SURJ FL - Showing Up For Racial Justice Florida

10/09/2025

10/03/2025

In September, Florida leaders and the Catalyst Project kicked off the 2025 Florida Anne Braden cohort! As part of each cohort, we get to hear from incredible speakers across the three-part Anti-Racist Organizing Panel Series. During our first panel, Indigenous Leaders Fighting for Decolonization, we will get a chance to hear about the work happening from the Everglades to Palestine and across Turtle Island.

This virtual panel will include panelists William “Popeye” Osceola, Secretary of the Miccosukee Tribe, Karla Bautista, coordinator of Proyecto Liberación, and Reem Monzer Elkhaldi, Esq. the Executive Director of Healing our Homeland. These visionary leaders will discuss the ways they are fighting the key struggles of our time while advancing visions of collective liberation that center the communities most impacted by colonization. ASL, Spanish language interpretation, and live captioning will be available. You’ll also have a chance to move resources to these incredible organizers and their organizations!

You can register for this panel and share with your networks at https://bit.ly/IndigenousLeadersPanel25.

10/03/2025

October 9th Webinar: Indigenous Leaders Fighting for Decolonization

🗓 Date: Thursday, October 9
🕛Time: 3:00 PM Pacific, 6:00 PM Eastern
📍 Register here: bit.ly/IndigenousLeadersPanel25

Join Catalyst Project for the first session in the Anti-Racist Organizing Series of the 2025 Anne Braden Program. This webinar will bring together powerful Indigenous voices from movements across the globe to discuss ongoing struggles for land, sovereignty, and liberation in the face of colonial violence.

We are honored to feature:
✨️William J. Osceola (Miccosukee Tribe, Florida) – Former language, culture, and digital arts teacher at Miccosukee Indian School and now Secretary of the Miccosukee Tribe’s General Council

✨️Karla Bautista (Trans Q***r Pueblo, Arizona) – A trans women and migrant from Petén, Guatemala, is a descendant of the Kaqchikel nation- the Indigenous peoples who were part of the Mayan resistance against the genocide in Guatemala, and who still fight today against the corrupt government in their country.

✨️Reem Monzer Elkhaldi, Esq.(Healing our Homeland, Florida) – Reem is the daughter of Palestinian refugees from Gaza and the Founder and Executive Director of Healing Our Homeland, a grassroots movement rooted in the community currently living under occupation and escalating genocide.

From the struggles of Indigenous nations on Turtle Island to Palestinian liberation, this conversation will highlight how Indigenous peoples are resisting colonialism and leading movements for justice.

Why attend?
✅ Learn from frontline Indigenous organizers resisting state violence and erasure.
✅ Connect decolonization struggles across geographies and histories.
✅ Take action by supporting Indigenous-led movements for justice and self-determination.

This event is part of a larger series designed to deepen anti-racist political education, uplift critical resistance work, and move resources to grassroots movements challenging the far-right agenda.

Don't miss this urgent and inspiring conversation!

06/30/2025

06/26/2025

Attn: white antiracist Florida organizers/activists!

06/23/2025

**Info Session tonight!**

Given this political moment, we have decided to open applications for the 2025 Anne Braden Anti-Racist Training Program to organizers across the country, in order to extend the reach of the program and give people on other fronts fighting fascism the opportunity to learn from folks in Florida. Please help spread the word! The program will take place in person in Orlando, FL over three 4-day weekends beginning in September.

The application due date has been extended to June 25th. Please help spread the word. The application is available online at: bit.ly/flbraden2025

Join an info session on June 23rd at 7pm eastern/ 4pm pacific to learn more. Register for the info session at: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/I7hz92FyRHWrsmBYwiyB7A

The Anne Braden Program develops white anti-racist leaders as part of an overall multiracial movement-building strategy. The program consists of weekly trainings, one on one mentorship, grassroots fundraising training, engaging and challenging homework and readings, exciting guest speakers, transformational facilitation, and inspiring kick ass organizers. Stipends for childcare and lost wages are available for some applicants.

The program is designed for social justice activists and organizers with white privilege who are looking to grow in their anti-racist skills, analysis, and practice. Poor and working-class people, rural organizers, women, Jews, and LGBTQ people are highly encouraged to apply. We will prioritize applicants currently engaged in grassroots organizing and/or base building in working class communities, particularly around Palestine solidarity, electoral organizing, economic justice, climate & environmental justice (including disaster response), labor organizing, trans and q***r liberation, faith communities, migrant rights, reproductive justice, and work to shrink or dismantle policing and imprisonment.

06/03/2025

This is a call for white folks organizing in Florida! Please help spread the word!

We are building a powerful cohort of white organizers to help strengthen the incredible people of color-led organizing pushing back against white supremacy now and building power over the long haul. The Anne Braden Anti-Racist Organizer Training Program will take place over three four day weekends in Orlando this fall and is an intensive program designed to support white folks in becoming accountable, principled anti-racist organizers in multiracial movements for justice. Join the online information session on Wednesday June 4th at 6pm est,,register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/6SsiekJ4QI-rvQSQE6GQYw%23/registration

Applications due June 8th: collectiveliberation.org/apply-for-florida-in-person-anne-braden-program

The Anne Braden Program develops white anti-racist leaders as part of an overall multiracial movement-building strategy. The program consists of weekly trainings, one on one mentorship, grassroots fundraising training, engaging and challenging homework and readings, exciting guest speakers, transformational facilitation, and inspiring kick ass organizers. Stipends for childcare and lost wages are available for some applicants.

The program is designed for social justice activists and organizers with white privilege who are looking to grow in their anti-racist skills, analysis, and practice. Poor and working-class people, rural organizers, women, Jews, and LGBTQ people are highly encouraged to apply. We will prioritize applicants currently engaged in grassroots organizing and/or base building in working class communities, particularly around Palestine solidarity, electoral organizing, economic justice, climate & environmental justice (including disaster response), labor organizing, trans and q***r liberation, faith communities, migrant rights, reproductive justice, and work to shrink or dismantle policing and imprisonment.

05/12/2025

Are you or someone you know a white anti-racist organizer in Florida who is looking to skill-up and build accountable community? 🤔

Join us for two info sessions about the FL Anne Braden Program: Monday, May 12th @ 630pm and Sunday, May 25th @ 630pm.

💻 Register here: bit.ly/abpinfo2025

07/28/2024

“We must become involved in the fight against racism as if our lives depend on it- because in truth, they do.” - Anne Braden

100 years ago today, Anne Braden was born. She was a white Kentuckian and leader in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and mentor to other white antiracist organizers, including people who helped found SURJ. For the majority of her decades on this earth, Anne dedicated herself to fighting racism, bringing white people into the conversation at a time when few white folks were publicly and loudly aligning themselves with Black leaders in the civil rights movement. Though she passed in 2006, Anne’s legacy remains – in the way that her work influences so many racial justice efforts like SURJ’s, and through the Braden Center in Louisville, which remains a crucial community meeting space for folks continuing this work. Honoring our ancestors who paved the way for mobilizing white people into racial justice efforts is an important part of keeping their teachings alive. Please consider donating to the center in celebration of Anne’s 100th birthday. Happy birthday, Anne Braden! 🎉 Link in the comments to give.

Illustration by: Abby Guiseppe

05/18/2024

Join us to learn from leaders in struggles against colonialism in Haiti, Palestine and here on Turtle Island. Hear about the interconnectedness of these fights and about solidarity and resilience. The speakers will help locate the current moment in a history of resisting colonial domination. ASL, Spanish language interpretation, and live captioning will be available. This online panel is the first part of the three-part Anti-Racist Organizing Series of the 2024 Anne Braden Program, an anti-racist training program for white organizers. Let's show up and move resources to these incredible organizers! Register for the panel at https://bit.ly/ABP24Decolonization