Category Archives: News

Adding Power to the Struggle for Dignity and Justice: Texas Joins the Pushback Network

Press Release for
May 18, 2010
[New York, NY] The Pushback Network (PBN) is honored to announce it partnership with the Southwest Workers Union (SWU), a grassroots organization based in San Antonio, Texas. This brings Pushback Network’s presence into nine states, and adds new depth to the Network’s capacity for electoral outreach and mobilization. The Pushback Network [...]

Count Me In! Pushback Network Census Exchange in New Mexico

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: Lessons for Progressives for 2010

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 [...]

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 [...]