New Orleans Rifling through the papers on my return, I am confronted by a picture of women on the beach in ski masks. What’s up with that? Flip a couple of pages and there are even more of them, as if it is a blooming fad of some kind. Reading further it was some of …
Category: Organizing
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 …