Pushback Network’s recent New York State Alliance convening, held in New York City on June 13th and 14th, brought together organizers from across its broad and diverse network for two days of learning, sharing, relationship building and strategic planning.
In attendance were staff and volunteers from Coalition for Economic Justice / Buffalo Jobs with Justice, Community Voices Heard, Make the Road New York, Metro Justice / Rochester Jobs with Justice, New York City AIDS Housing Network, New York City Jobs with Justice, and the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition.
Together the group of twenty-one community leaders worked to share and solidify their 2008 state-wide electoral field plans, cross-train through exciting new data management systems, share information and resources around current programs and activities, and look ahead through 2008 to 2009 justice and advancement opportunities.
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PBN’s Kentucky State Alliance partners are working hard to plan an exciting and fruitful Voter Empowerment Training scheduled for July 25-27, 2008.
Staff and volunteers from Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and Kentucky Jobs with Justice, including street & community captains, and volunteers and staff from organizational allies will come together for three days of education and training toward a shared understanding up the PBN-KY approach to voter empowerment.
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From June 25 – July 2, 2008, PBN’s Mississippi and New Mexico State Alliance Partners will come together with grassroots organizers from Texas to expand on South X Southwest, an ongoing project working to build Black/Brown progressive partnership across traditional cultural, geographic and political barriers. The meetings will take place in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and 41 Mississippi leaders will travel by bus across the Southwest to participate.
PBN State Alliance Partner Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC) had members from all across the state participating in their non-partisan Voter Empowerment campaign. Leading up to the May 20th primary election, KFTC members registered, educated, and mobilized thousands of voters to strengthen our democracy with their participation.
Thirty-two percent of registered Kentucky voters showed up to vote in the recent Primary elections, smashing the previous record of 26.5 percent turnout in 1992. These numbers included 43 percent of Kentucky’s registered Democrats (many excited about the long presidential primary they had a rare opportunity to influence) and 18.9 of registered Kentucky Republicans.
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