Western WashCo for Racial Justice (WWRJ)
Formerly: Showing Up for Racial Justice Forest Grove (SURJ-FG)
January 2022
Restructuring & Name Change Update
It came to our attention that the national SURJ leadership made a change to their website and overall branding (https://surj.org/) -- their main wording now says, “A home for white people working for justice.” This change was alarming & disturbing to some of our Forest Grove chapter steering committee members knowing this could be mis/interpreted in white supremacist ways. Several of us wrote to the national leadership to understand this change and so far (many weeks later), we have not received a response.
So, in December 2021, we restructured our group and changed our group name to better reflect who we are. We are still listed on the national SURJ website as a SURJ chapter, but our broader group name now better reflects our broader inclusivity of members from various racial and ethnic backgrounds, and a broader geographical region.
We are now Western WashCo for Racial Justice (WWRJ).
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to comment below or email us at WestWashCoRacialJustice@gmail.com. Thank you!
WWRJ Organizing Committee
Hope Kramer
Charlotte Lumae
Emily Lux
Jill Smith
Brenda Zook Friesen