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".
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 …
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, …