PADKOS NO 72 For a number of us, Jonathan Langdon has been a key intellectual thinking the connections between social movements, learning, and praxis. Padkos and the Paulo Freire Institute are really excited that he will be with us in Maritzburg soon. Join us for a discussion that will draw on 15 years’ work with
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CLP PADKOS NO 70 During the past week, waste-pickers in the town where the Church Land Programme (CLP) is based staged a protest action at the gates to the municipal waste dump. A couple of CLP people were there in solidarity and Mark Butler wrote the attached reflection which appeared in the local daily, The
PADKOS NO 69 Friday 6 November at 10.30am at CLP. And be sure to join us after for lunch, drinks and live music to follow at Pizzology. Firoze Manji is Director of Pan-African Baraza in Nairobi, Kenya. During September last year he led a fantastic Padkos session on Amilcar Cabral, and it’s great to have
PADKOS NO 68 Lewis R. Gordon returns as the next in our remarkable series of radical padkos visitors for CLP’s 2015 “School of Thought”. We’re so grateful and humbled to have had Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar address and engage us in the previous session. It was profoundly insightful, and very productive in relation to our own
PADKOS NO 67 Thanks to Richard Pithouse and all who attended for a stunning first session in the padkos “School of Thought”! What a great discussion exploring current meanings and value in Fanon’s liberatory insistence on the ongoing ‘mutation’ of humans – ‘the recovery of the human from a history of waste’ in the phrasing
PADKOS NO 66 We had encouraging feedback after the previous padkos mailing that marked the 90th anniversary of Frantz Fanon’s birth. It’s clear that a number of us want to to engage Fanon’s ideas more, and to think them through in and for our own context. Well, here’s a great opportunity! One of South Africa’s
PADKOS NO 65 During the past month we commemorated the 90th anniversary of Frantz Fanon’s birth. Though he died tragically young, aged just 36, the force of his revolutionary commitment and thought continue to impact today. Fanon was a political radical concerned with the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization. He is best known
PADKOS NO 59 Reminder: This week – join Aziz Choudry on Friday the 17th, 10am, at the CLP offices. We are honoured and excited to host Lewis R. Gordon, and we invite all of our Padkos colleagues & comrades to join us on the 21st of October to hear from and engage with him. Anglican
PADKOS NO 63 Yesterday and last night, tensions were at fever pitch in many parts of Pietermaritzburg, the South African town where the Church Land Programme has its office. The tension results from a chilling upsurge in hatred, threats, and looting directed against people who live here but who come from other countries of the global South
PADKOS NO 64 We really appreciate the wonderful feedback from so many of you upon receiving your copies of the latest music collection, “We Are An African People” from the Church Land Programme (CLP). The genesis of the playlist was our 2014 event celebrating the legacy of Amilcar Cabral and “a Pan-African heritage of struggle”.