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”
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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”
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.
AMAH MUTSUN TRIBAL BAND
Weed ‘Em Out! Cascade Creek Work Day
Saturday • May 3 • 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM • Free
Cascade Ranch • 3100 Cabrillo Hwy Pescadero • Join Pie Ranch and Amah Mutsun Land Trust to remove eucalyptus sprouts and other invasive species from Cascade Creek on Año Nuevo Point!
UNDERSTANDING ZIONISM: a 6-PART STUDY for the PALESTINE MOVEMENT
Online classes Tuesdays and Fridays • April 29-May 15 • 6:30-8 pm • PLUS a culminating event at the RCNV on Wed, May 21
Tuesdays and Fridays • April 29-May 15 • 6:30-8 pm • Free • Resource Center for Nonviolence • 612 Ocean St • Wheelchair accessible • Join the Palestinian Youth Movement and the People’s Forum in a rigorous study of Zionism in order to strengthen the movement for Palestine.
May Day Strong Events in Santa Cruz and Watsonville
Thursday • May 1 • Several EventsWatsonville City Plaza • 358 Main Street • Watsonville • 4pm • wheelchair accessibleJoin UC Workers On Strike • High Street and Bay Drive • Santa Cruz • 10am • wheelchair accessibleSanta Cruz Solidarity On The Streets • 612 Ocean Street • Santa Cruz • 5pm • wheelchair accessibleSinging for Justice, Peace &Continue reading “May Day Strong Events in Santa Cruz and Watsonville”
Showing Up for Racial Justice-Santa Cruz County, CA 