I’ve been gently hassling Zoe, who you may remember from the last episode of the Craft Cartel Podcast to send me some pictures of her cross stitch so I can share with you all. Zoe does such ace work and it deserves a big showing!

I understand this piece was done as a commission for a friend. And I reckon it’s gorgeous! All I want for christmas is a pillow case that says ‘all I want for christmas is an anarcho-feminist revolution’!

So I’ve persuaded Zoe to come aboard the RCS team so she can share some more of her work with us all. So keep an eye out for her first post

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Only time for one track this episode and it’s ‘Rebel Girl’ by Bikini Kill.

This episodes zine review is actually a magazine review of World Sweet World.

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I am so super lucky. I have in my hot little hands a copy of the second issue of World Sweet World. WSW is a new craft magazine that’s fresh out of Aotearoa and it’s gorgeous.

This issue features an article about Craftivism from my lovely buddy Zoe Thompson Moore, whom you may remember from the TiNA workshop, fence stitching and the Addington Women’s Revolutionary Craft Circle. It’s a great analysis of craft as a radical activity. And I must give a big ups to WSW for seeing this as an important topic to cover in a craft magazine.

The rest of the issue has all sorts of great articles, crafty tips and tutorials and a showcase of local and international craft talent.  In fact, I sat down, read it.  Read it again.  And then immediately started making something out of it!

I can only see this magazine getting better as more people hear about it. And it’s great to see a ‘not your nanna’s’ craft mag coming out of this part of the world.

Even better it’s pretty damn affordable. Despite being printed on sustainable forest paper with vegetable-based inks (which is never overtly cheap), and being over 60 pages, it’s only NZ$8 which is insanely good value considering how ace it is. And it’s even cheaper if you subscribe. Right now they have a special subscription competition, so check it out. I’m certainly getting myself a subscription!

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Here’s the report from Aotearoa Indymedia:

We all had a wonderful time, drinking cups of tea, holding banners, and giving biscuits and short lectures on NZ-US warlinks to friendly tourists. Green MP Nandor Tanczos joined us for a cuppa briefly, who was randomly cycling past.
We got far more mainstream media attention than expected, guess the quirkiness of our action and topical nature of issue got them interested. This reflects how effective the ploughshares action was in bringing this issue up for public debate. Hopefully our attempt to bring US military base at Harewood into mix had some effect too.

We signed three cards for Sam, Adrian and Peter to express our heartfelt appreciation for their inspirational non-violent direct action,

Much love,
from one of the revolutionary craft womyn of Addington

And they managed to get some mainstream press coverage

An obsessive cross-stitcher, an expert crocheter and a quilting guru talked politics over cups of tea yesterday morning.

I reckon ten bonus points for getting nana-core into the article!

And of course my absolute maddest respect to Sam, Adi and Peter for their awesome courage in this action. Not only have they brought attention to the blatant hypocrisy of the New Zealand Government for not being a part of the invasion of Iraq, yet actively being a part of the intelligence gathering to fight this senseless war. They also succeeded in directly acting to stop the functionality of the facility. It was only a day and only a million dollars in damage which is a drop in the military industrial complex ocean. But the symbolism of their action was priceless.

Kia kaha crew, rage and solidarity.

xox

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