As she left her book signing at Waterstone's in Oxford, shadow home secretary Ann Widdecombe got a custard pie in her face for stirring up race hatred against refugees and asylum seekers. Two people were arrested

This was a national day of action in which several hundred people dressed in white biohazard suits (supplied at the site) entered a trial field of genetically modified crops and flattened them. The small number of police present didn't interfere but later reinforcements arrived when most of the flatteners had left and there was some seemingly random unprovoked police brutality and a few arrests.

Students fasted for 36 hours on Clarendon Building steps in Broad Street in support of the people of Tibet

Wild Owl had been living for a year in a bramble patch behind St Cross churchyard belonging to Merton College. An attempted eviction in March 1999 was met by 30 supporters. Even though the college was inflexible and an eventual surprise eviction seemed certain, Wild Owl continued to sow seeds in his garden next to his makeshift shed

A disused nursing home in Cutteslowe was squatted by Equality Housing Co-op, composed of about 30 local homeless people. After a failed eviction in June, the Co-op gave the owners (County Council) vacant possession on 10 August 1999 with a promise that it would be leased to the City Council as homeless accomodation

130 local residents trespassed on the sidings and used ballast to spell out STOP THE QUARRY in 10 foot letters. On 15 December 1998 some of them dumped almost 200 kilos of gravel outside Railtrack HQ in London

A die-in in the High Street against University investments in the arms trade, and on 12 November at British Aerospace's graduate recruitment drive in Oxford, 25 black clad protestors moved to the front, lit candles and held signs pledging never to work for BAe "in memory of 250 Timorese students killed 7 years ago today"

Several people locked themselves into offices and dropped a banner from the roof of a company building luxury homes in Oxfordshire green belt

The date above was one of many demos in a campaign that lasted from 1997 to 1999 and was fully successful, to shut down Hill Grove Farm, near Witney, the only UK location breeding cats for experiments. The farm owner claimed to have received death threats. On 21 May 2000 after Hill Grove had ceased operations, a bomb went off at a Witney meat factory, injuring no-one.

Against proposals to remove Oxford's former LMS rail station, a Grade II listed building, and cut down a line of trees, in order to build a six-lane junction and the Saïd Business School. The junction was claimed to be an essential part of the Oxford Transport Strategy, though years later it was replaced with a scheme similar to those proposed by objectors. Homeless people joined road protestors to live in the building, there were public open days, raves, and the facade was repainted in LMS colours maroon & cream.