How Fairy Tales Became White

Tuesday • April 8 • 6:30 – 7:30 PM • FREE • wheelchair accessibleDowntown Library • 224 Church St • Santa Cruz Please join Professors Micah Perks and Kimberly Lau for a conversation about fairy tales, fantasy, and the ways that historically and culturally specific ideas about race contribute to the making and maintenance of their white worlds. Note:Continue reading “How Fairy Tales Became White”

Watsonville Cannery Strike

Saturday • March 15 • 1:00 – 4:30 • FREE • wheelchair accessibleWatsonville 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 workersContinue reading “Watsonville Cannery Strike”

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)”

SURJ Santa Cruz County Action Alert List

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 callsContinue reading “SURJ Santa Cruz County Action Alert List”

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 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 “