New Books at the Freedom Shop

We have just received our latest order of books from AK Press, including:

         

AARGH issue 9 is online

Issue 9 of the Aotearoa Anarchist Review can be downloaded as a PDF here.

We're working on issue 10, if you have anything for it (articles, graphics, poems, whatever), send it to us at FreedomShopAotearoa@gmail.com.

Freedom Shop: bags, patches & t-shirts

 

Along with the latest aargh! (#9) in the Shop, 

we also have a range of new t-shirts, patches and bags.

2018 Winter ZineFest

The 2018 Winter Zine Market is back:

Saturday 9 June, 12 - 5pm, at Thistle Hall

The FreedomShop will be there - we'll have a range of zines from both this country and overseas, including the latest aargh!, a prison abolition zine,  writings by bell hooks, Noam Chomsky, and many more.

Come and support the Zine Market.

aargh! Issue 9 is out

The latest aargh! (Aotearoa Anarchist Review for Gloomy Hypocrisy) is out and available at the shop for the incredibly low price of $2!

Fifty years ago, in May 1968, protest movements all over the western world erupted, so we're taking a look back as well. We're looking at what happened to the anti-globalisation movement as well as the idea of open publishing. We even go back as far as the ancient Greeks to see what we can learn from them. After three weeks of relative autonomy, the refugees on Manus Island are back in prison. Closer to home we talk about communal living.

Hand-printed anarchist bags & tee-shirts

We'll be at the NEWTOWN FESTIVAL this SUNDAY with a whole lot of NEW STUFF. Freshly printed shirts, singlets and tote bags in a bunch of different colours and sizes. 
Shirts range from $5 to $15, bags are only $8!!!! Most probably the cheapest hand-printed anarchist content in town!!!

Remember Reza Barati - Welcome Refugees

February 17th marks four years since Reza Barati was murdered in detention. Reza was a 23-year-old Iranian refugee seeking asylum but Australian border policy meant he was detained on Manus Island in an Australian run detention centre. On February 17, 2014, he was murdered.

For several weeks in early 2014, asylum seekers detained in the Manus Island Regional Processing Centre had been protesting against their treatment. They said that physical and verbal abuse by security guards (from Australian company G4S) was common place. Tensions rose when on 14 February, the refugees were told of Australia’s new policy to not allow anyone who had arrived by boat to settle in Australia.

On 17 February the camp was attacked and Reza Barati was murdered. An inquiry found he was hit with a piece of timber with a nail sticking out, before he was bashed with a large rock on his head. G4S security guards (who were there to guard the camp) participated in the attack.

On Manus and Nauru, another Australian off-shore detention centre, other asylum seekers have died, and people will continue to die and suffer until refugees are welcomed rather than detained.

The Freedom Shop does have some zines and leaflets about Manus, Nauru and Australia's border policy. We also have books about borders, asylum seekers and refugees and their struggles to seek asylum, including:

Aminullah

More Tales of Migration

Undocumented

The Architecture of Migrant Detention

Violent Borders

Refugees and the Right to Move

Undoing Border Imperialism