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Raft Race and Newtown Fair

Two long running annual events are happening in Wellington this coming weekend: On Saturday, 5 March, we have the 8th Anarchist Raft Race, this year at Hataitai Beach / Evans Bay instead of the usual location at Oriental Beach (to avoid clashes with the dragon boat race there). Start is about 1pm. Bring life jackets, drinks, food etc. We had a collective of orca turn up for it once! Then on Sunday, 6 March there is of course the Newtown Festival. We won't have a stall but we will have the shop open from about 10am onwards. See you then!

Raft Race and Newtown Fair

Two long running annual events are happening in Wellington this coming weekend: On Saturday, 5 March, we have the 8th Anarchist Raft Race, this year at Hataitai Beach / Evans Bay instead of the usual location at Oriental Beach (to avoid clashes with the dragon boat race there). Start is about 1pm. Bring life jackets, drinks, food etc. We had a collective of orca turn up for it once! Then on Sunday, 6 March there is of course the Newtown Festival. We won't have a stall but we will have the shop open from about 10am onwards. See you then!

New Shop Hours

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We are now open four times a week: Tuesday: 2 - 5pm Thursday: 12 - 3pm Friday: 2 - 5pm Saturday: 1 - 4pm If you can't get to the shop when it's open, send us an email and let us know what you want: FreedomShopAotearoa@gmail.com

New Shop Hours

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We are now open four times a week: Tuesday: 2 - 5pm Thursday: 12 - 3pm Friday: 2 - 5pm Saturday: 1 - 4pm If you can't get to the shop when it's open, send us an email and let us know what you want: FreedomShopAotearoa@gmail.com

Book review - 'Dear Neil Roberts' by Airini Beautrais

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Maintaining a memory Dear Neil Roberts by Airini Beautrais VUP Press, 2014, ISBN 9780864739735 Reviewed by Ann R Key - review originally published in AARGH! issue 3 I’M NOT from New Zealand, and I'm also not much of a sophisticate when it comes to poetry. I read what I like, skim, or ignore the rest, I can’t really tell you why I like what I do or what is good about it, just that for whatever reason a particular line or idea, mood or thought spoke to me and that was enough. But don’t ask me about structure or form, or poetic traditions because I don’t know. So I might not be the best person to review Airini Beautrais’ new book of poetry, Dear Neil Roberts (Victoria Press, 2014). But I am an anarchist and I have been here in New Zealand long enough that I had been told the story of Neil Roberts before. In case you haven’t, the short version is that on 18 November 1982 anarchist and punk Neil Roberts blew himself up with a bomb he exploded outside the Wanganui Computer Centre. The

Book review - 'Dear Neil Roberts' by Airini Beautrais

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Maintaining a memory Dear Neil Roberts by Airini Beautrais VUP Press, 2014, ISBN 9780864739735 Reviewed by Ann R Key - review originally published in AARGH! issue 3 I’M NOT from New Zealand, and I'm also not much of a sophisticate when it comes to poetry. I read what I like, skim, or ignore the rest, I can’t really tell you why I like what I do or what is good about it, just that for whatever reason a particular line or idea, mood or thought spoke to me and that was enough. But don’t ask me about structure or form, or poetic traditions because I don’t know. So I might not be the best person to review Airini Beautrais’ new book of poetry, Dear Neil Roberts (Victoria Press, 2014). But I am an anarchist and I have been here in New Zealand long enough that I had been told the story of Neil Roberts before. In case you haven’t, the short version is that on 18 November 1982 anarchist and punk Neil Roberts blew himself up with a bomb he exploded outside the Wanganui Computer Centre. The

Shop hours

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We're trying to keep the shop open Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (21. - 23.12.) this coming week to cater for any emergency Xmas present needs. We still have a few of the tee-shirts left that we screenprinted ourselves  - images of revolutionary women.  We even have a few Slingshot and Bottled Wasp diaries left! The shop will then be closed until after New Year. Happy holidays to everyone!