Each month SURJ Santa Cruz County suggests a local organization that is doing excellent work strengthening racial and economic justice in our county.
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Read this Op-Ed: Let’s decriminalize mental illness: Santa Cruz doesn’t need a mental health jail
Lookout recently published an op-ed written by a couple of members of our Care Not Cages group, responding to a recent Lookout interview with Sheriff Clark where he floated an idea to build a mental health jail. We know that jail is not treatment, and incarceration only deepens trauma and mental illness. From the article’sContinue reading “Read this Op-Ed: Let’s decriminalize mental illness: Santa Cruz doesn’t need a mental health jail”
42nd Annual UCSC MLK Convocation
Tuesday • January 27 • 5:30 PM • Doors open 5 PM • FreeSanta Cruz Civic Auditorium • 307 Church St • Santa Cruz This annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with presentations about equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. This year we welcome legendary reggae percussionist, Larry McDonald. Larry McDonald is a legendary Jamaican percussionist whose life andContinue reading “42nd Annual UCSC MLK Convocation”
Redistribute Wealth: The Santa Cruz Welcoming Network
Each month SURJ Santa Cruz County suggests a local organization that is doing excellent work strengthening racial and economic justice in our county.
SURJ National Action Hours
Ongoing Every Other Wednesday • 5 PM • Online • Next Date: March 14 • Join SURJ on Wednesdays — whether you are new to SURJ, or have been organizing with us for a while — to take action together.
Cultivating Care
4th Monday of the Month • Starts January 26 • 5:30-7:30 PM • Free
Aptos Library • 7695 Soquel Drive • Aptos • wheelchair accessible • Join us to actively build an anti-racist culture by understanding and dismantling white supremacy as it exists in ourselves and our culture.
Listening Partnerships for Building Resilience Training
Sunday • January 25 • 2-4 PM • $50 • wheelchair accessibleCRC Office • 614 Ocean Street • Santa Cruz The stresses of living in this society, with its marked inequality and political enmity, can make it hard to continue in our desired roles as peacemakers, bridge-builders, and agents for positive change. How do we deal with anxiety, anger, resentment, and all theContinue reading “Listening Partnerships for Building Resilience Training”
How Long is Long Enough?
Monday • January 19 • 5:30 – 7:30 • FreeBarrios Unidos • 1817 Soquel Ave • Santa Cruz Quntos Wilson and Layla Roberts were sentenced to life without parole in 1995 at the ages of 18 and 19 for a robbery in which no one was physically harmed and a mere $301 was stolen. Now approachingContinue reading “How Long is Long Enough?”
2026 MLK March for the Dream – Join NAACP Santa Cruz County
Monday • January 19 • 10-11 AM • wheelchair accessibleSanta Cruz City Hall – BLM Mural • 809 Center St • Santa Cruz NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch invites the community to join the 2026 MLK March for the Dream on Monday, January 19, 2026, beginning at 10 am. The theme is “Stepping Into the Future Together” following on last year’s themeContinue reading “2026 MLK March for the Dream – Join NAACP Santa Cruz County”
Pre-MLK March Community Sign-Making with RCNV **AND** Community Response Action
Saturday • January 10 • 12-4 PM • Sign Making • wheelchair accessible • FreeResource Center for Nonviolence • 612 Ocean St • Santa Cruz• Immediately After • 4-5 PM • Honor Everyone Harmed by ICESigns on Ocean St • Santa Cruz The Resource Center for Nonviolence invites you to gather to make signs onContinue reading “Pre-MLK March Community Sign-Making with RCNV **AND** Community Response Action”
Showing Up for Racial Justice-Santa Cruz County, CA 