Category Archives: Previous Meals

Out of this World

  PADKOS NO 3 Welcome to the third serving of CLP’s “Padkos – food for the journey”. This one’s a CD of music, a collection that we’ve called “Out of this world” – and the attached PDF-file of song notes and lyrics are in the booklet that accompanies it. We would like to make sure

“We are the people who don’t count!”

Living politics, living learning and ‘the weapons of the weak’ PADKOS NO 1 The first serving of padkos is a paper written by Anna Selmeczi of the University of Hungary. Entitled ‘”We are the people who don’t count” – Contesting Biopolitical Abandonment’, it was written in February of this year. From the feedback we’ve had,

2 Events and a Digest!

PADKOS NO 31 We know we gave you short notice, but don’t forget to join Daria Zelenova at CLP this Friday 9th November from 12:30 onwards for lunch and a fairly informal conversation. Over the last few years, Daria’s research work has looked at the practices of self-organization and self-empowerment that characterised much of the popular struggle in South

Mixed-grill ‘Itacate’ Padkos

PADKOS NO 30 * We learned from John Holloway and Eloina that “Itacate” means Padkos in the main indigenous language of Mexico called Nahuatl! John Holloway We were honoured to host John Holloway and his wife Eloina for the KwaZulu-Natal leg of their time in South Africa as guests of Rhodes University. His thinking and

Padkos with John Holloway

PADKOS NO 28 Excitement continues to build as we anticipate John Holloway’s visit to ‘Maritzburg onTuesday, 9th October. Here’s what our Padkos friends and comrades need to know: 9am: we’ll kick off at the Varsity Club (Golf Road campus, UKZN) for coffee, input and a padkos conversation with John Holloway. This morning session is not

John Holloway: Coming to PMB!

  PADKOS NO 27 John Holloway, without question one of the world’s leading thinkers of emancipatory politics, will be in ‘Maritzburg next month! CLP will host John for a Padkos discussion, and there will be a public lecture, co-hosted with the Paulo Freire Project of the Centre for Adult Education! It’ll all be happening on

A Fanomenal Padkos Event

PADKOS NO 6 This is the first hamper of ‘padkos’ in a menu of servings leading up to a feast on May 30th when CLP hosts a number of thinking militants engaging the politics of Frantz Fanon. Frantz Fanon died fifty years ago but his radical humanism remains as rich, powerful and relevant as ever.

A Fanomenal Event (3rd serving)

PADKOS NO 8 This is the next hamper of ‘padkos’ in a menu of servings leading up to a feast on May 30th when CLP hosts a number of thinking militants engaging the politics of Frantz Fanon. Frantz Fanon died fifty years ago but his radical humanism remains as rich, powerful and relevant as ever.

A Fanomenal Event (2nd serving)

PADKOS NO 7 This is the next hamper of ‘padkos’ in a menu of servings leading up to a feast on May 30th when CLP hosts a number of thinking militants engaging the politics of Frantz Fanon. Frantz Fanon died fifty years ago but his radical humanism remains as rich, powerful and relevant as ever.