Events happening in May, open to everyone, and all Free!

Sat 14 11am – 4pm: Plant Sale organised by the people who put on Seedy Sunday. Get yourself some outlawed, unusual and heritage vegetables for your garden. www.seedysunday.org

Mon 16 6.30-8pm Radical Film Festival Night: ‘We Interrupt This Empire’ The San Francisco Video Activist Network presents the story you wouldn’t have seen on Fox News documenting the direct actions that shut down the financial district of San Francisco in the weeks following the United States' invasion of Iraq. The film also criticises the corporate media coverage of the war and explores issues like the Military Industrial Complex, attacks on civil liberties, and the United States' current imperialist drive. www.videoactivism.org
Followed by talk by campaigners who are trying to shut down Brighton’s local arms dealers EDO www.smashedo.bpec.org

Wed 18 6.30-8pm Radical Film Festival Night: ‘The Take’ In the wake of Argentina’s spectacular economic collapse in 2001, the country is a ghost town of abandoned factories and mass unemployment. In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed car workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. Producers Avi Lewis (Counterspin) and renowned author Naomi Klein (No Logo) take viewers inside the lives of ordinary people as they work together, cooperatively and democratically, towards common goals. A film to stick two fingers up to those who say, ‘OK, so capitalism and globalisation might not be great, but what’s your alternative?’

Thur 19 6.30-8pm: Queenspark Books Radical Readings. For thirty years Queenspark have published the unheard stories of the people and places of Brighton and Hove, from first-person accounts of lives lived during the Second World War, to biographies of local luminaries such as Harry Cowley, and accounts of the Indian soldiers who became patients in the Pavilion Hospital! John Riches will give readings from a selection of the books. Visit www.queensparkbooks.org.uk


Sat 21 11am-4pm: Brighton Anarchist Bookfair. Dodgy literature, T-shirts, badges etc. from the Cowley Clubs own bookshop and Active Distribution www.activedistribution.org and others. 4pm: workshop by Isy who does ‘Morgenmuffel’ zine - ‘Introduction to the wonderful world of zines, including how to do your own...’

Sun 22 6-8pm: Jo Wilding is a human rights activist and trainee lawyer who spent several months in Iraq before, during and after the invasion and will discuss the occupation, internationalism, solidarity and what you can do. www.wildfirejo.blogspot.com

Mon 23 6.30-8pm Radical Film Festival Night: ‘The 43 Group.’ After the Second World War militant Jewish ex-servicemen helped defeat Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists by literally kicking them off the streets.

Wed 25 6.30-8pm Radical Film Festival Night: Battle of the Beanfield 20th anniversary event showing of 'Operation Solstice', the acclaimed 1991 documentary. Followed by a talk about the legacy of the Beanfield by Andy Worthington, author of 'Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion', described by SchNEWS as 'the best bit of Modern British social history we’ve seen'. www.hoap.co.uk/alternative.htm


Sat 28 Anti-G8 Day School - 11am onwards