RICE N PEAS FILMS

Exhibition: Weapons of Mass Communication: War Posters, posters from around the world.

Price: £7 Until 30 March
Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road SE1,
020 7416 5320

Unreported World - Egypt's Rubbish People, Mon 3rd March, 7.30pm
This startling film exposes a dark side to Egypt that the authorities don't want foreigners to see. Reporter Evan Williams and director James Brabazon went to a Cairo ghetto to film a secretive society of around 40,000 people who literally live in rubbish, overrun by rats and disease.
Followed by Q&A
Price: £5, Location: The Frontline Club 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
+44 (0)20 7479 8950

Lecture: The Revolution at 50: Cuban Revolutionaries Reflect.
Tuesday 4 March 5pm.
Orlando Borrego Diaz, deputy to Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, and Jesus Pastor Garcia Brigos, Institute of Philosophy in Havana and delegate to the Municipal Assembly of People's Power
Free. Location: Institute for the Study of the America, Tavistock Square, WC1. 020 7862 8871

Talk: Iraq - Five years of Occupation, Tue 18th March 7.30
Five years after the invasion and the beginning of the occupation, has the situation in Iraq changed for the better or worse? Our panel discusses the war, the occupation and the political situation in the country as well as the media. With John Fisher Burns (New York Times) and Alastair MacDonald (Reuters).Price: £7 Location: The Frontline Club 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ, +44 (0)20 7479 8950

Film: Black Gold, Sunday 2 March 4pm
Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil.
Location: Phoenix Cinema 52 High Road East Finchley London N2 9PJ
020 8444 6789

The Battle for Haditha, Mon 10th March, 7.30pm
Documentarian Nick Broomfield's third fictional feature is a forensic cinema verité-style account of a real-life massacre in Iraq, when US marines gunned down 24 Iraqi civilians in cold blood.
Followed by Q&A with director Nick Broomfield
Price: £5, Location: The Frontline Club 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
+44 (0)20 7479 8950

Film: Beah: A Black Woman Speaks, Sunday 2 March 4pm
Portrait of African-American actress, poet, teacher, dancer and political activist Beah Richards, followed by a panel discussion.
Location: ICA, The Mall, SW1 £8
+44 (0)20 7930 3647

Exhibition: London, Sugar & Slavery gallery
Visit the only permanent exhibition to examine London’s involvement in transatlantic slavery in a thought-provoking new gallery
Museum in Docklands, No 1 Warehouse, E14.
0870 444 3852/ 0870 444 3851

Meeting: Venezuela under Chavez: dictatorship or model for radical democracy? Monday 3 March 6.45pm
Dr. Julia Buxton discusses the Revolution in Venezuela, and critically explores the agenda, policies and ideology behind it. She will address the ‘dictatorship’ criticisms, and outline how the Chavez government believes that it is crafting a radical model of participatory democracy
Price: £3, Location: The Gallery, Cowcross Street, EC1.
07984 178 193