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New Tee-shirts at the FreedomShop

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We've got new tee-shirts  at the Shop  - including  Riots Not Diets,  Migration is Not a Crime,  and John Key

New Tee-shirts at the FreedomShop

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We've got new tee-shirts  at the Shop  - including  Riots Not Diets,  Migration is Not a Crime,  and John Key

aargh! issue 7 is out

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The latest aargh! is available in the Shop - the theme this time is What is anarchism and how do we get there.  The issue opens with a letter written in 1934 by American anarchist Lucy Parsons. It’s a bleak letter - Lucy writes ‘ Anarchism is a dead issue in American life today. Radicalism has been blotted off the map of Europe. … Radicalism is at a low ebb today. We are living in strange times. Despotism is on horseback, riding at high speed. The worker is helpless; he has no voice in his mode or method of life – he just floats along on the tides of ill times. ’ Most of the articles in this edition of aargh! are also bleak, but it is worthwhile remembering that just two years after Lucy wrote in her letter that 'radicalism has been blotted off the map of Europe', revolution burgeoned in Spain. So read this issue and ponder - what is lying around the corner for us? Come to the Shop to get your copy, or if you're not in Wellington, get in contact with us via email or normal

aargh! issue 7 is out

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The latest aargh! is available in the Shop - the theme this time is What is anarchism and how do we get there.  The issue opens with a letter written in 1934 by American anarchist Lucy Parsons. It’s a bleak letter - Lucy writes ‘ Anarchism is a dead issue in American life today. Radicalism has been blotted off the map of Europe. … Radicalism is at a low ebb today. We are living in strange times. Despotism is on horseback, riding at high speed. The worker is helpless; he has no voice in his mode or method of life – he just floats along on the tides of ill times. ’ Most of the articles in this edition of aargh! are also bleak, but it is worthwhile remembering that just two years after Lucy wrote in her letter that 'radicalism has been blotted off the map of Europe', revolution burgeoned in Spain. So read this issue and ponder - what is lying around the corner for us? Come to the Shop to get your copy, or if you're not in Wellington, get in contact with us via email or normal

Wars Without End – the land wars in nineteenth century New Zealand by Danny Keenan

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The following is a book review that originally appeared in issue 6 of aargh! (available online here ) A wonderful ease Wars Without End – the land wars in nineteenth century New Zealand by Danny Keenan -  Penguin 2009 Reviewed by Peppertree BY CHOOSING the title Wars Without End , Danny Keenan puts an important conclusion of his book on the land wars right up front. While the gun fighting mainly took place between 1843 and 1872, the battle over land has continued endlessly in the courts, in parliament and in tribunal hearings. In the age of neoliberalism, the armed force have been replaced by hordes of property developers who continue to dispossess people of a place to live. Every chapter of the very detailed book clearly shows how utterly incompatible the British concept of individual property titles and the collective ownership model of Māori society are. The British system with its clearly defined, surveyed and permanently owned plots was imposed on a society where land had always b

Wars Without End – the land wars in nineteenth century New Zealand by Danny Keenan

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The following is a book review that originally appeared in issue 6 of aargh! (available online here ) A wonderful ease Wars Without End – the land wars in nineteenth century New Zealand by Danny Keenan -  Penguin 2009 Reviewed by Peppertree BY CHOOSING the title Wars Without End , Danny Keenan puts an important conclusion of his book on the land wars right up front. While the gun fighting mainly took place between 1843 and 1872, the battle over land has continued endlessly in the courts, in parliament and in tribunal hearings. In the age of neoliberalism, the armed force have been replaced by hordes of property developers who continue to dispossess people of a place to live. Every chapter of the very detailed book clearly shows how utterly incompatible the British concept of individual property titles and the collective ownership model of Māori society are. The British system with its clearly defined, surveyed and permanently owned plots was imposed on a society where land had always b

Bookstall at the Counterfutures Conference at Vic Uni

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The Freedom Shop will be having a stall at the  Counterfutures : Left Thought and Practice Aotearoa gathering  Thursday and Friday, 1 & 2 Sept. We'll be setting up the stall midday Thursday - so if you are on campus, come along on check it out. Some of the books we will be selling include:    We also have numerous pamphlets and zines by a range of authors including: Michael Albert, Bakunin, Alexander Berkman, Boff, Murray Bookchin, Toby Boraman, Willamette Brown, Noam Chomsky, Voltairine de Cleyre, Sam Dolgoff, Leslie Feinberg, Kropotkin, Malatesta, Lucy Parsons, Rudolf Rocker & many more.  Have a look at our catalogue here: 2016 Zine Catalogue