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17 Tory St - Closing Celebration

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17 Tory Street, formerly known as Nineteen Tory Street, is closing its doors on the 18th of June. To honour the mauri of what has lived and flourished in the space over the past five years, there will be an afternoon of storytelling, kai, warmth and plotting: Sunday 11th of June  3pm - 7pm  **Keynote speakers at 5pm** The Concerned Citizens Collective asks us to bring the memories and spirit that made 17 Tory St the vibrant hub that it was. There will be an open-mic for storytelling opportunities. The 17 Tory Street Open Source Community Gallery grew out of the Occupy Movement of late 2011 and first opened in April 2012. The Freedom Shop began to hold public meetings there in November of that year. We'd hold public meetings at Tory St and film evenings at the Peoples' Cinema. After the Peoples' Cinema closed in 2014, most of our public events have been held at Tory Street. Our talks, public meetings and film screenings at Tory St have been on a variety of topics - includin

17 Tory St - Closing Celebration

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17 Tory Street, formerly known as Nineteen Tory Street, is closing its doors on the 18th of June. To honour the mauri of what has lived and flourished in the space over the past five years, there will be an afternoon of storytelling, kai, warmth and plotting: Sunday 11th of June  3pm - 7pm  **Keynote speakers at 5pm** The Concerned Citizens Collective asks us to bring the memories and spirit that made 17 Tory St the vibrant hub that it was. There will be an open-mic for storytelling opportunities. The 17 Tory Street Open Source Community Gallery grew out of the Occupy Movement of late 2011 and first opened in April 2012. The Freedom Shop began to hold public meetings there in November of that year. We'd hold public meetings at Tory St and film evenings at the Peoples' Cinema. After the Peoples' Cinema closed in 2014, most of our public events have been held at Tory Street. Our talks, public meetings and film screenings at Tory St have been on a variety of topics - includin

Wellington Winter Zine Fest

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It's ZineFest time again -  the  Wellington Winter Zine Market  Saturday afternoon  3rd June at  Thistle Hall, Wellington. the Freedom Shop will be there

Wellington Winter Zine Fest

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It's ZineFest time again -  the  Wellington Winter Zine Market  Saturday afternoon  3rd June at  Thistle Hall, Wellington. the Freedom Shop will be there

Book Review - The Trigger, Tim Butcher

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The Trigger, Tim Butcher (London, 2014) A book review by Barrie Sargeant, published in Aargh #4 2014 was the centenary of the outbreak of World War 1. In New Zealand “World War I” means Gallipoli and the Western Front. That’s where most of the ANZACs spent their time so that has become the area of interest in this part of the world. It’s understandable that this has happened but it means other aspects of the war are less known or understood. For example, how did it start?  According to Baldrick in Blackadder “ I heard that it started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich ‘cause he was hungry ”. Nice try, but a bit wrong. The truth is, the assassin was a man called Gavrilo Princip, part of a group of Bosnian nationalists who shot Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand of Austro-Hungary when visiting his empire’s outpost in Sarajevo. With millions of people across whole continents having died or been wounded, very little attention has been paid to Princip as an individual. Who was he and w

Book Review - The Trigger, Tim Butcher

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The Trigger, Tim Butcher (London, 2014) A book review by Barrie Sargeant, published in Aargh #4 2014 was the centenary of the outbreak of World War 1. In New Zealand “World War I” means Gallipoli and the Western Front. That’s where most of the ANZACs spent their time so that has become the area of interest in this part of the world. It’s understandable that this has happened but it means other aspects of the war are less known or understood. For example, how did it start?  According to Baldrick in Blackadder “ I heard that it started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich ‘cause he was hungry ”. Nice try, but a bit wrong. The truth is, the assassin was a man called Gavrilo Princip, part of a group of Bosnian nationalists who shot Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand of Austro-Hungary when visiting his empire’s outpost in Sarajevo. With millions of people across whole continents having died or been wounded, very little attention has been paid to Princip as an individual. Who was he and w

COPS, COPS, COPS talk

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The Freedom Shop will be showing some short films and having a discussion about how activist groups deal with cops this Thursday (20 April), 6.30pm, at 17 Tory Street. Even within activist and protest groups there are differing opinions about how we deal with police & recently some activist groups in Wellington have complained that they've been harassed by the police. So let's get together to talk about how as activist groups we could work together and protect ourselves more against police. Our zine about interacting with the police can be downloaded here  & imposed copy here