Looking for an easy way to plug into the work for justice and to gain community organizing skills? Our monthly action hours support the work of our partners to win racial and economic justice. Join us in monthly, one-hour gatherings …
SURJ is a coalition member of Communities Not Prisons which is an Alabama-led coalition of progressive activists, students, formerly incarcerated people, rural residents, and Democrats and Republicans who are fighting the proposed construction of three new private prisons in Alabama. …
By Oliver Whang, The New Yorker
Cara Grimes and her fiancé, Justin Pitts, moved with their eight-year-old daughter from Delaware, Ohio, to Bedford County, Tennessee, in the spring of 2019. Grimes was pregnant, and the family took up residence in …
by David Sands, Second Wave Media
SURJ Detroit member Erin Dwyer would be the first to acknowledge that people of color, especially Black people, have always been at the forefront of fighting for racial justice in the United States. Dwyer’s …
In a recent episode of Next Economy Now, Ryan Honeyman gets together with Erin Heaney, executive director of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ).
Erin shares about her family history of involvement in activism, from the struggles in Northern …
A note from our national director, Erin Heaney:
Dear SURJ family,
This year, we have experienced unprecedented growth. As Black leadership across the world led people into the streets and into action in support of Black lives, we welcomed thousands …
This living document was created by the SURJ poor and working-class group as an act of love and commitment to our common desire, across the class spectrum, to bring white folks into action, dismantle white supremacy and engage with the …
Class is something white people in our movements rarely talk about. Yet is essential that we talk about and normalize it if we’re going to build a successful anti-racist movement.
How does class impact our organizing? What do middle-class and …
What does it look like to move millions of public funds away from incarceration and instead invest in the communities most harmed by prisons? And how do we get there? Black organizers in the South are leading these efforts and …
In March of 2020, Yes on Measure R (ReformLA) in Los Angeles won in a landslide and has put into motion the largest reallocation of dollars out of criminalization and into community based alternatives in US history. The coalition was …
