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 …
Category: ACORN International
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.
Art & Activism in Oakland, California
Organizers and activists came together at the Art & Activism Conference held in Oakland, California on July 13th, 2012. Organized by Gary Delgado and Gina Acebo, the conference was a fruitful discussion on how the role of art and culture in the fight for social justice. In this video, Wade Rathke discusses the role of …