Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)

We noticed a few new faces around here, so we thought we'd reintroduce ourselves. Hi y'all! We're SURJ - we organize white communities into fights for racial and economic justice. We're happy you're here, and we need you in this work.

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🔴 Slide 1: "Hi y'all, we're SURJ. We’re the largest organization in the country that explicitly organizes white people for justice."

🔴 Slide 2: "We’re answering the decades-long call from people of color for white people to organize our own. From Malcolm X to the Civil Rights Movement to BLM, movement leaders of color have long called on white people to take up the responsibility of undermining white racism in our own communities. SURJ was founded in 2009 by white Southerners who were mentored by white members of SNCC."

🔴 Slide 3: "Why white people? Since the founding of this country, in order to stay in power, those at the top have drummed up racism in white people to undermine white support for movements for change.

🔴 Slide 4: “They maintain power by using strategic racism to make white communities feel like they have more in common with rich white dudes than other working people of all races.

🔴 Slide 5: "When we organize white people away from racism and towards solidarity, we take away one of the most powerful tools of those at the top."

🔴 Slide 6: “At SURJ, we organize people around our shared interest—what we stand to gain—in fighting alongside people of color for racial and economic justice.”

🔴 Slide 7: “Nearly all of us (white people included) will be better off when we win what movements for change are fighting for.

Things like: investing in public schools and community safety, good healthcare, and climate solutions.”

🔴 Slide 8: “We’ve talked to millions of white people. We talk with white people about housing access, food insecurity, electoral campaigns, and working conditions, to name a few, in order to understand their concerns.”

🔴 Slide 9: “We know that when we organize white people around their needs and concerns, they can more easily see their stake and join in bigger fights for racial and economic justice."

Join us: surj.org/join

Happy Pride Month! At SURJ, we are celebrating staff, members, volunteers, and supporters in the LGBTQ+ community and reflecting on the legacy of Black and Brown folks who fought for to be possible.

We know that the safety, dignity, survival, and thriving of LGTBQ+ folks is vital to a future with racial and economic justice. And we know that everyone wins when oppression of the LGBTQ+ community ends - let’s keep fighting together! We ALL have much to gain- a shared interest- in fighting for a future free from oppressive systems. Shared interest, shared future!

Join us: https://www.surj.org/join

BREAKING: Bob Brooks wins in PA-07! Congrats to longtime firefighter and union president Bob Brooks on his win today. When we run our people for office - people who support popular policies like Medicare For All and taxing the rich - we win.

We’re supporting a slate of candidates who meet the moment, and you can talk to voters with us from wherever you are by signing up for a phone bank: https://www.mobilize.us/surj/event/924766/?utm_source=20260519_comms_soc_brooks_v2