**May Day: The Red in the Green Friday 1 May, 6.30-8.30pm, MayDay Rooms. **

The Red in the Green will mark the 1st of May, International Workers' Day. Celebrating the convergence of worker and environmental organising, the evening will begin with a film screening and discussion (Who bombed Judi Bari?, 2012, 92 mins) and conclude with a collective reading of excerpts from Peter Linebaugh’s pamphlet The incomplete, true, authentic and wonderful history of May Day. There will also be time to explore some of our growing ecological direct-action archival collection.

The incomplete, true, authentic and wonderful history of May Day

As has become customary, we will collectively read excerpts from Peter Linebaugh’s The incomplete, true, authentic and wonderful history of May Day to celebrate the convergence of labour struggles and ecological direct action, with some free copies of the text available on the day.

Read The incomplete, true, authentic and wonderful history of May Day https://maydayrooms.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/peter-linebaugh-the-incomplete-true-authentic-and-wonderful-history-of-may-day.pdf

**Who bombed Judi Bari? (Mary Liz Thomson, 2012) – 92 mins ** In 1990, two prominent Earth First! activists, Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney, were car bombed in Oakland, California. They are then immediately investigated by the FBI for bombing themselves. Who bombed Judi Bari? Follows the subsequent lawsuit against the FBI, the complex history of Earth First!, the loggers and the controversy of tree spiking. Bari worked tirelessly to organise with workers in the logging industry in the American Pacific North West. Lobbying against the controversial tactic of tree spiking (inserting metal into trees to damage the saws of loggers) she aimed instead to unite workers in the extractive industry with environmentalists.

We are very pleased to have Andrew working as the researcher in residence for the next 2 years on the global economy, not global ecology archives. Andrew will lead a discussion on some of the important but often ill-remembered connections and collaborations between workers, union organisers and the ecological movement from our archival holdings.

Workers of the Earth, Unite!