Discussion of citizen participation and civic movements in Paterno, Sicily on Feb. 9th 2012.
Category: ACORN International
Dharavi Rocks
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 …
On Arab Spring & Occupy
Wade Rathke looks at the connections and contrasts between the revolutionary upheavals of the Arab Spring in the Middle East and the Occupy Movement at the 20th conference of AADERT (African and African-American Development, Education, Research, and Training) at Springfield College on June 2nd, 2012.