Pushback Network

Pushback Network
is a national collaboration of indigenous, grassroots organizations and networks committed to building bottom-up, state-based alliances that change both the composition and levels of participation of the electorate.

We emphasize strategies to empower underrepresented constituencies: people of color, poor and working class communities, and young people.

Pushback Network envisions an authentic participatory democracy through which true social justice can be achieved. We seek a democracy that creates opportunities for ordinary people to make real contributions to the political decisions that affect their lives.

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Category Archives: New Mexico

An historic opportunity

November 11, 2008 – 11:34 am

By Brigid Flaherty | Also posted in News | Tagged NM, proj08 | Comments (0)

Hunger for change.

November 7, 2008 – 11:50 am

“We really owned what happened on November 4th. It was all about us, the big us. This election wasn’t about Barack Obama or John McCain. It was the American people and their hunger for change.” ~Robby Rodriguez, Executive Director, South West Organizing Project. It’s now Friday, November 7th. I returned from New Mexico two days [...]

By Brigid Flaherty | Tagged election, NM, proj08 | Comments (0)

Ten Tips for Effective Collaborative Organizing

November 2, 2008 – 6:00 am

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.

By Samiya Bashir | Also posted in Alabama, California, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nevada, New York, News, Press Releases | Tagged elect08 | Comments (0)

Collateral Damage

November 1, 2008 – 6:00 am

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 [...]