All persons need the means to take care of themselves and their loved ones without being exploited, dominated, injured, or abused.

Firstly, it means having equitable access to effective educational and training opportunities.

It means having equitable access to good-paying jobs in safe workplaces, the right to organized labor, and strong protections from abuse and discrimination.

It means providing strong safety nets during economic downturns.

And it means recognizing the crucial role that parents and caregivers play in our society and economy.

MOSES fights for access in every neighborhood to affordable preventive and adequate health care, mental health and substance abuse care, and for pure and affordable water. It fights for fair taxation and rental housing protections.

MOSES supports public policies which make much less use of license suspension, and jail and prison time to deter offenders and which enable the savings realized from those very expensive and ineffective practices to be devoted instead to restorative justice options, such as community service, victim-offender mediation, civil offense diversion, tethered parole and agreed upon reparations.

MOSES supports school policies that minimize the use of suspensions and expulsions to correct misbehavior, and which instead foster personal accountability and academic success.

MOSES trains and organizes citizens to watch both civil and criminal court cases for questionable and/or discriminatory justice system practices.

We engage and train grassroots citizens in-depth on how public decisions are made, on who makes them, and on just how they can impact those decisions.

We engage and train grassroots activists on how best to organize an independent political action committee within their church, synagogue, mosque, or neighborhood to research and advise people whom they know, and who trust their advice, on those obscure but important issues and offices at the bottom of the ballot.

We work all of our established connections to Get Out The Vote (GOTV). We organize public forums and workshops on elections. We train folks on how best to observe compliance with precinct election requirements and on post-election counting. We advocate for sufficient budgets to enable quick and convenient voting locations. We engage all of our member groups to become voter hubs and to help voters obtain absentee/early ballots.

We work with state-wide coalitions to protect our rights to vote and to prevent voter suppression.

We believe infrastructure is more than concrete and pipes—it’s a matter of justice.

For years, we’ve fought for a world-class regional transit system in Metro Detroit, one that matches the reliability and accessibility of cities like Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. More recently, we’ve expanded our focus to include equitable access to clean water, reliable drainage, and modern sewage systems—basic needs that many communities still lack.

Past public and private policies on land use, highways, banking, and public transit, have created deep disparities across Metro Detroit. Decades of neglect have left many residents trapped in under-resourced neighborhoods, cut off from opportunity.

MOSES is calling on federal and state leaders to make sure Metro Detroiters are trained, certified and hired for the massive infrastructure work ahead. This isn’t just about projects. It’s about people.