Nashville Advocates with the Un-housed (NAU)

12/26/2013

Calling all new organizers and people interested in working for positive change in our community! This training institute is for you! Please answer the following questions as completely as possible to submit your application for our 4-session Nashville Organizer Institute this January. Get tools for organizing and get plugged in!
(Sundays in January 3:00-6:00 pm)

https://opentablenashville.wufoo.com/forms/nashville-organizer-institute/

11/27/2013

When temperatures drop to 25 degrees, Open Table Nashville opens emergency shelters to get homeless people off the streets.

11/17/2013

Dinner at the McIntyre's tonight at 6:30! Bring a side if you can!

11/12/2013

Emergency Winter Warming shelters are opening up Tuesday and Wednesday nights! Let us know if you can help out in any way.

09/18/2013

anyone out there have a car cover we could borrow for a short term project?

08/05/2013

Seven years ago, a homeless woman named Tara Cole who was sleeping at Riverfront Park was pushed into the Cumberland River and drowned. It took authorities 10 days to find her body (read the whole story here: http://freedomtracks.com/taracole.html). Tara, like too many others, was a victim of hate crimes against people on the streets. This Wednesday, August 7th, a memorial bench in honor of Tara Cole will be revealed at 9:00 a.m. at Riverfront Park. Join homeless advocates, community leaders, and members of the press for this memorial service and let’s work to make sure something like this never happens again. Many thanks to Howard Allen and others who have worked for years to make this memorial bench a reality. Again, here are the details:

When: Wednesday, August 7th at 9:00am (this is exactly seven years after Tara’s death)

Where: Riverfront Park (near the intersection of Broadway and 1st Ave by the horseshoe)

Parking: Look for meter or street parking nearby. There is meter parking on Gay Street just north of Riverfront Park.

Please help us spread the word!!

07/24/2013

An inspirational three days with new friends and allies. Excited to work together in the future!

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130723/NEWS/307230124/-Pilgrimage-social-justice-concludes-city-hall

The Pilgrimage for Jobs, Equity, and Fairness ended on the steps of city hall yesterday, concluding the three-day march with chants, singing, and speeches.

07/22/2013

Great first day and thorough coverage from NewsChannel 5! See you out there tomorrow Nashville.

http://www.newschannel5.com/story/22896689/jobs-equality-rall-begins-march-through-nashville

Unemployment and poverty have been two issues that can't be solved overnight, but dozens of folks in Nashville decided to take the first steps toward tackling the issues.

07/11/2013

Very proud to say that a tireless advocate we all know very well through working for human rights in the homeless community -- Wendell Segroves -- will be commissioned to the Metropolitan Homelessness Commission Friday!

The Homelessness Commission meeting is this Friday, July 12th at 9:30 a.m. The meeting will be held at Sonny West Conference Room in the Howard Office Building at 700 2nd Ave. South.

03/26/2013

On Good Friday, March 29th, you are invited to join faith leaders, homeless advocates, and other community members as we journey across downtown Nashville on foot to observe and participate in the Stations of the Cross. The Stations of the Cross originated as a way to help Jesus’ followers retrace his steps to the cross. They often take the form of a spiritual pilgrimage through his suffering and crucifixion, enabling participants to contemplate and enter into the mystery of Jesus’ gift of himself to us.

Likewise, we’ll journey through our city on a spiritual and physical pilgrimage to contemplate what the stations mean for us today and for the marginalized, impoverished, homeless, and condemned in our community. We’ll visit symbolic places where Jesus and the poor continue to be betrayed, condemned, helped, consoled, and crucified like the jail, State Capitol, Legislative Plaza, Courthouse, and downtown churches. We’ll meet at the park on Church Street directly in front of the Downtown Public Library (615 Church St.) at 4:00 p.m. You can park at the library (make sure to have your ticket validated).

You’ll need to wear shoes comfortable for walking and everyone is encouraged to wear black as a sign of mourning. We plan to conclude around 7:30 p.m. If you have questions or would like more information, please e-mail us at [email protected].

PARTICIPATING COMMUNITY LEADERS AND GROUPS:
- Don Beisswenger (former Vanderbilt Divinity School professor, homeless advocate, and author of Locked Up: Letters and Papers of a Prisoner of Conscience)
- Stacy Rector (Executive Director of Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty)
- Ndume Olatushani (former death row inmate who spent 28 years in prison for a crime he did not commit) and Anne-Marie Moyes (Ndume's partner and the lawyer who helped overturn his case)
- Preston Shipp (lawyer, former prosecutor, and Lipscomb University professor)
- Anita Smith (homeless advocate, speaker, and vendor for The Contributor)
- Nashville Homeless Organizing Coalition
- Open Table Nashville
- Amos House Community
- Nashville Advocates with the Un-Housed

03/05/2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QPKKQnijnsM

Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actua...

02/22/2013

Hello all,

Some great things going on this weekend. Please join us especially for the Homeless Organizing Coalition Meeting on Saturday and be sure to meet Willie Baptist from the Poverty Initiative in NYC this Sunday! Lauren and Brett spent time with him and the Poverty Initiative this past month in NYC -- quality people doing excellent work.

Willie Baptist is a formerly homeless father who came out of the Watts uprisings, the Black Student Movement, and working as a lead organizer with the United Steelworkers has 40 years of experience organizing amongst the poor including with the National Union of the Homeless, the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, the National Welfare Rights Union, the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, and many other networks. Willie serves as the Poverty Initiative Scholar-in-Residence and is the Coordinator of the Poverty Scholars.

+ Friday @ 7pm: A screening of “Tent City U.S.A,” a documentary that tells the story of Nashville’s largest homeless encampment and its residents before and after the flood of May 2010. Brett will be hosting and there will be Q&A panel with Wendell and others after the film.

Location: Trevecca Nazarene University (Map Index #31) http://www.trevecca.edu/campus-map/

+ Saturday @ 1-3pm: Homeless Organizing Coalition Meeting at Mckendree United Methodist. This is what we've been hoping for on the scale of a larger movement for housing and de-criminalization. Please don't miss out on this moment.

Location: 523 Church St Nashville, TN 37219. (right beside Downtown Presbyterian)

+ Sunday @ 3pm: Join with faith leaders from across Nashville (and Willie Baptist, from the Poverty Initiative and Scholar-in-Residence at Union Theological Seminary in New York) to bear witness that Nashville is better than wage theft, and to pray that Dr. Rajesh Aggarwal does the right thing and meets workers' basic demands for minimum wage, overtime pay, breaks, and the removal of abusive supervisors.

Full info: https://www.facebook.com/events/434348829978037/?fref=ts

Location: Comfort Inn, 1501 Demonbreun St.