Recordings & Materials

Description:

Join forces with SURJ and the We Ain't Buying It! campaign to deliver a huge blow to Amazon, Target, and Home Depot by taking the boycott right to their doors.

Right now there are an estimated 59,000 people held in ICE detention centers. We want to have at least 159 people become boycott planners with us to show our solidarity. Can you join us?

By becoming a boycott planner, you’re committing to:

• Gathering you and 5 or more people to show up in-person at a Home Depot near you between November 27th and December 1st. (SURJ is targeting Home Depot because they’ve cooperated with ICE, and we stand in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors. If there’s not a Home Depot near you, you can choose to hold your boycott at a local Target or Amazon store, too!)

• Handing out flyers, making some noise, and securing boycott commitments from people who have yet to spend their money at the store you’re outside of.

• It’s a chance to go BIG and make a real-time impact.

SURJ will support you with:

• A toolkit that includes instructions, tips, and printable signs + flyers that you'll get as soon as you sign on.

• Check-ins with a SURJ coach who can answer questions, offer guidance, and make sure you're ready to show up and make your boycott count.

We know this is a tight turn around, but if we can pull this off we’ll be taking a huge slice of sales away from these retailers on their biggest sales weekend of the year. Black Friday sales numbers make the national news - and so can we if we pull this off.

This is a training will equip you with everything you need to plan your Boycott Action! 

Recording & Transcript

Resources:

• Toolkit ← has everything you need to make your boycott happen. 

• Commitment Form ← sign for yourself if you haven’t yet, then share widely!

• Sign the Boycott Pledge

• Slack channel for Boycott Day of Action Planners

Action steps

• Fill out the commitment form if you haven’t already

• Meet with your team ASAP to start planning

• Choose your location, date and time

• Fill action roles

• Print flyers to bring and make signs

• Invite your friends

Description:

Join Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) and the Solidarity Organizing Initiative (SOI) for Power in Solidarity — a powerful, three-part training series designed to ground you in the tools and practices that build real community power.

Each session will have live transcription and will be recorded. The recording will be sent out to everyone who registers within 48 hours after each session.

Together, we’ll explore:

• Organizing 101: The fundamentals of community organizing

• Shared Interest Storytelling: Connecting through values and experiences

• Listening & 1:1s: How to build trust and bring people into the work

• Running Effective Meetings: Tools to strengthen your organizing spaces

In the second session, you will:

• People who want to learn how to build community and build a team to support immigrant justice or noncooperation campaigns

• People who've gone through the 2-week Solidarity Mobilizations Training, and are looking for a next step

• SURJ Circle members or anyone interested starting a new Circle

Whether you’re brand new to organizing or looking to sharpen your skills, this training will help you connect with others, grow your confidence, and empower you take powerful, strategic action — together.

Note: We’ve updated the name to Power in Solidarity (formerly Organizing Fundamentals: Core Tools to Build Community Power) to better reflect that these skills will be taught in the context of working in solidarity with immigrant communities. While the focus is on that context, the tools and strategies we’ll learn can be applied to all areas of our organizing.

Recordings & Slides

Session 1: 11/10

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Session 2 : 11/17

• Recording of the session

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Session 3: 11/24

• Recording of the session

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Additional Resources:

• Sample meeting agenda template (Google Doc or handout)

• Hub sustainability checklist

• Mapping your Base Worksheet

• Sample Email/Script to Reach Out to Institutions

• 7 Authoritarian Tactics & 5 R’s of Resistance

• SURJ Shared Interest Storytelling Worksheet

• 5 Tips for Powerful 1:1 Organizing Conversations

• Feedback 1:1 Organizing Conversations

Action steps

• Give feedback on Session 1 here.

• Schedule three 1:1s using the worksheets (Feedback 1:1 Organizing Conversations & 5 Tips for Powerful 1:1 Organizing Conversations) to guide your outreach and follow-ups.

• Invite your 1:1s to take the next step:

  1. If you already have a team, circle, or chapter — invite them to your next meeting.

  2. If not, bring them to Action Hour!

Description:

While times are very intense and wild, the growing signs of mass resistance are impactful and huge. The No Kings Day protest was the largest single-day political protest ever in the U.S. Just last month, millions of regular people withheld their money from Disney in the wake of Jimmy Kimmel’s firing, forcing the network to reverse course. Make no mistake: that was a huge power moment for our broad resistance. And we are seeing videos go viral on social media of thousands of everyday people in Chicago and Portland getting creative and brave to protect their neighbors from ICE. Plus, Zohran Mamdani is running a historic campaign for NYC mayor to make sure the richest city in America is affordable for working class people of all races.

These all represent cracks in MAGA’s power. Trump and MAGA are worried about losing control of Congress in 2026, because their policies and the impact of their agenda is beginning to be felt and people aren’t happy.

Join experts for a conversation about where we might expect things to go over the next year, and what you can do right now to keep up the energy from No Kings Day and take the next step to block MAGA and the billionaire class that back them.

This is a call aimed towards white people who want to understand their role organizing our people away from authoritarianism and toward justice, and people of all races are welcome.

Recording & Transcript

Action steps

• Phonebank with SURJ from now until Election Day!

Description:

Across the country, immigrant communities are under attack and authoritarian forces are gaining ground. But there’s a growing movement of people ready to take action with clarity, courage, and discipline. This training is for all of us who want to stand up in solidarity, especially those of us who are white who are ready to organize, respond, and show up with commitment and care.

Join us for Solidarity Mobilizations, a powerful two-part training series hosted by Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) and Solidarity Organizing Initiative (SOI). We’ll break down the political moment we’re in, the authoritarian playbook driving these attacks, and the role those of us who are white and/or citizens can play in pushing back effectively and strategically.

Each session will have live transcription and will be recorded. The recording will be sent out to everyone who registers within 48 hours after each session.

In the first session, you will:

• Learn to recognize and anticipate “Moments of Crisis” — and why they’re central to the authoritarian strategy

• Understand how direct support and crisis response work together in immigrant justice organizing

• Get grounded in the principles of strategic noncooperation and how it builds people power

• Leave with everything you need to start a SURJ Circle and get organizing with your neighbors in your community

In the second session, you will:

• Learn how to provide direct support for immigrant communities

• Get clear on next steps you're taking in your community

Whether you’re brand new or have been in the fight for years, this training will give you political clarity, strategic tools, and an invitation to join us in deeper solidarity. This is just the beginning, let’s get ready together.

Recordings & Slides

Session 1: 10/15

• Recording of the session

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Session 2 : 10/22

• Recording of the session

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Additional Resources:

• Article: LexisNexis Is Selling Your Personal Data to ICE So It Can Try to Predict Crimes

• Tool: Tracking the updated number of folks in detention

• Immigration Watch Group Directory

Action steps

• Give us feedback on the session HERE

• Sign the Solidarity Pledge and share it with 3 friends 

• Help elect officials who will stand up for us – join SURJ phone banks  

• Stay in touch: join our SURJ Slack community to connect, ask questions, and offer support. Click here to join and say hi in our online community on Slack! 

• Join “Organizing Fundamentals,” a 3-part training to turn your learning into action—gather a group, build a team, and strengthen your organizing skills.

Description:

So many of us are in close relationship with some of the 77 million people who voted for Donald Trump – as this last week has made very clear as our group chats and breakrooms erupt in debate.

Aunts, neighbors, coworkers– people who we care about who supported an administration that is now enacting a white supremacist billionaire agenda. Whether you’re close with a Trump voter or a few degrees away, what do we do with this tension? And how do we, as white people who care about justice, step into the responsibility of out-organizing MAGA in our own communities while maintaining our own boundaries?

In conversation with Beth Macy, journalist and author of the best-selling book Dopesick, we’ll talk about her upcoming book that explores this dynamic and her experiences returning to her white working class hometown in rural Ohio.

This is a call aimed towards white people who more deeply want to understand what drives white support for Trump– and who feel committed to giving white people a better option than white supremacy. And people of all races are welcome.

Recording & Transcript

Action steps

• Phonebank with SURJ from now until Election Day! 

• Pre-order Beth Macy’s upcoming book Paper Girl: A Memoir of a Home and Family in a Fractured America

Description:

The first eight months of the Trump regime have been an ongoing reign of white supremacist-fueled attacks on immigrants, trans people, and the working class. And- recent events combined with MAGA’s relentless racist, transphobic rhetoric threaten to accelerate not only MAGA’s consolidation of power, but support from their base.

White people who care about justice: we have work to do. This is a time to not only use our privilege to take urgent action to stand with our neighbors facing violence, but to take responsibility as white people for mobilizing and organizing other white people.

Join SURJ on a mass online call to take stock of this moment with political experts– and then get into action. If you’ve been watching recent events unfold in horror, if you’ve been wringing your hands wishing there was something you could do, if you’ve been feeling dismay and confusion about how we got here– this call is for you .

We combat the violence of the Trump agenda with life and connection– with our commitment to community and not leaving anyone behind.

Recording & Transcript

Action steps

• Phonebank with SURJ from now until Election Day!

• Join a Solidarity Organizing Initiative Training

Description:

As Trump attempts to consolidate power in the executive branch by deploying the National Guard into Black cities, an openly anti-racist, socialist candidate is poised to win the mayoral election in the biggest city in the country. From cities like DC to Chicago to NYC– to rural places like West Virginia, Iowa, and small towns across the country– fascism is rising, and so are we.

To explore these topics and more, join Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) at our webinar, “Rising Fascism, Rising Resistance,” with special guest former US House Representative Jamaal Bowman and organizers on the ground in DC. On the call, we’ll hear analysis of this critical moment– and we’ll give you clear next steps for how you can show up for progressives like Zohran and against MAGA.

This is a time where our fight is on multiple fronts. We must be joining alongside the leadership of organizers in DC, immigrant rights groups, and others on the frontlines of Trump’s authoritarian attacks. AND we must work to put candidates like Zohran Mamdani in office who will not only stand up to MAGA and put resources back into our communities, but also whose victory will also throw down the gauntlet for a powerful, progressive alternative to the current failings of the mainstream Democratic Party. 

Recording & Transcript

Action steps

• Phonebank with SURJ for Zohran from now until Election Day

• Canvass with SURJ NYC every Saturday until Election Day

• Donate to support this work and put Zohran in office

Description:

This fall as SURJ we will test out our local elections program by forming teams to flank 10 badass local candidates in 10 different locations, throw down in the Virginia governor’s race to test our persuasion and turnout phonebanking ahead of midterms next year, and take action to call out the billionaires, the Republicans for their billionaire allegiances, and the racist authoritarians.

Join this 2025 Elections Orientation Call to learn how we will research local elections, find powerful candidates in our area who are willing to fight, and help them win this fall -- plus joining national phonebanks for Virginia governor’s race & New York City mayor’s race.

After the 1 hour Elections Orientation Call, you're invited to stay on for 30 minutes for our Circle Orientation Call to learn how to form a new SURJ circle to take action with!

Note: Both dates will be the same -- choose just one to attend.

Recording & Transcript

Slides

Action steps

• Submit the interest form so we have a sense of where people are at

• Review the 2025 Local Elections toolkit

  1. Key next step: Find your 2-3 person crew

  2. Key next step: Identify which seats are open near you and who’s running 

  3. Key next step: By Sept. 15, tell us who you're supporting (we'll be in touch)

• Attend the Peer Support Call Wednesday 8/27

• Attend a phonebank for Zohran

Description:

This call is for SURJ members who want to learn more about starting a SURJ Circle—or are ready to take the first step to launch one!

A SURJ Circle is a small, in-person organizing group (usually 3–15 people) that meets at least monthly to move SURJ’s national campaigns forward through local action.

Why Circles?

The only way we can slow down and prevent the worst of Trump’s authoritarian attacks is by doing this work together in our communities. Circles grow the movement—creating spaces to build relationships and skills, take bold local action in coordination with national strategy, and welcome new people into the work.

SURJ designs campaigns—like elections, immigration defense, and noncooperation—to be done in teams. Campaigns are more effective and more motivating when we do them together!

NOTE: We are holding New Circle Orientation Calls on 8/5. 8/14, 8/21, and 8/26/2025. Each New Circle Orientation Call follows a Campaign Training Call at 8 PM ET. To start a new Circle, you must be participating in one of our fall campaigns— the Election Campaign or our Noncooperation Campaign (around immigration solidarity). So ideally you will pick the campaign you’re most excited about, and register for its Campaign Training Call and the Circle Orientation Call on the same night. If you can’t stay for the orientation on the same night as your campaign training, you can attend a campaign training call on a different night or catch up with the materials linked here! 

Recording & Transcript

Slides

Action steps 

• Learn the basics: Visit the Circles page on this site for a full overview of what it means to be a Circle: the commitments required for official recognition, the support you’ll receive, and the steps to get started.

• Express your interest: If you’re ready to explore starting a Circle, fill out the New Circle Interest Form. We’ll follow up with next steps and invite you to schedule a 1:1 with our National Circle Organizer to answer your questions.

• Start recruiting: Don’t wait! Begin inviting people now to join your Circle and build your team!

Description:

Across the country, immigrant communities are under attack and authoritarian forces are gaining ground. But there’s a growing movement of people ready to take action with clarity, courage, and discipline. This training is for all of us who want to stand up in solidarity, especially those of us who are white who are ready to organize, respond, and show up with commitment and care.

Join us for Solidarity & Rapid Response, a powerful two-part training series hosted by Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) and Solidarity Organizing Initiative (SOI). We’ll break down the political moment we’re in, the authoritarian playbook driving these attacks, and the role those of us who are white and/or citizens can play in pushing back effectively and strategically.

In the first session, you will:

• Learn to recognize and anticipate “Moments of Crisis” — and why they’re central to the authoritarian strategy

• Understand how direct support and crisis response work together in immigrant justice organizing

• Get grounded in the principles of strategic noncooperation and how it builds people power

• Leave with everything you need to start a SURJ Circle and get organizing with your neighbors in your community

In the second session, you will:

• Learn how to provide direct support for immigrant communities

• Get clear on next steps you're taking in your community

Whether you’re brand new or have been in the fight for years, this training will give you political clarity, strategic tools, and an invitation to join us in deeper solidarity. This is just the beginning, let’s get ready together.

Recordings

Part I: 8/5

Part II: 8/12

Additional Resources:

• Check out the Network Tracker to find your local immigration response network!

  • This is a live crowdsourced list

  • Know about a local organization or network in your area not on this list? Submit it via our public form to get it added!

• Toolkit by Popular Democracy is rich with resources 

Action steps

• Gather a team and join our Organize in Solidarity 5-week training starting on 8/26.

• Fight for leaders who are courageously challenging MAGA and committed to protecting our communities: Join our phone banks for Zohran starting on 8/23! Register now.

•  Take collective action at our SURJ Action Hour next Wed 8/20. Sign up now.

• Join the fight to #FreeXochitl HERE.

• Your feedback is essential - please take 2 minutes to fill out our feedback form HERE.

Description:

“Calling in” versus “calling out” isn’t just a one-on-one practice, it’s a strategic orientation to help us defeat authoritarianism and build the world we need. As millions of people across the country experience uncertainty and instability– some for the first time– we have a responsibility to turn towards these folks, meet them in their fears, and invite them into the work of justice.

This is a particularly urgent role for white people.

The corporate MAGA regime deploys strategic racism to build their marjority-white base and create cover for their agenda. And– millions of white people are 1) already suffering under their agenda or 2) frozen on the sidelines and unsure of how to take action. It is our role to turn back towards our communities and both bring them away from allure of racist scapegoating and towards a vision of multiracial solidarity, and give them pathways into action.

But how do we do this? “Calling In” has been a value of SURJ’s since our founding and has been core to our organizing strategy. Instead of “calling out,” we see this practice as one we must learn and commit to in order to grow our movement to the necessary scale we need to win.

Join us on Wednesday, July 2 at 5 p PT / 8 pm ET for our mass meeting, “Calling in, not out: white people’s task to organize our own” with Loretta Ross, a longtime leader in the reproductive justice movement and author of "Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel." We’ll hear from Loretta about this crucial approach, and then from SURJ organizers about our plan to use this summer as a launch point to capture the momentum of this moment and build our movements for the long haul.

Recording

Additional Resources:

• Join Loretta’s mailing list

• Buy Loretta’s book “Calling In”

• More on Loretta’s offerings

• “My hope for all of us is that those of us who don't usually step out of our comfort zones. We start stepping out just a little, and those of us who are starting to get into action. Let's do more of it, because that is how we're going to win this. All of us in our own ways, saying yes over and over again to stepping out and stepping up to do scary and life-affirming things that we might never have dreamed we'd be asked to do.”
  —Amara, SURJ organizer

• “Our role at SURJ is to make sure that millions of white people show up for this vision of multiracial democracy that we are all working towards.”
  —Emma, SURJ staff

Description:

Across the country, immigrant communities are under attack and authoritarian forces are gaining ground. But there’s a growing movement of people ready to take action with clarity, courage, and discipline. This training is for all of us who want to stand up in solidarity, especially those of us who are white who are ready to organize, respond, and show up with commitment and care.

Join us for Mobilization 101, a powerful two-part training series hosted by Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) and Solidarity Organizing Initiative (SOI). We’ll break down the political moment we’re in, the authoritarian playbook driving these attacks, and the role those of us who are white and/or citizens can play in pushing back effectively and strategically.

In the June 17 session, we:

• Learned to recognize and anticipate “Moments of Crisis” — and why they’re central to the authoritarian strategy

• Learned how direct support and crisis response work together in immigrant justice organizing

• Got grounded in the principles of strategic noncooperation and how it builds people power

• Learned about how to plug into this political moment which required mobilization and take real action this summer

  • Recording

In the second session on June 24, we:

• Learned how to provide direct support for immigrant communities

• Got clear on next steps you're taking in your community

  • Recording

Additional Resources:

• Check out the Network Tracker to find your local immigration response network!

• Know about a local organization or network in your area not on this list? Submit it via our public form to get it added!

Description:

This summer it's time turn up the heat!

Come join us for a training on absorption so we can get oriented toward growing our movement and building our skills to effectively welcome thousands of new people into SURJ!

Who is this training for?

• Anyone who wants to learn about absorption and build your skills to effectively bring people into our movement in times of political activation, and anyone who is planning on hosting a mass meeting this summer!

What is absorption?

• Absorption is both an orientation toward using moments of political activation to bring more people into a movement, and it's also the skills that go along with growing our movements effectively.

Why do we absorb?

• We absorb because in order to achieve our goals, we need to use solidarity power (the ability to work and act together as a collective) to move large amounts of people to to build the world we want to see. In order to harness solidarity power, we must always be growing our movements and welcoming more people to move and take action with us.

This training will cover:

• SURJ’s long-term strategy and goals, and why we organize white people

• SURJ's plan to support members, circles and chapters to host mass meetings throughout the summer to welcome more people into our movement

• The fundamentals of absorption: the whys, how tos, best practices, and how to create an absorption plan grounded in your context

• Examples of absorption successes and fails

• Next steps for getting involved, doing your own absorption, and hosting a mass meeting.

We are offering three absorption trainings on June 12th, 18th and 26th. These are STAND ALONE trainings and they are not a series. We will be offering the SAME training on each of these dates to offer people different scheduling options for attending, so you only need to sign up for ONE of these trainings!

Recording

Additional Resources:

• Slides

• Our Plan through 2028

Description:

The whole country has watched ICE agents conducting violent raids across the country, sweeping up immigrants from their workplaces and homes. This weekend in LA, in response to a mass sweep by ICE of over 100 immigrants, citizens of Los Angeles took to the streets in protests– and were met by militarized police, Trump calling in the National Guard, and over 100 protestors being arrested.

This is all a part of Trump’s broader authoritarian strategy: to mobilize racism against immigrants, create a fake crisis, and then use it as an opportunity to consolidate his power.

For people who are white and US citizens, we have a particular role right now to stand up to this violence and Trump’s agenda more broadly: to use our privilege to intervene to act in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors. And to step into responsibility to organize other white people to do the same.

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