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📢 ACTION ALERT TO SAVE TPS 📢

Thursday 4:30
Ferry Building, SF
September 22, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Want to take tangible steps to fight white supremacy? Join a SURJ Action Hour! We meet over Zoom to take concrete steps together: calling elected officials, signing petitions, etc. We'd love to have you!

🗓️Friday 9/25 12-1pm
📍On Zoom

Register at tinyurl.com/septactionhour
September 22, 2026 at 12:52 AM
The event for Song For A Hard-hit People has been postponed to February 2027.
We'll reshare the details as they become available & hope you join us then!
September 21, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Join us on 9.24 for a special conversation with organizer and author Beth Howard about her new memoir, Song for a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Anti-Racist Solidarity from a Coal-Miner’s Daughter.
When: Thursday, September 24 at 6:00-7:30pm
Where: Revival Hall, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland
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September 11, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Join SURJ Bay Area for a hands-on training on organizing for the 2026 midterms, defending election outcomes, & bringing more people into the work!

🗓️ Sunday, 9/20
🥙 Lunch 12:00–12:30pm
📣 Training 12:30pm-3:30
📍Oakland, location provided upon RSVP

RSVP @ tinyurl.com/winanddefend
September 7, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Tomorrow! Come out to the SURJ protest at Whole Foods!
📅 WHEN: Saturday, June 13, 2026
🕙 TIME: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
🛒 WHERE: Whole Foods, 51st & Telegraph, Oakland
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✊ We can make a difference! Never again is NOW!
Stop ICE Terror! Boycott Whole Foods/Amazon!
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June 12, 2026 at 2:05 PM
What does buying groceries at Whole Foods have to do with surveillance and ICE? Learn about it in the latest SURJ blog. www.surjbayarea.org/blogs/boycot...
June 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Join us for a virtual introductory meeting to learn about our work, hear about our strategies for organizing to bring more white people into the movement for racial justice, and find tangible ways you can show up!

⏰Wednesday May 13th, 7-8:30pm
📍Zoom
📝Register at tinyurl.com/SURJintro
May 8, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Please join us in demanding that the Berkeley City Council practice good governance, transparent procurement and competitive bidding, and uphold its commitments to Sanctuary by stopping its contracting with Flock. tinyurl.com/dropflockberkeley
May 5, 2026 at 9:08 AM
SURJ Bay Area is leveling up! We are now a 501(c)4 organization taking over the work of our previous 501(c)3. 🎉 www.surjbayarea.org/blogs/leveli... Help build the foundation of SURJ’s c4 from day one by donating—better yet, make it monthly! www.surjbayarea.org/donate.html
May 5, 2026 at 1:04 AM
SURJ Bay Area showed up in solidarity with working people everywhere at the Oakland Sin Fronteras rally and march this May Day 2026.
People over billionaires! Tax the rich! Abolish Ice! Free Palestine!❤️‍🔥
May 2, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Come join SURJ Bay Area tomorrow for May Day! We will be joining @oaklandsinfronteras in the Fruitvale Plaza for the 2pm resource fair, 3pm rally, and 4pm march.

Together we’ll demand:

Tax the rich! Abolish Ice! Expand democracy! Fund communities not war! ❤️‍🔥
April 30, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Stand up for our communities! May 1 will be a People Over Billionaires national day of action. Workers, students, and families will be marching, walking out and taking action together to demand:

-Tax the rich
-Abolish ICE
-Expand democracy, not corporate power
-Fund communities, not war

Join us!
April 21, 2026 at 4:30 PM
From @oaklandarmsebargo Want to be involved in the Oakland Arms Embargo Campaign but don't know how? Join us on April 19 to learn more about the status of the campaign and how you can be a part of this critical fight!
April 11, 2026 at 8:04 PM
No War on Iran! No Weapons for Israel! No ICE in Our Communities!

Join us for an action half hour to demand our members of Congress fund care not killing.

Friday April 3, 12-12:30pm
Friday April 17, 12-12:30pm

💌Register here:
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Tinyurl.com/apr17-notmy
March 30, 2026 at 10:57 PM
SURJ Bay Area was out in force at Oakland's No Kings events today. If you want to continue taking action to defend democracy, we have plenty of ways for you to plug in. www.surjbayarea.org/events.html
March 29, 2026 at 4:52 AM
This May Day, we will demonstrate our collective power against the greed of billionaires and the politicians they bankroll who are waging wars on working people. But that kind of power doesn’t appear overnight. We build it together. Join us!
March 23, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Panel Discussion: OAKLAND SAYS NO TO APARTHEID, From South Africa to Palestine!

Learn from Oakland's own movement leaders about local resistance against the South African apartheid regime, and how we're carrying on this legacy today through the fight for an Arms Embargo.
March 20, 2026 at 8:14 PM
You are invited to a sweet Mother's Day fundraiser for Mothers in Gaza. May 10th from 10:30am-1:30pm at Mohka House on MacArthur. To donate or volunteer: bit.ly/formothersofgaza
March 20, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Join us on Saturday, March 14th, from 9-3 pm at Mission High School in San Francisco to apply lessons from ICE resistance across the country and train for mass disruption on May Day.

RSVP at bit.ly/noncooperation2
March 7, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Call on Mayor Lee to end all military cargo shipments through the Oakland airport to Israel on February 23-25 between 9 AM and 5 PM at (510) 238-3141 and fill out the RSVP form once you do so we know how many people have made a call!

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February 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Join us for this informational meeting to hear about SURJ Bay Area’s local work and campaigns! We’d love to meet you and see how we can work together to shape a more just world.

Sunday March 1st 2-4pm
Downtown Oakland, location given once you register
Register at tinyurl.com/surj-public-meeting
February 16, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Billions of our U.S. tax dollars are funding militarized state violence, from ICE’s abductions to Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people. Read more at NotMyTaxDollars.org.
February 7, 2026 at 7:11 PM
The 2026-2027 #California budget increases corrections spending despite the prison population continuing to fall. We should be releasing elderly and low risk people to their communities, not keeping them locked up. Contact state representatives bit.ly/budgetaction26 and tell them #CloseCAPrisons
February 6, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Our calls are growing louder for an arms embargo. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD AND EMAIL THE PORT BOARD TO CUT TIES WITH GENOCIDE: armsembargonow.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:49 PM