The Freedom Shop Aotearoa

At the Freedom Shop we now have in stock many more Huia publications and Tina Ngata's 'Kia Mau':

At the Freedom Shop we now have in stock many more Huia publications and Tina Ngata's 'Kia Mau':

... among them Antifa - The Anti-Fascist Handbook by Mark Bray Fascism Today - What It Is and How to End It by Shane Burley   The Instinct for Cooperation - A Graphic Novel Conversation with Noam Chomsky  As well as a classic: Mutual Aid - A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin And lots more!

... among them Antifa - The Anti-Fascist Handbook by Mark Bray Fascism Today - What It Is and How to End It by Shane Burley   The Instinct for Cooperation - A Graphic Novel Conversation with Noam Chomsky  As well as a classic: Mutual Aid - A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin And lots more!

We received a new order of books at the Freedom Shop towards the end of last year, and of course, we still have some old favourites. Some of the titles include: To Dare Imagining, Rojava Revolution by Dilar Dirik (Editor); David Levi Strauss (Editor); Michael Taussig (Editor); Peter Lamborn Wilson (Editor) Struggles for Autonomy in Kurdistan by Eliza Egret (Author); Tom Anderson (Author) Undoing Border Imperialism by Harsha Walia (Author); Andrea Smith (Introduction) Rad Girls Can, Stories of Bold, Brave, and Brilliant Young Women by Kate Schatz (Author); Miriam Klein Stahl (Illustrator) The Antifa Comic Book, 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements byGord Hill (Author); Mark Bray (Foreword) The Post-Snowden Era by Kathleen Kuehn Fair Borders? by David Hall (Editor) The Quiet War on Asylum by Tracey Barnett Doing Our Bit by Murdoch Stephens The Stolen Island: Searching for ‘Ata by Scott Hamilton

We received a new order of books at the Freedom Shop towards the end of last year, and of course, we still have some old favourites. Some of the titles include: To Dare Imagining, Rojava Revolution by Dilar Dirik (Editor); David Levi Strauss (Editor); Michael Taussig (Editor); Peter Lamborn Wilson (Editor) Struggles for Autonomy in Kurdistan by Eliza Egret (Author); Tom Anderson (Author) Undoing Border Imperialism by Harsha Walia (Author); Andrea Smith (Introduction) Rad Girls Can, Stories of Bold, Brave, and Brilliant Young Women by Kate Schatz (Author); Miriam Klein Stahl (Illustrator) The Antifa Comic Book, 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements byGord Hill (Author); Mark Bray (Foreword) The Post-Snowden Era by Kathleen Kuehn Fair Borders? by David Hall (Editor) The Quiet War on Asylum by Tracey Barnett Doing Our Bit by Murdoch Stephens The Stolen Island: Searching for ‘Ata by Scott Hamilton

We’ve just received a shipment of books from Huia Publishers, at special mid-year summer holiday prices. Here’s a small selection: The Struggle for Māori Fishing Rights: Te Ika a Māori By Brian Bargh This book claims that four pou or elements significantly assisted in the recognition and eventual recovery of Māori fishing rights: The Treaty of Waitangi; the courts; The Waitangi Tribunal and the resilience and tenacity of Māori people, who never gave up fighting for what was right. $20 Polynesian Panthers: Pacific Protest and Affirmative Action in Aotearoa NZ 1971-1981 By Melani Anae, Leilani Tamu, Lautofa Iuli The Panthers organised prison visit programmes and sporting and debating teams for inmates; provided a halfway-house service for young men released from prison; ran homework centres; and offered ‘people’s loans’, legal aid and food banks that catered for 600 families at their height. $15 Māori and the Environment: Kaitiaki By Rachael Selby, Pātaka Moore, Malcolm Mulholland This c

We’ve just received a shipment of books from Huia Publishers, at special mid-year summer holiday prices. Here’s a small selection: The Struggle for Māori Fishing Rights: Te Ika a Māori By Brian Bargh This book claims that four pou or elements significantly assisted in the recognition and eventual recovery of Māori fishing rights: The Treaty of Waitangi; the courts; The Waitangi Tribunal and the resilience and tenacity of Māori people, who never gave up fighting for what was right. $20 Polynesian Panthers: Pacific Protest and Affirmative Action in Aotearoa NZ 1971-1981 By Melani Anae, Leilani Tamu, Lautofa Iuli The Panthers organised prison visit programmes and sporting and debating teams for inmates; provided a halfway-house service for young men released from prison; ran homework centres; and offered ‘people’s loans’, legal aid and food banks that catered for 600 families at their height. $15 Māori and the Environment: Kaitiaki By Rachael Selby, Pātaka Moore, Malcolm Mulholland This

The Trigger, Tim Butcher (London, 2014) A book review by Barrie Sargeant, published in Aargh #4 2014 was the centenary of the outbreak of World War 1. In New Zealand “World War I” means Gallipoli and the Western Front. That’s where most of the ANZACs spent their time so that has become the area of interest in this part of the world. It’s understandable that this has happened but it means other aspects of the war are less known or understood. For example, how did it start?  According to Baldrick in Blackadder “ I heard that it started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich ‘cause he was hungry ”. Nice try, but a bit wrong. The truth is, the assassin was a man called Gavrilo Princip, part of a group of Bosnian nationalists who shot Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand of Austro-Hungary when visiting his empire’s outpost in Sarajevo. With millions of people across whole continents having died or been wounded, very little attention has been paid to Princip as an individual. Who was he and w

The Trigger, Tim Butcher (London, 2014) A book review by Barrie Sargeant, published in Aargh #4 2014 was the centenary of the outbreak of World War 1. In New Zealand “World War I” means Gallipoli and the Western Front. That’s where most of the ANZACs spent their time so that has become the area of interest in this part of the world. It’s understandable that this has happened but it means other aspects of the war are less known or understood. For example, how did it start?  According to Baldrick in Blackadder “ I heard that it started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich ‘cause he was hungry ”. Nice try, but a bit wrong. The truth is, the assassin was a man called Gavrilo Princip, part of a group of Bosnian nationalists who shot Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand of Austro-Hungary when visiting his empire’s outpost in Sarajevo. With millions of people across whole continents having died or been wounded, very little attention has been paid to Princip as an individual. Who was he and w

On Tuesday evening, April 4th, Jake Conroy spoke at Tory St in Wellington. Jake describes himself as 'a scrawny white American vegan who got sentenced to time in a US prison'. About 40 people attended his talk 'From Activist to Terrorist'. He left us with three key messages: Think about prisons and prisoners, the lives people are forced to live there - the spaces they are forced to inhabit. One simple thing to do is write letters to people inside.  Don't be scared of the threat of state repression. Do fight-back. Figure out what you can do and find like-minded people and strategise how to bring about liberation. At the Freedom Shop we have a range of books written by people inside or those involved in prison abolition and penal politics, including: Abolitionist Demands: Toward the End of Prisons in Aotearoa by No Pride in Prison Outrage: An Anarchist Memoir of a Penal Colony  by Clément Duval Hauling Up the Morning: Writings and Art by political prisoners and pri