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 [...]
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 [...]
In February 2006, Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE) convened the Los Angeles Apollo Alliance. From this, they launched a 3-5 year public policy campaign to ensure that low income communities are strategically connected to the job creation and environmental returns of an emerging green economy. Now, on the eve of California’s March [...]
Pushback Network (PBN) proudly welcomes accomplished social justice leader Peter Hardie as its new Executive Director. Emphasizing community organizing and voter engagement strategies to empower underrepresented constituencies, PBN continues to grow as an organization assisting people in defining their mutual interests and working together to improve their lives. “Peter is ideally poised to help lead [...]
