SURJ Vancouver
@surjvancouver.bsky.social
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Vancouver 🇨🇦 [xʷməθkʷəy̓əm,Sḵwx̱wúʔmesh,səlilwətaɬ,+other lands] is a political home for anti-racists intentionally organizing white folks into the work of collective liberation. surjvancouver.ca surjvancouver@gmail.com
✨Upcoming Engagement Event - We are co-hosting a picnic/bbq at Trout Lake on Saturday Aug 15th with L4P, AFC, and AOEC! This is an opportunity to connect and talk with the community and promote a few great actions! Come through if you can and please share widely. 🙏🏻
Bumping this for lower mainland residents! 🗳️#dogwoodsurvey www.dogwoodbc.ca/municipal-su...
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The reason the separatists have the power to launch an assault on Canadian federalism is due to Jason Kenney, who invited them into the tent and then curated their grievances for political power
Today at the Canadian Labour Congress convention in Winnipeg, a resolution passes to cut ties with the Histadrut - Israel's national trade union center, representing the majority of Israel's trade unionists. www.labourforpalestine.com/statements/h...
Historic win for Hot Cargo on Israel — Labour 4 Palestine
CLC votes to cut ties with the Histadrut At the beginning of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) convention earlier this week, democratic debate was blocked on a resolution to declare all Israeli goo...
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🤹♀️ NO [April] FOOLING, it’s time to beef up our anti-oppressive dialogue skills & engage more YT folks in this work! ✊🏻 Join us over 2 Sun afternoons in Apr to practice radical but productive communicating, and take into the world! FREE workshop! Optional RSVP w/ QR code. #surjvancouver #antiracismyvr
All white people are raised in a white supremacist culture that privileges them if they buy into it so if they don't want to be that way they must commit to unlearning it.
🗣️ You’re invited to #surjvancouver upcoming meetings & FREE events! General monthly coming together schedule below, and/or attend our “Difficult Conversations” workshop in April! Only a few spots left for next week’s #mediatraining on zoom! #whiteantiracismwork #solidarityforever 🍉 Link 🔗 in bio
The BC Teachers Federation, the province wide labour union representing over 40,000 teachers, has just passed a resolution in support of BDS! The first province-wide motion to support BDS in solidarity with Palestine!!
Western countries routinely destabilize non-Western countries and then wonder why there are so many refugees
SURJ Vancouver stands in solidarity with the victims, family members, and friends affected by the mass shooting tragedy in Tumbler Ridge, BC. We also reject the scapegoating moral panic narrative surrounding the Trans community and will always stand in solidarity with Trans folks! 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Well timed discussion with @desmondcole.bsky.social and @harshawalia.bsky.social regarding our current moment. youtu.be/5zLUsjRHV90?...
What Canadians can learn from U.S. resistance to ICE terror
YouTube video by The Breach
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“Many will ask: how did we get here? For those who believed the lies of the US cold war propaganda campaigns, this violence will appear new.“ nublues.beehiiv.com/p/mask-off-t...
Mask Off: The Not So New American Fascism
Contemporary fascism is simply neoliberalism with its multicultural mask off. We have been heading in this direction since the latter half of the 20th century, at least.
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All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.
We invite you to join us at our upcoming monthly general meetings! Next one is this Saturday, Jan 10th, 1-3pm. Get in touch with us!
In the midst of SO much more US manufactured chaos & atrocity in service of extraction 🇻🇪 😢, we invite you to come together in community today in so called Vancouver, where we can share space, snacks, and revolutionary discourse. #nootherlandfilm #SFU #surjvancouver #distrodisco #fuckimperialism
SURJ Vancouver@surjvancouver.bsky.social · 10mo ago!Friends! @surjvancouver.bsky.social is plugging into a new organizing year w/ a film screening #fundraiser supporting local #mutualaid group @distro_disco. 🚚✨ $10 requested door fee. Collection bins provided. 🎥 Join us for acclaimed Palestinian doc #NoOtherLand at #SFUHarbourCentre 4/1/26, 3-6p.🍉🍿
!Friends! @surjvancouver.bsky.social is plugging into a new organizing year w/ a film screening #fundraiser supporting local #mutualaid group @distro_disco. 🚚✨ $10 requested door fee. Collection bins provided. 🎥 Join us for acclaimed Palestinian doc #NoOtherLand at #SFUHarbourCentre 4/1/26, 3-6p.🍉🍿
Sandy (sandela.bsky.social) and Nora (nolore.bsky.social) have a good discussion here about our current government being so tepid/non-existent in addressing Trump's most recent racism. sandyandnora.com/episode-353-...
Episode 353 – Media finally call Trump racist
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about what has finally pushed the press to call Trump racist (or, xenophobic in the case of the NYT), and what Trump’s latest mask-off moment means for racism with...
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I hope those who took up valuable oxygen to agree with the right-wing about how cancel culture is destroying lives and how identity politics (I.e. racialized ppl, LGBTQ, disabilities, MeToo) is ruining politics and “gone too far” was the racism run-up and y’all fell for it
a woman wearing glasses and a hat is smiling in a kitchen .
Alt: a woman wearing glasses and a hat is smiling in a kitchen .
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CALLING all Burnaby Residents to urgently support supportive housing at 5389 Imperial Street! All Burnaby residents take 5 minutes to email decision makers this week using this easy template and then directly encourage others to do the same! ✍️✍️✍️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...
All jokes aside, people from across the country are invested in Zohran Mamdani winning because the people need hope. Folks are feeling run down. Things are bleak. We need proof that our neighbors still know how to make the right choice and that change is possible.
SATURDAY! 🗣️🧠✊🏻 FREE ANTI-RACISM LEARNING & PRACTICING WORKSHOP, Nov 1st, 1-4p! (Cozy space for deep work.) Build capacity for challenging conversations w/ friends & family. Practice going beyond performative allyship; deepen anti-oppressive action(s) in solidarity. More info at - surjvancouver.ca
🚨Exciting #Burnaby news!! In addition to officially becoming Canada’s first #apartheidfreecity in AUG, the adoption of #APR 🍉 into its #antiracism framework just passed unanimously! SO proud & thankful to our councilors for setting a brave precedent. 👏🏻 #NOantipalestinianracism #solidarity #B4P
Good 🧵 about whiteness for us Canadian white ppl to read:
Erica Ifill@wickdchiq.bsky.social · last yr.A word on #5 It’s not that I don’t feel comfortable in Canada but I’m more relaxed here because it’s the Caribbean. But there’s another reason that it’s a lesser burden: I don’t have to perform whiteness and it’s glorious!
Yes Dallas, we are ALL ANTIFA. ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿 WE ARE LEGION. EXPECT US. 🤫 😂😂😂
Check out what happens in the #bcleg when an #mla like #ndp @rohiniarora.bsky.social stands against #antichoice #anti2SLGBTQIA+ lobbying groups like @arpacanada. EVERY CONSERVATIVE bailed, to avoid voting 🗳️ on #motion38 to condemn their hate! Shame on you cowards! #abortionishealthcare #loveislove