From February 12-14, 2010 six Pushback Network members from California, Nevada and New York visited New Mexico to participate in the SouthWest Organizing Project’s (SWOP) census campaign. Over the weekend our members organizations, Oakland Rising and Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN), met with SWOP to discuss strategies and tactics around increasing participation in undercounted [...]
Pushing Back, Moving Forward.
February 10, 2010
By Peter Hardie, Pushback Network
The Democratic Party is facing a dilemma, one whose definition seems to elude them. On the heels of their recent losses in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Virginia, I am increasingly dismayed by the space that was created for such monumental defeats and demoralization. Unless the Democrats [...]
On January 27th, Pushback Network conducted our first-ever webinar entitled, “The Geopolitics of an Energy Colony: Case Studies of Kentucky and New Mexico.” We used this webinar to highlight the environmental justice work within the Kentucky and New Mexico State Alliances and connect the ways in which people of color and working class communities [...]
In partnership with Wellstone Action, KFTC organized a Candidate and Campaign training this past weekend in Hindman with 30 participants. The focus was overwhelmingly on running for office in Eastern Kentucky, but some members from other parts of the state came as well.
The goal was to encourage people to run for office or to [...]
