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We are hosting a film screening and discussion evening on Friday, 21 June at the People’s Cinema. On June 13, parliament passed the Immigration Amendment Bill into law - just in time for World Refugee Day on June 20. The new law allows the mass detention of groups of asylum seekers, should they ever manage to arrive in here. The changes bring New Zealand in line with Australia’s much condemned mandatory offshore detention regime. On top of that, earlier this year John Key signed an agreement with Julia Gillard to take 150 asylum seekers off Australia, further reducing New Zealand’s already small annual quota of 750 UN refugees and making New Zealand complicit in Australia’s human rights violations. In order to show what mass detention looks like, we will screen the documentary “No Advantage: Inside Australia’s Offshore Processing Centres”, which exposes the conditions inside the detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island. When: Friday, June 21, 2013, 6:30pm Where: People’s Cinema, 57

We are hosting a film screening and discussion evening on Friday, 21 June at the People’s Cinema. On June 13, parliament passed the Immigration Amendment Bill into law - just in time for World Refugee Day on June 20. The new law allows the mass detention of groups of asylum seekers, should they ever manage to arrive in here. The changes bring New Zealand in line with Australia’s much condemned mandatory offshore detention regime. On top of that, earlier this year John Key signed an agreement with Julia Gillard to take 150 asylum seekers off Australia, further reducing New Zealand’s already small annual quota of 750 UN refugees and making New Zealand complicit in Australia’s human rights violations. In order to show what mass detention looks like, we will screen the documentary “No Advantage: Inside Australia’s Offshore Processing Centres”, which exposes the conditions inside the detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island. When: Friday, June 21, 2013, 6:30pm Where: People’s Cinema, 57

Sewing Freedom , by Jared Davidson, is the first in-depth study of anarchism in New Zealand during the turbulent years of the early 20th century—a time of wildcat strikes, industrial warfare and a radical working class counter-culture. Interweaving biography, cultural history and an array of archival sources, this engaging account unravels the anarchist-cum-bomber stereotype by piecing together the life of Philip Josephs—a Latvian-born Jewish tailor, anti-militarist and founder of the Wellington Freedom Group. Anarchists like Josephs not only existed in the ‘Workingman’s Paradise’ that was New Zealand, but were a lively part of its labour movement and the class struggle that swept through the country, imparting uncredited influence and ideas. Sewing Freedom places this neglected movement within the global anarchist upsurge, and unearths the colourful activities of New Zealand’s most radical advocates for social and economic change. More information on the book, a sampler, and revie

Sewing Freedom , by Jared Davidson, is the first in-depth study of anarchism in New Zealand during the turbulent years of the early 20th century—a time of wildcat strikes, industrial warfare and a radical working class counter-culture. Interweaving biography, cultural history and an array of archival sources, this engaging account unravels the anarchist-cum-bomber stereotype by piecing together the life of Philip Josephs—a Latvian-born Jewish tailor, anti-militarist and founder of the Wellington Freedom Group. Anarchists like Josephs not only existed in the ‘Workingman’s Paradise’ that was New Zealand, but were a lively part of its labour movement and the class struggle that swept through the country, imparting uncredited influence and ideas. Sewing Freedom places this neglected movement within the global anarchist upsurge, and unearths the colourful activities of New Zealand’s most radical advocates for social and economic change. More information on the book, a sampler,

We have new stock in the Shop, including: Hawaii 1778--1958, From Western Discovery to Statehood - J. Gerlach The Right to be Lazy. Paul LaFargue (Author) Quiet Rumours: An Anarcha-Feminist Reader, New Edition - Dark Star Collective Disassembly Required: A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism - Geoff Mann Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire - C. B. Daring A Poetics of Resistance, The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency - Jeff Conant (Author) Arab Spring, Libyan Winter - Vijay Prashad Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle - Maia Ramnath The Congo: A European Invention - J. Gerlach Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction - Margaret Killjoy (Editor) Partisanas: Women in the Armed Resistance to Fascism and German Occupation (1936--1945) - Ingrid Strobl Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America (2nd edition) - Ward Churchill Ey

We have new stock in the Shop, including: Hawaii 1778--1958, From Western Discovery to Statehood - J. Gerlach The Right to be Lazy. Paul LaFargue (Author) Quiet Rumours: An Anarcha-Feminist Reader, New Edition - Dark Star Collective Disassembly Required: A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism - Geoff Mann Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire - C. B. Daring A Poetics of Resistance, The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency - Jeff Conant (Author) Arab Spring, Libyan Winter - Vijay Prashad Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle - Maia Ramnath The Congo: A European Invention - J. Gerlach Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction - Margaret Killjoy (Editor) Partisanas: Women in the Armed Resistance to Fascism and German Occupation (1936--1945) - Ingrid Strobl Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America (2nd edition) - Ward Churchill Ey

We are contemplating a new order of books and zines, if you have a title you think we should stock - flick us an email at the_freedom_shop@yahoo.com