We are a statewide network of groups and individuals working to undermine white support for white supremacy.
Through campaign work, community organizing, mobilization, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of multi-racial coalitions for justice with passion and accountability. SURJ provides a space to build relationships, skills and political analysis to act for change.
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- Phone Bank Voters in Hamilton County: SURJ Ohio is partnering with an incredible coalition in Hamilton County to engage voters around the upcoming election. Learn more and find out how to get involved on our volunteer sign-up page! contact: kevin@showup4rj.com
- Redistributing White Wealth Program: moving money to our accountability partners and comrades fighting on the frontlines for racial justice in Ohio! contact: eedadair@gmail.com
- Use of Force Monitoring Group: We monitor over 30 police stations (and growing!) in Ohio for their Use of Force incidents and collaborate with our partners to share data and determine community-based responses. contact: davidlima246@gmail.com
- Social Media Team Coordinators contact: averysurj@gmail.com
- Anti-racism Education for White Social Justice Advocates and Predominately White Organizations/Institutions contact: averysurj@gmail.com
- Phonebanking Program to activate and engage our base!
Our chapters are led by local, volunteer steering committees that steward relationships and local campaign work. Chapters collaborate with each other for support and get additional support from the statewide chapter coach and SURJ Ohio. Each chapter has its own working groups.
- Northeast Ohio Chapter: contact Avery averysurj@gmail.com // FB: @SURJNEO
- Use of Force Working Group
- Redistributing White Wealth Campaign
- Book Club/ Personal Education
- White LGBTQ+ Working Group (brand new!)
- Community Police Commission and Police Accountability
- Offering leadership in a number of local campaigns, including the Jail Coalition, Resist Operation Relentless Pursuit CLE, and others
- Greater Dayton Chapter: contact Lindie ringodaisy@netzero.net
- Columbus Chapter: contact Tynan tynan@showup4rj.org
- Southeast Ohio Chapter: contact Andrea andrea@showup4rj.org
- Ohio State University Chapter: contact Griffen griff.cole17@gmail.com
- Decarcerate Ohio! Divesting from Prisons and Policing in Ohio and investing in people and communities!
- The Transforming Justice Network: supporting the development of a healthy movement ecosystem that centers those most impacted by structural violence.
Why SURJ?
All systems of inequity in this country are built on the foundations of white supremacy - with deadly consequences for all of us. SURJ OH believes that in order to live in a just and equitable world, white people must ground all of our social justice activism in a framework of personal work + collective action. This means that white people must examine and unpack our relationship to whiteness and white supremacy and its impact on who and how we are in this world. This is quite simply, our work to do as white people.
This personal work extends beyond self transformative and into the communities and systems we’re a part of. White people have a collective responsibility for addressing and undermining white supremacy in all of the ways that it shows up in our society. Structural and systemic racism won't be dismantled by only changing how we show up as individuals - it requires white folks to take collective action - with each other and with organizers and communities of Color fighting for a better world.
This personal work extends beyond self transformative and into the communities and systems we’re a part of. White people have a collective responsibility for addressing and undermining white supremacy in all of the ways that it shows up in our society. Structural and systemic racism won't be dismantled by only changing how we show up as individuals - it requires white folks to take collective action - with each other and with organizers and communities of Color fighting for a better world.
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