Community Groups across the Nation are Mobilized to Stand with Immigrants in Arizona on July 29th
Within the Pushback Network, States are Organizing Actions and Marches in Opposition to Arizona’s anti-immigrant, racial profiling law SB1070.
On July 29th, the Arizona law SB 1070 that legalizes racial profiling, is poised to take effect. Community groups and alliances in Arizona are gearing up for a massive “Day of Non-Compliance”, to say no to racial profiling and NO! to unfair treatment of hard working immigrants and their families.
SB 1070 is not a matter for Arizona only. It is a blatant attack on fundamental freedom.
There is a growing national movement to overturn the unconstitutional law in Arizona and to challenge other anti-immigrant legislation around the country. Along with many other organizations and networks, member organizations of the Pushback Network will hold actions, marches, and engage in voter registration drives in support of the people of Arizona to protest SB1070 and unjust and inhumane immigration enforcement policies.
Pushback Network organizations plan to demonstrate our level of commitment to the struggle for full rights and respect for all immigrants. Read More »
Pushback Network is fired up about the US Social Forum!
From June 22-26th, over 200 members from the 9 Pushback State Alliances are uniting in Detroit to strengthen our collective efforts and craft visions of liberation and justice.
Seeing as the time has come for us to build collective power in this milieu of massive unemployment, SB 1070, the oil spill, de-funding of public education, foreclosures and the bank bailouts, Pushback has constructed a strong program that highlights the diverse, multi-issue, multi-region, multi-constituency nature of our network.
You can catch us in Detroit sponsoring the following workshops, convention, and party:
You can download the entire Pushback program here: Pushback Network Schedule at USSF
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By: Diego Gerena-Quiones
Sustainable Communities Organizer, Community Voices Heard
June 1, 2010
Ground Breaking Experience: Lessons from Mass Base Organizing
By visiting with our brothers and sisters in Albuquerque NM with the South West Organizing Project, I gained valuable insights into the model of organizing they call MASS BASE WORK. In preparation for our own election cycle in NY, I got to see first hand how SWOP approaches electoral work separate from ongoing campaign development, membership recruitment, and leadership development.
What they have is a separate track that acknowledges the opportunities for civic engagement that elections bring with them, while also recognizing the limitations of peoples lives that is not always conducive to becoming active members. In this sense, they have developed a whole strategy (MASS BASE), that seeks to develop shallower, but broader relations, with a much wider constituency of people that are not being engaged to be members. Rather, the goals of the mass base work seeks to build a collective of people that on some level, recognize SWOP and the image of the Campaign For A Better New Mexico, share the same progressive values, and are moveable to a small action step – usually voting, making a phone call, writing a letter, etc. Read More »
On the heels of New Mexico’s June 1st Primary Election, Tomás Garduño, SWOP’s Director of Mass Base Political Organizing and Michael Montoya, SWOP’s Mass Base Political Organizer hopped on a plane to head out to Oakland, California to lend a hand in getting our communities out to vote for California’s Primary Election on Tuesday, June 8th. Oakland Rising (OR), a collaborative of 4 community organizations (APEN-Asian Pacific Environmental Network, EBASE-East Bay Alliance for an Sustainable Environment, Causa Justa/Just Cause, and the Ella Baker Center), hosted SWOP. Esperanza Tervalon-Daumont, OR’s Executive Director and Jessamyn Sabbag , OR’s Field Director exposed SWOP’s reps to their model, their GOTV field strategy and most importantly to “the Town” as Oaklanders call it.
All day Friday was spent cutting turf and prepping the California Alliance’s field packets for the Saturday Door Knock Day. Read More »
