Our mission is to educate, organize, and unite low income people to know what our rights are, to stand up for those rights, and to achieve those rights. STAND UP FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR COMMUNITY! We are a low-income rights, anti-oppression organization in Springfield, MA! Arise is committed to the principle that poor and working people can solve the problems we face, if we work together to address them. Our mission is:1. To educate, organize and unite low-income working people and people on entitlement programs to know what our rights are, to stand up for those rights, and to achieve those rights;2. To educate the community at large as to its common interest in social justice for all;3. To promote involvement in the electoral process;4. To develop our self-esteem;5. To teach ourselves to fight oppression in all its manifestations.