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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".

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Politics in Romania and Bulgaria

Bulgaria Organizers Forum Romania August 25, 2025 by Chief Organizer

            Catania           While the Organizers’ Forum was in Bucharest and Sofia, everyone talked about politics, but it was hard to get our arms around all of what we were hearing, despite in a rarity for our dialogues we had meetings with three journalists with experience in radio, print, and television, including in the public-state controlled …

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Labor, Care, and More in Bulgaria

Bulgaria Organizers Forum Unions August 24, 2025 by Chief Organizer

            Catania        One of our last meetings was with Kalina Drenska, one of the LevFem collective.  Like so many activists in Romania and Bulgaria, and, truth to tell, everywhere it seems these days when there is so little investment in building progressive capacity, Kalina wears multiple hats.  In her “day job,” so to speak she …

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Backlash for Women and LGBTQ in Bulgaria

Bulgaria Organizers Forum August 24, 2025 by Chief Organizer

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 …

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