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The Pushback Network has state alliances in Alabama, California, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York and Nevada.<ref name=about/> | The Pushback Network has state alliances in Alabama, California, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York and Nevada.<ref name=about/> | ||
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| + | Circa 2015 [[Michael Guerrero]] was National Coordinator of the [[Grassroots Global Justice Alliance]] and [[UNITY]], a collaboration between six national grassroots alliances including the [[National Domestic Workers Alliance]], the [[National Day Laborer Organizing Network]], [[Right to the City|Right to the City Alliance]], [[Pushback Network]], [[National Guestworker Alliance]], [[Grassroots Global Justice Alliance]] and [[Jobs with Justice]]. <ref>[https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/bios/michael-leon-guerrero/ Greenpeace bio,accessed July 21, 2018 ]</ref> | ||
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==Personnel== | ==Personnel== | ||
Latest revision as of 19:34, 22 July 2018
Template:TOCnestleft The Pushback Network was founded in 2005 and 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. They emphasize strategies designed to empower underrepresented constituencies: people of color, poor and working class communities, and young people.[1]
It is affiliated with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
About
The Pushback Network has state alliances in Alabama, California, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York and Nevada.[1]
UNITY
Circa 2015 Michael Guerrero was National Coordinator of the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance and UNITY, a collaboration between six national grassroots alliances including the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, Right to the City Alliance, Pushback Network, National Guestworker Alliance, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance and Jobs with Justice. [2]
Personnel
Staff
As at April 12, 2010, the following served on the Pushback Network Staff:[3]
- Peter Hardie, Executive Director, New York
- Jason Cooper, Program Director, New York
- Brigid Flaherty, Fundraising and Communications Coordinator, California
Steering Committee
As at April 12, 2010, the following served on the Pushback Network Steering Committee:[4]
- Chair: Robby Rodriguez, SouthWest Organizing Project, NM
- Vice Chair: Sondra Youdelman, Community Voices Heard, NY
- Secretary: Rudy Gonzalves, California Alliance, CA
- Treasurer: Leroy Johnson, Southern Echo, MS
- Hill Carmichael, Greater Birmingham Ministries, AL
- Scott Douglas, Greater Birmingham Ministries, AL
- Kimble Forrister, Arise Citizens’ Policy Project, AL
- Darnell Johnson,Kentucky Jobs with Justice, KY
- Burt Lauderdale, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, KY
- Mike Sayer, Southern Echo, MS
- Anthony Thigpenn, Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education, CA
- William Weahkee, Director, SAGE Council, NM
- Lisa Abbott, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, KY
- Bineshi Albert, SouthWest Organizing Project, SAGE NM
- Presdelane Harris, Arise Citizens’ Policy Project, AL
- Attica Scott, Kentucky Jobs with Justice, KY
- Henry Serrano, New York Jobs with Justice, NY
- Karla Zombro, Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education, CA