Like many of you, we’re fired up to stop another Trump presidency, and we need your help! This Thursday we’re kicking off a team that will call white voters through SURJ National’s phonebanking program and also build a community that’s ready to keep working beyond the election, no matter the outcome.
We are excited to welcome you into that community, which is an important political home for many of us. To give you a sense of what it’s like, we asked Grace, a SURJ NYC member since 2016, to share her experience:
“In every movement moment in the last decade—when Trump was elected in 2016, when George Floyd was murdered by cops in 2020, when a literal insurrection happened in 2021—I have felt fired up to get shit done, to fight hard for a different world. It’s been unbelievably powerful to be in the streets or on zooms with thousands of people, feeling our collective power.
Those moments are amazing, but they’re not what’s kept me going for the last 8 years. What’s kept me going is the people I’m in the streets with and the place I go to talk about it after: SURJ NYC. Our local chapter is where I go when I’m trying to figure things out, when I need to cry or scream or just show up empty, when I’m not sure if I’m doing the right thing. These people, here in this chapter, have become some of my most beloved friends and most trusted advisors.
This election is going to be a fight. I want to be fighting next to you, and I want to be in community with the folks I’m fighting next to.”
Join us on Thursday August 1st from 6:30-8:30pm on zoom. You’ll meet new people, find a community to fight alongside, and identify ways to get involved in this election and beyond.
If you can’t make it to the meeting but want to stay in the loop, fill out that registration form anyway! There’s a box to check to tell us you can’t make it, and we’ll follow up with you after the meeting.
See you there!
SURJ NYC