Category Archives: Previous Meals

PADKOS NO 9 The build up continues for the CLP event in Pietermaritzburg at the end of May. By now most of you will know that CLP plans to host a number of thinking militants engaging the politics of Frantz Fanon. Although he died fifty years ago, Fanon’s radical humanism remains rich, powerful and relevant.

PADKOS NO 10 The build up continues for the CLP event in Pietermaritzburg at the end of May. By now most of you will know that CLP plans to host a number of thinking militants engaging the politics of Frantz Fanon. Although he died fifty years ago, Fanon’s radical humanism remains rich, powerful and relevant.

PADKOS NO 11 The Fanomenal Event: 30th May After a long build up, and lots of pretty heavy readings, the Fanomenal Event is here! Everyone who wants to come should please RSVP by contacting Cindy at CLP. Email her at: cindy@churchland.co.za or call the office at 033 2644 380, if you haven’t already done so.

PADKOS NO 12 Taking a break from the heavy reading we’ve recently been dishing out, this edition’s menu is a selection of fresh video clips from March this year when CLP hosted activist-writer, Raj Patel, for a Padkos event! Check out the short note that’s attached for a teaser and the YouTube URLs where you’ll

PADKOS NO 13 “A living politics is the movement out of the places where oppression has assigned those who do not count” S’bu Zikode, President, Abahlali baseMjondolo, speaking at the CLP Fanomenal Event, May 2011. Perhaps this Padkos is the ‘doggy bag’ after the feast of the hugely successful Fanomenal Event which CLP hosted at

PADKOS NO 14 Victories along the way undoubtedly help sustain us on the journey of struggle. This Padkos marks Abahlali baseMjondolo’s court victory on the 18th July when all of the ‘Kennedy 12’ were acquitted on all charges – nearly 3 years after the Kennedy Road attack. Three documents written after that court decision are

PADKOS NO 15 A couple of us attended the launch of a new book recently. The book is “Reclaiming the L-Word: Sappho’s Daughters Out In Africa” (Modjaji Books, 2011). Contributing editor, Alleyn Diesel, is the partner of former long-standing CLP Board-member Mary Kleinenberg, and the book itself is the first collection that I know about,

PADKOS NO 16 “Your statement was the foundation of my decision making process. Please continue to work in the way that you do. It serves us all and is the catalyst for further action. Thank you for helping me to stand for what I believe in. Freedom for Palestine is freedom for us all. Peace,

PADKOS NO 17 Just after the attacks on Kennedy Road in 2009, S’bu Zikode, then President of the shack-dwellers’ movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo said: “This attack is an attempt to suppress the voice that has emerged from the dark corners of our country. That voice is the voice of ordinary poor people. This attack is an

PADKOS NO 19 In an earlier edition of Padkos (No. 17) we argued that the real possibility and practice of democracy originates in the ‘dark corners’ of the state-we’re-in where ordinary poor people wage extraordinary struggle. One of the ways in which the spaces made and lived by the poor is rendered ‘dark’ is a