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AARGH! out now

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Welcome to the first issue of aargh! (the Aotearoa Anarchist Review and Golfing Handbook*), an anarchist magazine published by the Freedom Shop Collective of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. The title of the magazine, aargh! also reflects the way many of us feel about the world a fair amount of the time. 16 pages of radical anaylsis and commentary for only $2, available at the Freedom Shop now. If you can't make it to the shop, send us an envelope addressed to yourself and with an appropriate stamp and we'll mail you one. Send us ten dollars and we'll send five copies for you to give to your friends and family, who are bound to be delighted. Contents A sad, flippant kind of nihilism GE - Myths, promises, missing miracles Myopia - some thoughts on privacy and surveillance What “Sovereign Borders” really look like Indifference as a moral option? Bureaucracy – taking the ‘demos’ out of democracy Workers of the world: relax Black Bean Chilli with Cornbread *Disclaimer: We rese

AARGH! out now

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Welcome to the first issue of aargh! (the Aotearoa Anarchist Review and Golfing Handbook*), an anarchist magazine published by the Freedom Shop Collective of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. The title of the magazine, aargh! also reflects the way many of us feel about the world a fair amount of the time. 16 pages of radical anaylsis and commentary for only $2, available at the Freedom Shop now. If you can't make it to the shop, send us an envelope addressed to yourself and with an appropriate stamp and we'll mail you one. Send us ten dollars and we'll send five copies for you to give to your friends and family, who are bound to be delighted. Contents A sad, flippant kind of nihilism GE - Myths, promises, missing miracles Myopia - some thoughts on privacy and surveillance What “Sovereign Borders” really look like Indifference as a moral option? Bureaucracy – taking the ‘demos’ out of democracy Workers of the world: relax Black Bean Chilli with Cornbread *Disclaimer: We rese

Film Screening - 'Sedition' - 24 April

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Sedition: The Suppression of Dissent in World War II New Zealand Introduced by producer/director Russell Campbell. The People's Cinema / Thursday 24 April, 6.30pm After the carnage of World War I many New Zealanders formed a movement committed to rejecting war as a means of settling international disputes. When World War II broke out, government and pacifists were on a collision course; and Communists, too. There was active opposition to New Zealand’s involvement in the war. The government would brook no dissent. Anti-war campaigners were fined and imprisoned, and eight hundred conscientious objectors were incarcerated in detention camps for the duration of the war. Sedition tells their story. Biography: Dr Russell Campbell is an adjunct professor in film at Victoria University of Wellington and a documentary filmmaker with Vanguard Films . Among his films as director or co-director are 'Rebels in Retrospect' (about the Progressive Youth Movement of the Vietnam War er

Film Screening - 'Sedition' - 24 April

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Sedition: The Suppression of Dissent in World War II New Zealand Introduced by producer/director Russell Campbell. The People's Cinema / Thursday 24 April, 6.30pm After the carnage of World War I many New Zealanders formed a movement committed to rejecting war as a means of settling international disputes. When World War II broke out, government and pacifists were on a collision course; and Communists, too. There was active opposition to New Zealand’s involvement in the war. The government would brook no dissent. Anti-war campaigners were fined and imprisoned, and eight hundred conscientious objectors were incarcerated in detention camps for the duration of the war. Sedition tells their story. Biography: Dr Russell Campbell is an adjunct professor in film at Victoria University of Wellington and a documentary filmmaker with Vanguard Films . Among his films as director or co-director are 'Rebels in Retrospect' (about the Progressive Youth Movement of the Vietnam

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