Study & Action Program

A Training for White People Ready to Unlearn White Supremacy & Take Action

Welcome! SURJ Bay Area is excited to invite you to participate in our free online Study & Action Program, which has been streamlined into three impactful sessions. Doing the work to unlearn white supremacy and take accountable, principled action toward racial justice is needed now more than ever.  This condensed version of our curriculum is designed to help you dig into the history of white supremacy, learn about the newly organized SURJ Bay Area campaigns, and plug into specific ways that you can bring your skills to the fight for collective liberation.

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Why Participate in Study & Action?

Throughout history, social movements have engaged in political education to inform how and why we organize, mobilize, and take action for justice and liberation. This series of Study and Action has been condensed into three sessions that get to the core of what we need to know so that we may respond to urgent calls to action with integrity

Whether you ultimately plug into our Palestine Solidarity campaign, our Invest in Community Campaign working toward reimagining public safety, or choose another way to take action, this series will help you deepen your understanding of the current moment in a supportive group setting of like-minded people. 

Study & Action participants get trained to: 

• Examine how white supremacy shows up in our own lives
  

• Talk to loved ones about public safety, white supremacy, mass incarceration, prison closures and reinvesting in our communities
  
• Work together to take action to end the ongoing genocide in Palestine 
  
• Educate others about both Palestinian liberation and combating antisemitism
  
• Clearly define our personal stake in ending white supremacy 
  
• Envision a future of collective liberation
  
• …and more!
  
  

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What to Expect
The next Study & Action series will be happening in the summer. Sign up to get notified when registration opens!

Your Commitment
Study & Action participants are asked to:

• Commit to attending each 2.5 hour session (three sessions total). Live participation is a very important part of the program and the sessions will not be recorded.
• Have access to a computer with reliable internet to attend Zoom sessions. Every session is hosted on Zoom with auto captions with a live transcript enabled.  
  
• Allow enough time to read/watch/listen to the pre-session assignments (~2-3 hours prep time per session). We offer captioned videos or transcripts of any videos without captions, transcripts of podcasts, and audio recordings of any text-based resources that are included as homework or during the sessions. 

• Be open to taking action with SURJ Campaigns, SURJ Action Hours, or other initiatives as you are able (i.e. calling or emailing representatives, making public comments at virtual hearings, attending rallies if you live nearby, etc) in the weeks between meetings. None of these out-of-session actions are mandatory, as we realize they might not always work for your schedule, but we encourage you to own your power and get involved!

We are committed to making our program as accessible as possible. If you have other access needs, please let us know by emailing us at [email protected].