While the word “unprecedented” has been on repeat since November 6th, it is undeniable that our current political horizon holds escalated challenges we haven’t seen before. We must soberly face that reality. And– there are lessons we can glean from global movements for justice who have been resisting– and winning– under repressive conditions for decades.
Click here to view the training webinar, “What we’re facing– and how we fight back: building resistance under a MAGA administration”, a conversation with partners who have been leading social change work on the frontlines for years in Black communities fighting for political power, immigrant rights organizing, and under authoritarian governments in Brazil.
After our panel with Rukia Lumumba from the Movement for Black Lives, Marcela Hernandez from Detention Watch Network, and Tica Moreno from World March of Women Brazil, SURJ organizers led us through a training on relational recruitment and how to build our movements– a core skill we’ll need to get to the scale needed to win campaigns and transform conditions.
Tika, Rukia, and Marcela shared poignant lessons from organizing for Black liberation in the South, ousting Bolsonaro in Brazil, and lessons from immigrant communities in the US and the need to show up right now under Trump.
As Trump gets his far-right cabinet and executive orders in place to hit the ground running in January, we’re getting ourselves organized to show up powerfully and resist where we can alongside SURJ’s partner organizations like those represented on the call, including the Movement for Black Lives and Detention Watch Network.