The Freedom Shop Aotearoa

  Chat about Prison and Police Abolition 13 January - 6pm at Whatever palace, 113 Taranaki Street. Want to exchange perspectives on prison and policing from different sides of the hemisphere?  Organizers, activists, and all interested people are invited to talk about the current state of prison and policing in their contexts focusing on how activists organize solidarity and resistance.  The aim is to learn from each other for the shared goal of a world without cages and care instead of cops.

So you’ve done your submission on the Treaty Principles Bill (TPB) and you’re feeling a little bit proud because you’ve done your bit? Sorry, but there’s bad news. It turns out the Treaty Principles Bill was just a bone that the government threw at us to keep us busy. The bill is probably never going to become law anyway. The bill that will become law (because all coalition parties support it) is the Regulatory Standards Bill (RSB) – and it is probably even more fundamental than the Treaty Principles one. While the TPB attempts to redefine what the Te Tiriti means, the RSB essentially says that Te Tiriti doesn’t matter anyway. The RSB is not at the committee stage (like the TPB), it is in the consultation phase, which means there is no actual wording of it yet. But there is a draft paper, and feedback on that paper closes on 13 January. After it is drafted it will then go through the Select Committee process (unless it is passed under urgency, which this government has done over 100 t...

Get your submissions against David Seymour's darned Treaty Principles Bill in! The deadline is 7 Jan 11:59pm - that's this coming Tuesday! Post your submissions here . For reference, below is the Freedom Shop's own submission: THE Freedom Shop Collective is a small, Poneke-based collective, now approaching its 30th year of existence, so has outlived seven New Zealand governments. Our primary project has been the successful operation of a non-profit political bookshop which encourages the disestablishment of capitalism and the state. Often dubbed ‘OG activists’ by youngsters, the collective is well-known and respected amongst Poneke’s alternative political and countercultural milieus. We oppose the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill, considering the introduction of this bill to be solely based on the need of the author to fulfil an adolescent ideological obsession, and recommend the entire thing be dumped ASAP While we see this bill as dead in the water, it has the un...

WHATEVER PALACE IS OPEN! Hosted by 5ever books it's at 113 Taranaki Street open from e levenish to wheneverish from 4th Dec to 22nd Dec! It's a community space! Bookshop (with zines from us)! With workshops! Films! Discussions! Dance class! Poetry and writing workshops! Community dinners every Wednesday! Chutney making and cooking classes! Make your own lamp!... and SOOO much more!  To see what's on, there's a regularly updated calendar on the door - or alternatively (if you use social media) check out @5everbooks on instagram or facebook.

  The Freedom Shop will be closed on 19 November- we’ll be joining the Hīkoi - 9am at Waitangi Park. #Hikoi In the shop we have Toitū Te Tiriti tote bags, plus loads of Toitū Te Tiriti badges still in stock, along with ‘Māori Never Ceded Sovereignty’ badges - badges made in August after Luxton showed how little he knew of the story of this land #toitūtetiriti #MāoriNeverCededSovereignty