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ICE OUT NOW!
Contact New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill and urge her to comply with the demands of folks on hunger strike inside Delaney Hall. Their demands are:
A meeting with Gov. Sherrill inside the facility to observe conditions and hear their testimonies.
The release of medically vulnerable people, including those who are elderly or sick.
An end to coercive pressure to sign deportation or voluntary departure documents.
Ensure meaningful review of immigration cases and habeas petitions.
Freedom for all!
SupportOurFamilies has a number of ways you can move money to families of those in detention at Delaney Hall as well as groups supporting folks in detention, their loved ones, and local organizing efforts.
Donate to South Brooklyn community members targeted by ICE. These GoFundMes are raising money for families of immigrants who’ve been detained since November and whose situations are known to organizers on the ground. You can also donate to the South Brooklyn Legal Support Fund through a partnership with Mixteca.
Move money to support impacted communities and folks organizing on the ground. Support is needed here in NYC: GoFundMe campaigns for Osvaldo, Gilberto, Glenda, Karina, and Manuel from Sunset Park.
Weekly Vigil For Democracy
Tuesdays, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center
Join us in standing up for our neighbors. The vigil will be held at the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center, which has had a reputation for inhumane conditions: rancid food, lack of heating in winter, and oppressive heat in summer. Now, ICE is using the Metropolitan Detention Center to detain our immigrant neighbors — mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters.
Members of SURJ’s Immigration Justice working group will be attending this vigil organized by Good Shepherd Lutheran Church and Indivisible Brooklyn.
Phone bank with SURJ NAtional to Elect Progressive Candidates!
Tuesday, August 4, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Call voters about primary races working to elect progressive champions in key states and districts to ultimately take back both the House and Senate this November.
Come as you are! No experience needed! Full training and lots of support included!
Additional Dates:
Undocumented Women’s Fund SUmmer Feminist Film Series
The Undocumented Women’s Fund Summer Feminist Film Series continues! Join for the second screening of the series and a conversation on the film’s relevance to UWF’s work and our present moment. They’re screening Split at the Root (2022), a powerful documentary that follows the journey of mothers separated from their children at the US border and the grassroots initiative that aims to reunite those families.
Future Dates:
Saturday, August 22, 6:00pm
Black August Week of Court Watching
Monday, August 10 - Thursday, August 13
This Black August, Drug Policy Alliance, Freedom Agenda, Justice Committee, the Legal Aid Society, SURJ-NYC and VOCAL-NY are organizing a week of court watching to illuminate the ways that broken windows policing is continuing to harm Black and poor New Yorkers.
Join us in the court room to observe arraignments (the first time a person sees a judge after an arrest) to capture vital data about who is being arrested and for what, and to remind the NYPD, along with judges and district attorneys, that New Yorkers are watching them.
We'll be court watching every day between August 10 and August 13, hitting each borough multiple times throughout the week. We will rotate between morning (10am), afternoon (2pm) and evening (6pm) shifts. Please join any and all shifts you can. A trained organizer will join you at each shift and offer you all the context and instructions you need to show up effectively.
Indigenous Solidarity Book Club
Monday, August 10, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Join the Indigenous Solidarity Working Group as we discuss chapters from Robin Wall Kimmerer's "Braiding Sweetgrass." Order the book from an Indigenous-owned bookstore here, or let us know if you need help getting a copy.
Together we'll learn about de-colonial practices from Indigenous people and weave those learnings into our organizing. Show up as you are each month and let's spend some time and grow together. We'll discuss Chapter 13: “The Three Sisters.”
Additional Meetings:
Monday, September 14, 7:00pm - 8:00pm — Chapter 14: “Wisgaak Gokpenagen: A Black Ash Basket"
Monday, October 12, 7:00pm - 8:00pm — Chapter 15: “Mishkos Kenomagwen: The Teachings of Grass"
Monday, November 9, 7:00pm - 8:00pm — Chapter 16: “Maple Nation: A Citizenship Guide"
Monday, December 14, 7:00pm - 8:00pm — Chapter 17: “The Honorable Harvest"
Immigration Justice Reading Group
Join SURJ NYC's Immigration Justice Working Group in reading Robin D.G. Kelley's classic Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.
For this first meeting, we'll read Chapters 5 - 6 and the Epilogue (pages 135-199). Read! Discuss! Connect! It’s a great way to deepen our commitment to - and understanding of - the complex issues surrounding immigration that all of our families and friends are facing today.
Dignity Not Detention Letter Writing
Wednesday, August 12, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Join the Dignity, Not Detention campaign in writing letters of encouragement and inquiring about the needs of detained individuals.
Indigenous Perspectives on Wealth and REdistribution
Thursday, August 20, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
AICH Offices
Join staff from American Indian Community House (AICH), Decolonizing Wealth, and Native Americans in Philanthropy to create collective definitions of wealth and redistribution for our community. Guests will discuss rematriation, Indigenizing philanthropic practices, and cultural wealth. Doors at 5:45pm.
Marine Park Shoreline Cleanup
Sunday, August 23, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Marine Park (Gerritsen Ave and Seba Ave)
Join SURJ NYC’s Indigenous Solidarity Working Group for a shoreline cleanup in Marine Park, Brooklyn! We’ll talk about history of this land when it was stewarded by the Munsee Lenape, and how it became public land. Then we’ll remove trash from the shoreline together, and find out other ways to plug in to Indigenous Solidarity work here in NYC with our group.
Access: This event will begin and end at park restrooms. The cleanup includes walking on shoreline and park paths that are not wheelchair accessible. If you’d like to join and have access questions or needs, please email us.
Location: We are meeting at Gerritsen Avenue and Seba Avenue, Brooklyn. We can help organize carpools from other areas of NYC for easier access. You can also reach this point via the B31 bus from the Kings Highway Q subway station.
Countdown To Closing Rikers: Day of Action
Monday, August 31, 4:00pm - 8:00pm
Outside City Hall (Broadway Gate)
Since Mayor Mamdani assumed office, he's taken important steps toward closing Rikers, but he must do more to prevent and reduce incarceration. With focused action, New York City can reduce the number of people in jail substantially by August 31, 2027, and strengthen community health and safety in the process.
Demand ICE and Core Civic Free Martin Soto
Martin Soto was kidnapped by ICE on February 1, 2026, while buying diapers for his 11-month-old son, leaving his pregnant wife and two young children alone. Detained first at Delaney Hall, where he was a leader of the hunger and labor strike, ICE retaliated by transferring him to Elizabeth Detention Center and has subjected him to numerous abuses. Demand that ICE release Martin Soto NOW!
Release Wesley Sykes From Solitary Confinement
Wesley Sykes has been held in the Special Housing Unit (SHU 200 /THE BOX) for approximately four years — far exceeding the limits established under New York’s HALT Solitary Confinement Act. The HALT Act restricts segregated confinement to no more than 15 consecutive days and was enacted to prevent the severe psychological and physical harm caused by prolonged isolation. Despite this legal standard, Mr. Sykes remains in the SHU 200 Special Housing Unit well beyond the allowable timeframe, raising serious concerns about compliance with state law.
URge Congress To STop Warehousing Immigrants!
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are expanding their existing detention network beyond jails, prisons, and military bases to include large warehouse and industrial spaces for mass detention. Members of Congress can do something to stop this! Urge your members of Congress to use their power to say NO to warehouse detention!
Demand Apple and Google Stop App Censorship
Apple and Google recently agreed to government requests to remove ICE tracking apps off their app stores, including RedDot, ICEBlock, and Eyes Up which let people report sightings of ICE and/or preserve video evidence of ICE abuses. This app store censorship helps government surveillance efforts and puts real people in danger, all while setting a terrible precedent where the Trump Administration gets to decide what apps we can and can’t access.
Help Protect Immigrant New Yorkers from Mass Deportation!
Urge your elected officials to pass the New York For All Act! NY4All (S.2235 Gounardes / A.3506 Reyes) helps immigrant New Yorkers lead freer lives and take care of family, preserves state and local resources for community safety, ensures that local resources cannot be diverted to carry out ICE’s cruelty, and protects immigrant families. With the end of the legislative session fast approaching, now is a crucial time to put pressure on our representatives!
Move Money For Palestine
Donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians
To support ongoing organizing in the US for Palestinian liberation and against Israeli occupation and apartheid, donate and consider making a monthly financial commitment to Palestine Legal, the Adalah Justice Project, Jewish Voice for Peace, and IfNotNow.
In the South Hebron Hills, Palestinian women are leading with courage. The Rural Women's Association is a small group of women who offer social and emotional support for the children and families, often after attacks. Most recently, they put on a workshop for the children of Um Al Kheir and visited the villagers from Khallet a Dhaba in the hospital after their attack. Donate today and stand with women on the frontlines of justice.
Join the Break the Bonds New York State campaign in their call to tell New York to stop purchasing Israel Bonds for the Common Retirement Fund!
Financially Support SURJ NYC!
Power = organized people + organized money.
SURJ NYC needs your help to fight racism in New York. We raise money for growing our work with trainings and technology, providing things like food and childcare at meetings, and funding partner organizations fighting structural white supremacy in our communities. Please join us in this movement by donating today.