Category Archives: Community Organizing
Arise annual meeting Saturday, September 12th in Montgomery
Alabama Arise is our featured ministry for the month of September. Arise is a coalition of groups across the state advocating for low-income people at the state legislature. Rev. Angie was a co-founder of Arise in the late 80’s, and since then, Arise has won victories on tax fairness and tenant-landlord rights.
Some issues that Arise has been working on this year include:
-protecting and expanding Medicaid to provide healthcare for all low-income Alabamians
-funding for affordable housing, education and public transit
-protecting borrowers from predatory payday and title loans
As a member group, Beloved can send up to 6 voting representatives to the Arise annual meeting in Montgomery to help decide on our issues and strategy for the coming year.
The meeting will be held Saturday, September 12th, from 10 am – 3 pm at Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Montgomery.
Click here to RSVP and talk to Robyn about carpooling!
Minimum Wage Town Hall meeting Thursday, August 20th
Update: August 19th, 2015- Good news! This event has been canceled due to the Birmingham City Council enacting a minimum wage increase ahead of schedule!
Great work and congratulations to those who organized for months to make this happen. Birmingham is now the first city in the deep South to raise the wage!
Movie night Tuesday, August 18th
Sister City Connection: Spoken Word Fundraiser July 23rd
On Thursday, July 23rd, join us at Beloved from 6:30-8:30 pm for a spoken word fundraiser to support some of Birmingham’s best youth poets!
This is a unique event featuring Birmingham’s own women’s spoken word collective, Sister City Connection, performing in concert with youth poets from Birmingham’s Real Life Poets.
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