http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=529942&y=182060&z=106&sv=529942,182060&st=4&ar=y&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf&dn=779&ax=529942&ay=182060&lm=0" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">here.</a></p><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); "><strong style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Tahoma; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: medium; "><img align="right" alt="" height="200" src="http://www.campaigncc.org/sites/www.campaigncc.org/files/rioimage200%281%29.jpg" width="119" style="line-height: 1.22em; " />Rio to Rio: 20 wasted years?</span></span></strong><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><em style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); ">Between 1992 and 2012:</span></em><br /><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); ">The global surface temperature has risen by <strong style="line-height: 1.22em; ">0.38C</strong>.<br />The Arctic sea ice has decreased by <strong style="line-height: 1.22em; ">2.94 million square kilometres</strong>. <br />The CO2 in the atmosphere has risen by <strong style="line-height: 1.22em; ">35.19 PPM</strong>.<br /><strong style="line-height: 1.22em; ">30 661 900 hectares</strong> of Brazilian forest have been lost.<br />More than <strong style="line-height: 1.22em; ">431,215.08 million tonnes of CO2</strong> have been emitted.<br />The amount of CO2 emitted per year has risen <strong style="line-height: 1.22em; ">from 21,421.45 to 30,398.42 million tonnes</strong>.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">A wide range of workshops and seminars - and an exciting main plenary - are planned.</p><div style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Titles include :<br /><br />“Food Security how can we stop a tragedy unfolding ?”</div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "> </div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; ">“Green Energy versus ‘Extreme’ Energy”</div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "> </div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; ">“One Million Climate Jobs”</div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "> </div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; ">“Inequity is not only bad for society but a barrier to dealing effectively with the ecological crisis”</div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "> </div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; ">“Renewing Political Commitment to win the global battle against eco-calamity: a lost cause or is there a way forward. ?”</div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "> </div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; ">“We will not achieve environmental justice without a fundamental shift in values”</div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "> </div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; ">“New legal frameworks for a new era of environmental progress and justice”</div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "> </div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; ">“Can London lead the way in the fight against climate meltdown ?”</div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "> </div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; ">and more workshops on Green growth vs De-growth, bioenergy and land grabs, forests and biodiversity, aviation, geo-engineering, oceans, Zero Carbon Britain by 2030, arctic methane time bomb, generational justice, climate refugees, civil disobedience, “fracking”, population, gender and climate change, false solutions, TREC: energy from the deserts, …and more. </div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "> </div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "> Early confirmed <strong style="line-height: 1.22em; ">speakers i</strong>nclude:</div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "> </div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "><a href="http://www.john-mcdonnell.net/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">John McDonnell MP</a> (Labour), <a href="http://www.jeanlambertmep.org.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Jean Lambert MEP</a> (Green Party). <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/fiona-harvey" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Fiona Harvey </a>(Guardian correspondent), <a href="http://www.jennyforlondon.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Jenny Jones</a> (Green AM & Mayoral candidate), Aniol Esteban (<a href="http://www.neweconomics.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">New Economics Foundation</a>), <a href="http://www.greenparty.org.uk/people/derek-wall.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Derek Wall </a>(Green Party/<a href="http://greenleftblog.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Green Left</a>), John Stewart (chair <a href="http://www.airportwatch.org.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Airport Watch</a>, <a href="http://www.hacan.org.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">HACAN</a> etc) <a href="http://climateanswers.info/about-stephen-tindale-and-the-team/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Stephen Tindale</a> (ex-Director, Greenpeace), Oliver Tickell (author <a href="http://www.kyoto2.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Kyoto 2</a>), <a href="http://www.mayerhillman.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Mayer Hillman</a>, Mel Evans (<a href="http://www.platformlondon.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Platform</a>), <a href="http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/ooc/index.php?action=staff_entry&SID=78" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Prof Peter Mollinga</a> (SOAS), Hannah Smith (<a href="http://coinet.org.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">COIN</a> & <a href="http://coinet.org.uk/who-we-work-with/refugees-migrants/current-initiatives" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Refugee & Migrant Climate Forum</a>), Deepak Rughani (<a href="http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Biofuelwatch</a>), <a href="http://www.muradqureshi.com/home.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Murad Qureshi</a> (GLA & Bangladeshi community), John Lanchberry (<a href="http://www.rspb.org.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">RSPB)</a>, Rich Hawkins (<a href="http://www.pirc.info/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">PIRC</a>), David Powell (<a href="http://www.foe.co.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Friends of the Earth</a>), George Barda (<a href="http://occupylsx.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Occupy LSX</a>), <a href="http://www.cat.org.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Centre for Alternative Technology</a>, <a href="http://www.wdm.org.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">World Development Movemen</a>t, <a href="http://www.actionaid.org.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Action Aid</a>, <a href="http://www.nativespiritfoundation.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Native Spirit Foundation</a>, <a href="http://www.no-tar-sands.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">UK Tar Sands Network,</a> <a href="http://www.meridian.org.uk/About/Director/Pro-About_the_Director1.htm" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">David Wasdell</a> (<a href="http://www.meridian.org.uk/Resources/Global%20Dynamics/Feedback%20Crisis/index.htm" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Meridian Project</a>), Andrew Lockley & Tim Kruger (on geoengineering), Suzanne Jeffrey (<a href="http://www.climate-change-jobs.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">CCC Trade Union Group</a>), <a href="http://www.fraw.org.uk/mei/index.shtml" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Paul Mobbs</a>, Debi Wagner (<a href="http://www.us-caw.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">US Citizens Aviation Watch</a> via skype), Chris Baugh (assistant General Sec <a href="http://www.pcs.org.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Public & Commercial Services Union</a>), <a href="http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/ooc/index.php?action=staff_entry&SID=78" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Peter Challenor</a> (<a href="http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">National Oceanography Centre</a>), Tony Kearns (assistant General Sec <a href="http://www.cwu.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Communication Workers Union)</a>, Speaker from the <a href="http://www.thisisecocide.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Eradicating Ecocide</a> Campaign, Gerry Wolfe (<a href="http://www.trec-uk.org.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">TREC</a>-power from the deserts), Frans C.Verhagen (US Aviation Watch via Skype on Green Economy), Muzammal Hussain (<a href="http://www.wisdominnature.org.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">Wisdom in Nature</a>), Susan Roaf & Fergus Nichol (on built environment), Terry Reintke (co-spokesperson <a href="http://www.fyeg.org/main/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">FYEG</a>- Federation Young Euro- Greens), Miguel Angel Diaz (National Coordinator Joves d'Esquerra Verda, Catalonia), Melanie Strickland <a href="http://www.wildlawuk.org/about.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">(Wild Law,</a> Occupy)<span style="line-height: 1.22em; ">, Daniel Scharfe (Greenspeed) …and many more invited.</span></div><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Check <a href="http://www.campaigncc.org/altsummit " target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; ">http://www.campaigncc.org/altsummit </a>for updated details.</p></span>Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-91837521470152064262011-05-18T11:19:00.000-07:002011-05-18T11:27:03.687-07:00Oxford Radical Forum 2011<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(176, 176, 176); font-family:Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><h2 id="post-56" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(228, 211, 166); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(176, 176, 176); font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 67px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">TIMETABLE: 19/20/21/22 May</span></b></span></h2><div class="entry" style="line-height: 1.4em; "><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">HO CHI MINH QUAD<br />WADHAM COLLEGE</span></b></p><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">JESUS COLLEGE</span></b></p><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(DIRECTIONS AND ROOM INFORMATION WILL BE AVAILABLE ON-SITE)</span></b></p><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">:::::::::::::::::::::provisional timetable::::::::::::::::::::::::</span></b></p><p style="padding-left: 30px; "><span style="color: rgb(228, 211, 166); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">:</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">THURSDAY:</span></b></p><p><span style="color: rgb(228, 211, 166); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What are we selling and what’s for sale? The IUSW and ECP discuss sex work</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> THUR 17:30 WADHAM</span></b></p><p><span style="color: rgb(228, 211, 166); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Open Source Culture: radical notes on the Internet</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> THUR 19:30 WADHAM</span></b></p><p style="padding-left: 30px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">:FRIDAY:</span></b></p><p><span style="color: rgb(228, 211, 166); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">‘Nothing about us without us: disability rights and inclusive activism’</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> FRI 19:00 WADHAM</span></b></p><p style="padding-left: 30px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">:SATURDAY:</span></b></p><p><span style="color: rgb(228, 211, 166); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">‘Radical migrant support work; why we need to overhaul the dominant paradigm of refugee support’</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> – Sophie Roumat, SAT, 11:00 WADHAM</span></b></p><p><span style="color: rgb(228, 211, 166); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">‘Walter Benjamin, Time and Money’</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> – with Prof. Esther Leslie, Birkbeck, SAT 15:00 WADHAM</span></b></p><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> “OXFORD RADICAL NIGHT” AT BABYLOVE – LATE </span></b></p><p style="padding-left: 30px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">:SUNDAY:</span></b></p><p><span style="color: rgb(228, 211, 166); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">’100 days since the Arab revolutions’</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> with Marwa Daoudi, Abed Takrity, Sami Hermez. SUN 11:00 WADHAM</span></b></p><p><span style="color: rgb(228, 211, 166); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Libya: revolution betrayed?</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> with Simon Assaf and Mohammed Mahdi SUN 13:00 WADHAM</span></b></p><p><span style="color: rgb(228, 211, 166); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Antiquity, Marxism and Radical History</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> – with Peter Thonemann SUN 15:00 WADHAM</span></b></p><p><span style="color: rgb(228, 211, 166); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">With Bin Laden’s death, end of the war on terror?</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> with John Rees SUN 19:00 WADHAM</span></b></p><p><span style="color: rgb(228, 211, 166); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">FILM SCREENING ‘Maedchen in Uniform’</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (Leontine Sagan 1931) SUN 20:00 JESUS COLL.</span></b></p><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Revolution in the Arab world, controversies over nuclear power, neoliberal cuts across the globe, and uprisings from Wisconsin to Westminster set the scene for this year’s Oxford Radical Forum. Once again Wadham College – and other venues – will play host to a broad range of critical debates and discussions on the radical left, with leading speakers, commentators, activists and academics.</span></b></p><div><a href="http://oxfordradicalforum.wordpress.com"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">http://oxfordradicalforum.wordpress.com/</span></a></div><div><br /></div></div></span>Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-29340604951897417302011-02-28T15:29:00.000-08:002011-02-28T15:35:38.207-08:00Million Climate Jobs University Meeting<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; "><div style="text-align: justify;line-height: 1.22em; "><span class="ecxapple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">One Million Climate Jobs - </span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;line-height: 1.22em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight: bold; ">Solving the Ecological and Environmental Crises.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "><b style="line-height: 1.22em; "><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#2A2A2A;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><br /></span></span></span></div></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "><b style="line-height: 1.22em; "><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); ">Halford Mackinder Lecture Theatre, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; ">South Parks Road, OX1 3QY (01865 275 848)</span></span></div></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: 13px; "><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#2A2A2A;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="line-height: 1.22em; "><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>7pm - 9.30 pm, Friday 4th March 2011</b></span></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;line-height: 1.22em; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#2A2A2A;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: 13px; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; "><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); ">The Campaign against Climate Change, working with academics, climate activists, the TUC and several UK trade unions has produced the report One Million Climate Jobs. The report calls for the government to create one million green, climate jobs in the face of rising unemployment and the need for urgent investment into renewable energy.</span></div></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#2A2A2A;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="line-height: 1.22em; "><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); ">Speakers:</span></div></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#2A2A2A;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="line-height: 1.22em; "><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); ">Dave Elliot (Professor of Technology Policy, Open University)</span></div><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); "><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">John Vidal (Guardian jouralist) [tbc]</span></div><span class="ecxapple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Jonathan Neale (Author, Stop Global Warming, Change the World)</span></div></span><span class="ecxapple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Plus student and climate worker panelists</span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></div></span></span></span><span style="line-height: 1.22em; "><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">To preview the report, see: </span><a href="http://www.climate-change-jobs.org/about" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); text-decoration: none; "></span></span></a><a href="http://www.climate-change-jobs.org/about" class="parsedLink" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.climate-change-jobs.org/about</span></a></span></div></span></div></span>Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-31393280857935229622011-02-20T10:04:00.000-08:002011-02-20T10:07:25.566-08:00Mike’s Letter from America: Cairo, Manama, Madison<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs9-u34eqbFu2TK2_7Fgxa_2zDkvDisY7MkEyaL2P5EciEP0Ng0_jSJzjn40j1F0sh68nCSzO7A-LZsuKpgifUqpnm5paCbw_1hrupbbKyldCZJcHb2XeSCdrEKHsR5K5fYRngiW2k2FM/s1600/wisconsin-protests-2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs9-u34eqbFu2TK2_7Fgxa_2zDkvDisY7MkEyaL2P5EciEP0Ng0_jSJzjn40j1F0sh68nCSzO7A-LZsuKpgifUqpnm5paCbw_1hrupbbKyldCZJcHb2XeSCdrEKHsR5K5fYRngiW2k2FM/s320/wisconsin-protests-2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575834510418019154" /></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times-Roman;font-size:16.0pt;"><b>Mike’s Letter from America: Wisconsin rising.</b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times-Roman;font-size:16.0pt;">The ruler has given himself powers described by his critics as ‘dictatorial’. He is attempting to virtually outlaw government workers’ unions, and threatens to use troops against strikers. Opposition leaders have fled across the border and gone into hiding. Tens of thousands of protesters are camped out in the capital city. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times-Roman;font-size:16.0pt;">No, this is not a Middle Eastern despotism. This is Wisconsin, in America’s Midwest. The ‘dictator’ is not Mubarak, Bin Ali, or Sheikh al-Khalifa – it is Republican governor Scott Walker. This week, he announced big increases in public employees’ pension and health insurance contributions (equivalent to a 7% pay cut), and proposed legislation that would ban collective bargaining for most state workers on anything but base pay. In other words, all but the most minimal right to unionize would be stripped away. To top it all, he has threatened to deploy the National Guard (the state militia) if public sector workers go on strike.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times-Roman;font-size:16.0pt;">To be poor, a leftist, a trade unionist, woman or a minority is to feel like a punch-bag right now, as a vengeful hard-right Republican Party pushes its pet projects in Congress and the state legislatures. Fortunately, the people of Wisconsin do not share the pessimism and feeling of powerlessness that afflicts much of the American left. Day after day, thousands of union members and their supporters have poured into Wisconsin’s capital, Madison, and laid siege to the Republican-controlled state legislature as it has tried to push through the anti-union law. As of <span style="color:#00007F;">Wednesday</span> (Feb 16), 30,000 people were in or outside the Capital building. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivYnS6DcFUA&feature=youtu.be"><span style="text-decoration:none;text-underline:nonecolor:#00007F;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivYnS6DcFUA&feature=youtu.be</span></a>; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/us/17wisconsin.html?_r=1"><span style="text-decoration:none;text-underline:nonecolor:#00007F;">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/us/17wisconsin.html?_r=1</span></a>. Responding to the pressure put on them by the protestors, Democrats in the state senate walked out, denying the Republicans the quorum needed to pass the law. Then events took a surreal turn, as the Democratic senators left the state for ‘a secure, undisclosed location’ to avoid being tracked down by state police and ordered to return to the senate.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times-Roman;font-size:16.0pt;">Parallels with the revolution in Egypt have not been lost on anybody. Republican congressman Paul Ryan called the peaceful protest a ‘riot’ and complained that ‘Cairo has moved to Madison’. Protesters have carried Egyptian flags, sung ‘<span style="color:#00007F;">march</span> like an Egyptian’ and called for the overthrow of ‘Hosni Walker’. Reports on TV and social media reflect the sense of excitement and self-empowerment among the protestors. Teachers in Madison, defying threats of the sack, phoned in ‘sick’ and descended on the Capitol, forcing the city’s schools to close. Hundreds of school and university students have also walked out. Members of unions unaffected by the ban – notably the fire fighters – have joined the protests regardless, understanding that this is an attack on all unions. Another echo of Cairo can be seen in the totally peaceful nature of the protests, and the impressive level of solidarity and self-organization. Websites and social media pages representing the protesters are full of requests for – and more importantly, offers of – support, food, water, blankets, warm clothes etc. While the protesters have stopped short of storming the senate chamber, they are essentially in occupation of the Capitol.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times-Roman;font-size:16.0pt;">The backdrop to these events is an all-out Republican assault on anything even vaguely progressive. The Mid-term elections saw a landslide - albeit on a very low turnout – for the Republicans, not only in Congress, but also in state legislatures and governors’ mansions. The recession has left both the federal and state governments with huge debts, and the Republicans – now dominated by the far right– are using this as an excuse to attack everything that smacks even vaguely of socialism, from Public Broadcasting (funding threated with the axe) via Planned Parenthood (funding cut off) to the unions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times-Roman;font-size:16.0pt;">Walker’s actions in Wisconsin expose the lie that this is about balancing the books. The anti-union law is being promoted as part of a budgetary measure, but the state’s deficit of around $130 million is almost identical to the amount ($140 million) given away last month in tax cuts for business. <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/wisconsin-gov-walker-ginned-up-budget-shortfall-to-undercut-worker-rights.php"><span style="text-decoration:none;text-underline:nonecolor:#00007F;">http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/wisconsin-gov-walker-ginned-up-budget-shortfall-to-undercut-worker-rights.php</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times-Roman;font-size:16.0pt;">The pattern is repeated across the country – in my home state of Michigan, the new Republican governor just announced $180 million in cuts in public sector pay, just after commissioning a rigged survey that claimed (wrongly) that public employees are better paid than workers in the private sector. The assault on public-sector workers is not just (or even mainly) about cutting spending, it is an attack on a highly unionized part of the workforce.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times-Roman;font-size:16.0pt;">The Wisconsin protesters have dubbed Madison ‘Ground Zero for the labor movement’, and they are not exaggerating – the stakes are that high. If Walker succeeds, this will be a massive blow to the basic human right to organize unions. However, the huge and rapid groundswell of opposition was clearly the last thing the governor expected. The Republican union-busters have been completely wrong-footed, and the Democrats who have been happy to accept union support while offering nothing in return have been forced to find a backbone. Events in Madison have captured the imagination of the whole movement across the United States, as the deadening feeling of pessimism that has hung over the left since the Reagan era is lifting like fog on a sunny morning. Maybe we are being too optimistic, maybe this is just a last, glorious, defiant gesture. But I don’t think so - it looks and feels like a turning point. The fight-back starts here – the American working class is back.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-38072642720787515212011-02-13T05:17:00.000-08:002011-02-13T05:21:25.019-08:00Million Climate Jobs Meeting Report<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><div>Report from Oxford Campaign Against Climate Change</div><div><br /></div>Just under 60 people came to the recent Oxford launch meeting for the One Million Climate Jobs booklet, including local climate activists, Green and Labour councillors and trade unionists. The meeting linked up the economic argument for creating jobs and the devastating cuts proposed in local youth service provision and discussed ways to further spread the climate jobs message. The meeting recieved radio air time and has struck a chord with several local union branches who have ordered copies of the booklet. A film about the campaign is being sponsored by the local UNITE branch and will be available shortly.<br /><br />An activist meeting will be held <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT125" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT126" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT16" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">this Tuesday</span></span></span> 7.30pm at the Town Hall to discus next steps and arrange speakers for local groups who have requested them. All welcome</span>Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-62173293382249694742011-02-05T02:29:00.000-08:002011-02-05T02:32:37.486-08:00Mikes Letter from America- MuBarack, the President and the Fox<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglPdFdfvcZRL-vAixN545gJldlQo-E60YZNN1LpQz-Bpgbg1Jo_7p6-RgdrfwTvQowJu88noihAK-aS2mUtsBbqio8LpWaXqDuBNZsZxZzYrMZszF2ATlLyQmN0FZHBpzETjjFYBGAnMk/s1600/mubarak-obama-peace.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglPdFdfvcZRL-vAixN545gJldlQo-E60YZNN1LpQz-Bpgbg1Jo_7p6-RgdrfwTvQowJu88noihAK-aS2mUtsBbqio8LpWaXqDuBNZsZxZzYrMZszF2ATlLyQmN0FZHBpzETjjFYBGAnMk/s320/mubarak-obama-peace.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570151167482568802" /></a><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>MuBarack, the President and the Fox<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;">You would think they’d be delighted; in the tenth year of the ‘War on Terror’ (a war which Barack Obama continues to wage, even if he never calls it by that name) democracy, as promised by the neo-con ideologues, just might be spreading throughout the Middle East. However, the uprising in Egypt has been greeted by American politicians and media at best with ambivalence, at worst with condemnation.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Egyptian Revolution is world news, and has (I hope!) been adequately covered by the British media, so I am not going to spend a lot of time explaining what is probably obvious – that democracy promotion and ’regime change’ from below was never part of America’s plan, and that Egyptian dictator Mubarak is a key-pin of the whole US strategy in the Middle East – a strongman who has kept leftists and Islamists under his thumb, and who has played a crucial role in enforcing the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Instead, I want to focus on the reaction of the media and politicians here in the US, to show just how wrong footed they have been by events in Egypt.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">First, take Glenn Beck - please! (This joke was stolen from a papyrus found in an Egyptian pyramid). This Fox News host has become the unofficial mouthpiece of the Tea Party movement, and by extension of the Republican right. His angle is to hysterically proclaim the Obama administration a threat to freedom, and to accuse opponents of being communists or Nazis (or usually both). So faced with an actual dictator, you would think he would be delighted at the prospect of his removal by people power? Not a bit of it; he explained to fellow Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly that the movement in Egypt was being run by Islamists and communists. (Communism, in the Stalinist sense of the word, today only exists in two places – North Korea and Glenn Beck’s imagination). According to Beck the ‘radical left’ in the US and ‘Islamic radicals’ are plotting nothing less than ‘the destruction of the Western world.’ I had no idea the American left was so powerful.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Given their Islamophobia, it is perhaps not surprising that Beck, O’Reilly and co should cheer on somebody who is killing Arabs, even if that person is an Arab himself. In the more mainstream news media, the tone has been less pro-Mubarak, and more ‘what’s in it for us?’ Never mind the Egyptians dying at the hands of Mubarak’s thugs; how will this affect oil prices? So-called foreign policy experts have reminded us that Mubarak has been a source of stability, a friend of Israel, and a bulwark against radical Islam. The strategic significance of the Suez Canal has been mentioned so often you would think it’s 1956. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_GoBack"></a><span lang="EN-US">More importantly, Obama and his administration were less than enthusiastic about the outbreak of democracy in the Middle East. We don’t know what deals are being cut right now between Obama and Mubarak, but it appears that, now they see which way the tide is flowing, the US government wants to ease Mubarak out (preferably in favour of his former intelligence chief, Vice President Omar Suleiman. The Americans know him well from his cooperation with CIA’s ‘extraordinary rendition’ torture program).Their initial response was very different, however;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Vice-President Joe Biden said “Mubarak has been an ally of ours in a number of things… I would not refer to him as a dictator.” Hillary Clinton also saw stability as more important than democracy; she made the curious statement that the US had backed democracy in Egypt for over thirty years (the same thirty years that Mubarak has been in power), and has talked only of an ‘orderly transition’ in power. As for vacillator-in-chief Barack Obama, while he has begun gently suggesting Mubarak should go, he has done his best not to put any real pressure on him (such as threatening to cut off the 1 billion-per-year military aid he receives from the US). Maybe he is keeping quiet for fear of drawing too much attention to his and previous US presidents’ friendship with the Egyptian dictator? Type ‘Obama Mubarak’ into a Google images search and you will get over 85 million results.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Finally, one important fact has been missed by nearly all the US media; the upheavals in the Arab world are as much about bread as they are about democracy. When Hillary Clinton talked of the people of the Middle East wanting ‘economic freedom’, she forgot that it has been economic ‘freedom’ in the form of neo-liberal policies that sparked the rebellion in Tunisia, which began with the suicide of an unemployed man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This is the same economic philosophy that has been destroying the livelihoods of American workers for the last thirty years. Compare Egypt with the USA; one is a sham democracy dominated by a corrupt wealthy elite, with growing poverty, inequality and social divisions. The other has pyramids. </span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-23478406462181897842011-01-21T00:46:00.000-08:002011-01-21T00:49:05.464-08:00New Oxfordshire Anti Cuts Alliance Web Site<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">A new website has been launched for the <a href="http://oxfordshireanticutsalliance.org.uk/">Oxfordshire Anti Cuts Alliance</a> </span><div><br /></div>Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-66142918825066105402010-12-25T01:15:00.000-08:002010-12-25T01:22:47.460-08:00Million Climate Jobs Public Meeting, Oxford Town Hall, 25th Jan 2011<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimUqiOcIFCfQd3OUL34tHrVf1UgSPBjbTe81Qmhz7vkbt1hgU4mPDYAqF7ELmd5MwHLJeDMfhCisnH1XqvgOvXDUUIOryueyMqQFSxXFqbUCYeEMX3Wp8Kv9WPULsYY74mqcrrJ20ezGE/s1600/One-million-climate-jobs-pa.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 150px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 212px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554547431631492178" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimUqiOcIFCfQd3OUL34tHrVf1UgSPBjbTe81Qmhz7vkbt1hgU4mPDYAqF7ELmd5MwHLJeDMfhCisnH1XqvgOvXDUUIOryueyMqQFSxXFqbUCYeEMX3Wp8Kv9WPULsYY74mqcrrJ20ezGE/s320/One-million-climate-jobs-pa.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>One Million Climate Jobs<br />Solving the economic and environmental crises </strong><br /></span><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><br /></strong></span>We face an economic crisis and an environmental crisis in Britain and across the world. We need solutions to both beginning now. Climate activists, and several national trade unions, are launching a campaign to make the government create one million green climate jobs. The Campaign Against Climate Change has produced a pamphlet that explains how we can do that and why we must. It will be followed up in early 2011 by a book, presenting the case in greater detail.<br />To find solutions to the climate crisis and the recession, we need more public spending, the opposite of current government policy. We have people who need jobs and work that needs to be done. A million climate jobs in the UK will not solve all the economy's problems. But it will take a million human beings off the dole and put them to work saving the future.<br /><a href="http://www.climate-change-jobs.org/">http://www.climate-change-jobs.org/</a> </div><br /><div></div><br /><div><strong>Oxford Public Meeting </strong><br />One Million Climate Jobs<br />Solving the economic and environmental crises<br />Council Chamber, Oxford Town Hall,<br /><span style="font-size:180%;">7:30 pm, Tuesday, 25th January</span><br />with<br />Mark Bergfeld – National Union of Students Executive<br />Jonathan Neale – Editor, One Million Climate Jobs<br />David Ricketts – UNITE Community & Youth Workers Union<br />Craig Simmons – Oxford Green Party<br /><br />Called by the Campaign against Climate Change and<br />Oxfordshire Anti-Cuts Alliance<br /><br /><strong>One Million Climate Jobs<br /></strong>In 2009, the Campaign against Climate Change Trade Union Group – working with academics, climate activists, the TUC and several UK trade unions including the CWU, PCS, TSSA, UCU and UNITE – decided to fight to make the government create one million green ‘climate’ jobs. We produced a report ‘One Million Climate Jobs NOW!’<br /><br />Thousands of copies of this report have been sold around the world. There are now over two and a half million unemployed people in Britain. We have people who need jobs, and work that must be done.<br /><br />This latest report sets out how, and why, the government must create one million climate jobs – in renewable energy, refitting buildings, public transport, industry and education – if we are to solve the economic crisis and avoid environmental catastrophe.<br /><br />The report details a scientifically sound, do-able and inspiring alternative to the present government’s vicious and unwarranted programme of public service cuts.<br /><br />One Million Climate Jobs Report<br />Published by the Campaign against Climate Change.<br />Available from Bookmarks, 1 Bloomsbury St., London, WC1B 3QE (0207 637 1848)<br />£2.50 or £18 for 10 copies<br /><br />In Oxford, contact Nancy Lindisfarne 07981607107<br /><a href="mailto:Nanstarr44@hotmail.com">Nanstarr44@hotmail.com</a> </div><div><br /><strong>Carbon cuts not job cuts<br />Green jobs- Where the main political parties stand </strong><br /><em>Labour Party<br /></em>"Labour’s policy anticipated that an additional 400,000 jobs in the low carbon sector would be created by 2015, taking the total figure to well over 1.2 million" (Ed Milliband July 2010) </div><div><br /><em>Liberal Democrat Party<br /></em>The Liberal Democrat manifesto pledge is to create 57,000 jobs by investing £400 million upgrading disused shipyards to enable the production of off-shore wind turbines. </div><br /><div><em>Conservative Party </em><br /></div><div>"The Government believes that climate change is one of the gravest threats we face, and that urgent action at home and abroad is required. We need to use a wide range of levers to cut carbon emissions, decarbonise the economy and support the creation of new green jobs and technologies" (No target given) </div><div><br />Green Party Policy</div><div>"Our major and immediate priority is the creation of an extra million jobs and training places. An immediate £44bn package of measures would include workforce training, investment in renewables, public transport, insulation, social housing and waste management "</div>Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-7932513443048434892010-12-19T01:41:00.000-08:002010-12-19T01:46:46.513-08:00Oxford Anti Cuts Calendar<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Oxfordshire Anti Cuts Alliance calendar:</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;">21st <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT64" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">Dec</span> - Lobby Full Council 2pm County Hall (OACA)</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;">9th <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT65" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">Jan</span> - CWU rally demonstration against privatisation and cuts Assemble 11am Church Green, Witney</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT66" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">Jan</span> - Public Meeting against library service cuts - Town Hall, St Aldates (date and time tbc )</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT67" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">Jan</span> - Public Meeting against youth service cuts - Town Hall, St Aldates (date and time tbc)</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;">12th <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT68" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">February</span> - Local Demonstration against public service cuts - Assemble Manzil Way and <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT69" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">march</span> to Bonn Square (time tbc)</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;">15th <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT70" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">February</span> - Lobby Council on day budget is set - 9am County Hall</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;">26th <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT71" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">March</span> - <span style="font-family:Calibri;">TUC demonstration against cuts</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Calibri, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Calibri, serif;">For more info see facebook page: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=160972127265494&ref=ts">here</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;"></span> </div></span>Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-15898326559807091362010-12-10T11:54:00.001-08:002010-12-10T12:01:20.743-08:00Youth Centre closures in OxfordPolice intimidate 12 year old for involvement with a protest against Youth Club closures planned by the Tory led County Council.<div><br /></div><div>The story has been reported by the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/10/schoolboy-quizzed-cameron-office-picket">Guardian</a></div><div><br /></div><div>For details of the protest see <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=322588563911&ref=ts">Oxford Right to Work Facebook Group</a></div>Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-85206987064915918782010-12-08T01:49:00.000-08:002010-12-08T01:51:01.092-08:00Week of activity<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:19px;"><div face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="14pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This coming week will be a week of protests against government cuts. Both locally and nationally, people are taking to the streets to oppose tuition fee increases, abolition of the Education Maintenance Allowance, cuts to higher and further education and the closure of 20 local youth centres.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">These are key campaigns which, if they are successful, will lead the way to further victories in the fight to defend public services.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">On </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT77" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Wednesday</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, UCU and NUS have called a day of local action against education cuts and tuition fee increases. There will be a lunchtime protest at Oxford and Cherwell Valley College, Oxpens Road (12.45pm-1.15pm) called by OCVC UCU and an evening rally in Bonn Square (5pm) called by Ruskin UCU and supported by Oxfordshire Anti-Cuts Alliance.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">On </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT78" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Thursday</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, there will be a national demonstration called by London Region UCU and University of London Students Union. Oxfordshire Unison Health, Oxford UCU and Right to Work have booked coaches leaving 9.30am from outlide the Taylorian Institute, St Giles. To book places, call 07890081211.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">On </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT79" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Friday</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, Save Our Youth Services have called a demonstration at 5pm outside David Cameron's Office, High Street Witney, against the closure of 20 local youth centres.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT80" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Next Monday</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, there will be lunchtime protests against cutting Education Maintenance Allowance, which supports 16-19 year olds to continue in education. Further details will be sent later in the week.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Further ahead, we are calling a lobby outside the County Council Cabinet meeting 2pm on 21st</span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT81" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">December</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. This will be an opportunity to draw together all our concerns about local and national cuts and demand that our local political representatives act on them.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This coming week will be crucial in terms of showing the strength of feeling against government cuts and also people's willingness to fight them. Please make every effort to get involved in as many events as you can.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Oxfordshire Anti-Cuts Alliance</span></span></div></span>Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-37362907844824310532010-12-04T10:37:00.000-08:002010-12-04T11:13:47.471-08:00Protest against Fees Dec 9th<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj849CoGtfF8jIEzoCfJXijHwYz3uO0A8LvepUZ46GsJI-bO7JgU94JtMuYNzj_tsVPHHme5bgZtU5Xfigj89ueOxHsRZVqUmJKF3L43WpXVbHrwl53yozOXVIFjlkXHxNL3tsA64STOfU/s1600/Dec+9+Education+leaflet.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj849CoGtfF8jIEzoCfJXijHwYz3uO0A8LvepUZ46GsJI-bO7JgU94JtMuYNzj_tsVPHHme5bgZtU5Xfigj89ueOxHsRZVqUmJKF3L43WpXVbHrwl53yozOXVIFjlkXHxNL3tsA64STOfU/s320/Dec+9+Education+leaflet.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546907344047369858" /></a>Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-76520267937145507552010-12-03T11:01:00.000-08:002010-12-03T11:05:45.726-08:00Join Oxford Right to Work Facebook GroupJoin Oxford Right to Work Facebook Group <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=322588563911">here</a><br /><br />Oxford RTW is affiliated to the Oxfordshire Anti Cuts Alliance, join OACA Facebook Group <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=160972127265494">here</a>Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-72726714495149608162010-12-02T14:19:00.000-08:002010-12-03T10:58:30.285-08:00Head of Tory Council in Web Rant<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgvyX_5lMPiSVndKO3I2_CYSrNBBaTbf_ml8mNF0Ywog1kVZh1_21NF86fURqao2036forEoujPA8qz2gLz7FX_dNbKqyZFlBMdyd4tJc_-q2Vg7lHma184XkX-fLj8FQqbFkKgYpLUAY/s1600/KRM+%2526+DC+09_04_17+A.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 216px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgvyX_5lMPiSVndKO3I2_CYSrNBBaTbf_ml8mNF0Ywog1kVZh1_21NF86fURqao2036forEoujPA8qz2gLz7FX_dNbKqyZFlBMdyd4tJc_-q2Vg7lHma184XkX-fLj8FQqbFkKgYpLUAY/s320/KRM+%2526+DC+09_04_17+A.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546532279993253762" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family:'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica;font-size:medium;"><p style="margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Calisto MT', arial, helvetica;color:#0000FF;"><b>The Tory County Council leader Keith Mitchell, responsible for pushing through perhaps 1,000 <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-11259836">job losses</a> in Oxfordshire, has posted the following rant on his <a href="http://www.krmcbe.co.uk/political_blog.htm">blog</a>:</b></span></p><p style="margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Calisto MT', arial, helvetica;color:#0000FF;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; "><span style="font-family:Calisto MT;color:#0000FF;"><b>"Student rabble invade County Hall </b>Reflecting on the acts of trespass and vandalism when a scruffy rabble invaded County Hall, it seems that a good number of these oiks were school children rather than college or university students. This raises two questions in my mind:</span></p><p style="margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; "><span style="font-family:Calisto MT;color:#0000FF;"><u>First</u>, locally, in Oxfordshire, how did all these teenagers bunk off their studies? What are the truancy records for Oxford schools on the afternoon of 30 November? I hope school teachers were not complicit in encouraging these children to bunk off school?</span></p><p style="margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; "><span style="font-family:Calisto MT;color:#0000FF;"><u>Secondly</u>, given that there were similar example of lawlessness across the country, what is driving this national outbreak of unlawful behaviour? I suspect the hard left are working up a campaign to make such lawlessness appear to be the norm and therefore to become acceptable."</span></p><p style="margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Calisto MT', arial, helvetica;color:#0000FF;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Calisto MT', arial, helvetica;color:#0000FF;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Calisto MT', arial, helvetica;color:#0000FF;"><br /></span></p></span>Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-80560116783118324492010-11-29T12:12:00.000-08:002010-11-29T12:14:15.961-08:00Day X 2<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFDdE-LZKtyi3EfeZ3dp3UY4PJW8BY-ft53OW9nV9PdwbtBVTeg1DXh1p39Fm_V52sxGApboVhL2NV77A5KKHt306KZiPu6DXfedqk3hqkA1AKz7GonhjpYZoKLEhzgikQInLBx_z417U/s1600/75193_828531689305_61412788_48541397_3335048_n.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 185px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFDdE-LZKtyi3EfeZ3dp3UY4PJW8BY-ft53OW9nV9PdwbtBVTeg1DXh1p39Fm_V52sxGApboVhL2NV77A5KKHt306KZiPu6DXfedqk3hqkA1AKz7GonhjpYZoKLEhzgikQInLBx_z417U/s320/75193_828531689305_61412788_48541397_3335048_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545067112551921154" /></a><a href="http://educationactivistnetwork.wordpress.com/">Education Activist Network</a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-48011462983819470162010-11-28T03:17:00.000-08:002010-11-28T03:21:47.781-08:00Nov 27th 500 march against cuts in Oxford<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkzhGQpEW72NbvtRKHi75tWzCPzrCuAB0X0rCbqN-coJMErku3bRYGRUznRKXFq-4W_nr91MYU2vWynQJXtieRuDTkDdzeyZ1AdHuGud3qnG8L4CKAUBonljlWNK_f73Kjtf0bMD5eyAM/s1600/76401_1765628539403_1199824468_2119708_7750883_n-1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkzhGQpEW72NbvtRKHi75tWzCPzrCuAB0X0rCbqN-coJMErku3bRYGRUznRKXFq-4W_nr91MYU2vWynQJXtieRuDTkDdzeyZ1AdHuGud3qnG8L4CKAUBonljlWNK_f73Kjtf0bMD5eyAM/s320/76401_1765628539403_1199824468_2119708_7750883_n-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544558348070864626" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Oxford mail report: <a href="http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/8707077.Hundreds_march_against_cuts/?ref=mr">here</a></div><div>Join the Anti Cuts Alliance Facebook Group: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=160972127265494">here</a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;"></span> </div></span>Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-73861699924583065202010-11-24T11:17:00.000-08:002010-11-24T11:23:56.393-08:00Oxford University Occupation<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:large;">Hundreds of Oxford University students with Ruskin students and 6th form college students have occupied the Radcliffe camera in protest against the plans to raise tuition fees pricing many out of an education or making them start life with a huge debt. There is also the issue of the scrapping of the Education Maintenance Allowance which support further education students attending college. Please send messages of support from trade unions and community organisations c/o 07986572812 or 07747840661 </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><br /><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-size:20px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT32" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><a href="http://www.occupiedoxford.org/?p=5" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Occupation statement" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">Occupation statement</a></span></span><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT33" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">November 24th, 2010</span> <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT35" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "></span></p><div><p>University of Oxford Radcliffe Camera Occupation Statement:</p><p>We – students and residents of Oxford from a range of institutions and backgrounds – are occupying the Radcliffe Camera because we oppose all public sector cuts. We stand in solidarity with those who are affected by the cuts and those who are resisting them.</p><p>We believe that education should be public and free for all. To this end we demand that the University of Oxford reiterate its opposition to education cuts and commit to not increasing fees for any courses. We also demand that the University pledge never to privatise.</p><p>These demands are non-negotiable. We will only accept a response from the University in the form of a public statement by the Vice Chancellor to the national media.</p><p>The University should not pursue or support any action taken against those involved in this legitimate and peaceful form of protest.</p><p>We call upon other education institutions in Oxford and nationwide to publicly support these principles and demands.</p><p>This library is now open to all members of the public and we invite you to join us.</p></div></div></div></div></div><p></p></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;color:#FF0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size:large;">Note<br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><div style=" ;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT44" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">Today</span>, students went into occupation of the Radcliffe Camera in central Oxford in protest at government cuts to education. Messages of support have been sent by Oxfordshire Anti-Cuts Alliance and Oxford & District Trades Council.</div><div face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style=" "> </div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><em>Oxfordshire Anti-Cuts Alliance gives its full support to those students who have occupied university buildings in protest at government education cuts. They are expressing their right to protest against cuts which will do lasting damage to our economy for generations. Ideologically motivated cuts to public services will wreck lives and destroy the services on which we all rely. We call on people to support the occupation and to join us on <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT45" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">Saturday</span> from 11.30am in Manzil Way . We will be marching to a rally in Bonn Square to show the strength of public feeling on this issue and to help build a movement which can force a change of government policy.</em></span></div></span></span><br /></div></span><div style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">-- </span>._,_.___</div></div></div></div></span></div>Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-12796751661974655312010-11-14T05:28:00.000-08:002010-11-14T05:34:19.323-08:00Oxford Anti Cuts Campaign Builds Momentum<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhSZXa8bX5ohRCYgB0Xn_U3G-xsh8oB2-sujKYxpvx-78SfoJPqPmerMobgYHX09F36SAYBIsu4z2sS0HNGwa9x3itanKb_OQumVoDoIhacxoGURdDQ6_9cSp-b8cjbMgOcN66MaMbfF4/s1600/chimage.php.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 194px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhSZXa8bX5ohRCYgB0Xn_U3G-xsh8oB2-sujKYxpvx-78SfoJPqPmerMobgYHX09F36SAYBIsu4z2sS0HNGwa9x3itanKb_OQumVoDoIhacxoGURdDQ6_9cSp-b8cjbMgOcN66MaMbfF4/s320/chimage.php.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539398099747246770" /></a><span style="font-weight:bold;"><div>Public Meeting</div>How we can challenge the cuts locally?<br />16th November 2010<br />7.30pm, Oxford Town Hall Guest Speakers: Jeremy Dear (Gen. Sec. NUJ) Alex Gordon (President RMT)<br /><br />Demonstrate Sat 27th November<br />Assemble 11.30 am. Mazil Way, Cowley Road March to rally in Bonn Square</span><br /><br />Oxford Anti-Cuts Alliance is supported by: Oxford & District Trades Council, Unite BMW SE625, Oxfordshire NUT, Oxfordshire NASUWT, Unison Oxfordshire County branch, Unison Oxford City branch, Unison Oxfordshire Health, PCS Oxon & Bucks DWP, Oxford NUJ, UCU Oxford & Cherwell Valley College, UCU Ruskin College, Ruskin College Student’s Union, Oxford Keep Our NHS Public, Oxford People’s Charter Campaign, Oxford Save Our Services, Oxford Right to Work, Oxford Coalition of Resistance, Oxford for Peace and Justice, Oxford CND, Oxford Stop the War, New Internationalist.<br /><br />To get involved, contact us on 07967392229 / g.little@odtuc.org.ukSite Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-7693570946781167822010-11-13T10:26:00.000-08:002010-11-13T10:30:09.899-08:00Student Protest Facebook GroupWe need unity to break the Con-Dems’ attacks. Stand with the protesters against victimisation.<br /><br /><br />Wednesday’s national NUS/UCU 50,000 strong national demonstration was a magnificent show of strength against the Con Dems’ savage attacks on education. The Tories want to make swingeing cuts, introduce £9,000 tuition fees and cut EMA. These attacks will close the doors to higher education and further education for a generation of young people.<br /><br />During the demonstration over 5,000 students showed their determination to defend the future of education by occupying the Tory party HQ and its courtyards for several hours. The mood was good-spirited, with chants, singing and flares.<br /><br />Yet at least 32 people have now been arrested, and the police and media appear to be launching a witch-hunt condemning peaceful protesters as “criminals” and violent.<br /><br />A great deal is being made of a few windows smashed during the protest, but the real vandals are those waging a war on our education system.<br /><br />We reject any attempt to characterise the Millbank protest as small, “extremist” or unrepresentative of our movement.<br /><br />We celebrate the fact that thousands of students were willing to send a message to the Tories that we will fight to win. Occupations are a long established tradition in the student movement that should be defended. It is this kind of action in France and Greece that has been an inspiration to many workers and students in Britain faced with such a huge assault on jobs, benefits, housing and the public sector.<br /><br />We stand with the protesters, and anyone who is victimised as a result of the protest.<br /><br />Initial signatories include (all in a personal capacity):<br />Mark Bergfeld, NUS NEC<br />Ashok Kumar, Vice-President Education LSE<br />Vicki Baars, NUS LGBT Officer women’s place<br />Sean Rillo Raczka, Birkbeck SU Chair and NUS NEC (Mature Students’ Rep)<br />Nathan Bolton, Campaigns Officer Essex SU<br />James Haywood, Campaigns Officer Goldsmiths College SU<br />Steve Hedley, London regional organiser RMT<br />Wanda Canton, Women’s Officer QMUL<br />Michael Chessum, Education and Campaigns Officer UCL SU<br />Jade Baker, Education Officer Westminster Uni SU<br />Dan Swain, Essex Uni SU Postgrad Officer<br /><br />To add your name or organisation email teneleventen@gmail.com<br /><br />Join our facebook page <a href=" http://www.facebook.com/pages/We-need-unity-defend-the-Millbank-protestors/128397300550227">here</a><br /><br />From the site: <a href="http://teneleventen.wordpress.com/">http://teneleventen.wordpress.com/</a>Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-38773534502410603692010-11-13T02:17:00.000-08:002010-11-13T02:21:18.809-08:00Mike's Letter from America No20<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSGIZX-z4u9ZIJaC2PaRcQadQyh8OTKJIbu9RQLs_rjRwmu-hW1kHkTYG-rezJx9AZ52dZZpriIvr_VRwrcJ0Ii0iRzWD9cErHpDDx0WmoBmyhf-aLvaH5ToE4y18YDcDSYiDnkBc-6kY/s1600/us.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSGIZX-z4u9ZIJaC2PaRcQadQyh8OTKJIbu9RQLs_rjRwmu-hW1kHkTYG-rezJx9AZ52dZZpriIvr_VRwrcJ0Ii0iRzWD9cErHpDDx0WmoBmyhf-aLvaH5ToE4y18YDcDSYiDnkBc-6kY/s320/us.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538977213446798466" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Mid-term Elections: Why the Democrats lost (and why the Tea Party haven’t won)</span><br /><br />The opinion polls before the recent midterm elections reported that the Republicans and Democrats were neck-and-neck. They also predicted – correctly - that the Democrats were about to lose.<br /><br />Confused? Well, it all comes down to what the media dubbed the ‘enthusiasm gap’. If you ask the electorate as a whole, they rate the Democrats, and Obama in particular, in the high-40s%. But polls of people who said they are definitely going to vote gave the Republicans a clear lead. In other words, there are more apathetic Democrat than Republican voters. Come November 2nd, the GOP was able to get out its vote, while Democrats stayed at home. We are now faced with strong Republican majority in the House of Representatives, and a reduced Democratic majority in the Senate, which means that Obama is seriously weakened for the last two years of his term.<br /><br />Why did this happen? Well, apparently it’s all our fault. According to the White House it is all because moaning leftists are carping unfairly about the greatest president since FDR. To White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs, we are a bunch of ingrates with unrealistic expectations, while Vice-President Biden told liberals to stop ‘whining’ about the administration. The argument goes that Obama has been saddled with a huge deficit and two wars that he inherited from Bush (true) and an obstructive Republican congressional minority that filibusters everything in sight (also true). Therefore we should all have stopped moaning and worked for his reelection. If we do not muster the same enthusiasm for Democrats as the Tea Party and other assorted crazies do for the Republicans, we will have nobody but ourselves to blame if [insert name of far-right conservative bogeyman here] is in the White House come 2013.<br /><br />To borrow a memorable phrase from Blackadder, there’s only one thing wrong with this argument: it’s bollocks. The Democrats have given their supporters plenty to be unenthusiastic about. Obama has not just continued but escalated the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He got out of Iraq, but only by declaring that the 50,000 troops still there are not combat troops. The much trumpeted healthcare reform (which Democrat candidates seemed curiously unwilling to defend in their election campaigns) is so timid and peace-meal that even the good things about it have largely not yet come into effect. And it’s not the case that the Democrats could not get things done if they wanted – the anti-gay ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy, which fell victim to yet another Republican filibuster in the Senate, would be gone by now had Obama’s own Department of Justice not appealed when it was struck down in the courts. <br /><br />The best example of the Democrats’ apparent unwillingness to do anything, even to save their own skins, is the issue of tax cuts. Passed back in the early days of George W’s presidency, these had an expiry date attached to them by Congress at the time, and are about to run out. On the eve of the elections, the Democrats hit on the idea of extending them except for people earning over $250,000 a year. This would have undermined the Republicans’ claim that Democrats are the party of high taxes, won them popularity among 98% of the population, and only alienated the top 2% who mainly vote Republican anyway. But instead of doing something both progressive and popular the Dems decided to postpone any vote on the tax cuts until after the elections. With those elections now lost, they are talking of ‘compromise’ on the issue – although having already agreed with 98% of the Bush tax cuts, it’s hard to see how they can compromise any further.<br /><br />While November 2nd was undoubtedly a bad day for the Democrats, it would be wrong to buy into the media idea that it represents an historic shift to the right. To begin with, less than 40% of the eligible population voted, so the swing of 7% to the Republicans compared to Obama’s victory in 2008 translates in reality to only 3% of the electorate. Many more – some 40 million people compared to 2008 – simply stayed away, disgusted with both parties. Far from being a seismic shift, this was just a typical midterm election, in which voters – rather like British voters in by-elections - cast a protest vote against whoever is in office at the time.<br /><br />If the Democrats were losers, so were the much-hyped ‘Tea Party’. The majority of Republican Tea Party candidates were beaten, and when they ran against ‘moderate’ Republicans they usually did badly (with the notable exception of Marco Rubio in the Florida senate race, who beat both a Democrat and the ex-Republican governor running as an independent). In Sarah Palin’s Alaska, the official Republican senate candidate – Joe Miller, a Tea Partier – looks set to lose to a fellow Republican who wasn’t even on the ballot. The USA allows ‘write-in’ votes, and Miller’s political fate right now rests on whether the voters were able to spell the name of his rival, Lisa Murkowski. In Colorado, anti-immigrant Republican Tom Tancredo ran as an independent for governor, and while he beat the official Republican candidate, he lost by a humiliating 14% margin to the Democrat. <br /><br />In straight Democrat vs Republican races, the Tea Party did little better. The most high-profile of Sarah Palin’s ‘Momma Grizzlies’, Christine ‘masturbation is a sin’ O’Donnell, lost heavily in Delaware, as was expected. More seriously for the Republicans, in Nevada Tea Partier Sharron Angle, who was touted to beat the Democrats’ unpopular senate leader Harry Reid, lost by a clear 5% margin. Results like this ensured that the Democrats held on to the Senate more comfortably than any of the pollsters had predicted.<br /><br />So America is not moving to the right, but do the Democrats get this? Of course not. In those three-way races with Republican ‘independents’ running, the Dems’ leadership often stabbed their own candidates in the back. Florida’s Kendrick Meek was pressured to withdraw by Bill Clinton, no less, while in the election for governor of Rhode Island, Obama failed to endorse the official Democratic candidate – who, to his credit, told the president he could ‘shove it’. <br /><br />As with all elections, especially the close ones, enormous pressure was placed on the left to back whoever was most likely to beat the Republicans, no matter how right-wing they were. The folly of this strategy was shown most clearly in West Virginia, where Jesse Johnson was running a credible campaign for the Mountain Party, the local affiliate of the Greens. Johnson was never going to win the election for senator, but he was polling well, and getting good media coverage. Come election day, however, voters closed ranks behind right-wing Democrat Joe Manchin, who is in the pocket of the coal companies, and was filmed in one campaign ad shooting a copy of the proposed ‘Cap and Trade’ anti-climate change legislation. Manchin won, and has rewarded the Democratic Party for its loyalty by hinting he may cross over to the Republicans anyway.<br /><br />The next two years, with Republicans in control of half of Congress, will certainly not be easy. But it is important not to buy into the idea that the country has moved decisively to the right, or the equally dangerous idea that we have to loyally fall in line behind Obama. Left candidates who gain even a half-respectable vote are very rare, but they exist. West Virginia’s Jesse Johnson made inroads because he is an activist, who linked his campaign to workers’ struggles and the fight against the environmental degradation of his state by big coal companies. Those are the kinds of struggles that will stop the Republicans in their tracks.Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-77728553643327183482010-10-30T09:53:00.000-07:002010-10-30T10:00:01.288-07:00Oxford protest against Vodaphone tax dodgeThe Vodaphone shop in Oxford was shut down by protestors today as part of a growing nationwide campaign against major tax avoidance by the firm. More info on the protest at <a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/10/467059.html">Indymedia</a> and <a href="http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=22890">Socialist Worker </a>web sites.Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-13799822026569207552010-10-29T10:52:00.001-07:002010-10-29T10:56:01.243-07:00Oxford Students protest against tuition fees<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SdIKbhguQvY?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SdIKbhguQvY?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>
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<br />Over 1,500 students took part in a protest against tuition fees yesterday. More footage and information <a href="http://educationactivistnetwork.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/protest-in-oxford-shows-the-way/">here</a></span></span></div>Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-7838277607921757102010-10-24T02:06:00.000-07:002010-10-24T02:08:33.634-07:00Oxford UAF coach tickets to Nov 6thBuy Oxford coach tickets to national demonstration against Islamaphobia, racism and fascism on Nov 6th on line <a href="http://oxforduaf.org.uk/">here</a>Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-76154913849441818912010-10-16T10:46:00.000-07:002010-10-16T10:48:02.821-07:00Budget Protest this Weds 20th October Bonn Square 5.30pm<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><div>On <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT80" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">Tuesday</span> 12th <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT81" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">October</span>, representatives from trades unions, campaigns and community groups representing thousands of people across Oxfordshire came together to express their opposition to cuts in public services, jobs, pay and pensions which they say will damage Oxfordshire's economy irreparably.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>16 different organisations, representing people from all walks of life signed up to the following statement and agreed to form a united campaign, Oxfordshire Anti-Cuts Alliance, to build resistance to the cuts:</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>"We believe that the savage spending cuts proposed by the coalition government will wreck millions of people's lives. They will decimate public services, cut jobs, pay and pensions, and risk plunging the British economy into further difficulties.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>"We believe there is an alternative. We could raise revenue through progressive taxation, plugging tax loopholes, cancelling Trident and adopting a green approach to public spending - investing in renewable energy and public transport to create a million jobs. We call on our elected representatives to oppose all cuts in jobs and public services."</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The alliance has also called on people to join an Oxfordshire Day of Action Against Cuts on the 20th <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT82" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">October</span> when people from across the county will demonstrate their anger against the cuts at various events, including an evening rally in Bonn Square. The group will be running an information stall during the day on Cornmarket Street, central Oxford, which will provide analysis of the Comprehensive Spendng Review as it is released, showing the impact on local people.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>From 5.30pm, people will gather together in Bonn Square to demonstrate opposition to the cuts and hear from various campaigns and trades unions working to oppose them.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Groups at the meeting included Right to Work, Peoples Charter and Save Our Services.</div></span>Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430472569608694267.post-57471884152515198012010-10-16T10:42:00.000-07:002010-10-16T10:44:12.615-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaFnFe5yln7L5TV8q_aDGL8uFDy8jhcilt6rA3GtZcLiPZ-teUxjkBhDDxPTMJxOVr1lGIRibuTuBouTCsfN5eyqaMJO7oUaMekokz0BFA1dVvxF39e5vFBPieS8EbSVSfsfVdT5eDnTk/s1600/defending+welfare+state+front+12.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 224px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaFnFe5yln7L5TV8q_aDGL8uFDy8jhcilt6rA3GtZcLiPZ-teUxjkBhDDxPTMJxOVr1lGIRibuTuBouTCsfN5eyqaMJO7oUaMekokz0BFA1dVvxF39e5vFBPieS8EbSVSfsfVdT5eDnTk/s320/defending+welfare+state+front+12.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5528701081799524882" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align: left; "><b><span style=" ;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:xx-large;">Right to Work pamphlet - Defending the welfare state<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: normal; font-size:12px;"> </span></span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Cameron’s Con-Dem government is set to launch the biggest attack on working people since the 1920s. A financial crisis caused by the greed of bankers is being used as an excuse to dismantle the welfare state.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Workers are being made to pay for a mess they didn’t create. The price they will pay is the destruction of public services, a drive to push down wages and the loss of well over a million jobs across the public and private sectors.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">We are faced with the spectre of mass unemployment with the threat that a generation of young people will be lost to the dole queue.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">But none of this is necessary. The cuts are being made while big business and the rich fail to pay billions in taxes and while billions more are squandered on illegal wars and a new generation of nuclear weapons.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">This pamphlet argues that Cameron’s cuts are completely unnecessary. It seeks to arm activists with the arguments they need to use at work or college.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The money is there to pay for decent public services for all. We have to resist the Tory assault on our way of life and build a movement capable of opposing the cuts and fighting for a better world.<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:12px;"> </span></span></span></span></p><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:9pt;">Order from:</span></span><span style=" ;font-family:'Cordia New', sans-serif;font-size:16pt;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT46" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/righttoworkconference/home/resources/righttoworkpamphlet-defendingthewelfarestate" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">http://sites.google.com/site/righttoworkconference/home/resources/righttoworkpamphlet-defendingthewelfarestate</a></span></span></span>Site Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104417035640262586noreply@blogger.com0