WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Sofia As a woman in one of our meetings in Sofia told us, you could describe the feminist and LGBTQ movements in Bulgaria as before and after 2018. In that year the EU issued a convention that ostensibly was meant to protect marginal groups in all member countries, but in Bulgaria the convention triggered a …
Sofia It hasn’t been easy for the Organizers’ Forum to get our arms around housing issues in Sofia or Bucharest. People agree that rents are going up, but that’s about all. The numbers say that the percentage of homeowners vastly outnumbers tenants. In Romania, there is claim of over 90% homeownership. In Bulgaria, …
Sofia It’s not an insult to say that Bulgaria is a smaller and poorer country than Romania. It’s just the truth. In talking to various organizations and activists, they have also emphasized to us the difficult and challenging social infrastructure for citizens as well as immigrants. We had hoped to meet David Bisset …