Statements – Showing Up for Racial Justice-Santa Cruz County, CA

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.

People’s Budget for Santa Cruz County

Check out our People’s Budget Slidedeck and Letter In the fall of 2023, SURJ Santa Cruz County began a collaboration with our accountability partner, MILPA, to do a local “Study and Action” focused on our county jails, how they are failing us, and how to make our communities safer by investing in healthcare and housingContinue reading “People’s Budget for Santa Cruz County”

SURJ Santa Cruz County Statement on Palestine and Israel

We at SURJ Santa Cruz County, made up of both Jewish and non-Jewish members, want to express our heartbreak, grief and outrage at the ongoing genocidal bombardment of innocent civilian lives in Palestine. As we write this, more than 29,000 civilians have been killed in Gaza, and over 80,000 have been injured. People are starvingContinue reading “SURJ Santa Cruz County Statement on Palestine and Israel”