About SURJ Sacramento
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) is a national network of groups and individuals working to undermine white supremacy and to work for racial justice.
SURJ Sacramento works in community with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color-led resistance, liberation, and abolition movements to dismantle white supremacy and its systems of oppression.
What We Do
Fundraise and mobilize people for our partner organizations.
Provide education on systemic racism, intersectionality, white supremacy, privilege, and getting involved in anti-racism work.
Demonstrate models for white people for how to show up for racial justice in meaningful ways.
Why We Do This Work
See a list of Black lives murdered or brutalized by local law enforcement.
Partners
CHIRP
California Heritage: Indigenous Research Project (CHIRP) researches, documents, and preserves the history and culture of the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe.
NorCal Resist
NorCal Resist is a grassroots organization focused on fighting oppression and empowering our communities through shared resources and support.
Coalitions
Social Justice PolitiCorps
Social Justice PolitiCorps for Sacramento County (SJPC) crowdsources information regarding what is happening in Sac County politics as it relates to Social Justice.
The People’s Budget Sacramento
The People's Budget Sacramento is a community-led project to give the community control and voice in the budgets for the City and County of Sacramento.
Our Values
SURJ Sacramento believes that white supremacy harms us all but has a greater negative impact on People of Color. We believe that in supporting People of Color-led resistance groups, we all possess the power to dismantle white supremacy and the ideas, forces, and institutions that uphold it. We value the work that will lead to collective liberation.
We are motivated by:
Antiracism. It is simply not enough to claim we are not racist. By actively standing up to racist conditioning, ideas, and attacks we seek to tear down systems of oppression.
Transformation. Through education we seek to help people dismantle the white supremacist beliefs they have been conditioned to hold. Through action we seek to work with People of Color-led resistance groups toward dismantling white supremacist institutions and building new systems that support, care for, and uplift all people.
Intersectionality. SURJ Sacramento is inclusive and anyone is welcome. We honor and respect all parts of people’s identities and we invite them to join the work we do.
Relationships. We look to build community within our organization and across organizations with our partners. Teamwork requires mutual trust to do the work and we seek to build this trust through our other values. We also value having the empathy to meet people where they are in this work. We acknowledge that there are multiple ways to do the work of resisting and destroying white supremacy and we seek solidarity in our relationships with our vision partners. Both within SURJ Sacramento and across organizations, we value checking in with people and keeping lines of communication open to increase transparency and prevent burnout.
To learn more about our values, theory of change, and more, visit the SURJ National website.
“Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time and the arena and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.”
— Audre Lorde