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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 “

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”

SIGN THE PLEDGE TO RESIST

Here • Now • FREE • Online Together, we hold the real power. The long history of nonviolent resistance shows us that when community institutions, leaders, and individuals have banded together and actively resisted to defend each other and our rights, people have wielded the power to undermine authoritarian agendas and grow the power of movements forContinue reading “SIGN THE PLEDGE TO RESIST”