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AARGH! Issue 3 is out

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The third issue of the Freedom Shop's 'zine AARGH! is available, with articles on how an anarchist health service might look, the perils of Facebook, graffiti, a look at capitalist arguments against the minimum wage, a rant about the proposed banning of fireworks, a recipe for sopa de gran pena, and reviews of 'Dear Neil Roberts' 'The Death Ship' 'The Catch' and of the Sound Of Music stage show. Contact us for copies at freedomshopaotearoa@gmail.com .

2015 Organisers

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We have a handful of 2015 Slingshots and also the Bottled Wasp in the shop. Slingshots are $8.00 Slingshots have been going for 21 years now. For a look at the Collective that makes Slingshot, visit their homepage:  http://slingshot.tao.ca/ The other organiser we have this year is 'The Bottled Wasp'. The Bottled Wasp has been going for three years now, it's produced in Britain by the Brighton ABC . This year's theme is the International Anti-Fascist Struggle (previous editions featured Radical Arts and Prisoner Support). The Bottled Wasp is $12.00 If anyone is interested on working on an Aotearoa organiser for 2016, send an email to the Shop as some members of the FreedomShop are keen to get an Aotearoa specific organiser up and running.

2015 Organisers

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We have a handful of 2015 Slingshots and also the Bottled Wasp in the shop. Slingshots are $8.00 Slingshots have been going for 21 years now. For a look at the Collective that makes Slingshot, visit their homepage:  http://slingshot.tao.ca/ The other organiser we have this year is 'The Bottled Wasp'. The Bottled Wasp has been going for three years now, it's produced in Britain by the Brighton ABC . This year's theme is the International Anti-Fascist Struggle (previous editions featured Radical Arts and Prisoner Support). The Bottled Wasp is $12.00 If anyone is interested on working on an Aotearoa organiser for 2016, send an email to the Shop as some members of the FreedomShop are keen to get an Aotearoa specific organiser up and running.

Left Over?

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The Freedom Shop Collective invites you to a discussion of grassroots strategy, organisation and issues for the left in the wake of the continuing failure of electoral politics. This is an opportunity to discuss how the activist left can make progress at this time, after a general decline in its impacts.  What are our strengths and weaknesses? Can we learn from history or do we need to re-invent our movement? What issues and strategies should we consider? When: 7pm, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 Where: 19 Tory Street, Wellington We are inviting speakers from a variety of left groups to give a short presentation on this theme, followed by general discussion. Contact us at FreedomShopAotearoa@gmail.com .

Left Over?

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The Freedom Shop Collective invites you to a discussion of grassroots strategy, organisation and issues for the left in the wake of the continuing failure of electoral politics. This is an opportunity to discuss how the activist left can make progress at this time, after a general decline in its impacts.  What are our strengths and weaknesses? Can we learn from history or do we need to re-invent our movement? What issues and strategies should we consider? When: 7pm, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 Where: 19 Tory Street, Wellington We are inviting speakers from a variety of left groups to give a short presentation on this theme, followed by general discussion. Contact us at FreedomShopAotearoa@gmail.com .