The Freedom Shop

05/12/2025

Today - Opportunity For Animals book launch - 5pm at their Shop (next to us!)

We are having a book launch next week for our new cookbook!

This cookbook will help us raise funds for the continued care of our rescued animals. The launch will take place on the 6th of December at 5pm at our Newtown Opportunity for Animals shop (162 Riddiford St).

This cookbook is still available for pre-order, and the discounted price applies until the 30th of November! To pre-order yours please visit https://theblacksheepshop.in/product/the-flavour-of-freedom/

03/12/2025

songs of solidarity (SOS) is a 3 day book festival celebrating, acknowledging, and sharing stories of resistance and resilience, songs from indigenous and intersectional voices across aotearoa and the global south - Friday 3/12-Sunday 7/12
Check out https://songsofsolidarity.com for details

18/11/2025

The Freedom Shop are excited to announce we're partnering with the Garrett Street community to bring you a mini film fest on the topic of political activism. We'd love to see you there! There will be a discussion following each movie. All movies will be held at Level 2, 13 Garrett Street, Te Aro, Wellington. Doors 6pm, movie 6.30pm.
Friday 21st November – Operation 8
Sunday 23rd November – Gulistan, Land of Roses
Thursday 27th November – The Maintenance of Silence
Friday 28th November – Patu!

Anarchist bookshop in Te Whanganui-A-Tara/Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand

18/11/2025

Today is Neil Roberts Day - on this day in 1982 the Wanganui Computer building was bombed by Neil Roberts.

17/11/2025

17/11/2025

NOAM CHOMSKY DISSECTS THE MULTIPLE CRISES FACING HUMANKIND AND THE PLANET AND PROVIDES A ROAD MAP FOR RESISIANCE.

In this original collection of interviews by his longtime interlocutor David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky confronts the pandemic, widening inequality, climate destruction, the increasing power of the corporate-owned media, and prospects for change.

Notes on Resistance is informative and sober about our current dilemmas and offers inspiration for those seeking a better world

One of the most tireless and wide-ranging investigative journalists in the United States, DAVID BARSAMIAN has altered the independent media landscape, both with his weekly radio program, Alternative Radio, and his books with Noam Chomsky, Eqbal Ahmad, Howard Zinn, Tariq Ali, Richard Wolff, Arundhati Roy, and Edward Said.

NOAM CHOMSKY is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusctts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. Chomsky is the author of numerous best-selling political works, which have been translated into scores of languages.

10/11/2025

Lots of tote bags in stock for Christmas! Freshly printed by our hard-working creative arts department...

10/11/2025

Anarchist Communism | Feminism

Emma Goldman was a central figure in the development of anarchism in the United States and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. This collection, first published in 1910 by her press, Mother Earth Publishing Association, illustrates her wide-reaching mind and ability to bring together strands of A merican and European individualism, anarchist communism, and carly femnist thinking. Essays include "Anarchism: What It Really Stands For,""The Psychology of Political Violence, ""Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure," ""TheTragedy of Woman's Emancipation," and "Marriage and Love," among others.

EMMA GOLDMAN (1869-1940) spent her adult life writing, lecturing, and struggling on behalf of the anarchist ideal. She edited the journal Mother Earth and wrote numerous essays and books, including Living My Life and wrote numerous essays and books, including Living My Life and My Disillusionment in Russia.

WORKING CLASSICS

A new introduction by Jessica Moran and Barry Pateman situates Goldman's thinking in the movement of her day but also makes clear why her essays continue to influence the theory and practice of anarchism. New annotations throughout bring to light individuals and events that enrich our understandng of Goldman's writings. This text includes Hippolyte Havel's biographic sketch of the author from the original edition

JESSICA MORAN was assistant editor of Emma Goldman: A Documentary History and co-editor of Alexander Berkman's Prison Memoirs an Anarchist. She is a member of the Kate Sharpley Library collective and is a librarian and archivist currently living and working in Aotearoa New Zealand.

BARRY PATEMAN was associate editor of Emma Goldman: A Documentary History, editor of Chomsky on Anarcbism, and co-editor of Alexander Berkman's Prison Memoirs of an Anarcbist. He is a historian and member of the Kate Sharpley Library collective.

08/11/2025

There is A LOT on this week in Pōneke - so many great opportunities for learning and action. Please join in two special events on Western Sahara on Monday night & Wednesday night, and action in solidarity with the people of Sudan on Wednesday at lunchtime. These and so much more in our weekly events update - see here: https://peaceactionwellington.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/peace-justice-events-from-sunday-9-november/

17/10/2025

"A heartfelt plea for greater vigilance in a world increasingly controlled by advanced digital technology."
-Kirkus Reviews

AT THE DAWN OF THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION, THE INTERNET promised to be the great equalizer, a global democratic force. Instead, Wall Street ended up funding a new breed of serial capitalists, the Techtitans, who jacked up their own profits by mining new frontiers and stripping their workers of rights. In Technocapitalism, Napoleoni outlines the genesis of a new paradigm. It is not by chance that today the great obstacles we face-global warming, increasing militarism, and despotism- are not being curbed. With her deep understanding of the global economy and its history, Napoleoni offers us the real story of how we got here and what it will take to redirect our collective will toward the common good.

11/08/2025

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