Past actions

From December 2024 to February 2025, SURJ ran a 10-week “Gear Up Training and Action Program” – a powerful opportunity to build our skills, community, and power in the lead-up to 2025. Together, we learned from social justice experts about how to organize under authoritarianism, received training in skills we’ll need to fight back, and… Read more: Gear Up Training and Action Program

Coming off the heels of our massive victory in Rep. Summer Lee’s race, SURJ pivoted to protect Rep. Bowman’s seat in NY-16. Bowman’s challenger, George Lattimer, was recruited by AIPAC and received $600,000 from the far right-aligned Super PAC. And just like Summer Lee’s opponent, he began accepting large checks from MAGA super donors. These… Read more: 1,000+ SURJ members showed up for Rep. Jamal Bowman

In 2024, SURJ organized tens of thousands of white voters to support members of the Squad—the majority women of color cohort made up of the most progressive Congressional representatives—in their primary races as a “build” part of our Block, Build, Grow 2024 strategy, recognizing that we need to BUILD progressive governing power while be block… Read more: Rep. Summer Lee wins! Thanks to 400+ SURJ members who helped power the victory

At SURJ, we believe that every kid deserves access to quality public education and a school where they feel safe and supported. This is why we launched our campaign “All In for All Students,” which brought together parents and community leaders to rally around school board candidates and school board initiatives that support healthy learning environments for ALL students – no matter their race, zip code, or who they want to take to prom.

In the 2023 Kentucky gubernatorial election, SURJ National organized to support the re-election of Governor Andy Beshear in our Fight Like Hell for Kentucky campaign. SURJ has deep roots in Kentucky, and this electoral work added to the people power we built in 2022 in contributing to a statewide effort to beat Kentucky’s anti-abortion Amendment… Read more: Fight Like Hell for Kentucky 2023

Over 100 volunteers with Louisville SURJ contacted over 2,500 residents in majority-white neighborhoods and distributed tens of thousands of copies of the Judge endorsement slate to Jefferson County voters. Louisville SURJ has been working for years to end the practice of cash bail, which holds people who have not been convicted of a crime in cages because they do not have the ability to pay. Eleven people have died in Louisville’s jail in the year before the election. 

From December 2024 to February 2025, SURJ ran a 10-week “Gear Up Training and Action Program” – a powerful opportunity to build our skills, community, and power in the lead-up to 2025. Together, we learned from social justice experts about how to organize under authoritarianism, received training in skills we’ll need to fight back, and… Read more: Gear Up Training and Action Program

Coming off the heels of our massive victory in Rep. Summer Lee’s race, SURJ pivoted to protect Rep. Bowman’s seat in NY-16. Bowman’s challenger, George Lattimer, was recruited by AIPAC and received $600,000 from the far right-aligned Super PAC. And just like Summer Lee’s opponent, he began accepting large checks from MAGA super donors. These… Read more: 1,000+ SURJ members showed up for Rep. Jamal Bowman

In 2024, SURJ organized tens of thousands of white voters to support members of the Squad—the majority women of color cohort made up of the most progressive Congressional representatives—in their primary races as a “build” part of our Block, Build, Grow 2024 strategy, recognizing that we need to BUILD progressive governing power while be block… Read more: Rep. Summer Lee wins! Thanks to 400+ SURJ members who helped power the victory

At SURJ, we believe that every kid deserves access to quality public education and a school where they feel safe and supported. This is why we launched our campaign “All In for All Students,” which brought together parents and community leaders to rally around school board candidates and school board initiatives that support healthy learning environments for ALL students – no matter their race, zip code, or who they want to take to prom.

In the 2023 Kentucky gubernatorial election, SURJ National organized to support the re-election of Governor Andy Beshear in our Fight Like Hell for Kentucky campaign. SURJ has deep roots in Kentucky, and this electoral work added to the people power we built in 2022 in contributing to a statewide effort to beat Kentucky’s anti-abortion Amendment… Read more: Fight Like Hell for Kentucky 2023

Over 100 volunteers with Louisville SURJ contacted over 2,500 residents in majority-white neighborhoods and distributed tens of thousands of copies of the Judge endorsement slate to Jefferson County voters. Louisville SURJ has been working for years to end the practice of cash bail, which holds people who have not been convicted of a crime in cages because they do not have the ability to pay. Eleven people have died in Louisville’s jail in the year before the election. 

From December 2024 to February 2025, SURJ ran a 10-week “Gear Up Training and Action Program” – a powerful opportunity to build our skills, community, and power in the lead-up to 2025. Together, we learned from social justice experts about how to organize under authoritarianism, received training in skills we’ll need to fight back, and… Read more: Gear Up Training and Action Program

Coming off the heels of our massive victory in Rep. Summer Lee’s race, SURJ pivoted to protect Rep. Bowman’s seat in NY-16. Bowman’s challenger, George Lattimer, was recruited by AIPAC and received $600,000 from the far right-aligned Super PAC. And just like Summer Lee’s opponent, he began accepting large checks from MAGA super donors. These… Read more: 1,000+ SURJ members showed up for Rep. Jamal Bowman

In 2024, SURJ organized tens of thousands of white voters to support members of the Squad—the majority women of color cohort made up of the most progressive Congressional representatives—in their primary races as a “build” part of our Block, Build, Grow 2024 strategy, recognizing that we need to BUILD progressive governing power while be block… Read more: Rep. Summer Lee wins! Thanks to 400+ SURJ members who helped power the victory

At SURJ, we believe that every kid deserves access to quality public education and a school where they feel safe and supported. This is why we launched our campaign “All In for All Students,” which brought together parents and community leaders to rally around school board candidates and school board initiatives that support healthy learning environments for ALL students – no matter their race, zip code, or who they want to take to prom.

In the 2023 Kentucky gubernatorial election, SURJ National organized to support the re-election of Governor Andy Beshear in our Fight Like Hell for Kentucky campaign. SURJ has deep roots in Kentucky, and this electoral work added to the people power we built in 2022 in contributing to a statewide effort to beat Kentucky’s anti-abortion Amendment… Read more: Fight Like Hell for Kentucky 2023

Over 100 volunteers with Louisville SURJ contacted over 2,500 residents in majority-white neighborhoods and distributed tens of thousands of copies of the Judge endorsement slate to Jefferson County voters. Louisville SURJ has been working for years to end the practice of cash bail, which holds people who have not been convicted of a crime in cages because they do not have the ability to pay. Eleven people have died in Louisville’s jail in the year before the election. 

From December 2024 to February 2025, SURJ ran a 10-week “Gear Up Training and Action Program” – a powerful opportunity to build our skills, community, and power in the lead-up to 2025. Together, we learned from social justice experts about how to organize under authoritarianism, received training in skills we’ll need to fight back, and… Read more: Gear Up Training and Action Program

Coming off the heels of our massive victory in Rep. Summer Lee’s race, SURJ pivoted to protect Rep. Bowman’s seat in NY-16. Bowman’s challenger, George Lattimer, was recruited by AIPAC and received $600,000 from the far right-aligned Super PAC. And just like Summer Lee’s opponent, he began accepting large checks from MAGA super donors. These… Read more: 1,000+ SURJ members showed up for Rep. Jamal Bowman

In 2024, SURJ organized tens of thousands of white voters to support members of the Squad—the majority women of color cohort made up of the most progressive Congressional representatives—in their primary races as a “build” part of our Block, Build, Grow 2024 strategy, recognizing that we need to BUILD progressive governing power while be block… Read more: Rep. Summer Lee wins! Thanks to 400+ SURJ members who helped power the victory

At SURJ, we believe that every kid deserves access to quality public education and a school where they feel safe and supported. This is why we launched our campaign “All In for All Students,” which brought together parents and community leaders to rally around school board candidates and school board initiatives that support healthy learning environments for ALL students – no matter their race, zip code, or who they want to take to prom.

In the 2023 Kentucky gubernatorial election, SURJ National organized to support the re-election of Governor Andy Beshear in our Fight Like Hell for Kentucky campaign. SURJ has deep roots in Kentucky, and this electoral work added to the people power we built in 2022 in contributing to a statewide effort to beat Kentucky’s anti-abortion Amendment… Read more: Fight Like Hell for Kentucky 2023

Over 100 volunteers with Louisville SURJ contacted over 2,500 residents in majority-white neighborhoods and distributed tens of thousands of copies of the Judge endorsement slate to Jefferson County voters. Louisville SURJ has been working for years to end the practice of cash bail, which holds people who have not been convicted of a crime in cages because they do not have the ability to pay. Eleven people have died in Louisville’s jail in the year before the election.