Genoa G8: Close Campsfield Detention Centre!
Creating the camp
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The Close Campsfield! July camp needs your help! Below is a list of useful things you might have access to - bring what you can to help create an effective and inspiring protest camp.
This list is by no means exhaustive, so email [email protected] with ideas and contributions (especially regarding help with transport and donations).
- Food - a kitchen will be running so donations of food, time and skills will be needed. Fresh vegetables, fruit, pasta, rice, spices, herbs
- Water, water butts, big bottles. Water will be available but in short supply - bring as much as you can - hosepipes, buckets, funnels, spare bottles
- Tents - big tents, small tents, marquees, yurts, teepees, tent pegs, poles
- Sleeping bags, blankets, carpet, towels
- Entertainment - musicial instruments like drums, bongos, flutes, trumpets, more drums, whistles, horns, even more drums
- Circus equipment, hoops, facepaint, carnival masks, big shoes, false noses, silly wigs, balloons, inflatables
- Clowns, singers, dancers, stilt performers, side-shows, musicians, entertainers, comedians, womble-tamers!
- Carnival face masks, overalls, goggles, inflatables, cushions, bubble-wrap, gloves
- Wood - planks, beams, poles, sheets of plywood, pallets, firewood
- Waterproofing = plastic sheeting, plexiglass, polypropylene, tarpaulins, groundsheets and blankets
- Tools - spades, shovels, forks, hammers, crowbars, screwdrivers, sledgehammers, wrenches, rachet sets, bolt-croppers, wire-cutters, angle-grinders, generators, nails, screws
- Ladders, rope, string, pulleys, bungees
- Bales of hay, crates, cardboard boxes, gaffer tape, packaging tape, electrical tape
- Toilet paper / kitchen roll / note paper
- Rubbish bags - lots of these!
- Lighting - torches, candles, ribbon lighting, wander lights, fairy lights, decorations
- Power - generators, solar panels, peddle-power, batteries, car batteries, wire
- Paint - tinned paint, spray paint, illuminous paint, banner-making material, sheets, brushes
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Getting there
Oxford is well-served by train and coach connections interchanging at the rail station. Coaches to Oxford leave London Victoria coach station every 15 minutes, costing about £8. Nearest tube: Victoria, then 5 mins walk to coach station.
Campsfield House is about 6 miles from Oxford city centre. It can be reached by bus (numbers 2B, 2C or 2D) from the main Oxford rail station: ask for Campsfield House or Langford Lane. This bus can also be caught outside Debenhams in the city centre. When you get there follow the banners.
By road: from London - M40 motorway from London, taking exit 9 onto A34
towards Kidlington. Join A44 northbound towards Woodstock. Turn right
for Oxford Airport and right again for Campsfield House.
From Oxford - leave the ring road for the A44. Turn right for Oxford Airport
and right again for Campsfield.
Contacts
Email [email protected]
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