Community Organizing 101: How Not to Organize a Community Garden

How not to organize in a community. Story of events in a community garden in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC in 1972.

Show Notes

Marie Nahikian, long time community organizer, tells story of one of her earliest organizing strategies that did not work and the lesson she learned from community residents.

What is The Usable Past with Marie Nahikian?

Veteran community organizer Marie Nahikian hosts The Usable Past, where activists share their stories of past and present organizing for better housing, food, banks, jobs, environmental and social justice. A Brooklyn resident, Marie most recently worked with U.S. Housing & Urban Development under President Obama and has participated in building 5,000 affordable homes in Washington, DC, Philadelphia, and New York. Marie has been a neighborhood, civil rights, housing and labor organizer, a community journalist, and in 1977 was a founder of WPFW-FM Pacifica radio in Washington, DC.