Sofia There’s no national healthcare in Bulgaria from what I learned in recent discussions, so this is a country where Americans can come to die and feel at home. Think about that for a minute. Living costs are relatively low. Healthcare costs are relatively high. Is this the world we want? Perhaps so, because we …
Category: ACORN
The Personal Cost and Lifestyle Adjustments of the Greek Financial Crisis
Thessaloniki Reading the headlines about the fiscal crisis in Greece and following the protests by hundreds of thousands of people in Athens and other cities, it was hard to feel like we were all getting the whole story. We were sold headlines about profligate governmental spending and debt and a population unwilling to pay taxes. …
When Politics Becomes a Barrier, Rather than Leverage
Thessaloniki I was lucky. With little time and information, people we had met in Brussels with contacts back home in Greece were able to pull together ten or so activists of various stripes and persuasions agreed to come together to learn about ACORN and community organizing on a Saturday evening in Thessaloniki, the second largest …