This weekend, three Black people were murdered in Jacksonville, Florida by a white person influenced by racist ideology. Our hearts are broken and we are holding the impacted families and broader community in our hearts as they grieve.
Racist political …
he news about queer people these days is mostly horrifying and heartbreaking, so we’re proud to share a bit of queer joy and resilience as we come to the end of pride month.
This past week, members of the Kentucky …
“My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.”- Leslie Feinburg, white butch activist and author
Happy pride month! Across our staff and membership, so many of us are queer. So many …
The second prong of SURJ’s three year strategy to block authoritarianism and build a base of white people to win is to grow our work in poor and working class white communities in the South.
The South is key to …
The first prong of SURJ’s three year strategy is to stop authoritarianism from taking over the federal government in 2024.
For the next three years, we will be working to mobilize millions of white voters to:
Over the last few months, we’ve been doing some deep strategizing to assess this current political moment we’re in and ask the question: what are the biggest threats we’re facing to justice today and where is SURJ best …
“SURJ has taught me the practice of hope as a joyful discipline. To resist the pacifying, demobilizing culture of doom scrolling, cynicism, resignation, and passive critique.”- Shea, a SURJ member on our mass call
What is the role and responsibility …
After the racist murders in Buffalo, NY in 2022 it became widely known that the shooter subscribed to the “Great Replacement Theory,” a racist ideology that claims white people’s political power is intentionally and systematically being reduced by …
Today, we at Showing Up for Racial Justice are outraged and grieving in light of the Supreme Court ruling that overturns the right to an abortion in every state. Though it was expected, this is a heavy and difficult day …
This year in Georgia, we all saw what is possible when we follow the lead of visionary Black-led organizing and move critical margins of white voters to support racial and economic justice. We know these momentous wins didn’t happen overnight …
