Grenoble My father and George Washington shared the same birthday, February 22nd. He would have been 97 this year, and now he’s been gone just short of a decade. Whenever I would visit countries unknown previously to either of us, he would always ask me to tell him whatever I thought might interest him from …
Category: ACORN International
Bricks and Sticks are Important, but Different than Social Change
Bratislava We had an interesting set of meetings scheduled at a new enterprise launched during the last year in Bratislava that involved creating cultural and community spaces in an experimental building. After hearing about community centers of various sorts and sizes throughout Slovakia, we were finally going to get to see the urban version …
Slovakians Need a Social Benefits Clawback Campaign
Banska Bystrica Several separate conversations struck me as we visited with villagers and others around central Slovakia, and both came together around the issue of social benefits, or what we would call welfare payments to out of work or otherwise financially imperiled families. On one hand, the classic, and racialized, discrimination is obvious when Slovakians …