Alerts of the urgent Pennsylvania environmental issues - air, water, fracking, no regulatory powers in government officials. Marie Nahikian hosts an Earth Day panel of environmental experts and activists at the Venture Cafe, University Science Center in Philadelphia. Voices include Shilynn Black-Sankofa Farm, Steve Greenspan-POWER, Russel Zerbo-Clean Air Council, Russell Hicks-EbonySuns & Insight to the Light
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.