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Music Rocks
March 2nd, 2012
A group of children from our project called Dharavi Rocks spent the day at TISS with The 1000 Crane children. Dharavi Rocks are young boys from the slums who are uplifting their lives through music.
We did bring the roof down!
Every Child Has the Right to Education
ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION FOR REFORMS NOW:
Sanonda Building Kariobangi North
P. O. Box 6253 – 00200 Nairobi, Kenya. Mobile: 0722 – 416343
Email: acornkenya@yahoo.com or Kenya@acornkenya.org.
EVERY CHILD HAS THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION
Dear Sir/Madam/Rev/Hon………………………………………………………………………………
Re: Campaign to increase School going Children enrollment in Korogocho:
From the survey conducted by Acorn Kenya early last year Korogocho has got over 25 thousand school going children but amusingly only about half this number, (12 thousands) is attending school. What happens to the other half is still a great mystery to us. However majority of the parents don’t take their sole responsibility to enhance this legal right to educate their children.
It’s in this regard that Acorn Kenya in partnership with other several organizations and the Local Administration, are inviting you to an education awareness campaign day which will be launched at Korogocho on 8th March 2012 starting from 9.00am.
The event will start with a procession from St John’s Catholic Church and culminate with a sharing forum at the Chief’s camp.
Your presence, participation and contribution to make this day a success will be highly appreciated.
“UNITED TOGETHER WE CAN CREATE CHANGE IN KOROGOCHO” YES WE CAN!
For more information, contact us or visit us in our office at Sanoda Building 3rd floor Room No. 9.
Yours faithfully,
Sammy Ndirangu
Programme Coordinator
ACORN- Kenya
0722-592466
Daniel Kairu Chairman of the Organizing Committee ACORN Kenya 0728-864059 Cc to Korogocho area Chief.Comunità e Progetto nella Valle del Simeto
Wade Rathke e Laura Saija – Comunità e Progetto nella Valle del Simeto:
Seminari con Wade Rathke – Organizzare le Comunità/Costruzione di Cittadinanza Attiva
Seminario di Wade Rathke a Catania sul ‘community organizing’,
11 febbraio 2012
prima parte
seconda parte
Seminario con Wade Rathke a San Cataldo sulla cittadinanza attiva,
5 ottobre 2011
prima parte
seconda parte
Petition: Call on the next President of the World Bank to support a 5% cap on remittances fees
I join ACORN International and the Remittance Justice Campaign in demanding that any new candidate being considered as President of the World Bank commit to aggressively making all available efforts to achieve the World Bank and G-8 goal of stopping predatory pricing of remittances and reducing maximum costs for migrant workers and immigrants to no more than 5% for remittances.
Abuses at NIKE
Nike Execs: “We’re a Fitness Company!”
Working Conditions & Struggles at NIKE Inc. in Indonesia
Nike Fights Trade Suit and Anti-Sweatshop Protest at the Supreme Court Click here
DC Protest
2006 protest in Jakarta (Nike had to shut down offices for a few days)
OUR TAX DOLLARS FOR NIKE PUBLIC RELATIONS?“Funded by a grant from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs’ SportsUnited Office at the U.S. Department of State, the exchange is part of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Women’s World Cup Initiative, launched on June 6, 2011, which seeks to empower women and girls through sports.” What’s the goal? Empower girls through soccer Jun 25 | By Lindsey Emery
Press for Change Founder Jeff Ballinger
Reports on Sweatshop Practices around the World
Harvard International Review How Civil Society Can Help: Sweatshop Workers as Globalization Consequence
War Resisters Magazine Responsibility Is the New Justice? Student Activists Say “No!”
Press for Change Campaign Mission
Given the worldwide financial crisis, it is a safe bet that fighting sweatshop abuses here and abroad will not be a key policy undertaking for Barack Obama and his team. But this does not rule out a wide-ranging set of initiatives that would significantly empower workers. Tweaking our foreign assistance priorities, revising “democracy promotion,” and undertaking diplomacy from a community organizer’s perspective—these changes in U.S. policy would at least begin an assault on global sweatshop practices. And they are especially important as an antidote to the solipsism of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), wherein corporate “self-regulation” teams are rebranded as “activists” by lazy and compliant media. The new administration needs to connect with real labor activists, in Asia and Central America especially, and allow them to speak for themselves.
But first we need to collect information on sweatshop practices abroad and make it available to activists, who often can’t collect it themselves.
Discussion: finding an anti-sweatshop strategy that works
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