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Winter Events in Te Whanganui-A-Tara / Wellington

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It's cold evenings now but there's heaps of events - some online, some in real life - happening in Te Whanganui-A-Tara / Wellington this month. Of particular interest to us are two talks happening at Book Haven / Freedom Shop about street art (Wednesday 10) and Decolonisation (Thursday, 25), but there's lots of others crucial mahi going on around town. Have a read through the events listed below and hope to see you at some.

New Books on the Shelves

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Just in this month is a box of books from Canada. There are a load of new books and also a heap of old favourites. Below are just a sample... We've got Rebecca Solnit, Arundhati Roy, Gord Hill... Stuff on everyone from the groundbreaking Combahee River Collective to Proudhon, Lucy Parsons, Edward Said and Frantz Fanon to Rosa Luxembourg. Silvia Federici favourites are back in stock and a couple more copies of Tintin: Breaking Free, which won't stay on the shelves for long...

Freedom Shop at the Performance Arcade

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For the next 5 days the Freedom Shop will be part of the Pop-Up Books container at the Wellington Performance Arcade 2024 . The container is shared with our host Book Haven , 5ever Books , Left of The Equator and Lawrence & Gibson .   Come and check us out - the event starts a 6pm Wednesday, 21 Feb and runs through to Sunday night.  

New Books at the Freedom Shop

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We have a load of new books out on the shelves in the Freedom Shop. Authors include: Norman Nawrocki, Chomsky, Tina Ngata, Howard Zinn, and Silvia Federici. And some of the books are 'Kia Mau', 'Time For Plan B', 'How to Read Donald Duck', 'Dreams of Anarchy and the Anarchy of Dreams', 'Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States', 'Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times', 'Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Barcelona, 1898-1937', 'Paths to Autonomy' and volumes II & III of 'Subversions' by Anarchist Writers Block in Canada.