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SURJ member Holly Fincke is just one of thousands of volunteers knocking on doors and talking to voters to stop Trump’s enablers in Congress. In our latest blog post she shares her recent experience in Phoenix, Arizona. www.surjbayarea.org/blogs/on-the...

📢 ACTION ALERT TO SAVE TPS 📢 Thursday 4:30 Ferry Building, SF

Want to take tangible steps to fight white supremacy? Join a SURJ Action Hour! We meet over Zoom to take concrete steps together: calling elected officials, signing petitions, etc. We'd love to have you! 🗓️Friday 9/25 12-1pm 📍On Zoom Register at tinyurl.com/septactionhour

The event for Song For A Hard-hit People has been postponed to February 2027. We'll reshare the details as they become available & hope you join us then!

Join us on 9.24 for a special conversation with organizer and author Beth Howard about her new memoir, Song for a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Anti-Racist Solidarity from a Coal-Miner’s Daughter. When: Thursday, September 24 at 6:00-7:30pm Where: Revival Hall, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland link in bio

Join SURJ Bay Area for a hands-on training on organizing for the 2026 midterms, defending election outcomes, & bringing more people into the work! 🗓️ Sunday, 9/20 🥙 Lunch 12:00–12:30pm 📣 Training 12:30pm-3:30 📍Oakland, location provided upon RSVP RSVP @ tinyurl.com/winanddefend

Tomorrow! Come out to the SURJ protest at Whole Foods! 📅 WHEN: Saturday, June 13, 2026 🕙 TIME: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm 🛒 WHERE: Whole Foods, 51st & Telegraph, Oakland ✒️ SIGN UP: Register to get more info and updates secure.ngpvan.com/Drh0qMpT3Ea-... ✊ We can make a difference! Never again is NOW!

What does buying groceries at Whole Foods have to do with surveillance and ICE? Learn about it in the latest SURJ blog. www.surjbayarea.org/blogs/boycot...

Join us for a virtual introductory meeting to learn about our work, hear about our strategies for organizing to bring more white people into the movement for racial justice, and find tangible ways you can show up! ⏰Wednesday May 13th, 7-8:30pm 📍Zoom 📝Register at tinyurl.com/SURJintro

Please join us in demanding that the Berkeley City Council practice good governance, transparent procurement and competitive bidding, and uphold its commitments to Sanctuary by stopping its contracting with Flock. tinyurl.com/dropflockberkeley

SURJ Bay Area is leveling up! We are now a 501(c)4 organization taking over the work of our previous 501(c)3. 🎉 www.surjbayarea.org/blogs/leveli... Help build the foundation of SURJ’s c4 from day one by donating—better yet, make it monthly! www.surjbayarea.org/donate.html

SURJ Bay Area showed up in solidarity with working people everywhere at the Oakland Sin Fronteras rally and march this May Day 2026. People over billionaires! Tax the rich! Abolish Ice! Free Palestine!❤️‍🔥

Come join SURJ Bay Area tomorrow for May Day! We will be joining @oaklandsinfronteras in the Fruitvale Plaza for the 2pm resource fair, 3pm rally, and 4pm march. Together we’ll demand: Tax the rich! Abolish Ice! Expand democracy! Fund communities not war! ❤️‍🔥

Stand up for our communities! May 1 will be a People Over Billionaires national day of action. Workers, students, and families will be marching, walking out and taking action together to demand: -Tax the rich -Abolish ICE -Expand democracy, not corporate power -Fund communities, not war Join us!

From @oaklandarmsebargo Want to be involved in the Oakland Arms Embargo Campaign but don't know how? Join us on April 19 to learn more about the status of the campaign and how you can be a part of this critical fight!

No War on Iran! No Weapons for Israel! No ICE in Our Communities! Join us for an action half hour to demand our members of Congress fund care not killing. Friday April 3, 12-12:30pm Friday April 17, 12-12:30pm 💌Register here: Tinyurl.com/apr3-notmy Tinyurl.com/apr17-notmy

SURJ Bay Area was out in force at Oakland's No Kings events today. If you want to continue taking action to defend democracy, we have plenty of ways for you to plug in. www.surjbayarea.org/events.html

This May Day, we will demonstrate our collective power against the greed of billionaires and the politicians they bankroll who are waging wars on working people. But that kind of power doesn’t appear overnight. We build it together. Join us!

Panel Discussion: OAKLAND SAYS NO TO APARTHEID, From South Africa to Palestine! Learn from Oakland's own movement leaders about local resistance against the South African apartheid regime, and how we're carrying on this legacy today through the fight for an Arms Embargo.

You are invited to a sweet Mother's Day fundraiser for Mothers in Gaza. May 10th from 10:30am-1:30pm at Mohka House on MacArthur. To donate or volunteer: bit.ly/formothersofgaza

Join us on Saturday, March 14th, from 9-3 pm at Mission High School in San Francisco to apply lessons from ICE resistance across the country and train for mass disruption on May Day. RSVP at bit.ly/noncooperation2

Call on Mayor Lee to end all military cargo shipments through the Oakland airport to Israel on February 23-25 between 9 AM and 5 PM at (510) 238-3141 and fill out the RSVP form once you do so we know how many people have made a call! buff.ly/5yg8yNn

Join us for this informational meeting to hear about SURJ Bay Area’s local work and campaigns! We’d love to meet you and see how we can work together to shape a more just world. Sunday March 1st 2-4pm Downtown Oakland, location given once you register Register at tinyurl.com/surj-public-meeting

Billions of our U.S. tax dollars are funding militarized state violence, from ICE’s abductions to Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people. Read more at NotMyTaxDollars.org.

The 2026-2027 #California budget increases corrections spending despite the prison population continuing to fall. We should be releasing elderly and low risk people to their communities, not keeping them locked up. Contact state representatives bit.ly/budgetaction26 and tell them #CloseCAPrisons

Our calls are growing louder for an arms embargo. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD AND EMAIL THE PORT BOARD TO CUT TIES WITH GENOCIDE: armsembargonow.com

Today at 4pm! Join us to demand an end to ICE terror in our cities and communities!

PACK THE PORT TO STOP OAKLAND'S COMPLICITY IN GENOCIDE! See you on Thursday December 18th, at 3pm! TAKE ACTION: armsembargonow.com

Join the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights for an afternoon of community and connection! Write holiday cards to individuals currently incarcerated across California's jail and prison systems. Monday, December 8th, 4 - 6 PM Berkeley Public Library - West Branch 125 University Ave, Berkeley

Want to send corrupt corporations a message they can’t ignore this holiday season? Pledge to boycott Home Depot, Target, and Amazon from November 27th through December 1st with us.

Tomorrow!

Join us TOMORROW for a community rally and send a clear message to all Microsoft execs: NO TECH FOR GENOCIDE! DIGITAL ARMS EMBARGO NOW! 📅 When: Tuesday, Nov 18th at 1pm PT 📍 Where: Yerba Buena Gardens (Near Mission St), San Francisco

Join the 6th Annual 'Rethinking Thanksgiving' webinar to challenge the legacy of the ‘thanksgiving’ holiday and discuss how to collectively work together to confront colonialism. ✨️Sunday, Nov 23 at 1pm PT ✨️"Colonialism is the Problem, Solidarity is the Answer" ✨️Register: tinyurl.com/2025rethinking

Take action today #VeteransDay Nov 11 with Vets and allies across the country to say NO - no cut to vital services, no ICE attacks on our neighbors, no military in our streets. Find a protest near you at vetssayno.org 
#VetsSayNo #NoCutsNoOccupation

Are you horrified by the ways the Trump administration is directly attacking the safety of our communities? Join SURJ for a Mass Meeting for White Oaklanders! Register here- secure.ngpvan.com/YLf3X3OJiUOD...

Please join us in calling for the release of Mohammad Ibrahim using the actions in this toolkit. Mohammed is a 16 year-old American child from Florida who has been held in Israeli prison since February 2025. Let’s all work together to bring this child home safe and sound.

Happening today!

Today at 5pm, Embarcadero Plaza SF! From @bayresistance Join us to say: All Ice Out of The Bay! We are ready to stand with our communities against any ICE escalation or deployment of national guard in the bay. We are powerful, we are peaceful. We keep us safe.

If federal troops invade the bay, we WILL mobilize! From @bayresistance, sign up for text alerts at bayresistance.org

Save the Date!

Watermelon Connections (WC) is a grassroots mutual aid collective supporting a group of families in Gaza by connecting with them personally, amplifying their stories & fundraising to help them to access food, diapers, medicine, clothes, tents, and other necessities. linktr.ee/watermelon.c...

Last weekend, SURJ members and community members gathered to write postcards and share their stories with @CAgovernor @gavinnewsom to urge him to veto AB 715. Tomorrow, we will have an action hour to make calls and emails to his office. Join us! Register here: tinyurl.com/oct8-veto-ab715

Join SURJ Bay Area for an action half hour to learn more about AB715, the public education censorship bill designed to censor criticism of Israel and education about Palestinian histories. Together we’ll demand that Governor Newsom protect free speech in our classrooms & veto this dangerous bill!

Oakland is facing a housing crisis — and criminalizing homelessness will only make it worse. The Encampment Abatement Policy would: Push thousands more people onto the streets Increase mental health crises and overdoses Waste taxpayer dollars without solving homelessness We need real solutions!

📢Action Alert: Call CA Senators today to demand they oppose AB 715! Let them know that censorship has no place in our California schools. Let’s flood their lines before a potential hearing next week! 📢

A new Oakland councilmember is trying to push through an anti-homeless policy while militarization against the poor and unhoused is being unleashed nationally. Keep this policy OUT of Oakland. Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/invest-in-...

Our efforts are working but we must keep up the pressure and be ready to mobilize! Pro-Israel groups are pushing for AB715 to be heard in committee during the week of September 8th. If a hearing is scheduled, we will mobilize immediately. RSVP HERE: bit.ly/ab715sept

Team SURJ was proud to be one of 50 "Ride for Palestine" teams raising funds for the Middle East Children's Alliance to support lifesaving work in Gaza. Fundraising is open for a few more days: 🔗 rideforpalestine.akaraisin.com/.../t/SURJba...

✊ Activate for Justice Join SURJ Bay Area to take action for racial justice + against fascism — from the streets to behind the scenes. Build community + plug into action! 📅 Aug 27 | ⏰ 7–8pm PT | 💻 Zoom 📝 Register by Aug 25: secure.everyaction.com/FS9xGU9YhU61VDPG_nOjCw2

✊ Activate for Justice Join SURJ Bay Area to take action for racial justice + against fascism — from the streets to behind the scenes. Build community + plug into action! 📅 Aug 27 | ⏰ 7–8pm PT | 💻 Zoom 📝 Register by Aug 25: secure.everyaction.com/FS9xGU9YhU61VDPG_nOjCw2