This month, we’re celebrating SURJ’s 14th birthday! In 2009, a few dozen white folks involved in social change work hopped on a conference phone line (remember those days?) to respond to Black movement leaders’ call for white people to organize …
This morning we’re celebrating a landslide victory in Kentucky’s governor race. SURJ played a critical role in delivering a win for Democratic Governor Andy Beshear. And if we can win in Kentucky, we know we can win big in 2024. …
A few hours ago, the United States House of Representatives elected 2020 election denier Mike Johnson to be Speaker of the House. The power of so-called Freedom Caucus-aligned, MAGA Republicans is growing and, unchecked, will have dire consequences on democratic …
“The idea that we must wait until all of our feelings are neat and orderly before we act is a fantasy.”
– Morgan Bassichis, with adrienne maree brown Monday night
As we have so many times before, today we’re writing …
Have you been dying to bring a tote bag that says “Teach my white kid about racism” to the farmer’s market this year? Or maybe through being a SURJ member, you’ve fallen in love with Kentucky and need to slap …
Whether it’s Toni Morrison’s Beloved that opened your heart in high school English class or Michelle Alexander’s New Jim Crow that powered a generation of people to fight against mass incarceration, so many of us have been transformed by a …
Protecting abortion access is racial justice. People of color are disproportionately affected by abortion bans– and the right uses abortion as a heavily moralized single-issue wedge with white voters to build power for their racist, corporate-backed agendas.
After Roe was …
In 2009, I moved back to my hometown of 2,500 people in rural South Dakota to be a teacher. That same year, my little sister, who is Native, started kindergarten and was called racist names on the playground by her …
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 …
From rising temperatures to rising authoritarianism, it can feel like any action we take right now is too late. As white people organizing white communities, we have the opportunity to invite our people in with an alternative message: “You’re right …
