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Learn the power of membership from four Arise members
Click here to donate now! Members like you and me are the heartbeat of Alabama Arise. Our collective power has brought material improvements to the lives of Alabamians, such as reducing the state grocery tax and extending postpartum Medicaid coverage. Thank you for supporting us in building a better Alabama. Will you join Arise with [...]
Personal Stories
From a childhood in the cancer ward to a lifetime in Alabama’s coverage gap
Lary Brooks is a fighter. At just 2 1/2 years old, he was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia, a bone and blood cancer that nearly took his life. Lary survived thanks to the life-saving treatment he received at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. “I was a week from dying when they found [...]
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Alabama Arise unveils 2025 roadmap for change in Alabama
Expanding Medicaid and ending the state sales tax on groceries will remain top goals on Alabama Arise’s 2025 legislative agenda. The organization also will advocate for state funds to help public schools provide free breakfast to every student. More than 450 members voted in the last week to affirm Arise’s legislative priorities. The seven priorities [...]
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Here’s what Alabama Arise heard in 2024!
Alabama Arise listens because we deeply value the input we get from members, partners and most importantly, those directly affected by the work we do together. We depend on what we hear to help guide our issue work and our strategies. We held two virtual statewide Town Hall Tuesdays this summer, and each featured three [...]
Annual Report
Annual Report 2024
2024 was a tough year, one in which we faced some of our hardest legislative roadblocks yet. Despite hardline resistance from policymakers, together we were able to lift up the needs of working families and secure new resources to keep our communities safe.
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Pres Harris celebrates three decades of organizing and community involvement
When Presdelane Harris started at Alabama Arise as the phone organizer in summer 1994, she had no idea what the next 30 years had in store. She didn’t intend on being at Arise for long. “Maybe doing this for a little while, maybe one or two years,” she said. Pres makes it clear that no [...]
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A note on this year’s Annual Meeting voting
Alabama Arise strives to center the experiences and needs of low-income and working-class members in our work. We invite our members to participate in listening sessions, propose new legislative priorities and vote to set our legislative agenda during our Annual Meeting each fall. It’s important that you, our members, drive and determine our legislative priorities. [...]
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Diverse membership is our power
As an Alabama Arise member, you use your power to help create a more equitable Alabama. Every year at our Annual Meeting, our members choose our legislative priorities and fuel our advocacy efforts. Because you are so important to our work, we want you to know who your fellow members are. We have more than [...]
Newsletter
September 2024 newsletter
Our September 2024 newsletter provides information about the legislative priorities to be discussed at our Annual Meeting.
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How Alabama can build an economy that works for workers
Labor Day is a holiday where we can reflect on the contributions that working people – and the unions that workers form to build power together – have made to the well-being of all people in the United States. These contributions include overtime pay, a five-day workweek, child labor protections and workplace safety standards.
These advances for working people didn’t come easily. Workers won them through strikes, pressure and solidarity. These advances came in the face of overwhelming opposition by bad employers that would have rather seen their workers die than to win workplace democracy.