RESOURCES

Want a workshop?

SURJers offer a Racial Justice workshop series for white folks or other folks with privilege. You bring the audience and we’ll bring the workshop. Email hello@surjsantaclaracounty.org if you have questions or want to schedule a workshop for your group or class. Workshops are Virtual Zoom group experiences and include the following topics:

Confronting Whiteness
Intersectionality
Anti-Racism
Reparations

Core Beliefs

Here is a great glossary of terms related to work for racial equity: https://www.racialequitytools.org/glossary

We've used this checklist at meetings to assess our own levels of entitlement that we bring into integrated environments.

This is a scaffolded set of resources for white folks in various stages of development of an anti-racist lens.

Abolition

SURJ Santa Clara County created a virtual workshop called Another World is Possible: Exploring Abolition
Listen to Codeswitch’s ongoing coverage of police violence against black communities.
Listen to this recent interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates on policing and how we could re-imagine government.
For practical alternatives to calling the cops, here is a list of 12 things you can do instead of calling the cops and here it is in downloadable zine format.
A zine about a police-free future, developed by community organizers in Minneapolis who studied the 150 year history of the MPD.
Here is a brief timeline of events leading up to the uprisings of May, 2020, from The Root.

Racism

These are amazing audio series about the history of slavery in the U.S. from Slate and from the NY Times.

More Resources

One of our accountability partners, Silicon Valley De-Bug, has a great website with information and resources around local political organizing and their companion site chronicles the history of local campaigns and what you can do to help: www.siliconvalleydebug.org

The national Showing Up for Racial Justice website is chock full of resources, including tool kits on police accountability and criminalization, how to build a chapter or affiliate, disability and access, and resources about class, faith, families, queer/trans/LGBTQ issues, poor and working class issues, etc.http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org

National SURJ also has built a website just for political education around