PADKOS NO 41 There’s growing excitement anticipating the visit of Silvia Federici in September. Please remember to book off Thursday the 12th when Padkos-list members can join Sylvia for a conversation during the morning – and there’ll also be a seminar during the afternoon open to the public. Federici is a feminist activist, writer, and
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PADKOS NO 39 Diarise the next Padkos Event now! On 12 September, CLP hosts the leading radical feminist, Silvia Federici, for a padkos conversation and a public lecture. We are deeply honoured that Silvia will spend time with us. Federici is a scholar, teacher, and activist from the radical autonomist feminist Marxist tradition. She is
PADKOS NO 38 Kathryn Oberdeck is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois. A regular visitor to South Africa, she is interested in issues of housing and land here. Kathy’s new research project is getting underway at the moment, and she will be comparing perspectives on “blight” and hygiene in 20th century Durban
PADKOS NO 37 With all the recent activity around the Padkos Bioscope and Padkos Inter_mission platforms, this feels a bit like a return to normal service for the Padkos list as we shareRaúl Zibechi’s (2012) essay: “The Urban Peripheries: Counter-Powers from Below?”. In the short teaser (Raúl Zibechi Popular Struggles in Latin American Shack Settlements)
PADKOS NO 36 Reminder to 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. Around Easter this year there were good reasons to be thinking
PADKOS NO 32 Big thanks to visiting Russian activist and researcher, Daria Zelenova, for a really valuable and engaging Padkos lunch conversation last Friday. Although the focus has been on Daria’s South African struggle research, it’s clear that Russia too has entered a dangerously repressive time. The current conditions, developments and suggestions for action are
PADKOS NO 33 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. Richard’s a regular Padkos contributor and one of this country’s leading political thinkers. He currently teaches politics at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. At 2pm, after a light lunch together, Richard
PADKOS NO 2 Thanks for all the positive feedback we’ve had regarding the padkos initiative – and here’s the second serving of padkos from CLP. Before introducing this piece, we just want to record our sincere thanks to Anna Selmeczi (the author of our first serving) for a great presentation and discussion at the
PADKOS NO 5 A conversation with best-selling writer, and valued comrade, Raj Patel. CLP is thrilled that Raj has managed to find some time to spend with us on 16th March while he is in South Africa for the “Time of the Writer Festival”. With the working title “Crises in the Food Commons”, Raj
PADKOS NO 4 By David Ntseng with Mark Butler, 2010 Over a number of years, Thulani Nldazi has been Church Land Programme’s primary link with the emergence, growth and struggles of the Rural Network. During 2010, while Thulani took some sabbatical leave and colleague, David Ntseng took on temporary responsibility for sustaining those links.