The Freedom Shop Aotearoa

CANCELLED CANCELLED Attend instead the 'Right to Protest' meeting same day - 6pm at Two/Fiftyseven   115 Taranaki St, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand  7pm Tuesday 25th February  There's a lot of talk about mining at the moment, so the Freedom Shop thought it's time to show 'The Coconut Revolution' again. This is the story of an eco-revolution: the struggle and win against mining and victory over Western colonial power. When multi-national mining first went to Bougainville in the 1960s, locals were told that the mine would bring development. They soon realised that this was not true. In 1988 people of Bougainville rose up in arms against giant mining corporation Rio Tinto Zinc - and forcibly closed down the mine. The Papua New Guinea Army were mobilized to put down the rebellion and the newly formed Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) fought back - at first with bows & arrows and sticks & stones, and managed to retain control of most of their islan...

  Terrific tangle of 'Toitū Te Tiriti'  shi rts and totes at the shop, along with stickers and badges.

  Chat about Prison and Police Abolition 13 January - 6pm at Whatever palace, 113 Taranaki Street. Want to exchange perspectives on prison and policing from different sides of the hemisphere?  Organizers, activists, and all interested people are invited to talk about the current state of prison and policing in their contexts focusing on how activists organize solidarity and resistance.  The aim is to learn from each other for the shared goal of a world without cages and care instead of cops.

So you’ve done your submission on the Treaty Principles Bill (TPB) and you’re feeling a little bit proud because you’ve done your bit? Sorry, but there’s bad news. It turns out the Treaty Principles Bill was just a bone that the government threw at us to keep us busy. The bill is probably never going to become law anyway. The bill that will become law (because all coalition parties support it) is the Regulatory Standards Bill (RSB) – and it is probably even more fundamental than the Treaty Principles one. While the TPB attempts to redefine what the Te Tiriti means, the RSB essentially says that Te Tiriti doesn’t matter anyway. The RSB is not at the committee stage (like the TPB), it is in the consultation phase, which means there is no actual wording of it yet. But there is a draft paper, and feedback on that paper closes on 13 January. After it is drafted it will then go through the Select Committee process (unless it is passed under urgency, which this government has done over 100 t...

Get your submissions against David Seymour's darned Treaty Principles Bill in! The deadline is 7 Jan 11:59pm - that's this coming Tuesday! Post your submissions here . For reference, below is the Freedom Shop's own submission: THE Freedom Shop Collective is a small, Poneke-based collective, now approaching its 30th year of existence, so has outlived seven New Zealand governments. Our primary project has been the successful operation of a non-profit political bookshop which encourages the disestablishment of capitalism and the state. Often dubbed ‘OG activists’ by youngsters, the collective is well-known and respected amongst Poneke’s alternative political and countercultural milieus. We oppose the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill, considering the introduction of this bill to be solely based on the need of the author to fulfil an adolescent ideological obsession, and recommend the entire thing be dumped ASAP While we see this bill as dead in the water, it has the un...