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Anarchist Bookfair Wrap-up

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The Bookfair has been and gone - and the Freedom Shop gained a lot of new people to add to our list of contacts. We also sold quite a few books and zines plus had some interesting conversations about anarchy and the state - questions and discussions by browsers at the Bookfair were as diverse as prison abolition, how to safely destroy CCTV cameras, what is imperialism and what is colonisation, the pros and cons of electoral politics, and why some people feel they need to get their relationship recognised by the state and marry. It was an interesting and long day! But especially good news for the Freedom Shop is that we not only gained interesting contacts and sold a lot of books, but we also bought some. We ended up buying books from both PM Press and Jura Books so in the Shop now is new exciting stock, including ' How to Make Trouble and Influence People ' - the second edition. The book covers a lot of Australia’s radical past with more than 500 tales of Indigenous resistan

Anarchist Bookfair Wrap-up

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The Bookfair has been and gone - and the Freedom Shop gained a lot of new people to add to our list of contacts. We also sold quite a few books and zines plus had some interesting conversations about anarchy and the state - questions and discussions by browsers at the Bookfair were as diverse as prison abolition, how to safely destroy CCTV cameras, what is imperialism and what is colonisation, the pros and cons of electoral politics, and why some people feel they need to get their relationship recognised by the state and marry. It was an interesting and long day! But especially good news for the Freedom Shop is that we not only gained interesting contacts and sold a lot of books, but we also bought some. We ended up buying books from both PM Press and Jura Books so in the Shop now is new exciting stock, including ' How to Make Trouble and Influence People ' - the second edition. The book covers a lot of Australia’s radical past with more than 500 tales of Indigenous resist

Film Screening in Wellington - Rebellion (L’ordre et la Morale). France 2011

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Rebellion, directed by Mathieu Kassovitz is a dramatisation of the events on the New Caledonian island of Ouvea in 1988 when pro-independence Kanak activists took a group of French gendarmes hostage.   Screening Friday March 21st 6.30pm The People's Cinema, Manners Street (over the road from McDonald's), Wellington.  This was a crucial event in the long Kanak struggle for independence from France. Rebellions in 1871 and 1917 were followed by increasing pro-independence activism from the late 1960s. In 1981 a Kanak trade union, the USTKE was formed, followed in 1984 by the FLNKS, a pro-independence federation. During the late '80s pro and anti-independence activity led to protests and armed clashes. Much grassroots organising took place amongst the indigenous Kanaks including the establishment of the grassroots school network, the Ecole Populaire Kanak. The lack of reaction by the FLNKS leadership to the Ouvea hostage situation created a perception of the distancing of the

Film Screening in Wellington - Rebellion (L’ordre et la Morale). France 2011

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Rebellion, directed by Mathieu Kassovitz is a dramatisation of the events on the New Caledonian island of Ouvea in 1988 when pro-independence Kanak activists took a group of French gendarmes hostage.   Screening Friday March 21st 6.30pm The People's Cinema, Manners Street (over the road from McDonald's), Wellington.  This was a crucial event in the long Kanak struggle for independence from France. Rebellions in 1871 and 1917 were followed by increasing pro-independence activism from the late 1960s. In 1981 a Kanak trade union, the USTKE was formed, followed in 1984 by the FLNKS, a pro-independence federation. During the late '80s pro and anti-independence activity led to protests and armed clashes. Much grassroots organising took place amongst the indigenous Kanaks including the establishment of the grassroots school network, the Ecole Populaire Kanak. The lack of reaction by the FLNKS leadership to the Ouvea hostage situation created a perception of the distanc

Wellington Anarchist Bookfair This Week

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The Freedom Shop will be at the Wellington Anarchist Bookfair on Saturday 15 March at 19 Tory St. We will also be speaking about the Freedom Shop on the evening of Friday 14 March and will possibly have stalls at some of the other events during the week.  Other bookshops and publishers attending the Bookfair include:  AK Press Jura Books Kate Sharpley Library Little Black Cart PM Press Rebel Press The Bookfair is not limited to the Saturday. An art exhibition of posters, zines, badges and protest art will be on display at 19 Tory St from 12th to 16th March. There will also be a series of public talks and discussions over the week, including talks by writers and local anarchists and Michael Schmidt, the author of ' Black Flame ' and the ' The Cartography of Anarchy '. For a full schedule of events, speakers and vendors, visit the Wellington Anarchist Bookfair website at http://wellingtonanarchistbookfair.com

Wellington Anarchist Bookfair This Week

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The Freedom Shop will be at the Wellington Anarchist Bookfair on Saturday 15 March at 19 Tory St. We will also be speaking about the Freedom Shop on the evening of Friday 14 March and will possibly have stalls at some of the other events during the week.  Other bookshops and publishers attending the Bookfair include:  AK Press Jura Books Kate Sharpley Library Little Black Cart PM Press Rebel Press The Bookfair is not limited to the Saturday. An art exhibition of posters, zines, badges and protest art will be on display at 19 Tory St from 12th to 16th March. There will also be a series of public talks and discussions over the week, including talks by writers and local anarchists and Michael Schmidt, the author of ' Black Flame ' and the ' The Cartography of Anarchy '. For a full schedule of events, speakers and vendors, visit the Wellington Anarchist Bookfair website at http://wellingtonanarchistbookfair.com

Anarchist Bookfair Film Screening: Lucio

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A film screening of 'Lucio' - at the Wellington People's Cinema. Lucio is a colorful documentary about the life of Lucio Uturbia, a Spanish bricklayer and anarchist. Uturbia resists fascism, assists in the kidnapping of a Nazi war criminal, aids Black Panthers wanted by the US government, and brings Citibank to its knees by forging $20 million in travelers cheques to finance Latin American guerillas. Spanish with English subtitles. Directed by Aitor Arregi and Jose Maria Goenaga, 2007 What : Lucio When : 7pm, March 7 Where : People's Cinema at 57 Manners St, in central Wellington, fully wheelchair accessible. This screening is a fundraiser for the Wellington Anarchist Bookfair .