Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Community Meeting

Wednesday, July 25th from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m.

UUSS Welcome Hall

Potluck and orientation for newcomers begins at 6:00 p.m. and general meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. All ages welcome. Please bring cash to buy a SURJ t-shirt. All proceeds go to the Black Lives Matter Sacramento Chapter.

Community meetings are held quarterly; SURJ Sacramento hopes you will join them to learn more about their chapter and get involved with local racial justice work.

During the meeting, SURJ Sacramento will discuss the work that their workgroups (Education, Mobilizing, Art & Communication) have been working on, as well as projects that the chapter will be working on in the coming months.

Campaigns SURJ Sacramento is working on:
1) Justice for Stephon Clark, a 22-year old black man and father of two killed by Sacramento police on March 18. He was unarmed and shot in his back while standing in his grandparents’ backyard.
2) Housing and Racial Justice: supporting the campaign for rent control and just cause for eviction.
3) Education: educating people about white supremacy and movements for racial justice including the SURJ Study and Action groups, a 7-week class.

About SURJ Sacramento: SURJ Sacramento’s role as part of a multiracial movement is to undermine white people’s support for white supremacy and help build a racially just society. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ Sacramento moves white people in our community to act as part of a multiracial majority for justice with passion and accountability. SURJ Sacramento works to connect people across varying neighborhoods and backgrounds, while supporting and collaborating with local and national racial justice organizing efforts. As a chapter, SURJ Sacramento particularly values their relationships with community members of color. SURJ Sacramento works under the leadership and guidance of these groups and is accountable to their efforts. SURJ Sacramento provides a space to build relationships, skills, and political analysis to act for change through a non-violent, intersectional, and community-oriented approach.

Read their Working Chapter Documents here.

For more information, please email .