Saturday February 8, 2020 • 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Join SURJ Bay Area’s Policy Committee for a legislative strategy session and workshop that will demystify the legislative process, build our collective legislative capacity, and highlight the legislative priorities and strategies of SURJ’s people of color (POC) led partners!

This workshop is the first of a two-part series for anyone who is passionate, curious, or wants to learn more about the ways that policy combined with grassroots organizing can be used as a tool in the movement for racial justice and collective liberation.

Saturday February 8, 2020 • 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

As the Trump administration escalates its xenophobic war in the Middle East, it continues its brutal war on immigrants. Thousands of migrants await justice in shelters, border camps, and private detention facilities across the U.S and México. In spite of the inhumane immigration policies, people are still arriving at the border seeking asylum and 25,000 migrants are waiting in Mexico to begin their asylum process.

Join the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC), the Interfaith Movement 4 Human Integrity (IM4HI), and SURJ-Bay Area for an evening of sharing, solidarity and action.

Tuesday January 14, 2020 • 6:45 PM - 9:00 PM
​ASL will be provided

Want to get involved with SURJ Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities. SURJ moves white people to act for justice, with passion and accountability, as part of a multi-racial majority.
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You'll will hear about SURJ's pathways for entering the work, including Study and Action groups as well as committee work, upcoming workshops, and events. We'll answer your questions and share how you can get involved in the movement for racial justice

Wednesday November 13, 2019 • 6:45 PM - 9:00 PM

Want to get involved with SURJ Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities. SURJ moves white people to act for justice, with passion and accountability, as part of a multi-racial majority.
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You'll will hear about SURJ's pathways for entering the work, including Study and Action groups as well as committee work, upcoming workshops, and events. We'll answer your questions and share how you can get involved in the movement for racial justice.

There will be a speaker from East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperate (EB PREC), a democratic, People of Color led cooperative that takes land and housing off the speculative market to create permanently affordable, community controlled land and housing.

Sunday, November 03, 2019 • 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM

How do we approach difficult conversations, whether it’s about racist violence on the border, cultural appropriation, or white supremacy and racial justice in general? What is it like to have these conversations with our family, friends and coworkers with a vision for the long haul? Members of the  White Noise Collective will facilitate this workshop exploring the difficult conversations in our lives around race and power. Tickets are sliding scale $15 - $85.  No one turned away for lack of funds. Preregistration is required due to limited space.

Sunday November 3, 2019 • 12:45 PM - 3:00 PM
ASL will be provided if requested by 8am Friday November 1st
Childcare will be provided if requested by 10am Sunday October 20th

​What is Disability Justice? People often express feeling intimidated and ill-equipped to unpack what we've been taught about disability, and how to support and advocate for disabled people in our everyday lives. This workshop is a fabulous opportunity for you to dive into the magic of disability justice with SURJ and Alex Locust at the helm.
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With "Spill the Disabili-Tea™", Alex will be facilitating an interactive discussion of disability justice for those committed to elevating their support for disabled folks in their community. Using his lived experience, education, and advocacy know-how, he'll lead a candid conversation exploring issues around disability and Disability Justice.

Asylum seekers caged at the border! Thousands more children separated from their families! Unrelenting inhumane conditions inside detention centers! Trump orders the end of the US asylum program except for people from Canada or Mexico and plans to send asylum seekers to El Salvador, one of the most dangerous places in the world! Join us for a Human Billboard!

Wednesday October 9, 2019 • 6:45 PM - 9:00 PM

Want to get involved with SURJ Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities. SURJ moves white people to act for justice, with passion and accountability, as part of a multi-racial majority.
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You'll will hear about SURJ's pathways for entering the work, including Study and Action groups as well as committee work, upcoming workshops, and events. We'll answer your questions and share how you can get involved in the movement for racial justice.

There will be a speaker from Initiate Justice, an organization whose mission is to end mass incarceration. Their approach is to activate the power of impacted people to advocate for their well-being and to change criminal justice policy in California. Initiate Justice is 100% lead by people directly impacted by mass incarceration.

Saturday, October 05, 2019 • 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

​​This workshop offers those who are new to racial justice work an opportunity to reflect on and analyze the role that whiteness has played in their lives.

​Registration is closed.

Sunday, September 15, 2019 • 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

What skills, tools and approaches are useful in encouraging white people to sustain balanced engagement with anti-racism/racial justice education and work? How can we cultivate resilience (as opposed to white fragility) in ourselves, our communities, and our movements? ​

Wednesday September 11, 2019 • 6:45 PM - 9:00 PM

Want to get involved with SURJ Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities. SURJ moves white people to act for justice, with passion and accountability, as part of a multi-racial majority.
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You will hear about SURJ's pathways for entering the work, including committee work, upcoming workshops, and events. We'll answer your questions and share how you can get involved in the movement for racial justice.

Location: Movement Strategy Center • 436 14th Street, Suite 500 , Oakland, CA 94612

Tuesday, August 6, 2019 • 6:45 PM - 9:00 PM
ASL will be provided if requested by 5 PM on Sunday, August 4

Want to get involved with SURJ Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities. SURJ moves white people to act for justice, with passion and accountability, as part of a multi-racial majority.
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You will hear about SURJ's pathways for entering the work, including committee work, upcoming workshops, and events. We'll answer your questions and share how you can get involved in the movement for racial justice.

You will have the opportunity to hear from Causa Justa :: Just Cause. Born through mergers between Black organizations and Latino organizations, CJJC builds solidarity, grassroots power and leadership to create strong, equitable communities. Through rights-based services, policy campaigns, civic engagement, and direct action, CJJC works to improve conditions in our neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area, and contribute to building the larger multi-racial, multi-generational movement needed for fundamental change.

Sunday June 23, 2019 • 10:00 AM - 12:15 PM
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Want to get involved with SURJ Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities. SURJ moves white people to act for justice, with passion and accountability, as part of a multi-racial majority.
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You'll will hear about SURJ's pathways for entering the work, including Study and Action groups as well as committee work, upcoming workshops, and events. We'll answer your questions and share how you can get involved in the movement for racial justice.

We are also excited to offer family-friendly activities during this Intro Meeting! For children and youth that are interested in participating in the meeting, there will be child- and youth-friendly discussion topics and interactive activities. We will also provide free childcare for those who do not participate. As with every SURJ Bay Area Intro Meeting, all are welcome and encouraged to join (with children or without).

How can we show up in solidarity with migrants at the southern border who have fled gang violence and government brutality to endure traveling on foot for months, family separation, and further persecution?

Please join us on June 2 to hear how you can volunteer with Al Otro Lado, (AOL), a wonderful organization known as the "most loving place in Tijuana." Al Otro Lado, is mostly volunteer-run and provides asylum seekers with know-your-rights training, legal consultation, document support, meals and medical care.

Monday May 20, 2019 • 9:00 AM - 4:00PM

Join SURJ in supporting the annual statewide lobby day in Sacramento sponsored by Legal Services for Prisoners with Children/All of Us or None (LSPC/AOUON) for formerly-incarcerated people and family members with incarcerated loved ones.
Quest for Democracy Day supports pending legislation that affects people impacted by incarceration and this year, SURJ is being asked to lobby alongside LSPC/AOUON members coming from all over California.

Saturday ​May 18, 2019 • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Join SURJ Bay Area’s Queer and Trans Committee for a backyard garden party!

We’ll be selling flower and herb seedlings that we’ve been growing and are ready to send off into your gardens and windowsills. There will be food, music and a raffle!

​This event will be a fundraiser for the Transgender, Gender-Variant and Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP). We are also amplifying TGIJP’s open letter on the struggle for housing security for their Black trans members.

Saturday May 11, 2019 • 1:00 PM - 3:00PM

Participants will learn how SURJ shows up to lobby in accountability with our partner organizations and the ways that policy combined with grassroots movement can be used as a tool for collective liberation.

​​Quest for Democracy Day (Q4D) is an annual statewide lobby day in Sacramento sponsored by Legal Services for Prisoners with Children/All Of Us Or None (LSPC/AOUON) for formerly-incarcerated people, family members with incarcerated loved ones, and allied organizations. Q4D supports pending legislation that affects people impacted by incarceration and for the second year in a row, SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) is being asked to lobby alongside LSPC/AOUON members coming from all over California.
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Thursday May 2, 2019 •  7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
ASL Interpretation provided if requested by Tuesday April 30th at 5pm

​Recent years have seen important fights - and important wins - in the struggle to dismantle the prison system in California. From repealing sentence enhancements, to shutting down jail expansion plans, to working to restore voting rights to folks on parole.

Come hear from four incredible movement leaders at the frontline of these struggles about victories, strategies, and the importance of campaigns and coalitions in the continuing movement to dismantle the Prison Industrial Complex. Their stories will highlight the small and big ways you can also contribute to creating a more progressive vision of justice than mass incarceration. 

Tuesday April 16, 2019 • 6:45 PM - 9:00 PM​

Want to get involved with SURJ Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities. SURJ moves white people to act for justice, with passion and accountability, as part of a multi-racial majority.

​You'll will hear about SURJ's pathways for entering the work, including committee work, upcoming workshops, and events. We'll answer your questions and share how you can get involved in the movement for racial justice.

Featured Speaker: Sandra Johnson a Community Organizer for All of Us or None, a grassroots civil rights organization fighting for the rights of formerly- and currently-incarcerated people and their families, and a project of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children.

Sunday March 31, 2019 •  10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
​THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT/FULL

​What skills, tools and approaches are useful in encouraging white people to sustain balanced engagement with anti-racism/racial justice education and work? How can we cultivate resilience (as opposed to white fragility) in ourselves, our communities, and our movements? 

Saturday March 16, 2019 • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM                    

Thousands of migrants are fleeing rampant violence and abject poverty, and are headed to the Bay Area. How do we open space for them? How do we strengthen existing organizations and networks who welcome migrants and asylum seekers to the Bay Area? How does defending sanctuary and asylum laws against Trump’s Administration contribute to the larger struggle against racism and white supremacy in the United States?

Thursday March 14, 2019  • 6:45 PM - 9:00 PM                                                          ASL interpretation provided

Want to get involved with SURJ Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities. SURJ moves white people to act for justice, with passion and accountability, as part of a multi-racial majority.
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You'll will hear about SURJ's pathways for entering the work, including committee work, upcoming workshops, and events. We'll answer your questions and share how you can get involved in the movement for racial justice.​

Featured Speaker: Janetta Johnson, Executive Director of TGI Justice Project and one of the founders of the 1st Transgender Cultural District. TGI Justice Project is a group of transgender, gender variant and intersex people—inside and outside of prisons, jails and detention centers—creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom. They work in collaboration with others to forge a culture of resistance and resilience to strengthen us for the fight against human rights abuses, imprisonment, police violence, racism, poverty, and societal pressures. They seek to create a world rooted in self- determination, freedom of expression, and gender justice.

Sunday March 10, 2019 • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

This event has been cancelled.