Our most popular project of ACORN Foundation (India) is Dharavi Rocks. Dharavi Rocks works with children who work as ragpickers (waste collectors) and live in the slums to teach them music. The kids make drums from plastic boxes and tins. This is footage of Dharavi Rocks’ rehearsals captured by ACORN India in Mumbai in …
Month: August 2012
The Arguable Attraction of Public Health Organizing
Rock Creek Besides fishing, reading, hiking, and sleeping, the other nice thing about vacations out here in the quiet off-the-grid, is that one has that rare, precious and luxurious feeling that you have time to think. Not just to put two plus two together, but to arrange them in patterns, cancel out the highs and …
Louisiana Healthcare Cuts & Rebuilding the Louisiana Democratic Party
Louisiana State Senator and head of the Louisiana Democratic Party, Karen Carter, speaks before the Local 100 United Labor Unions leadership conference that was held on July 21st, 2012 in New Orleans, LA. Here, Senator Carter talks about the impacts of the healthcare cuts across Louisiana and the work that is needed to rebuild the …