The Freedom Shop Aotearoa

Join us at 6pm on Friday 8th March at the Newtown Community & Cultural Centre to hear an eyewitness account of events on the frontline in Syria and Kurdistan. Lachlan Spittles, who fought against ISIS as part of the People's Protection Units ( the YPG ) in Syrian Kurdistan, will be talking about the origins of the revolution in Rojava, the current state of the revolution and what we can do to help from here in Aotearoa. A copy of the poster can be downloaded here: Rojava Public Talk .

Join us at 6pm on Friday 8th March at the Newtown Community & Cultural Centre to hear an eyewitness account of events on the frontline in Syria and Kurdistan. Lachlan Spittles, who fought against ISIS as part of the People's Protection Units ( the YPG ) in Syrian Kurdistan, will be talking about the origins of the revolution in Rojava, the current state of the revolution and what we can do to help from here in Aotearoa. A copy of the poster can be downloaded here: Rojava Public Talk .

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

In order to support all those of you who have been resisting the onslaught of capitalism in the build-up to the annual celebration of consumerism, but who have succumbed in the very last minute - we will forfeit some of our well-earned holiday time to extend the shop hours: Thursday, 20 Dec: 2-5pm Friday, 21 Dec: 2-5pm Saturday, 22 Dec: 11-4pm Monday, 24 Dec: 2-5pm So make it worthwhile for us and come and buy stuff...