Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength

{{short description|Interfaith group based in Detroit, Michigan, United States}}

Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength (MOSES) is an interfaith group based in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

MOSES was founded in 1997.{{cite news|title=Faith-based group pushes for reforms|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DTNB&s_site=detnews&f_site=detnews&f_sitename=Detroit+News%2C+The+%28MI%29&p_multi=DTNB&p_theme=gannett&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F753BC25EE7350C&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|accessdate=December 13, 2012|newspaper=The Detroit News|date=September 25, 2002}}

As of 2002, 130 congregations were participating in it.{{cite news|title=Smart Pushes Plan To Raise Tax If Vote Ok'd, Funding Could Nearly Double|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/freep/access/1815135501.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+22%2C+2002&author=KATHLEEN+GRAY&pub=Detroit+Free+Press&desc=SMART+PUSHES+PLAN+TO+RAISE+TAX+IF+VOTE+OK%27D%2C+FUNDING+COULD+NEARLY+DOUBLE&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131163354/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/freep/access/1815135501.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+22,+2002&author=KATHLEEN+GRAY&pub=Detroit+Free+Press&desc=SMART+PUSHES+PLAN+TO+RAISE+TAX+IF+VOTE+OK'D,+FUNDING+COULD+NEARLY+DOUBLE&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 31, 2013|accessdate=December 13, 2012|newspaper=Detroit Free Press|date=Apr 22, 2002|author=Kathleen Gray}}

MOSES notably campaigned for improvements to public transportation.{{cite news|title=Group Is Pushing For Transit Help Interfaith Coalition Calls On Engler To Aid Metro Detroit Workers|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/freep/access/1809502831.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+27%2C+2000&author=JEFF+GERRITT&pub=Detroit+Free+Press&desc=GROUP+IS+PUSHING+FOR+TRANSIT+HELP+INTERFAITH+COALITION+CALLS+ON+ENGLER+TO+AID+METRO+DETROIT+WORKERS&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131145135/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/freep/access/1809502831.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+27,+2000&author=JEFF+GERRITT&pub=Detroit+Free+Press&desc=GROUP+IS+PUSHING+FOR+TRANSIT+HELP+INTERFAITH+COALITION+CALLS+ON+ENGLER+TO+AID+METRO+DETROIT+WORKERS&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 31, 2013|accessdate=December 13, 2012|newspaper=Detroit Free Press|date=September 27, 2000|author=Jeff Gerritt}}

It issued a lawsuit against the Detroit Department of Transportation in 2005 in protest against the lack of lifts for wheelchair users to access buses.{{cite news|title=Alining Detroit Bus System Has New Woe|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/freep/access/1810808461.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jan+19%2C+2005&author=BILL+LAITNER&pub=Detroit+Free+Press&desc=AILING+DETROIT+BUS+SYSTEM+HAS+NEW+WOE&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130201000813/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/freep/access/1810808461.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jan+19,+2005&author=BILL+LAITNER&pub=Detroit+Free+Press&desc=AILING+DETROIT+BUS+SYSTEM+HAS+NEW+WOE&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 1, 2013|accessdate=December 13, 2012|newspaper=Detroit Free Press|date=Jan 19, 2005|author=Bill Laitner}}

Other subjects on which it has campaigned include healthcare,{{cite news|title=Group's petition for health care ends|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DTNB&s_site=detnews&f_site=detnews&f_sitename=Detroit+News%2C+The+%28MI%29&p_multi=DTNB&p_theme=gannett&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=12198BE5DCA76748&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|accessdate=December 13, 2012|newspaper=Detroit News|date=June 28, 2008|author=Gary Heinlein}}

civil rights of immigrants,{{cite news|title=Immigrants' Fears Rise In Southwest Detroit|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/freep/access/1766314921.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+10%2C+2006&author=NIRAJ+WARIKOO%3B+CECIL+ANGEL&pub=Detroit+Free+Press&desc=IMMIGRANTS%27+FEARS+RISE+IN+SOUTHWEST+DETROIT&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131200246/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/freep/access/1766314921.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+10,+2006&author=NIRAJ+WARIKOO;+CECIL+ANGEL&pub=Detroit+Free+Press&desc=IMMIGRANTS'+FEARS+RISE+IN+SOUTHWEST+DETROIT&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 31, 2013|accessdate=December 13, 2012|newspaper=Detroit Free Press|date=Jun 10, 2006|author=Niraj Warikoo|author2=Cecil Angel}}

{{cite news|title=100 protest deportations in Detroit|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DTNB&s_site=detnews&f_site=detnews&f_sitename=Detroit+News%2C+The+%28MI%29&p_multi=DTNB&p_theme=gannett&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=125E19870D928490&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|accessdate=December 13, 2012|newspaper=Detroit News|date=January 22, 2009|author=Santiago Esparza}}

retail quality{{cite web|title=Study finds Detroit food choices poor|url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/01/20/Study-finds-Detroit-food-choices-poor/UPI-99481327093014/?spt=hs&or=tn|accessdate=December 13, 2012|publisher=United Press International|date=January 20, 2012}}

and public safety. From 2001 it campaigned for land banks to take control of abandoned property, leading to the establishment of the Detroit land bank authority in 2008.{{cite web|title=Regional Issue: Land Bank|url=http://www.mosesmi.org/landbank.html|work=July 29, 2008|publisher=MOSES|accessdate=December 13, 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712155627/http://www.mosesmi.org//landbank.html|archivedate=July 12, 2012}}

MOSES is currently based in the Michigan Building in Downtown Detroit.