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Protestors yesterday gathered outside the Oxford Union to demonstrate against the invitation of far-right media personality Katie Hopkins. A heavy police presence surrounded the area, including several mounted officers. At least one arrest was made after an altercation between a protestor and a counter-protestor who was seen performing a Nazi salute. Chants from the protestors […]
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At 4pm yesterday, a group of students assembled outside of the Radcliffe Camera as part of a larger protest which has taken place across Poland. The protest is a response to the National Museum of Warsaw’s act of removing a total of four artworks by female artists, including a 1973 video by Natalia LL in […]
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An estimated 300 people from across the UK attended a demonstration in Oxford today to demand an end to animal testing. Animal testing is a widespread practice, with Understanding Animal Research writing that in 2017 there were 3.79 million experiments on animals in the UK. ‘Victims of Charity’ leaflets distributed at the demonstration cited examples […]
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It is estimated that between 1000-1500 young people marched through Oxford’s streets to demand more action be taken against climate change. The rally was a part of a series of demonstrations that have taken place up and down the country as part of the ‘Youth Strike 4 climate’ movement. Climate change has become an increasingly […]
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At the protest against Marion Maréchal-Le Pen’s Oxford Union talk last Tuesday, protestors shouted anti-police slogans at rather impassive lines of officers (and four very well groomed horses) while members of the campaign group Stand Up to Racism distributed placards with anti-Le Pen sentiments. These well-designed and always-plentiful placards can be seen hovering over the […]
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As anticipated, Tuesday’s talk by the far-right former French politician Marion Maréchal at the Oxford Union was met with protests. As the granddaughter of the founder of the Front National and niece of the former presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, Maréchal is a prominent member of the Le Pen family, known for her controversial views […]
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Image Credits: James Ashworth Around 60 Oxford students today took part in a sexual consent protest on Cornmarket Street, highlighting the recent case of Irish lawyer Elizabeth O’Connell using a girl’s underwear as part of her closing statement, after which the accused was found not guilty. The protesters hung a line of lacey underwear, like […]
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Wadham students occupied front quad in protest of the Governing Body’s attempt to set rent in the the new Dorothy Wadham building at £700 per month on a compulsory 9-month contract, totalling £6300 per year per student. The building was meant to provide affordable, college-owned accommodation for the college’s 2nd year undergraduates, who currently have […]
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Image Credit: Spigoo (CC BY 2.0) Following an attack on a campaign stall at Carfax last Friday evening, a group of Oxford campaigns have come together to call a ‘We will not be silenced” protest. The stall was run by a local socialist group who were campaigning against the statements made by the Former Foreign […]
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The Oxford SU LGBTQ+ campaign has issued an official statement in anticipation of Brendan O’Neill’s visit to the Queen’s College tonight. It follows the organisation of a protest, scheduled for tonight at 6:30, against the decision to invite O’Neill to address an Addison Society dinner at the college. The statement, which has been signed by […]
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A demonstration will be held tomorrow in protest against the invitation of political columnist Brendan O’Neill to speak at a dinner at Queen’s College. The decision to invite O’Neill to address a dinner tomorrow has been defended by the Addison Society, which has organised the event. The student-run society regularly invites prominent figures to college […]
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The recent upsurge of political and fashionable protest dressing, which spanned from the Pussyhats at the Women’s marches to the unforgettable crimson ‘Make America Great Again’ caps in 2017, was always going to filter its way into Hollywood, it was simply a question of when. Fast-forward to the Golden Globes on the 7th of January […]
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Protesters were thrown out of a discussion panel hosted by an anti-abortion student society that included prominent Irish pro-lifers on Wednesday night. WomCam, Oxford SU’s women’s campaign, organised the demonstration. According to reports, around fifteen protesters entered the event and then started heckling the speakers when the talk began. Eye-witness reports, and statements from both […]
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How has the music world reacted to President Donald Trump? ‘Bigly’, you might say. Music has always been revolutionary. Even at the best of times, it finds something to grumble about. But Donald Trump, in all his spray-tanned, finger-waving glory, has stirred up its fiercest protest in years. Some are even hailing a new punk […]
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Students, residents and campaigners gathered in Cornmarket this evening to protest President Trump’s ban on Muslim immigrants entering the country. This forms one of thousands of nationwide campaigns against Trump’s executive order – a response which Barack Obama’s spokesman said the ex-president was “heartened” by. The protest was called by Stand Up To Racism, Oxford […]
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In response to the inauguration of Donald Trump as the American President today, protests took place across Oxford in solidarity with the Bridges Not Walls movement, a campaign to oppose the rise of the far right both in the UK and abroad. These protests were part of a wider effort across the country that included […]
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Supporters of the Rhodes Must Fall Oxford campaign gathered outside Oriel College at midday today to protest against institutionalised racism and the continued presence of the Cecil Rhodes statue. Around 40 protesters were present and called for increased representation of black students and black professors at the university, the “decolonisation” of the curriculum and an […]
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Hundreds of people attended a rally in Oxford on Sunday for the event aiming to “show solidarity, love and support for groups facing marginalisation”. The ‘Love Rally’, which took place outside the Clarendon building on Broad Street, attracted students, locals and families. The event began at 2pm and finished at 3.30pm. The event included speakers […]
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Prince William’s official opening of the new Blavatnik School of Government building on 11th May has garnered wide attention in Russian media—not for the presence of the prince, but for the presence of protestors. Since late 2015, Oxford University has come under scrutiny for its decision to accept a donation of £75 million from controversial […]
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