PADKO NO 48 Reminder: Padkos Bioscope showing “Zapatista” this Thursday @ 1pm. Join us for revolutionary content, great snacks, and engaging conversation.We’re pleased to announce that all of our Padkos friends and comrades will be receiving their hard copy of the second collection of Padkos materials in the mail soon. We had a really encouraging
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PADKOS NO 47 The state- and corporate- media in South Africa won’t let us forget that 2014 marks the twentieth anniversary of representative democracy. But the thinking of people’s organisations, and the conditions against which they rebel and organise, remind us just how utterly disappointing and hollow that project of state democracy actually is. For
PADKOS NO 46 Padkos Event: Tuesday, 18 February, 1:30 for light lunch; 2pm for the discussion – all happening at the CLP office. Jacques Briard is a long-time friend of committed, ecumenical struggle and activism in South Africa. Before the Church Land Programme (CLP) even existed, Jacques was a trusted connection to international solidarity networks
PADKOS NO 45 In civil society organisations, the overwhelming tendency is to speak – and the unerring consequence is to reinforce the silencing of the people. In fact much civil society practice and thinking proceeds really on the assumption that speech is not a capacity of the people. The Church Land Programme (CLP) has explored
PADKOS NO 34 It’s all happening at CLP on Thursday, 28th March, before the Easter long weekend. Be there by 11:30am when Richard Pithouse will share and discuss his analysis of the state we’re in at this time in South Africa. For this serving of Padkos, we’re attaching Richard’s January 2013 piece titled “The Riotous
PADKOS NO 35 Come to the Padkos Bioscope (@ CLP offices) at 1pm on Tuesday, 30 April. We’ll be watching: “La Via Campesina in movement: … Food Sovereignty Now!”, a 20-minute documentary produced by the global movement of peasants and the landless, La Via Campesina. In a previous Padkos (December 2011) marking La Via Campesina’s
PADKOS NO 40 Crystal Bartolovich, 2010. “A Natural History Of ‘Food Riots’”, in New Formations. We’re inclined to read carefully any article that quotes (approvingly!) some of our favourite philosopher-writers – Karl Marx, Jacques Ranciere and Raj Patel; and some of our favourite militants – from Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers of 17th century England,
PADKOS NO 44 CLP is deeply honoured to host Silvia Federici (see attached “who is federici?”) on Thursday this week. We urge all our Padkos friends to be there for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. To confirm and up-date the details for what’s going down on Thursday the 12th on the Golf Road campus of UKZN: Time
PADKOS NO 43 With about a week to go, here are the details of where & when you need to be, to catch Silvia Federici in ‘Maritzburg. This really is an extraordinary opportunity to hear from and engage with one of world’s leading radicals – DO NOT MISS THIS! Friends and comrades on the Padkos
PADKOS NO 42 Join Richa Nagar at CLP for a not-to-be-missed Padkos Event!: 29 August, 10am @ CLP. We are thrilled that Richa Nagar, professor in women, gender and sexuality studies (University of Minnesota) is coming up to Maritzburg to spend some time with CLP. Some of us at CLP have known of Richa’s work