Yale University Local 34 union organizers, both retired & current workers talk about 40 years of success that has changed the lives of the workforce at Yale and are building an economic justice movement in New Haven. Host Marie Nahikian & co-hose P.J. Ryan interview original leaders Steve Fortes, Cheryl Bergman and Aldo Cupo. Host Marie Nahikian & co-host P.J. Ryan talk with these original leaders about how they won the first victory for Local 34 in 1985, talk about how you have to know your history, never stop organizing and keep Yale's feet to the fire.
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.