The Freedom Shop Aotearoa

We're ending the year with a film that is less overtly political and a little more entertaining, but not without a moral or two.... 'What to Do in Case of Fire' In 1987, six young Berlin squatters fight street battles with police, smoke a lot of dope and film themselves making a home-made pressure-cooker bomb. The bomb is a dud and soon forgotten. However, 12 years later it goes off - the group have long since disbanded and some of them are a bit more conservative and traditional than they used to be...       Friday, 20 December Doors open: 6pm Film starts: 6.30pm People's Cinema , 57 Manners St, Wellington Watch the trailer here . Original: Was tun, wenn's brennt. 

We're ending the year with a film that is less overtly political and a little more entertaining, but not without a moral or two.... 'What to Do in Case of Fire' In 1987, six young Berlin squatters fight street battles with police, smoke a lot of dope and film themselves making a home-made pressure-cooker bomb. The bomb is a dud and soon forgotten. However, 12 years later it goes off - the group have long since disbanded and some of them are a bit more conservative and traditional than they used to be...       Friday, 20 December Doors open: 6pm Film starts: 6.30pm People's Cinema , 57 Manners St, Wellington Watch the trailer here . Original: Was tun, wenn's brennt. 

We have a new order of both fiction and non-fiction Huia Books in the Shop available at especially low prices. The books include both the M āori and English editions of 'Maumahara ki tērā Nōema' / 'Remember That November ' - a children's book about the story of the invasion of Parihaka on 5th November 1881. As one young reader put it, “ The book was in two halves. One was about a man called Guy (who had) fireworks. He tried to blow up the king and his men… Part 2: The government tried to take the Maori land. The government won, but MAORI came back and WIN IT BACK. ” We have several others books specifically about Taranaki, including ' Ng ā ti Ruanui: A History ', which Huia say is a 'fascinating, at times chilling, and ultimately inspiring' history of the South Taranaki iwi Ng ā ti Ruanui. The central theme of the book is described as ' the unwavering determination of the Ngāti Ruanui tribe to hold onto their land and their autonomy'. We a

We have a new order of both fiction and non-fiction Huia Books in the Shop available at especially low prices. The books include both the M āori and English editions of 'Maumahara ki tērā Nōema' / 'Remember That November ' - a children's book about the story of the invasion of Parihaka on 5th November 1881. As one young reader put it, “ The book was in two halves. One was about a man called Guy (who had) fireworks. He tried to blow up the king and his men… Part 2: The government tried to take the Maori land. The government won, but MAORI came back and WIN IT BACK. ” We have several others books specifically about Taranaki, including ' Ng ā ti Ruanui: A History ', which Huia say is a 'fascinating, at times chilling, and ultimately inspiring' history of the South Taranaki iwi Ng ā ti Ruanui. The central theme of the book is described as ' the unwavering determination of the Ngāti Ruanui tribe to hold onto their land and their autonomy'. We

We have just received two cartons of new books at the Freedom Shop. Included amongst the books is just published ' Undoing Border Imperialism ' by Harsha Waila - a book about migration, state control and state violence. In the book Harsha urges people organsing against border imperialism to be aware of the illegal settlement and appropriation of lands throughout time, the book ends with a discussion on decolonisation. More about ' Undoing Border Imperialism ' can be read here . "What I am trying to say is that working in solidarity with someone does not preclude us from, but rather requires us to, challenge behaviors that are sexist, homophobic, or capitalist. This is based on the recognition of one another as changing individuals. It is through these dialogues and demands for accountability that we aim to work toward a world free of oppression, while struggling for all people to live with dignity and safety." - Alex Mah, Excerpt from Undoing Border Imperia

We have just received two cartons of new books at the Freedom Shop. Included amongst the books is just published ' Undoing Border Imperialism ' by Harsha Waila - a book about migration, state control and state violence. In the book Harsha urges people organsing against border imperialism to be aware of the illegal settlement and appropriation of lands throughout time, the book ends with a discussion on decolonisation. More about ' Undoing Border Imperialism ' can be read here . "What I am trying to say is that working in solidarity with someone does not preclude us from, but rather requires us to, challenge behaviors that are sexist, homophobic, or capitalist. This is based on the recognition of one another as changing individuals. It is through these dialogues and demands for accountability that we aim to work toward a world free of oppression, while struggling for all people to live with dignity and safety." - Alex Mah, Excerpt from Undoing Border I

Film Screening and Discussion on the Bogey of the 'Boat People' People around the world mourned the tragedy of Lampedusa when several hundred people drowned after their boat capsized only a few hundred metres off the coast of the Italian Island. But deaths at sea of people seeking asylum should not be news. Hundreds of people seeking asylum have already drowned in the Mediterranean and hundreds have drowned in the waters between Indonesia and Australia. Just the week before Lampedusa nearly 80 people drowned making the journey to Australia. However, instead of welcoming and assisting refugees, the focus both in Europe and this part of the world is to prevent the arrival of asylum seekers – irrespective of the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees. Australia has a particularly bad record and now has the dubious honour of practising both mandatory detention and mandatory exclusion for all asylum seekers; if the NZ National Government has its way here, we will be following suit and in th