SURJ Boston
SURJ Boston (SURJB) is a local chapter of Showing Up For Racial Justice, a national network of groups and individuals organizing primarily white people for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ provides a space to build relationships, skills, and political analysis to act for change.
On the local level, SURJB partners with grassroots organizations led by impacted people of color. We take leadership from, act in solidarity with, and hold ourselves accountable to those organizations as we work together for prison abolition, indigenous solidarity, Palestinian liberation, and other issues as our capacity allows. We are united in the struggle for justice, freedom, human dignity, and a world beyond racial capitalism.
To get involved with SURJB, go to: https://www.surjboston.org/get-involved
Volunteering in 2025 might look like . . .
Joining the legislative campaign (phone banking, tabling) to stop a proposed new women’s prison by advocating for the Prison and Jail Construction Moratorium Bill. This is a critical step in the larger movement to end the incarceration of women and girls.
Volunteering and fundraising for the P8guaso farm to support a land rematriation project within the ancestral homelands of Nipmuc People. (Rematriation is the practice of restoring relationships between Indigenous peoples and their ancestral lands.)
Offering communications and fundraising support for Cambridge HEART (Holistic Emergency Alternative Response Team), which is building a transformative alternative to policing and other carceral systems by providing holistic, non-punitive, care-focused responses by trained peer responders.
In addition to specific projects, SURJB volunteers provide ongoing support (mobilization, marshalling, fundraising, etc.) to turn out white people for actions around Palestine, immigrant justice, prison abolition, and anti-fascism.