Oxford Action Resource Centre celebrates 5 years of radical organising!

Since 2005, Oxford Action Resource Cen­tre (OARC) has been a part of the local activist land­scape: a social space, meet­ing venue, office and shared library for cam­paign­ers, activists, agi­ta­tors and com­mu­ni­ty groups.

It was set up fol­low­ing a series of squatted/rented social cen­tres which took place in 2004. (Links to the full his­to­ry below).

Now we are cel­e­brat­ing 5 years of OARC with a week of birth­day events!

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Sat 24th — 12–4pm
*** Drop-in ses­sion ***
Find out more about OARC, see the space, meet some of the peo­ple involved.

Sun 25th — 4pm-7pm
*** ‘OARC: Where Next?’ dis­cus­sion + meal ***
Learn about OAR­C’s his­to­ry, get involved in shap­ing its future.

Sun 25th — 7:30pm
*** Film: Estrate­gia del Cara­col ***
Sol­i­dar­i­ty, sur­vival and satire in the Colom­bian city of Bogo­ta.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109747/

Tues 27th — 6:30pm
*** Play!Fight! dis­cus­sion ***
A dis­cus­sion of kinky sex­u­al­i­ty and its inter­ac­tion with rad­i­cal activism.
http://radicalx.ox4.org/playfight

Wed 28th — 7pm
*** Com­mu­ni­ty meal and games ***
Tasty veg­an food, good com­pa­ny, fun games + the ‘activist pub quiz’.

Thurs 29th — 5pm-8pm
*** Drop-in ses­sion ***
Find out more about OARC, see the space, meet some of the peo­ple involved.

Fri 30th — 7pm-late
*** Birth­day Par­ty! ***
A cel­e­bra­tion of 5 years of OARC!
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OARC is upstairs at E. Oxf. Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre, Cow­ley Rd, OX4 1HU.
http://openstreetmap.com/?mlat=51.7483&mlon=-1.2377&zoom=16

All wel­come! See:
http://theoarc.org.uk/cal/
…for more details!

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A Brief his­to­ry of OCSET / LOG / OARC:

OCSET One (Cow­ley Rd social cen­tre 06/04/04–07/05/04):
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/04/288643.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/04/288540.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/04/288579.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/04/288609.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/04/289225.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/04/289231.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/04/289286.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/04/289535.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/04/289887.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/04/290133.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/05/290808.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/05/290857.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/05/290863.html

OCSET Two (tem­po­rary loca­tion, May 2004):
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/05/291202.html

OCSET Three (St Clements social cen­tre 19/05/04–04/06/04):
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/05/291843.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/05/291870.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/05/291908.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/05/291949.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/05/292139.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/06/292753.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/06/292770.html

LOG (rent­ed house — mixed resisidential/social space):
Between Novem­ber 2004 and March 2005 the project got some fund­ing and exper­i­ment­ed with a rent­ed house, which was half used as meeting/social cen­tre and half occu­pied by res­i­dents. There are no arti­cles from this time because we had to keep it fair­ly qui­et that it was being used as any­thing oth­er than a res­i­den­tial house. We decid­ed that it did­n’t work well to mix pri­vate space and social cen­tre space in this way, though the place con­tin­ued as a big com­mu­nal activist house.

OARC opens! (March/April 2005):
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2005/03/307657.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2005/03/307775.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2005/04/309551.html