Sunday • June 15 • 12-5 PM
Cowell Beach • Santa Cruz • Free • Want to Support the LPO? Here’s what is needed: volunteers, donations, raffle items, corporate sponsors.
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Redistribute Wealth: NAACP Santa Cruz County
Each month SURJ Santa Cruz County suggests a local organization that is doing excellent work strengthening racial and economic justice in our county. If you’re able, please consider making a donation– healthy for you, healthy for our community. Thank you! NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch is raising funds for the Branch’s scholarship fund that isContinue reading “Redistribute Wealth: NAACP Santa Cruz County”
Connect with the Earth, Dance with the Clay with Alicia Rodriguez
Join the director and teacher of Taller Guaguarey (Clay Arts Center) in Cayey, Puerto Rico, for an informal conversation about her work, the center, and the vital role it plays in a community impacted by U.S. colonial policies and the climate crisis.
Native American Boarding School Healing CoalitionHealing, Prayer, Action
Saturday • June 7• 9:30-11 AMOnline • Free A few weeks ago, the US federal government withdrew all the funding that had been designated to investigate the federal Native American boarding schools. The devastating impacts (such as ongoing grief for missing, murdered, and disappeared children, inter-generational trauma, addiction, suicide + stolen land, language, culture, and identity)Continue reading “Native American Boarding School Healing CoalitionHealing, Prayer, Action”
Advocate for a People’s Budget for Santa Cruz County 2025/2026
Sign On Letter • Email Your Supervisor • Attend Board of Supervisor Meeting Tuesday, June 3/Wednesday June 4 • Like last year, we are asking individuals and organizations to sign on to our community letter, Santa Cruz County: Budget Our Values, because people-centered services save lives and money by June 8th.
Redistribute Wealth: Liberation Paddle Out
Each month SURJ Santa Cruz County suggests a local organization that is doing excellent work strengthening racial and economic justice in our county. If you’re able, please consider making a donation– healthy for you, healthy for our community. Thank you! Black Surj Santa Cruz’s Liberation Paddle Out is one celebration happening the weekend of Juneteenth.Continue reading “Redistribute Wealth: Liberation Paddle Out”
Black Lives Matter Mural Repaint
Join the SC Equity Collab to process the world we have and help create the world we want. Stay tuned for details for the BLM Mural repaint.
UC Santa Cruz POWWOW
Sunday • May 18 • 11 AM – 6 PM • wheelchair accessible
Kaiser Permanente Arena • 140 Front St • Santa Cruz • Free • Hosted by the American Indian Resource Center • The UCSC Powwow 2025 will be a unique opportunity for UCSC and greater community to engage and celebrate Native American/Indigenous culture, song and dance.
Museum of Art and History’s London Nelson Legacy Initiative
Three Dates and Locations in May:
Monday, May 5 • Thursday, May 8 • Friday, May 9
• The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History has scheduled a series of events honoring and celebrating the life of London Nelson, an early resident of Santa Cruz, as part of its London Nelson Legacy Initiative. Nelson is known as a formerly enslaved person who settled in Santa Cruz, had a successful business as a shoemaker, and willed his land to the Santa Cruz school district upon his passing.
The Humanities Institute at UCSC presents the 2025 Deep Read: James by Percival Everett
Sunday • May 4 • 4 PM • Wheelchair accessible •
UCSC Quarry Amphitheater • Santa Cruz • Free • Winner of the 2024 National Book Award, James is a reimagining of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Everett’s novel is a fugitive slave narrative told from the perspective of Twain’s enslaved character as he fights for freedom and dignity in an undignified world. Everett will be in conversation with UCSC Professor Vilashini Cooppan.
Showing Up for Racial Justice-Santa Cruz County, CA 