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Monday, October 29 • 6:30 - 8:30 pm SURJ Revisiting Reparations Workshop 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? SURJ’s Fundraising Committee will provide historical context, map the limitations of existing institutional financial support for racial justice, and engage participants to rethink their own access to wealth, networks, and other resources in an effort to develop a "reparations mindset." Tickets are sliding scale $15 - $100. No one turned away for lack of funds. Proceeds go to support one or more of our partner organizations led by people of color. Location: Sierra Club, 2101 Webster St. Suite 1300, Oakland Monday & Tuesday, October 29 & 30 • 6:00 - 9:00 pm Tenants Together's Volunteer Counselor Training This past has been a year of unprecedented growth in the movement for tenants’ rights in California, and across the nation. Join Tenants Together to join the fight for housing justice. Join a passionate crew of volunteers as a hotline counselor, researcher, outreach, or organizing volunteer, and get trained on tenants’ rights! Both training days are required to complete the counselor training. Find more information here. Sign up to volunteer here. Location: Sierra Club, 2101 Webster St. Suite 1300, Oakland Tuesday, October 30 through Tuesday, November 6 Pass Prop 10 - Rise Up for Rent Control! Canvass or phonebank for Prop 10 and for other progressive measures: Phonebank: Every Tues/Wed/Thurs from 5:30 - 8:00 pm. Please remember to bring a fully charged phone with you! Canvass: Meet in downtown Oakland; email molly@cjjc.org to RSVP and for address; Saturday, November 3: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm; Sunday, November 4: 11:45 am - 4:45 pm; and ELECTION DAY -- Tuesday, November 6: Shifts throughout the day. Come for any 3 - 4 hour shift. You can also textbank from home! Location: ACCE offices: 2501 International Blvd. Oakland. Wednesday, November 7 • 6:30 - 8:30 pm Investing in Sanctuary: Freedom to Stay, Freedom to Move, Freedom to Return Come learn about border walls and those who are profiting from them, and celebrate international resistance taking place around the world to defend human dignity and resistance to walls in their many forms. The event will include live music, photo exhibition, and speakers Nellie Jo David, organizer for indigenous human rights and autonomy on the imposed U.S./Mexico borderlands intersecting the Tohono O’odham Nation, and Lara Kiswani, executive director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center; moderated by Rev. Deborah Lee, Executive Director of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity. Event is free, but support and donations are accepted here. Location: Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California, 1433 Madison St. Oakland Wednesday, November 7 • 6:45 - 9:00 pm Introduction to SURJ Meeting 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 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. Please RSVP - space is limited. Location: Sierra Club, 2101 Webster St. Suite 1300, Oakland Tuesday, November 13 • 6:00 - 7:30 pm Living on Ohlone Land Learn about the protection and preservation of sacred Indigenous sites in the East Bay, with acclaimed speaker and activist Corrina Gould, spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan/Ohlone and co-founder of Indian People Organizing for Change (IPOC). She also hosts the annual Shellmound gathering in Emeryville, and formed the Sogorea Te Land Trust. Event is free. Location: Golden Gate Branch Library, 5606 San Pablo Ave. Oakland Thursday, November 15 • 10:00 am - 1:00 pm The State of Black Lives in America with Alicia Garza + Dr. Jelani Cobb Come engage in discussion with Black Lives Matter Founder Alicia Garza and New Yorker Staff Writer and Professor Dr. Jelani Cobb about the state of Black lives in contemporary America following the 2018 election, confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, voter suppression across the country, a completely new slate of candidate running for office, and potentially an African American woman running for President. Tickets are $16-$72, buy here. Location: Manny’s, 3092 16th Street, San Francisco Saturday, November 17 • 10:00 am - 1:00 pm Rooting In & Raising Up: Cultivating Race Consciousness in Children, One Conversation at a Time This is a workshop for anyone who is loving, nurturing, caring for, and raising up 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. Using storytelling, prompts, and somatic practices, this workshop will empower us to step into the everyday conversations needed to recognize and name racial injustice, develop positive racial identities, and use this knowledge to interrupt systemic inequities. The cost for this event is on a sliding scale $5-$25. No one turned away for lack of funds. Location: Oakstop, 1721 Broadway, Suite 201, Oakland Tuesday, November 18 • 10:00 am - 1:30 pm SURJ Difficult Dialogues Workshop How do we approach challenging conversations, whether it’s about confederate flags, Donald Trump, cultural appropriation, Palestine/Israel, or even just racism and racial justice in general? 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 - $25. No one turned away for lack of funds. Contact basebuilding@surjbayarea.org with ticket requests or questions. Location: Sierra Club, 2201 Webster St. Suite 1300, Oakland Thursday, November 22 • 5:00 - 8:00 am The Indigenous Peoples' Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering The International Indian Treaty Council sponsors this annual Indigenous Peoples' Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering. Tickets cost $14 (children under 5 free) and the ticket booth opens at 3:00 am with boats departing from Pier 33 at 4:15 am and running every 15 minutes until 6:00 am. All boats return by 9:00 am. Recommended to purchase tickets online in advance (the event sells out). Location: Alcatraz Island, Ohlone Territory, San Francisco Saturdays, December 1 & 8 • 9:30 am - 3:00 pm Emergence-See: White Fragility & the Criminal Injustice System Building on the powerful debut of "9-1-1, What's Your Emergency?" a play exploring white fragility, personal narrative, and systemic racism - the playwright Jovelyn Richards and SURJ Bay Area are co-hosting a 2-day workshop for white folx who identify as women and those who have been socialized as women. Our goal is to deepen individual and collective understandings of what may drive white women to call the police on people of color; on the immediate impact those calls can have; and how healing is necessary for collective liberation. Participants will walk away with tools for attending to the complexity of personal narratives within themselves and those around them. Space is limited. Location: TBD, Oakland, CA Donation Drive for The Village in Oakland Winter is coming and the temperature is already dropping when the sun goes down. Support The Village, an Oakland encampment on public land of unhoused people being assisted by community groups including #FeedthePeople, The East Oakland Collective, Asians4BlackLives, and others. The Village addresses the immediate needs of some of Oakland's more than 6,000 homeless residents, and urgently seeks winter clothing and camping supplies. Find the full wishlist and donation info here. Change the Name of the Dixie School District in Marin County SURJ Marin is calling on people across the Bay Area to demand that the name of San Rafael's Dixie School District be changed. Established during the Civil War, the district’s first schoolhouse was built by several pro-confederacy residents who named it Dixie in defiance of those in the area who were pro-Northern. Visit the Change The Name website to learn more and add your name to the list of public supporters. Here you'll also find suggested actions you can take — from writing a letter to the Dixie School District Board of Trustees to suggesting a new name for the school district. SURJ Faith: National Invitation to Prophetic Imagination SURJ’s national campaign to involve faith communities in ending police terror is underway and you can get involved! We’ve revamped the structure so that you can now join even if you are the only person in your faith community who is thinking about divestment from policing. We’ll support you and others like you around the country with monthly coaching calls and provocative webinars as you build a small working group to bring this conversation to your faith community. Click here for more information and to sign up. Help Restore the Voting Rights of 1.4 million Floridians SURJ chapters across Florida have been engaged in a campaign to pass Amendment 4, a ballot initiative to simplify the process to restore voting rights to those with past felony convictions. They’re inviting folks from the SURJ network across the country to help turn out voters from anywhere in the country by:
Support a Life-Changing Ballot Initiative in Ohio SURJ Action is supporting an Ohio ballot initiative that will reclassify some drug charges (such as simple possession) from felonies to misdemeanors. This has the potential to free thousands of Ohioans imprisoned under those draconian penalty systems and reallocate millions of dollars from the prison system to health care services to care for people who use drugs. SURJ is working to build support in rural, predominantly white Ohio counties where opioid deaths are some of the highest in the nation. Sign up here to make calls *from your home* to critical voters in Ohio, or make a financial contribution specifically to this campaign that will allow SURJ Action to run trainings, provide materials needed to run canvasses, and convene member-leaders after the election to capture our learning and plan next steps. Thursday, November 1 & Saturday, November 3 • 4:00 - 8:00 pm & 10:30 am - 2:30 pm Help Pass a Washington Initiative Requiring Police Trainings SURJ Action is part of a broad Washington State coalition to pass Initiative 940 which will save lives by requiring improved anti-bias, de-escalation and mental health crisis training for all state law enforcement officers. It will also create a new fair and independent process after the use of deadly force. No family should have to live through losing a loved one in an avoidable tragedy. Get involved by signing up to call voters in Washington State. SURJ Bay Area Chapter - Join us! Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability. Learn more at www.surjbayarea.org. SURJ Bay Area is one of 150 chapters and affiliates nationwide. Learn about SURJ National and our mission, vision, and values HERE. Want to support our work? You can make a donation for SURJ's organizing and educational efforts with over half of what we raise going to Black and people of color-led partner organizations. Make a one-time donation or become a monthly sustainer HERE. Contributions are tax-deductible. Follow SURJ Bay Area on Social Media: Facebook • Twitter • Instagram Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Bay Area c/o PO Box 22748, Oakland CA 94609 Comments are closed.
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