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SURJ Boston Brunches 2021

SURJ Boston's monthly brunches are a time to build community and deepen our understanding. Each month has a topic and featured presenters in an area related to racial justice organizing.

SURJB is a chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice, a national organization dedicated to organizing white people against white supremacy in all its forms. Thus, our audience tends to be primarily white - and everyone is welcome to this space. We will work to ensure the comfort and safety of BIPOC who join our space.

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August 2021 Brunch Theme:

Our friend and cousin of SURJB (now) Dr. Bret McEvoy will be presenting his dissertation called WHITE RECKONINGS: The possibilities for transformative justice contributions from anti-racist white activists in the United States. Having interviewed over 30 activists from Greater Boston, Bret will discuss his findings and lead us into a conversation around how this can help us better situate our work as white anti-racist activists

Bret's dissertation and work on the Ear to the Ground project engaged SURJB and CCI leaders at a moment of upheaval immediately after Trump's election and in the midst of restructuring SURJB. Hearing from him now as the COVID19 pandemic and #BlackLivesMatter uprisings have stoked a new wave of white people entering racial justice work will be a helpful moment of reflection and digestion for newer (and veteran) SURJB members and CCI community members.

This event will be a low key fundraiser for Community Change Inc which grounds SURJB in over 50 years of anti racist organizing history. Contribute as you are able here: bit.ly/SURJ2CCI

You can choose to attend one or more of the following sessions.