Lisa Lee, a parent volunteer for Citizens for a Better Greenville, joined the organizing group after they worked with parents to start a support group for families of children with special needs. "They supported us," said Lisa Lee, talking with PBN News about why she was getting on the road to help get out the vote. "They needed a little extra help so I decided that's what I needed to be doing."

Full-time volunteer Bruce McQuakay was new to the community after moving from Oregon to New Mexico. Through his work with SAGE Council he has been building relationships and developing campaign leadership skills. SAGE Council is an Indigenous and people of color-led organization using community organizing to build power through action, education, leadership development and political participation. Our commitment to social change and self-determination is based in spirituality that honors Mother Earth and all peoples.

SAGE Council's unique power lies in it's ability to bridge their relationships with and understanding of the political and cultural issues on the reservation, in the pueblo, and within the city of albuquerque. "In the Native context," said SAGE Council's Laurie Weahkee, "we do need our elders and young people. We need to keep the cycle going."

Changing Tomorrow Today The difference between electoral and issue-based organizing, explains SAGE Council's Laurie Weahkee, is that organizing around specific issues gives young people an opportunity to talk to their neighbors directly about what's affecting their lives and where they really want to see change. "Young people are engaged in the work," says Weahkee, "Even though they can't vote, they understand how important it is for others to vote."

Pushback Network Communications Coordinator Brigid Flaherty has been in New Mexico for four days working with South West Organizing Project and SAGE Council to educate and mobilize voters around New Mexico. Now it's Election Day and they're going to "flush the vote" by going through the Pueblos and the neighborhoods of Albuquerque helping voters get to the polls and exercise their voting rights.

Pushback Network Program Director Jason Cooper checks in on Day 4 of The Project. It's Election Day 2008 and Jason is headed to Eupora, Mississippi, to work with local organizers on getting out the vote.

Imito, a canvasser with South West Organizing Project, explains the process of door knocking to inform and mobilize voters is done on Day 3 of The Project. Don't miss a thing! http://www.pushbacknetwork.tumblr.com

SWOP intern Tracy Chacon has been active and engaged in her community for years. She is out with her friends and neighbors, including Pushback Network and our local and state-wide New Mexico partners, to walk all through her local precincts to get out the vote.

Some organizations only do electoral organizing and talk to the voters at election time. Pushback Network is different. PBN was created from the ground up by permanent, indigenous, local and statewide organizations for whom electoral organizing is the core strategy of a much larger body of work. Each state has a plan to contact voters in multiple, strategic regions of the state. In eight states, PBN partners employ door-to-door, in-person voter education and mobilization strategies that rely on an expanding network of indigenous volunteers and leaders like SWOP's Tomas Garduno. We want our constituencies fully engaged and participating in the “democratic process.” Many low-income, people of color communities are unregistered and disenfranchised. But by acting together to register, endorse, campaign and vote for candidates, people have a real ability to exercise their collective power.

In some of the countries lowest-income, rural communities, every day people are banding together to strengthen their communities. who, Pushback Network Program Director Jason Cooper works with Mississippi organizing partners including Southern Echo and Citizens for a Better Greenville on Saturday, November 1st, organized hundreds neighbors and families to get on the road to wind around the Delta to inform voters and get out the vote. Local radio station 94.3FM followed and reported on the motorcade all day helping to grow the motorcade to miles of neighbors working with each other, for each other.

SWOP's young New Mexico organizers are pulling out all the stops to educate voters and turn out the vote. Peter offers his Canvass Freestyle!

Pushback Network Communications Coordinator Brigid Flaherty braves barbed wire and the morning chill to get out the vote with SWOP in New Mexico. She's serious.

Albuquerque City Councilor Ray Garduno (District 6), a former community organizer with SWOP, talks about voter engagement and education from a nonpartisan perspective. It's not about whether they vote for a particular candidate, or initiative, he said. "We want people to vote," said Garduno. "We think that people with enough knowledge will vote their best interest."

"What we're trying to do is push back." Alfredo "Red" Carrasquillo is a member of Community Voices Heard's team of canvassers in New York City. Red is 25 years old. He is a father of two from the Bronx and talks about the importance of voter engagement and community mobilization through CVH's extremely successful public housing improvement campaigns.

New citizen and first time voter, Salvador Montes, talks with PBN News about becoming a citizen and the importance of voting to enact change in his community. On how he felt after voting for the first time? "It's good," said Salvador. VOTE!

A California voter drives an hour to vote: "Every prop on the ballot is pretty important." Follow The Project @ pushbacknetwork.tumblr.com. (Music by Phillip Alexander: myspace.com/phillipalexander)

Brigid gets ready to head to SWOP where she'll be knocking on doors in Albuquerque with first time voters, new citizens and longtime New Mexico voters. Follow The Project at pushbacknetwork.tumblr.com!

"To me, Can't Stop Won't Stop signifies the rising challenge that communities of color and progressive communities are posing, in that we are a majority in California and we need to recognize the power that we have and recognize that this power will only continue to grow." -- Emily Lee, Chinese Progressive Association, San Francisco, CA Over the weekend of March 15-16, 112 people from California and beyond attended the Can't Stop Won't Stop California Alliance Convening in Riverside, California. Find out more at www.pushbacknetwork.org.