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ICE OUT NOW!
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.
SURJ Twin Cities encourages us to follow and support UnidosMN and Defend 612 who are leading work on the ground in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Move money to support impacted communities and folks organizing on the ground. Support is needed in Minneapolis (Stand with Minnesota and Minneapolis Mutual Aid) and 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.
Dignity Not Detention Phone Zap
Join the Dignity Not Detention campaign’s weekly phone zap, taking place through the end of the New York legislative session. They will be making calls and sending emails in community as part of their campaign to end ICE detention contracts across New York state.
Webinar: Communities Against Nuclear
Wednesday, May 20, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Governor Kathy Hochul has been steadily advancing nuclear energy as the backbone of New York State’s energy plans. It is an environmental justice disaster, with Indigenous communities carrying a disproportionate share of the harm. Despite all of this, Governor Hochul has put nuclear power at the center of the state’s energy future while pushing aside more affordable and truly renewable solutions. Join this webinar to learn about the problems with nuclear energy, how the New York State government is pushing to build it anyway, and what we can do to stop it.
Shinnecock Oral History Plant Tour
Saturday, May 30, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Join Chenae Bullock, a member of the Shinnecock Nation, for a Native Flora Garden tour and talk based on ITEK, or Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge. ITEK is a body of observations, oral and written knowledge, practices, and beliefs that promote environmental sustainability and the responsible stewardship of natural resources through relationships between humans and environmental systems.
Included with Garden admission, no registration necessary. Email the Indigenous Solidarity Coordinators if you’re planning to come and if you need assistance covering the Garden admission fee. We hope to see you there!
Indigenous Solidarity Book Club
Monday, June 8, 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 11: “Allegiance to Gratitude.”
Future Meetings:
Monday, July 13, 7:00pm - 8:00pm — Chapter 12: "Epiphany in the Beans”
Monday, August 10, 7:00pm - 8:00pm — Chapter 13: “The Three Sisters”
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"
Calling-In Book Club with Beth HOward
Wednesday, June 10, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Wednesday, June 17, 7:30pm - 9:00pm (with author Q&A)
Join SURJ NYC’s Calling-In Team to reflect on the memoir, Song for a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity from a Coal Miner’s Daughter by SURJ National’s Cultural Strategist Beth Howard. This is a two-part series — come either week or both — and the author herself will be joining on June 17th for a Q&A.
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.
Put a Stop to an AI Data Center at the STAMP Mega Industrial Site
Send a letter to the Genesee County Economic Development Center (GCEDC) in opposition to a massive AI data center at STAMP, right next to the Tonawanda Seneca Nation. This data center will threaten the Nation’s way of life, continued existence on its homelands, and treaty rights. The provided one-click tool will allow you to submit comments that reflect the direct demands of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation.
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.