Mabel Cañada Zorrilla

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Mabel Cañada Zorrilla
Born1952
Known forEnvironmentalist

Mabel Cañada Zorrilla (Bilbao, 1952–present) is an antimilitarist and pacifist founder of the ecovillage of Lakabe, a town recovered in Navarra 40 years ago and integrated into the Iberian Ecovillage Network.[1][2]

Biography[edit]

Mabel Cañada was born in the Santutxu neighborhood of Bilbao in 1952. Daughter of Ángel, a Burgos glassmaker and Isabel, a Balmasedana who dropped out of nursing to care for her father, is the second of five sisters and two brothers.[3]  Mother of 4 people, active in groups such as the Conscientious Objection Movement (MOC),[4]  the feminist movement, and groups against large infrastructures such as nuclear power plants or the Itoiz reservoir in Navarra.[5]

She was one of the founders of the community of Lakabe (Navarra) in 1980, an abandoned town that was squatted and recovered, in which coexistence is based on self-management, self- sufficiency, self-consumption, mutual support, and assembly operation.[6][7][8]

Welcome to Lakabe sign

Cañada has been trained in ways to create collectivity, to express oneself in a group, to live in community, to implement structures that allow horizontal decision-making, in process facilitation, experimental education and non-violent communication.[9]  It has also been formed in other communities such as Findhorn.[10]

Lakabe, Navarra

Since 2004 she has been a facilitator of change processes, performs situation diagnoses for social groups, accompanies them in their own processes and teaches courses and workshops.[11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Red, Nodo50 Contrainformación en la (3 May 2020). "Lo social es la vida Entrevista a Mabel Cañadas, miembro de la comuna de Lakabe (I)". Nodo50. Contrainformación en la Red (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 May 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Blasco, Roge. "Mabel Cañada rehabitar los pueblos abandonados de Navarra. | El blog de Roge" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Mabel Cañada: "Lakabe es una escuela de activistas"". www.elsaltodiario.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  4. ^ "El movimiento pacifista en la Transición española | Rojo y Negro". rojoynegro.info. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  5. ^ Zorrilla, Mabel Cañada (2000). "Situación actual del pantano de Itoiz". El Ecologista (23): 37. ISSN 0211-6472.
  6. ^ "Mabel Cañada, fundadora de Lakabe, municipio autogestionado: "Los cambios sociales deben partir del espacio de cada uno"". www.briega.org (in Spanish). 31 January 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Experiencia de la ecoaldea de Lakabe". Economía solidaria (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  8. ^ "Entrevista a Mabel Cañadas (Lakabe) / Curso UPV 2014". Calcuta Ondoan ONGD. 19 November 2014.
  9. ^ "Fortalecer la comunidad: retos y dificultades en la experiencia comunitaria". Solidaridad Internacional Andalucía.
  10. ^ "¿Quiénes somos? | IIFAC-E" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  11. ^ "De lo colectivo y la creación de humanidad | IIFAC-E" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 3 May 2020.