Category Archives: New Mexico

Pushback Network at the US Social Forum

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 [...]

Groundbreaking Experience: Lessons from Mass Base Organizing

By: Diego Gerena-Quiones Sustainable Communities Organizer, Community Voices Heard June 1, 2010 Ground Breaking Experience: Lessons from Mass Base Organizing By visiting with our brothers and sisters in Albuquerque NM with the South West Organizing Project, I gained valuable insights into the model of organizing they call MASS BASE WORK. In preparation for our own [...]

Get Out the Vote! SouthWest Organizing Project and Oakland Rising Peer Exchange

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 [...]

The Geopolitics of an Energy Colony: Case Studies of Kentucky and New Mexico

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 are [...]