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No Talking in Class

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A talk and discussion about class in today's Aotearoa, and launch of the Freedom Shop's new pamphlet 'Class War in the 21st Century'. 6pm, Wednesday, August 23rd The Freedom Shop/Book Haven 160 Riddiford Street Newtown Whanganui-a-Tara Class was the issue that originally defined 'the left', but the left doesn't talk much about class these days, sometimes addressing class issues using euphemisms, sometimes avoiding it all together. Sam Buchanan, author of the new pamphlet, will talk about how class manifests itself today, and how domination of the left by the Professional-Managerial Class has led to class issues being ignored and other progress being hindered. Snacks and drinks. Grumpiness welcome. No throwing things.

Book Launch: Splendid Bush

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The Freedom Shop and Book Haven invite you to the launch of Splendid Bush by Clare Havell-Shufflebotham. Splendid Bush is a queer reckoning with love, its warpath, motherhood and ghosts (of capital, of violence, of sweet lemon trees). Part protection spell, part map of self-dissolution, this collection is an ode to hookgrass and an offering of dirt. The works are at times ruthless, at times tender nano-essays on the rebound, queer haunting, the parties you should have left, and all that you want to stay. This is not a break up album, although the greatest hits do make an appearance. Rather, it takes the wounds that motherhood lays bare, and produces queer nature magic as antidote and as mirror. Written in the crucible that is suburbia with young children, Splendid Bush questions the spaces between ourselves and ‘nature’, macho colonial bodies, violent bodies of the state, and our own. Above all, it is about the power of Bush. Havell-Shufflebotham arrived home to Aotearoa not long bef

Radical Zine Series - Volume 2 Launch

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 The Radical Zine Launch is on today - MayDay - Saturday 1st May at the Freedom Shop Doors open 5.30 - launch proper starts 6.30pm This is the launch of our second volume of newly designed radical zines - available to purchase at cost-price. (All between $2 - $4!!) Free kai and drinks. Open to all. This event happens to fall on the same date as the Freedom Shop's 26th Birthday! So you're welcome to stay for a drink with us after the launch. NEW TITLES INCLUDE: ' The Terror of the Dawn Raids ' by Melani Anae, re-designed by Darcy Woods. ' Burning Women ' by Lady Stardust, re-designed by Cosmo Bones. ' Eternal War on the Hitler Youth ', re-designed by Zoe Hannay. ' Dare to be a Daniel! ' by Wilf McCartney, re-designed by Hannah Salmon. You'll also be able to pick up the latest edition of aargh! and remaining copies from our Volume 1 collection or Radical Zines, which includes the titles: Rongoā: Māori Herbal Medicine , The Problem with White

Radical Zine Series Vol 2

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    Come long to the launch of  Volume 2 of our "Radical Zine Series" on 1 May 2021 - radical political texts, newly illustrated by local artists, made in collaboration with Wellington Zinefest,   Radical Zine Series is a kaupapa which invites local creatives to redesign radical zines from the Freedom Shop collection. The project aims to both provide paid work for artists and make the important ideas contained within the zines more accessible through design. Free kai and drinks. Open to all. This event happens to fall on the same date as the Freedom Shop's 26th Birthday! So you're welcome to stay for a drink with us after the launch. NEW TITLES INCLUDE: 'The Terror of the Dawn Raids' by Melani Anae, re-designed by Darcy Woods. 'Burning Women' by Lady Stardust, re-designed by Cosmo Bones. 'Eternal War on the Hitler Youth', re-designed by Zoe Hannay. 'Dare to be a Daniel!' by Wilf McCartney, re-designed by Hannah Salmon.   Saturday, 1

Radical Zine Series Vol 2

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    Come long to the launch of  Volume 2 of our "Radical Zine Series" on 1 May 2021 - radical political texts, newly illustrated by local artists, made in collaboration with Wellington Zinefest,   Radical Zine Series is a kaupapa which invites local creatives to redesign radical zines from the Freedom Shop collection. The project aims to both provide paid work for artists and make the important ideas contained within the zines more accessible through design. Free kai and drinks. Open to all. This event happens to fall on the same date as the Freedom Shop's 26th Birthday! So you're welcome to stay for a drink with us after the launch. NEW TITLES INCLUDE: 'The Terror of the Dawn Raids' by Melani Anae, re-designed by Darcy Woods. 'Burning Women' by Lady Stardust, re-designed by Cosmo Bones. 'Eternal War on the Hitler Youth', re-designed by Zoe Hannay. 'Dare to be a Daniel!' by Wilf McCartney, re-designed by Hannah Salmon.   Saturday

Radical Zine Series - Volume 1 Launch

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Help celebrate and launch the first four Radical Zines re-designed and re-purposed in a collaboration between Wellington Zinefest and the Freedom Shop. When: Thursday, 10 December at 6pm Where: at the Freedom Shop - in Opportunities for Animals, 162 Riddiford St, Newtown We selected classic zines from our archives for a creative reimagining. With the help of donors from a Boosted campaign, four local illustrators were commissioned to reimagine these relatively simple, text-heavy zines into fully illustrated beautiful works! The radical zine redesign project has helped make the important ideas within these zines even more accessible. We'll be selling the redesigned texts and cheaply as possible so that we can share their learnings with as many people as possible. The four zines are: Are We All New Zealanders Now? by Dr Ani Mikaere, redesigned by Izzy Joy "The Problem With White Saviours" by Simone Kaho, redesigned by Kata Brown Rongoā by Emily Tuhi-Ao Bailey, redesigne

'Letters From Lockdown' book launch

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We're excited to be hosting the launch of People Against Prisons' 'Letters From Lockdown', a collection of letters written by prisoners who have experienced solitary confinement in Aotearoa. We'd love to see you at the launch, 6pm on Wednesday, November 7 at the Freedom Shop.

'Letters From Lockdown' book launch

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We're excited to be hosting the launch of People Against Prisons' 'Letters From Lockdown', a collection of letters written by prisoners who have experienced solitary confinement in Aotearoa. We'd love to see you at the launch, 6pm on Wednesday, November 7 at the Freedom Shop.

Book launch - Sewing Freedom: a new book on early NZ anarchism

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Sewing Freedom , by Jared Davidson, is the first in-depth study of anarchism in New Zealand during the turbulent years of the early 20th century—a time of wildcat strikes, industrial warfare and a radical working class counter-culture. Interweaving biography, cultural history and an array of archival sources, this engaging account unravels the anarchist-cum-bomber stereotype by piecing together the life of Philip Josephs—a Latvian-born Jewish tailor, anti-militarist and founder of the Wellington Freedom Group. Anarchists like Josephs not only existed in the ‘Workingman’s Paradise’ that was New Zealand, but were a lively part of its labour movement and the class struggle that swept through the country, imparting uncredited influence and ideas. Sewing Freedom places this neglected movement within the global anarchist upsurge, and unearths the colourful activities of New Zealand’s most radical advocates for social and economic change. More information on the book, a sampler, and revie

Book launch - Sewing Freedom: a new book on early NZ anarchism

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Sewing Freedom , by Jared Davidson, is the first in-depth study of anarchism in New Zealand during the turbulent years of the early 20th century—a time of wildcat strikes, industrial warfare and a radical working class counter-culture. Interweaving biography, cultural history and an array of archival sources, this engaging account unravels the anarchist-cum-bomber stereotype by piecing together the life of Philip Josephs—a Latvian-born Jewish tailor, anti-militarist and founder of the Wellington Freedom Group. Anarchists like Josephs not only existed in the ‘Workingman’s Paradise’ that was New Zealand, but were a lively part of its labour movement and the class struggle that swept through the country, imparting uncredited influence and ideas. Sewing Freedom places this neglected movement within the global anarchist upsurge, and unearths the colourful activities of New Zealand’s most radical advocates for social and economic change. More information on the book, a sampler,