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A long time grassroots organizer and political activist, Arun Prabhakaran served as an Assistant Education Director at the Kensington Welfare Rights Union during its heyday. He developed popular education projects on issues of gentrification and drugs, including the Drug War Reality Tour, which looked at the impact of the global drug crisis on Philadelphia's poor and was the subject of the Guerrilla News Network documentary, "Drug War Reality Tour." He is also a member of the National Staff of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign.
For six years, Arun worked at the Youth Health Empowerment Project developing a harm reduction drop-in center for youth in Philadelphia providing a variety of services, including case management, therapy, and basic health care. Prabhakaran is currently employed at Solutions for Progress, a public policy consulting firm which innovates and creates new public and private partnerships that benefit all involved utilizing technology, research, analysis and practical applications to improve the quality of life of their clients.
Arun graduated from Kent State University with a degree in Chemistry. He lives in West Philadelphia with his wife, Carrie and their two children, Kamal and Nina.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 Robert Reich: The Phantom Recovery and What To Do About Jobs
The economy may be in a technical recovery but this is not a real recovery and the "green shoots" or "positive signs" that Wall Street cheerleaders love to shout about are phantoms of their ever-optimistic imaginations.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 Arrest of Queens Man Puts Focus on Texting to Rally Protesters - NYTimes.com
On Thursday, F.B.I. agents descended on a house in Jackson Heights, Queens, and spent 16 hours searching it. The most likely reason for the raid: a man who lived there had helped coordinate communications among protesters at the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 Five Arrested Outside Health Insurer's HQ in Center City Philadelphia- KYW Newsradio 1060 Philadelphia
Five people were arrested on Tuesday afternoon following a health care reform rally in center city Philadelphia after blocking the entrance of an insurance company's headquarters.
About 50 people rallied outside Cigna headquarters, at 16th and Chestnut Streets, protesting what they say are insurance companies putting profit before people's health care needs.
Friday, October 2, 2009 Montblanc\'s $25,000 Gandhi pen stirs controversy - USATODAY.com (1 comments)
The decision to turn a man who shunned foreign-made products and pushed simple living to new extremes into a "brand ambassador" — as one local website put it — for a global luxury goods maker has left some Indians puzzled and others angry.
Saturday, June 28, 2008 We. A documentary featuring the words of Arundhati Roy (2 comments)
We is a fast-paced 64 minute documentary that covers the world politics of power, war, corporations, deception and exploitation.
It visualizes the words of Arundhati Roy, specifically her famous Come September speech, where she spoke on such things as the war on terror, corporate globalization, justice and the growing civil unrest.
It's witty, moving, alarming and quite a lesson in modern history.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 MPR: Protest groups urge police to grant protest permit
Still No Permit for the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) addressed the city of St. Paul's decision to disregard the group's request for
a permit for their September 2nd march at the Republican National
Convention. This march is an part of an ongoing effort to organize the poor to end poverty in the United States and worldwide.
