Category Archives: Past

Redistribute Wealth: Campesina Womb Justice/YARR (Your Allied Rapid Response)

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 forContinue reading “Redistribute Wealth: Campesina Womb Justice/YARR (Your Allied Rapid Response)”

Reimagining Safety – Film and Discussion

Sunday • March 2 • Doors at 5:30 • FREE • Wheelchair AccessibleResource 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 andContinue reading “Reimagining Safety – Film and Discussion”

Join SURJ’s Spring 2025 Redistributing White Wealth Circle

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 buildingContinue reading “Join SURJ’s Spring 2025 Redistributing White Wealth Circle”

SURJ Santa Cruz County In-Person Community Meeting

Sunday • March 22 • 3 – 5 PM • FREE • Wheelchair AccessibleQuaker Meeting House • 225 Rooney St • Santa Cruz  Our next in-person Community Meeting where we gather to reinforce our vision and strengthen community will be from 3-5 pm on March 22 at the Quaker Meeting House, 225 Rooney St, Santa Cruz.  Continue reading “SURJ Santa Cruz County In-Person Community Meeting”

SURJ Santa Cruz County Study and Action series 

Study & Action – Spring 2025April 17 – May 29 • Every other week • 6 – 8 PM • ONLINE A free training for white people ready to unlearn white supremacy and take action. The Spring 2025 Study and Action series is a virtual, live program on Zoom starting on April 17, 2025. This is a learning/unlearning space onContinue reading “SURJ Santa Cruz County Study and Action series “

UCSC African American Theater Arts Troupe

Six Performances • Feb 21-23 & Feb 28-March 2 • 6:30 PMWheelchair accessible • Free for studentsUCSC Theater Arts Center Mainstage • Santa Cruz The UCSC African American Theater Arts Troupe presents the musical “Paradise Blue” written by Dominique Morisseau and directed by Don Williams. It’s 1949 in Detroit and trumpet-playing club owner Blue has aContinue reading “UCSC African American Theater Arts Troupe”

Musical Soulmates: “You’re My Everything”

Friday • Feb 14 • 8 PM • Wheelchair accessible • Ticketed event Museum of Art and History  • 704 Front St • Santa Cruz n addition to a delightful evening of soulful music and small delicacies, this performance of Musical Soulmates is amplifying awareness about Santa Cruz Black, a local organization dedicated to Black initiatives through community engagement.Continue reading “Musical Soulmates: “You’re My Everything””

Dystopian Tropes from an Indigenous Perspective with author Waubgeshig Rice

Tuesday • Feb 11 • 4 PM • ONLINESponsored by the Santa Cruz Public Libraries You’re invited to a riveting online conversation with journalist and bestselling author Waubgeshig Rice to chat about his newest book Moon of the Turning Leaves, the hotly anticipated sequel to the bestselling novel Moon of the Crusted Snow. His new bookContinue reading “Dystopian Tropes from an Indigenous Perspective with author Waubgeshig Rice”