# Freedom Shop > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Freedom_Shop > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Freedom_Shop.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Shop > Source revision: 1261280476 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Anarchist bookstore in Wellington, New Zealand}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} The '''Freedom Shop''' is an [anarchist](/source/anarchist) [infoshop](/source/infoshop) which distributes books and information, based in [Wellington](/source/Wellington), New Zealand. It operates on a [non profit](/source/non_profit) basis, injecting any income back into the project. The shop has been based in different locations and mainly sells books on [anarchism](/source/anarchism), [feminism](/source/feminism), [indigenous rights](/source/indigenous_rights), [ecology](/source/ecology) and a range of activist issues. It also carries patches, badges, clothing and music. == History == The Freedom Shop was established on May 1, 1995.{{cite news |last1=Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement|title=Review: Aotearoa Anarchist Review (and Golfing Handbook) |url=https://awsm.noblogs.org/2014/06/review-aotearoa-anarchist-review-and-golfing-handbook/ |archive-date=9 July 2019 |date=9 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709095018/https://awsm.noblogs.org/2014/06/review-aotearoa-anarchist-review-and-golfing-handbook/}} It was based on upper [Cuba Street](/source/Cuba_Street%2C_Wellington) in [Te Aro](/source/Aro_Valley), in a building formerly occupied by the [NORML](/source/NORML_New_Zealand) shop. NORML initially kept up with the rent. The shop was operated by volunteers, and any earnings were reinvested in the business. The shop sold books, magazines, pamphlets, leaflets, T-shirts, patches, records, and stickers.{{cite web |title=Anarchism in Aotearoa - 1995 |url=http://www.takver.com/history/nz/tsa1996.htm |website=Radical tradition in Aotearoa |access-date=9 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709100201/http://www.takver.com/history/nz/tsa1996.htm |archive-date=9 July 2019}} In the 2000s, plans for the construction of the [Wellington Inner City Bypass](/source/Wellington_Inner_City_Bypass) meant that the Freedom Shop would be evicted. However, the plans were bitterly contested.{{cite news |last1=O'Neil |first1=Andrea |title=150 years of news: Protests against inner-city bypass exposed deep rift in Te Aro district heritage |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/capital-life/67617028/ |access-date=9 July 2019 |work=Stuff |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709102108/https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/capital-life/67617028/ |archive-date=9 July 2019}} When security guards employed by [Transit NZ](/source/Transit_NZ) broke into the shop and changed the locks, 50 activists broke in and briefly re-opened it.{{cite news |last1=Anti-Bypass Activists |title=Freedom Shop Reoccupied! |url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0203/S00024/freedom-shop-reoccupied.htm |access-date=9 July 2019 |work=Scoop |date=10 March 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709102432/http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0203/S00024/freedom-shop-reoccupied.htm |archive-date=9 July 2019}} The Freedom Shop moved into a more prominent location in the Cake Shop (a community [infoshop](/source/infoshop)/[internet cafe](/source/internet_cafe) in mid Cuba St). When the Cake Shop closed in 2005, the Freedom Shop relocated to Oblong (a community [infoshop](/source/infoshop)/[internet cafe](/source/internet_cafe)) in Te Aro's left bank arcade. Oblong closed in early 2009, and The Freedom Shop reverted to running stalls at public events. However, for the last few years the Freedom Shop has a home in a corner of the Newtown Opportunity for Animals Co-op Shop in Riddiford St, [Newtown, Wellington](/source/Newtown%2C_Wellington). == Publications == In 2014, the collective published the first issue of a periodical called ''AARGH!'' as the Aotearoa Anarchist Review. Issue ten was published in April 2019.{{cite web |title=AARGH issue 10 is online |url=https://freedomshopaotearoa.blogspot.com/2019/04/aargh-issue-10-is-online.html |website=Freedom Shop Aotearoa}} == Affiliations == The collective maintains close links with Aotearoa [Indymedia](/source/Indymedia) and local radical groups such as the [128 Community Centre](/source/128_Wellington). ==References== {{Reflist}} == External links == * [https://freedomshopaotearoa.blogspot.co.nz/ The Freedom Shop] * [http://www.theblacksheep.org.nz/opportunity-for-animals.html Newtown Opportunity for Animals] * [http://www.indymedia.org.nz/ Aotearoa Indymedia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200623083536/http://www.indymedia.org.nz/ |date=23 June 2020 }} {{Anarchism}} {{Infoshops}} {{coord|41|17|43.04|S|174|46|35.32|E|type:landmark_region:NZ|display=title}} Category:Infoshops Category:Anarchist bookstores Category:Anarchist organisations in New Zealand --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Freedom Shop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Shop) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Shop?action=history)). 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