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26 October 2000 Oxford
No haven for little Haiders!
Over 150 Anti-Nazi demonstrators ensured that the Oxford University European
Affairs Society's platform for leading FPV MEP Peter Sichrovsky was a
complete flop today!

Far from the huge learned audience expected, Peter Sichrovsky had to be
smuggled in to the meeting by police to address fifteen people. In the week
leading up to this meeting the OUEAS closed its membership, clearly
apprehensive about the questions that might be asked by those curious about
why such an august institution had invited a representative of a populist
NAZI party to address them. OUEAS had already lost the original venue when
Trinity College cancelled it in embarassment, and they were forced to
re-arrange the time of the meeting by protests. They were even too nervous
to let the press in. Fascist sympathisers failed to gain entry because the
ANL blockaded the building. Outrageously, Oxford University gave official
backing to the meeting in a press release, claiming it was "defending
freedom of speech". Whose freedom of speech? Apparently not that of
everyone at Oxford University - one proctor told the ANL that black and
Asian students "should stay away while Sichrovsky was there".

Anti-Nazis ensured that those in the meeting, security guards and police
were unable to leave the building for over three hours. The ANL was joined
by members of Labour Students, Oxford University Student Union, Oxford
University Jewish Society and telecommunication workers from the CWU.
Sichrovsky was finally smuggled out of the building in humiliation,
abandoning his car in the process.

The official opening of the first Holocaust memorial in Vienna was boycotted
by the FPV this week, just days after Haider's latest invective calling for
the "elimination" of foreigners from Austria. However Oxford ANL has sent
a clear message of solidarity to anti-fascists in Austria today: the Freedom
Party is not wanted here!

*Oxford University European Affairs Society ignored all requests to
reconsider their decision to give a platform to the normalisation of
explicit racism in Europe. Perhaps OUEAS members and sponsors should
reconsider their support for such an organisation. OUEAS's major sponsor is
the computer chip multinational Intel. Let's tell them how their money is
being spent:
Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd., Pipers Way, Swindon, Wiltshire SN3 1RJ, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1793 403000
Fax: +44 (0)1793 641440

Leading OUEAS members are:
Professor Archie Brown, St Antony's:  archie.brown@socstud.ox.ac.uk
Professor John Burrow, Balliol, Honorary President: no email
Sir Julian Bullard, All Souls: no email
Dr David Butler, Nuffield:  david.butler@nuf.ox.ac.uk
Lord Butler of Brockwell:  lord.butler@univ.ox.ac.uk
Mr Keith Chapple, Intel (UK): no email
Dr Christopher Davies, Wolfson:  christopher.davis@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
Dr James Forder, Balliol, Senior Member:  james.forder@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Timothy Garton Ash, St Antony's: no email
Sir Marrack Goulding, St Antony's:  marrack.goulding@sant.ox.ac.uk
Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, Chancellor of Oxford University: no email
Dr Anand Mennon, St Antony's:  anand.menon@socstud.ox.ac.uk
Mr Chris Parr, Intel (UK):  chris.d.parr@intel.com
Professor Peter Pulzer, All Souls:  peter.pulzer@all-souls.ox.ac.uk

Committee members OUEAS:
President: Jennifer Evans, St. John's:  jennifer.evans@sjc.ox.ac.uk
Secretary: Max Lang, Brasenose:  maximilian.lang@bnc.ox.ac.uk
Events Secretaries: Heidi Strebel, Christ Church:
 heidi.strebel@chch.ox.ac.uk
PR Secretary: Guido Wolf, Mansfield:  guido.wolf@mansf.ox.ac.uk