The Freedom Shop Aotearoa

No one knows what 2022 will bring, but for us it starts off with some new books from our comrades at AK Press. Here are some of the titles: Patriarchy of the wage . Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism by Silvia Federici         Border and Rule . Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia                    From Urbanization to Cities . The Politics of Democratic Municipalism by Murray Bookchin Wretched Of The Earth by Frantz Fanon. This classic handbook of revolutionary practice and social reorganization A Life for Anarchy - A Stuart Christie Reader, edited by the Kate Sharpley Library

If you've read aargh issue 13, you would have seen our interview with members of the Choclo collective, a group of Latin American political artists in Te Whanganui-A-Tara. Some of them have started a new project called Here & Out . It features the art of internationally renowned female street artists Gina Kiel, Xoë Hall, Miriama Grace-Smith, Janine Williams, Fluro (from New Zealand), Caratoes (Belgium/Hong Kong), Paula Tikay (Chile), Meki (Perú) and Gleo (Colombia) and will be part of Cuba Dupa 2022 - so keep an eye out!

Disrupt the “ imperialist-white-supremacist-capitalist-patriarchy ” power structure was what bell hooks said was needed, and that is what she did. She died this week but her words, her books, and her writings will continue to be part of the tools used to disrupt and dismantle. We need to keep reading and listening to those words, and discussing them - they are powerful. At the Freedom Shop we have two zines with bell hooks' writing: one is ' Understanding Patriarchy ' and the other is an anthology we created ourselves: " bell hooks - a sample of writings by bell hooks to entice... ' We put together the anthology several years ago to try and ensure more people become keen to sample bell hooks' writings. The zine includes three articles: ' Teaching to Transgress: Paulo Freire ', ' Killing Rage: Militant Resistance ' and ' Feminist Class Struggle '. Killing Rage opens with the wonderful sentence, ' I am writing this essay sitting besid

The impact of punk on the lives of local activists is examined in a new pamphlet recently released by the Freedom Shop: Dumb Enough to Actually Try It: How Punk Rock Can Make You a Better Manager by Sam Buchanan. Part history, part self-help guide for aspiring managers, the essay sets out how punk developed an economic structure and organising methodology. This not only sustains it, but has given many people skills which have proved effective well beyond the punk movement. Punks have taken these skills into many areas, both expected and unexpected. Several local punks are quoted in the essay, including Kate Pussycat who went on to establish fundraising opshops and a rural animal sanctuary. “ Years of being broke living on the dole and loving opshopping prompted me to set up an opshop in Wellington as a way to fundraise for animal rights work. It was wildly successful! So then we got ambitious and borrowed money from anyone we knew who had anything to lend and bought 26 acres of land t

The impact of punk on the lives of local activists is examined in a new pamphlet recently released by the Freedom Shop: Dumb Enough to Actually Try It: How Punk Rock Can Make You a Better Manager by Sam Buchanan. Part history, part self-help guide for aspiring managers, the essay sets out how punk developed an economic structure and organising methodology. This not only sustains it, but has given many people skills which have proved effective well beyond the punk movement. Punks have taken these skills into many areas, both expected and unexpected. Several local punks are quoted in the essay, including Kate Pussycat who went on to establish fundraising opshops and a rural animal sanctuary. “ Years of being broke living on the dole and loving opshopping prompted me to set up an opshop in Wellington as a way to fundraise for animal rights work. It was wildly successful! So then we got ambitious and borrowed money from anyone we knew who had anything to lend and bought 26 acres of land t