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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Securing tax relief for lower-income Alabamians

December 18, 2008 – 12:36 pm

“Nearly 82 percent of single taxpayers in Alabama make less than $40,000 annually,” said Alabama Arise Executive Director Kimble Forrister. Alabama Arise, one of PBN’s Alabama anchor organizations, has a goal in eliminating the state’s 4% grocery tax is to help lower-income Alabamians while also ensuring that the state funds they provide public education [...]