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Bruni Pizarro, executive director of Junta for Progressive Action. Photos by Tony Fiorini.
The staff of Junta for Progressive Action
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By Karen Guzman
In March 2020, Bruni Pizarro watched from her office at New Haven’s Junta for Progressive Action as the world began locking down.
“Everything was unfolding in China, and then in Italy, and I knew it was just a matter of time until it was here,” says Pizarro, executive director of Junta, New Haven’s oldest Latinx-led social services agency, located in the Fair Haven neighborhood.
Pizarro, a 2019 graduate of the Yale School of the Environment, was new on the job and in the midst of working with the City of New Haven to resettle evacuees from recent earthquakes in Puerto Rico. As the COVID-19 pandemic spread, Pizarro knew her organization had to pivot, and quickly.
WHEN we started the anti-blacklisting campaign, we concentrated our efforts on exposing the conspiracy by big business and the police.
It was directors of multinational corporations who ran the notorious anti-union Economic League and Consulting Association blacklists an operation that lasted five decades and involved a two-way sharing of intelligence about union activists between company executives and Britain’s secretive political police units.
Over the past 12 years, uncovering corporate and state wrongdoing has led to new legislation, a select committee investigation, record compensation, a public apology in the High Court and a dedicated union strand in the ongoing public inquiry into undercover policing.