Our History
Founded in 2009, Presente builds power for our communities through organizing with our members, shifts culture through our media accountability work, and stays Presente by mobilizing and responding to the critical issues of our time. From immigration to climate change, to corporate accountability and economic justice, our organizing apparatus shifts power to the people and gives communities a pathway to launch urgent (“rapid response”) public education campaigns at scale, in the moment. We are not or will never be a single issue organization because we are not and will never be a single issue people.
Our Story
Over the Years
Growth
- Grown to more than 500,000 member-activists nationwide and in Puerto Rico.
campaigns
- Organized many successful campaigns such as #BastaDobbs (removing Lou Dobbs from CNN); campaigns to raise visibility and win the release of migrants in ICE detention; and a campaign that resulted in positive federal protections for workers against wage theft.
SOLIDARTITY
- In solidarity with the African American community, launched a successful action demanding that Facebook stop censoring videos about Philando Castile, who was shot and killed by police during a traffic stop. After 20,000 Presente volunteers signed our petition, the social media giant re-uploaded the video documenting the facts of Castile’s death.
campaigns
- Organized many successful campaigns such as #BastaDobbs (removing Lou Dobbs from CNN); campaigns to raise visibility and win the release of migrants in ICE detention; and a campaign that resulted in positive federal protections for workers against wage theft.