Educate Yourself
You may be coming to this work for the first time. You may be feeling overwhelmed. You may be looking for resources to get started. We welcome you, we are glad you’re here.
Understanding Environmental Racism
Public health resources to learn more about environmental justice and how to take action.
SHOWING UP RESPONSIBLY AT PROTESTS AS A WHITE PERSON
Take a look at the SixNineteen Principles. They offer participants guidance on conduct at events, starting with “We keep us safe.”
See this article, document, and tweet containing guidance for white people joining protests at this moment.
Read & share M4BL’s #KnowBeforeYouGo COVID19 Health Guidance
If you want to protest but cannot, for any reason, take to the streets, please read this.
CALLING IN YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY
Black folks and other people of color have been calling for anti-racist white people to organize other white people for decades. We are seeing an uprising across the country demanding an end to centuries of white supremacy violence to Black people and communities of color at the hands of the police. This is the time when we as anti-racist white folks must commit to having intentional conversations with the people in our lives and in our newsfeeds who might be on the fence or conflicted about the protests because of narratives of “violence” and looting offered by the Right and many mainstream news outlets. These conversations to “call in” our folks is the work.
Here is : A guide for calling in white folks around the violence and property destruction narratives
SURJ National has compiled a list of resources to encourage us all in the collective process of study, research, analysis, and storytelling that helps us understand our situation, what we’re up against and what we can do about it.
Here is a link to an extensive document, intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues.
We define racism, also referred to as white supremacy, as the pervasive, deep-rooted, and longstanding exploitation, control and violence directed at People of Color, Native Americans, and Immigrants of Color that produce the benefits and entitlements that accrue to white people, particularly to a white male dominated ruling class.
There are resources in the topics below that can help us learn more about how race, class, gender and more intersect to contribute to oppression.
Sign up to join SURJ NYC and access some of our regular trainings and workshops.