DO: Approach key local and regional groups before the strategy is set. Tailor efforts to the culture and politics of individual communities. No state is one community. Incoming organizers should seek synergies with existing work.
DON’T: Bait and switch. Be clear and honest with grassroots organizers about intentions and objectives.
Jason Cooper on the road through the Mississippi Delta mobilizing voters with Southern Echo and our Mississippi partners.
“We just wrapping cars for the motorcade and are on our way through Hollindale, Greenville, Winterville and Metcalf” said PBN Program Director Jason Cooper. “I’m with a beautiful black woman who was born and raised in her [...]
Follow The Project, PBN’s live, daily, multi-media civic engagement project every day through November 7th. To lead us off, PBN is publishing a few critically important pieces that look at the importance of sound investment in effective civic organizing. Click here for updates.
During the 2006 electoral season, PBN partner Kentuckians for the Commonwealth learned first [...]
Brigid is getting ready to head down to New Mexico for a full week of rock-doc’in the vote through PBN’s engaged civic mobilization model.
Pushback Network is excited to launch The Project in October 2008. We’re sending two of the scrappiest young organizers we know, Brigid & Jason, down South (coordinated by our own “Wizardess [...]
