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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Southern Echo Census & Redistricting Team works to advance multi-state battle for accurate 2010 census

June 16, 2009 – 3:45 pm

Jackson, MS – “An accurate census count in 2010 is essential to proper allocation of federal grant dollars to local communities and is critical to the creation of fair political districts to ensure people of color have accountable representation at all levels of government,” notes Echo Director Leroy Johnson as he explains Echo’s 5-year census [...]

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Nevada Fights to Restore the Right to Vote

July 29, 2008 – 11:52 am

People with histories of legal trouble can restore their right to vote in this year’s presidential election with assistance from the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada.
Under Nevada state law, men and women with a felony record can vote if they were honorably discharged before July 1, 2003, or have a single [...]