New Orleans President Obama has now touched down in Mumbai. Reportedly he is being accompanied by over a hundred American business folks. The noon time arrival of Air Force One and all of these corporate jets from General Electric, Pepsico, and others, must have just about darkened the sky. I hope his staff lets him …
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Soweto Kinch, Dharavi Rocks, and the Blue Frog
Mumbai One of the more unusual, and innovative, of the programs associated with ACORN Inte rnational and ACORN India’s organizing of the Dharavi Project with ragpickers in this huge mega-slum has been a partnership called “Dharavi Rocks” between our ACORN Foundation (India) and the Blue Frog jazz club in the central part of …
Blue Frogs and National Geographic in Dharavi
Mumbai Inevitably one cycles back what what hears that is new back to what one knows that is old from your own experience. The more I kept looking at the poster for the bands from Norway and the United Kingdom playing for people in Dharavi in honor of ACORN’s work with recyclers there, I assumed …