Over 50 grassroots activists, lawyers, and cartographers from 20 community-based organizations met over the weekend at the Lakeover Center in Jackson, Mississippi to attend the Community Organizing Around Political Redistricting School. The political redistricting school was organized by the Pushback Network and Southern Echo provided the training. With this experience, we sought to deepen the [...]
“It gets into your mind, it gets into your heart,” Nick Salazar from the SouthWest Organizing Project. After hearing personal stories from the women and men whose lives have been forever altered by the horrific practices of mountain top removal, Nick Salazar, elected official and member from the SouthWest Organizing Project, gave voice to the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
