Saturday • March 15 • 12:30 – 3:30 PM • wheelchair accessible
SubRosa Community Space • 703 Pacific Ave • Santa Cruz • FREE
Organized by the Word is Bond Collective.
Join Aliyya Hatcher and Jasmine Schlafke for the Word is Bond Collective’s first session of the year. It will focus on visioning and filling in a community resource survey focused on determining the next phase of community care for the Word is Bond Collective.
Tuesday • March 18 • 5:30-7:30 • wheelchair accessible
Abbott Square • 118 Cooper St • Santa Cruz
Join us and many other local grassroots organizations working on a variety of issues in Santa Cruz and beyond.
This is a mainly social event and we are encouraging attendees to eat and drink together as we get to know each other. We will have time for the groups attending to briefly speak about their group and current efforts.
More details and registration at tiny.url/mvmtmixer
Friday • Feb 28 • All day, Everywhere • FREE
Let’s show corporate oligarchs where their money comes from and that we’re appalled by their capitulation.
Organized by The People’s Union
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Saturday • March 15 • 1:00 – 4:30 • FREE • wheelchair accessible
Watsonville Public Library • 275 Main St, 4F • Watsonville
In September 1985, in response to their employers drastically slashing salaries and health benefits, almost 2,000 workers at two canneries in Watsonville, the vast majority Mexicanas, went on strike. Over an 18-month period, these rank-and-file workers lost homes, endured hunger, and withstood police violence. They democratized local politics, challenging the racism and sexism of local unions and the power structure of Watsonville.
As we approach the 40th anniversary of the 1985-87 Cannery Strike, please join us for an event featuring former strikers.
Cosponsored by Friends of the Watsonville Library, Watsonville Film Festival, Pajaro Valley for Ethnic Studies and Justice, UCSC Center for Racial Justice, Resource Center for Nonviolence, UCSC Center for Labor and Community, Cabrillo College, Tobera Project, MILPA, Barrios Unidos, and Santa Cruz Black.
Please register HERE. Onsite registration is possible. Food will be served.
Saturday • March 8 • 2 – 6 PM • Fundraiser • Wheelchair Accessible
Barrios Unidos • 1817 Soquel Ave • Santa Cruz
International Women’s Day Fundraiser with Barrios Unidos.
There will be a film screening with panel discussion, tabling, food, and music. The event will raise funds for women and families whose lives have been significantly disrupted by the threat of deportation.
A Community Collective for Families
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!
Raíces y Cariño is an equitable, inclusive, and safe space for the community to gather and raise their children together. They are a hub connecting diverse families, educators, and organizations to create cross-cultural connections and wellbeing for the whole family including classes for kids and their caregivers such as yoga, artistic expression, gymnastics, free playtime, and bilingual sensory play. They also provide low cost meeting space for many other groups and organizations in the area including SURJ’s own Rainbow Defense Coalition! Please support this awesome group that supports so many others.
Ways to donate:
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!
Campesina Womb Justice and YARR have set up a countywide collaboration focused mutual aid for families whose lives have been significantly impacted by fear and the threat of deportation.
Sunday • March 2 • Doors at 5:30 • FREE • Wheelchair Accessible
Resource Center for Nonviolence (RCNV) • 612 Ocean St • Santa Cruz
What REALLY makes a community safe? Filmed on an iPhone, Reimagining Safety challenges the idea that more police and prisons create safer communities. Featuring powerful voices like LA County DA George Gascón and USC Law professor Dr. Jody Armour, this award-winning documentary asks tough questions and invites viewers to see beyond traditional policing and prisons to explore what really works.
Change starts with conversation. The film screening will be followed by a discussion with Director Matthew Solomon and Santa Cruz community members.
“Reimagining Safety” is an era-defining documentary. With the increased tension between local police agencies and the people they should be “serving and protecting,” many people have become disillusioned with not only the police, but the system they represent. Matthew Solomon has captured the angst and despair of the people perfectly, as well as offering solutions many have been afraid to embrace…until now.
Register here.
The SURJ Action Alert List is for everyone who cares about showing up for racial justice in Santa Cruz County, especially for people who might not have time to join a SURJ working group or committee, but who want to be connected and support SURJ’s work in this county. SURJ Action Team members will receive action alerts via email with local calls to action, i.e. for Board of Supervisor or City Council meetings, rallies, actions, or invitations to sign on for public letters, etc. We will share a brief overview of the situation and details on the action. You are encouraged to join in for as many of these as you’re able to, and it’s totally up to you to determine which ones you feel moved to participate in. To get to know each other better and hear updates on our work, Action Team members are invited to attend SURJ general membership meetings, and encouraged to join at least a few times a year. Members will receive notice of opportunities for more training and skill-building, like getting training with YARR (Your Allied Rapid Response) or Rainbow Defense Coalition, or to participate in one of our upcoming Study and Action series.
To join the Action Alert List, please sign up here.
Spring 2025 • April-June
While reparations from the government may take a long time, individuals and groups across the country are innovating ways to make repairs and redistribute/return resources from White folks to Black (and Indigenous) communities as an essential step on the path of dismantling white supremacy culture and its wide-reaching repercussions while building a new culture of community care, shared healing, collective liberation, and kinship.
Here in Santa Cruz County we are launching SURJ’s Redistributing White Wealth Santa Cruz County (formerly known as Reparations Santa Cruz). RWW will be hosting its fourth giving circle in Spring 2025 (April – June).
To sign up: Giving Circle Participant Registration or for questions contact: redistwhitewealth@gmail.com
Showing Up for Racial Justice-Santa Cruz County, CA
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