NOAH in a Nutshell

Nashville Organized for Action and Hope (NOAH) is an anti-racist, inter-faith coalition of congregations, community organizations, and labor unions (around 70 member organizations). We aim to amplify the power of ordinary people so that their voices are heard in the public arena. GNUUC is a founding member of NOAH.

NOAH is a member of Gamaliel, a national network of local organizations committed to building political power by uniting people of different races and faiths.

NOAH engages ordinary people in the political and economic decisions affecting their lives, acting as a unified voice for the faith and justice community to act on its values in the public arena. NOAH does not endorse political candidates but gets them to endorse our issues agenda, and pledge to work with NOAH if they are elected.

Currently, NOAH has four task forces, selected at its most recent Issues Convention: Affordable Housing; Education; Economic Equity, Jobs, and Transportation; and Transformational Justice. Additionally, there are three working groups: the Faith Leaders Caucus, made up of clergy members, Integrated Voter Engagement (IVE), which engages with voters about the issues they care about, and, more recently, the Immigrant Rights Campaign, which has partnered with The Remix to provide Know Your Rights trainings, among other things.

Join Us at the No Kings Protest

If you are marching in the No Kings protest Saturday, March 28, from 10 am - 1 pm, and you would like to meet up with us, contact Kristin Reveal, kristin.reveal@gnuuc.org or text her at 615-400-3445 by Friday to join a group text. You are also welcome to text the day of, but it might be harder to coordinate.

Details

Saturday, March 28, 10am – 1pm CDT

592 S 1st St, Nashville, TN 37213

Bus

Note the WeGo bus from Bellevue does not run on the weekends.

For other bus routes see the WeGo website.

Parking

For parking, we would try:

Music City Center Parking, 701 Demonbreun St, Nashville, TN 37203. It is about a 20 minute walk across the pedestrian bridge.  It is $15/hour.

Metro Courthouse / Public Square Garage, 101 James Robertson Pkwy, Nashville, TN 37201. It costs $5 on the weekend. It will take 22 minutes to walk, but you'll have to cross Woodland St instead of the pedestrian crossing.

Nisson Lot R, Nissan Stadium - Lot R, 400 S 1st St, LP Field, Nashville, TN 37213 (on the same side of the river) often has free parking for 2 hours when there is not a game, but it is small and we think it will quickly fill. It might be blocked off as well.

Sign up at No Kings Nashville Tennessee

The Mental Health Cooperative was founded in 1993 with a bold mission to provide community-based care for adults with serious mental illnesses. We united three essential services — Urban Case Management, Continuous Treatment Team, and the Mobile Crisis Team — into one coordinated model focused on access, dignity, and real outcomes.”

Our January Share the Plate partner is Side with Love, the organizing strategy team of the Unitarian Universalist Association.

Side With Love confronts exclusion, oppression, and violence rooted in identity. With the goal of building Beloved Community, they pursue social change through advocacy, public witness, and solidarity with those whose lives are publicly demeaned.

Through education, organizing, and collective action, Side With Love supports work for democracy, climate justice, racial and immigration justice, and LGBTQIA+ and gender justice—reminding us that these struggles are deeply connected, and that lasting change happens when we act together, grounded in love.

Side With Love has also supported our wider Tennessee UU community, including a recent grant that helped make the TUUCAN Fall Flock in Nashville possible.

We invite you to give generously today as a way of choosing, together, to Side With Love.

Our December Share the Plate partner is the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) through its Guest at Your Table program. For half a century and counting, UUSC has worked with faith communities across the country to bring our partners’ stories and experiences to your family table. The long-running Guest at Your Table program is a chance to learn about our partners’ work and support our shared efforts to advance human rights.

NOAH will be holding a special "Power Planning Training" this Saturday, Oct. 28, from 10 AM to 3 PM, at West End United Methodist Church (2200 West End Ave). Lunch will be provided. All are welcome! 

This training will dive deep into one-on-ones -- and also look at specific ways to take action to win on the issues that were identified by the NOAH congregations and groups. These are the fundamentals of organizing and extremely useful for where NOAH is right now. There will be specific breakouts for Affordable Housing, Education, Criminal Justice, and Economic-Equity-and-Transportation.  

Please come and be with us!  Register ahead of time at bit.ly/metro-power-plan, so there will be enough materials and food!