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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.
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. 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.
February 10, 2019 •10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
SORRY NO MORE SPACE AVAILABLE
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 February 6, 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. There will be speakers from the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC), which envisions powerful and liberated Arab communities living with dignity from here to Arab homelands and sees the liberation of Arab people inextricably tied to the liberation of all people of color.
Sunday February 3, 2019 • 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Part 2 of our Legislative Series: learn about lobby visits, Essie Justice Group's policy priorities, and opportunities to get involved.
February 02, 2019 • 2:00 PM - 4:15 PM
SURJ Bay Area's Queer and Trans (QT) Committee is hosting a screening of Pride, which highlights a true story of solidarity across identities for social and economic justice.
Monday January 21, 2019 • 11:30 am
SURJ Bay Area invites you to answer MLK’s call to raise your voice against the state’s and police’s oppression in your city, at our borders, and globally. We invite you to answer the Anti Police-Terror Project’s call to get into the streets and Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy. Save January 21st, 2019 on your calendar. RSVP here to get updates about the SURJ contingent for the 2019 People's March on Martin Luther King, Jr.Day. SURJ will gather in front of the UNIFY credit union on Oscar Grant (Frank Ogawa) Plaza at 11:30am. The march will start at 12pm.
Friday January 18, 2019 • 7:00 am - 9:00 am
Join SURJ Bay Area in inviting commuters to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy with a morning rally and human billboard at Rockridge BART. We’ll be inviting people to come out for the 5th Annual March to Reclaim King's Radical Legacy on Monday, January 21st.
Sunday January 13, 2019 • 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Join us for a legislative strategy session and workshop that will demystify the legislative process, build our legislative capacity, and highlight the legislative priorities and strategies of our 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.
Thursday January 10, 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.
Tuesday December 4, 2018 • 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.
Featured Speaker: Stacy Kono, Director of Hand in Hand (HIH), a national network of employers of nannies, housecleaners and home attendants, our families and allies, will speak about HIH's national work on the Federal Domestic Worker Bill of Rights and for #SanctuaryHomes. Hand in Hand is grounded in the conviction that dignified and respectful working conditions benefit worker and employer alike. HIH envision a future where people live in caring communities that recognize all of our interdependence. 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.
Saturday December 1, 2018 • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join our Human Billboard in support of the caravan of Central American migrants making its way to the US border. They've made it to Mexico City and they're headed our way! Donald Trump and his white nationalist cronies are overturning years of established law granting amnesty to asylum seekers fleeing violence and persecution. They are mobilizing up to 15,000 troops to repel this caravan and other migrants at the border. Let's greet our neighbors from the south with open arms and solidarity! There will be a kid friendly space with materials for kids to make signs.
Friday November 30, 2018 • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Join Queer & Trans SURJ for a screening of Free CeCe, a fundraiser for Transgenders in Florida Prisons (TGIFP). This film confronts the culture of violence surrounding trans women of color, through the voices of Laverne Cox and Cece McDonald.
Sunday, November 18, 2018 • 10:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Exploring the difficult conversations in our lives around race and power. How do we approach the challenging conversations, whether it’s about confederate flags, Donald Trump, cultural appropriation, Palestine/Israel, or even just racism and racial justice in general?
Saturday November 17, 2018 • 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
A workshop for anyone raising white children. It is an invitation for participants to root more deeply in mutual liberation by developing their capacities to have more meaningful conversations about race, racism and white supremacy with the children and young people in their lives.
Wednesday November 7, 2018 • 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.
Monday October 29, 2018 • 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
What are the origins of the racial wealth gap and how can we leverage wealth to undermine, rather than support, the structures of white supremacy?
Saturday October 13, 2018 • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
SURJ Bay Area Youth and Families committee invites you to Racial Justice Story Time in Oakland! Led by a variety of educators, activists, and community partners, Racial Justice Story Time engages the whole family with children’s books and activities to help spark conversations about race and social justice issues.
Wednesday September 26, 2018 6:45pm - 9:00pm
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 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.
Tuesday September 25, 2018• CANCELLED
Join SURJ Bay Area to discuss how white supremacy impacts immigration historically and today and the many ways each of us can be effective and accountable in supporting immigrant-led movements.
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