MOSES Justice Action Ministry
MOSES – Madison Organizing in Strength, Equity & Solidarity
Our mission is to build collective power to dismantle the systems of mass incarceration and mass supervision and to eradicate the racial disparities in our community that contribute to them. JRUUC is a member of this non-partisan interfaith organization. For more information, go to mosesmadison.org or email us at info@mosesmadison.org. MOSES is an affiliate of WISDOM, a state-wide organization.
General Meetings are the first Sunday of each month, 2:30-4:30pm
If the first Sunday is a holiday weekend, then it moves to the second Sunday
Check website for the meeting location, any one of our member congregations
Contact the JRUUC MOSES Justice Action Ministry Team (Mary Anglim, Joan Kemble, Diane Moss) to find out more about how JRUUC members and friends are working with MOSES.
MOSES in the News
Nov. 16th News Article – Protestors demand end to lockdowns and for improved conditions.
MOSES Transformation Celebration and Fundraising Gala
December 9, 5:30 – 9 pm at Brassworks at the Goodman Center
Join us to hear the inspiring stories of our three Honorees to celebrate their accomplishments and to learn more about the work of MOSES. Tickets $75, or $65 for two. See Mosesmadison.org for more information. JRUUC is a founding member of MOSES.
Past MOSES activities and news:
Oct. 10 12-1pm – MOSES/WISDOM Action Protesting Prison Lockdown Practices
MOSES stands for Madison Organizing in Strength, Equity, and Solidarity for Criminal Legal System Reform. JRUUC is a member of this organization.
This past month, the New York Times published a significant piece that was picked up by Milwaukee and Madison newspapers as well. You can read it here through the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. It concerns the agonizing months-long lockdown that occurred at the Waupun Correctional Institution. Since June, people at Green Bay’s penitentiary have faced remarkably similar conditions.
On October 10th from 12-1pm at the steps of the State Capitol, WISDOM, its affiliates and partners will stage a public demonstration against the Department of Corrections’ cruel, destructive, and detrimental “lockdown” procedures at its numerous institutions. In order to solve this human rights disaster, we will be urging the governor, the state legislature, and the Department of Corrections to end the lockdowns, reduce the jail population and reinvest taxpayer funds in community-based alternatives. Please join us during this important moment.
Register for the event in advance here.
Following our press conference with local and state media outlets, we will stand with the family members of incarcerated people as they enter into Governor Evers offices in the State Capitol building demanding he schedule a meeting to explain what he intends to do to immediately address the inhumane, abusive, and critical emergency conditions in our state prisons. We need your show of support as we make it perfectly clear to the Governor that action must be taken now!
Besides the opportunity to support family members of people in prison as they demand relief for their loved ones, participants will have the opportunity to tour a replica of a Solitary Confinement cell. Men and women are forced to spend extended periods of time alone or with only one other person in cramped spaces while prisons are locked down. There will also be an opportunity to sign a petition demanding that the Department of Corrections comply with statutory mandates to provide for the rehabilitation of incarcerated people, and support for those being released.
Contact Joan Kemble if you are interested in carpooling with other Reeb folks.
MOSES Meets at JRUUC October 1st 2-4pm at Reeb
Please come to meet folks from other congregations, and learn what MOSES groups do. Hoping for a good turn-out from Reeb.
MOSES is an interfaith, non-partisan organization that unites congregations, non-profit organizations and individuals to build a better community. We join together to take action on social justice public policy issues, especially mass incarceration in Wisconsin. Click here for more about MOSES.
MOSES Meets at JRUUC Sept. 10th 2-4pm
Please come to meet folks from other congregations, and learn what MOSES groups do. Hoping for a good turn-out from Reeb.
MOSES is an interfaith, non-partisan organization that unites congregations, non-profit organizations and individuals to build a better community. We join together to take action on social justice public policy issues, especially mass incarceration in Wisconsin. Click here for more about MOSES.
MOSES NEWS
August 2023 – Under “Old Law” prisoners were given long sentences, then expected to be eligible for parole before serving the whole time. In the 1980s the law changed, disallowing paroles.
Wisdom, the overall group that works with MOSES and other such groups around Wisconsin, is a new campaign to give a second chance for two prisoners with excessive sentences. It has identified two prisoners imprisoned when young with extenuating circumstances. In April at Madison Action Day the requests and supporting documentation for commutation were presented to Gov. Evers.
There is a petition campaign so the Governor will see support for this. To sign go here or better still circulate a petition; give it to Joan Kemble. We also suggest you write a short letter to Gov Evers for commutation.
MOSES meetings are on the first Sunday of the month at 2:30pm. They are in person at various churches, but also on zoom. Contact the Secretary of MOSES for the zoom address and for meeting location. The September meeting will be at James Reeb on Sept. 10th.