Sofia Organizing is somewhere on the spectrum between craft, trade, and art, so to keep even, much less ahead, of developments in the work, it’s important to pick up tips and examine the “nuts and bolts” wherever you can. Conversations and observations in Bulgaria were providing me a laundry list of lessons. On a lunch …
Month: February 2018
Nothing Easy About Organizing Against Corruption or any Organizing
Sofia I was hustling about Sofia in my first full day. We started with a briefing from CEGA, Creating Effective Grassroots Alternatives, where my associate, Liuba Batembergska, and Emil Metodiev, who was directing the professional fellows program for Bulgaria, was also a key staff member. The organization has been around a while and works closely …
A Simple Letter is a Strange Welcome to Sofia, Bulgaria
Sofia New Orleans to Newark, Newark to Munich, Munich to Sofia, and I was there on a gray, chilly, but snowless day dressed dutifully as if for a short hop to the Arctic. Our delegation assembled and jumped on the Metro at the airport station for a trip downtown, but Lyuba Batembergska and I jumped …