06/01/2026
We noticed a few new faces around here, so we thought we'd reintroduce ourselves. Hi y'all! We're SURJ - we organize white communities into fights for racial and economic justice. We're happy you're here, and we need you in this work.
Text from the graphics we shared in this post are below👇:
🔴 Slide 1: "Hi y'all, we're SURJ. We’re the largest organization in the country that explicitly organizes white people for justice."
🔴 Slide 2: "We’re answering the decades-long call from people of color for white people to organize our own. From Malcolm X to the Civil Rights Movement to BLM, movement leaders of color have long called on white people to take up the responsibility of undermining white racism in our own communities. SURJ was founded in 2009 by white Southerners who were mentored by white members of SNCC."
🔴 Slide 3: "Why white people? Since the founding of this country, in order to stay in power, those at the top have drummed up racism in white people to undermine white support for movements for change.
🔴 Slide 4: “They maintain power by using strategic racism to make white communities feel like they have more in common with rich white dudes than other working people of all races.
🔴 Slide 5: "When we organize white people away from racism and towards solidarity, we take away one of the most powerful tools of those at the top."
🔴 Slide 6: “At SURJ, we organize people around our shared interest—what we stand to gain—in fighting alongside people of color for racial and economic justice.”
🔴 Slide 7: “Nearly all of us (white people included) will be better off when we win what movements for change are fighting for.
Things like: investing in public schools and community safety, good healthcare, and climate solutions.”
🔴 Slide 8: “We’ve talked to millions of white people. We talk with white people about housing access, food insecurity, electoral campaigns, and working conditions, to name a few, in order to understand their concerns.”
🔴 Slide 9: “We know that when we organize white people around their needs and concerns, they can more easily see their stake and join in bigger fights for racial and economic justice."
Join us: surj.org/join
