PADKOS NO 115 Mexican activist, ‘deprofessionalized intellectual’, and founder of the Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca, Gustavo Esteva, has died. He was a source of encouragement, inspiration and mutual learning for many movements, organisations and individuals around the world. People were able to learn with and from him – not only by direct contact
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PADKOS 114 This is shaping up to be a very special gathering of the padkos community. We’ll get together at the All Saints Church (Montgomery Drive, Pietermaritzburg) on March 24th at 3pm (or 2:20 if you’d like a coffee before we get going). Please let us know if you’re able to come to the event by replying
PADKOS NO 114 Dear padkos friends, this is going to be a very special gathering. Not only is it our first chance to get together as a padkos community since COVID-19 impacted, but check out some of what we’ll be doing: unveiling for the first time the magnificent “in, against and beyond” artworks that you
PADKOS NO 113 The Ghanaian community radio station, Radio Ada, has been attacked while it exposes business concessions that undermine local people’s life, livelihood and culture. Key players from Radio Ada visited us for a memorable padkos event at CLP in 2018. On June 25th that year, Erica Ofoe and Kofi Larweh from Radio Ada were joined
PADKOS NO 112 Welcome, we are here now- at the last offering in this season of padkos that we’ve called “being… here… now…”. In some ways it always felt like a slightly risky theme to highlight and sustain. We know that a focus on the care and wellbeing of individual people, including ourselves, can be seen
PADKOS NO 111 … breathe in, and breathe out deeply and calmly. On Spring Day (here in the South at least!) you join us in conversation with Sharon Grussendorf under the trees at the side of a tranquil dam at Solitude Retreat Centre. In what will be the second-last edition in this season of padkos, we
PADKOS NO 110 It’s been a tumultuous time in kwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where we, at the Church Land Programme, are based! Perhaps the time will come to write something more directly about what has happened but for now, the demands of our context require that we continue to think about being as well as we
PADKOS 109 Welcome, as we continue to think about being – and being well – here and now. This time around you’re invited to join in appreciating, and connecting with, the much larger web of natural life that we’re part of. A short padkos mailing like this can’t do more than hint at the width
PADKOS 108 This mailing is the second in our mini-series focused on ‘being and being well’, and our focus is on mental health. Tragically and tellingly, it goes out to you all in the week we learned of the death of Aziz Choudry. Many of you will recall Aziz after he led a memorable padkos session
PADKOS NO 107 20 May is Mental Health Action Day. In a global time of deep trauma as the COVID pandemic rolls on, we launch a mini-series of padkos servings focused on being and being well. We offer this short season that is oriented to nurture and nourishment; to offering kindness and care; to encouraging resilience,