SURJ Showing Up For Racial Justice of Columbus, Indiana

SURJ Showing Up For Racial Justice of Columbus, Indiana SURJ is a national network of groups and individuals organizing White people for racial justice.

Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves White people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability. We work to connect people across the country while supporting and collaborating with local and national racial justice organizing efforts. SURJ provides a space to build relationships, skills and political analysis to act for change.

02/12/2018

Members,

This is to let you know there will not be a membership meeting in February.

This is Black History month and there are many opportunities to Show Up. Here is the list we know about now:

Free Showing of documentary" I'm Not Your Negro" Monday February 12 6 pm at YES Cinema sponsored by AAF, HRC and co-hosted by BLM, SURJ and others.

Discussion of " I'm Not Your Negro" Tuesday February 20 6:30-9:30 pm Unitarian Universalist Congregation. There will be a panel discussion and thoughts shared on this important documentary

Feb. 22 6-7 pm The Underground Railroad in Indiana free program at Bartholomew County Library

Saturday February 24 IDOC Watch sponsors Abolition Study Session 2 "The Struggle Within" 5:30 pm at Rabble Cafe Indianapolis

Also, we recommend reading When They Call You a Terrorist A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele. Well Worth the Read and available at Viewpoint.

In solidarity,
Sondra Bolte
Liz Nolan-Greven
Bob Pittman
Debra Haza
Brittany Kiel

02/06/2018

As you've heard by now, the Philadelphia Eagles...

02/06/2018

Everyone was bracing for pandemonium in Philadelphia on Sunday night after the Eagles won their first ever Super Bowl. The fans are notoriously passionate, after all, and some preventative measures were taken to limit the chaos (police officers even covered lamp posts with Crisco to fan-proof the Ph...

02/05/2018

A crowd of about 175 people held signs, waved American flags and chanted in support of local and national youth who are part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program. The Sunday afternoon rally on the Columbus City hall steps was organized late last week by members of Bartholomew County....

Columbus For DACA 2-4-18
02/04/2018

Columbus For DACA 2-4-18

02/04/2018

Columbus For DACA 2-4-18

02/04/2018

Before Freetown Village began educating the public about the black experience in Indiana, even its founder was unaware that slavery existed among some Hoosiers. “There was so much I didn’t know,” said Ophelia Wellington, founder and executive director of the Indianapolis-based living history m...

Local incident.
02/04/2018

Local incident.

Did Cary Owsley really take his own life? Crime Watch Daily's Jason Mattera explores Owsley's peculiar death. Check your local listings at http://crimewatchd...

Today 2pm at city hall
02/04/2018

Today 2pm at city hall

An hour-long rally to support Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) locally and nationally will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday. The rally will begin at Columbus City Hall and include a mid-event march around the Bartholomew County Courthouse. Michael Greven of Bartholomew County Indivisible is among...

02/04/2018
02/04/2018

In the depths of the Great Depression, thousands of minority women across the country joined the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union.

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