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 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 …
Bucharest The Roma people constitute about 12% of the Romanian population with between 1.8 and 2.2 million people disbursed across the country, even though official census figures number only 600,000. Their minority status has led to intense discrimination in the region for hundreds of years. We were meeting with Alin Banu, the Executive Director …
Bucharest We were on time to meet National Trade Union Bloc at 9am sharp on a Monday, until we found that there was some confusion, and they expected us not a 9, but 11am. We were apologetic, and they were graceful, so we recovered from our first misstep. The union had a PowerPoint presentation …