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David Graeber

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2020 has been full of death and grief, and one more person has died. In the first week of September, David Graeber, anarchist, author, activist, anthropologist and historian, died suddenly.  Graeber's books included: Bullshit Jobs: A Theory , which first started off as an article in Strike! Magazine , Debt: The First 5000 Years , and Direct Action: An Ethnography , plus The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy . He was also one of the editors of Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations, Collective Transformation . Just one quick online search reveals so many journals and articles by Graeber, inlcuding in Rolling Thunder The Shock of Victory: An Analysis of Our Unclaimed Triumphs - there are also books due to be published later this year, including one co-written with his partner ' What are Kings '.    “Debt is the most efficient means ever created to take relations that are fundamentally based on violence and violent inequ

David Graeber

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2020 has been full of death and grief, and one more person has died. In the first week of September, David Graeber, anarchist, author, activist, anthropologist and historian, died suddenly.  Graeber's books included: Bullshit Jobs: A Theory , which first started off as an article in Strike! Magazine , Debt: The First 5000 Years , and Direct Action: An Ethnography , plus The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy . He was also one of the editors of Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations, Collective Transformation . Just one quick online search reveals so many journals and articles by Graeber, inlcuding in Rolling Thunder The Shock of Victory: An Analysis of Our Unclaimed Triumphs - there are also books due to be published later this year, including one co-written with his partner ' What are Kings '.    “Debt is the most efficient means ever created to take relations that are fundamentally based on violence and violent ineq

Cinema Golondrina presents: Soy Cuba

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The Choclo Collective, a group of Latin American artists, film makers and other creative people, will be hosting a series of film and discussion evenings named Cinema Golondrina . There will also be art work on display and the Freedom Shop will have a stall.   The first film is “Soy Cuba” (I am Cuba), which is described as “a whirling, feverish dance through both the sensuous decadence of Batista's Havana and the grinding poverty and oppression of the Cuban people”. You can watch the trailer here . Sunday, 6 September, 5pm at the Newtown Community Centre, Rintoul St.   This will be followed by two more films at the same time and location: 13 September: The Hour of Furnaces (Argentina 1966-1968) 20 September: When Two Worlds Collide (Peru 2006-2011)

Cinema Golondrina presents: Soy Cuba

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The Choclo Collective, a group of Latin American artists, film makers and other creative people, will be hosting a series of film and discussion evenings named Cinema Golondrina . There will also be art work on display and the Freedom Shop will have a stall.   The first film is “Soy Cuba” (I am Cuba), which is described as “a whirling, feverish dance through both the sensuous decadence of Batista's Havana and the grinding poverty and oppression of the Cuban people”. You can watch the trailer here . Sunday, 6 September, 5pm at the Newtown Community Centre, Rintoul St.   This will be followed by two more films at the same time and location: 13 September: The Hour of Furnaces (Argentina 1966-1968) 20 September: When Two Worlds Collide (Peru 2006-2011)

New books have arrived

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Our latest book order has arrived. Apart from a view classics like Franz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth and texts that are relevant to the BLM movement, we also have more from local publishers Bridget Williams Books and Little Island Press . Here are a few titles.     

New books have arrived

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Our latest book order has arrived. Apart from a view classics like Franz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth and texts that are relevant to the BLM movement, we also have more from local publishers Bridget Williams Books and Little Island Press . Here are a few titles.     

Radical Zine Redesign

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Zinefest and the Freedom Shop have teamed up to redesign a few of our zines. We are looking for designers, artists and illustrators to spruce up some text-heavy zines. And the best thing is that this work is even funded.  Check out the details of the project here .