Matt Sage: Into the mystic (Van Morrison)
Terry Walpole:
present, maybe performed: Jonathan Kent

Protesting against the Criminal Justice Bill, young people tried to enter the recently closed Penultimate Picture Palace cinema, and as a decoy squatted an empty nurses home in East Avenue. The police came in force in riot gear to evict the East Avenue squat and arrested people. 50 people went to St Aldates police station to demand their release, filling the foyer and playing didgeridoo. The police evicted them from the foyer using a fire extinguisher, then formed a line across St Aldates and began a baton charge, later arresting some protestors who had run down side streets. All were eventually acquitted thanks to video evidence and the illegality of the squat bust. But no resistance was then put up when the Penultimate Picture Palace was entered and a free cinema named Section 106 operated through the month of September

A few protestors stopped tree felling (for a day) which was taking place on the central reservation of Oxford's northern bypass

The first demo at Campsfield happened even as the first detainees were brought there. From 29 Jan 1994 there has been a demo outside Canpsfield on the last Saturday of every month to this day. On 26 Mar 1994 demonstrators climbed the fence, reached the roof and stayed 12 hours. On 4 June 1994 600 people demonstrated there. Meanwhile the detainees themselves had done hunger strikes and rooftop protests and two had married centre staff members. A camp was set up again on 26 May 2001 and raided by police on 11 June 2001 looking for evidence of graffiti materials

After an Earth First! roadshow took place in Oxford, a meeting was called to decide on an action, and a bike blockade was chosen. Each Friday at 5.30 up to 80 cyclists circled the Plain for 5 minutes, blocking the traffic, then cycled slowly up to the town centre. It was weekly till Christmas, then monthly till the summer. On 11 June 1994 was a procession of non-motorised transport from the Plain to Broad Street where tables and chairs made a pop-up café. Later the Campus Buttery made a commercial version of it in the same place

200 Rainforest Network protestors invaded the timber yard on Cumnor Hill, climbed on the roof &c, and took samples of suspected illegal mahogany. There were no arrests, the yard shut down for the day, and on 27 May Customs Officers raided the site and removed further samples

Robert Maxwell sacked 23 employees for taking part in a one day strike over union recognition. They mounted a continuous picket till September 1992, by which time Maxwell had gone bankrupt and drowned at sea

sometime in 1985

stayed there two years protesting US nuclear bombers. A demo the following spring of 4000 people shut the base for 4 days. There were 752 arrests

80 nursing and support staff occupied 50-bed care of the elderly hospital. In early Feb 1981 in a surprise raid patients were forcibly removed to the Churchill hospital, many died shortly afterwards from "relocation effect"