WAYS to LEARN ABOUT and WORK AGAINST RACISM

Curious about what it means to be an ally? Here is one perspective:

https://bostonreview.net/gender-sexuality/micki-mcelya-history-social-justice-ally

Two more opportunities to attend Transformative Conversations training offered

by Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition. Nov. 12, 6-7pm ET or
Dec.. 8, 7:30-8:30pm ET. Register https://forms.gle/593oMFsH8THSt73z9

Check out System Check, a new podcast from Melissa Harris-Perry and Dorian
Warren here.

If you missed our chapter's recent virtual Introduction to Becoming an

Upstander, this article from the New York Times covers similar material. Let us
know if you are interested in future training sessions.

The Word is Resistance, SURJ Faith's latest podcast (listen or read the
transcript) is about transitions. https://soundcloud.com/thewordisresistance/twir-
110120-river-crossing#t=0:33 Transcript
https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html

A pair of readings on restructuring funding for community safety: From Equal

Justice USA, a primer https://ejusa.org/defundingthepoliceprimer/ and from
Essence Magazine “Black Women Are The Beating Hearts Behind The
BREATHE Act," Black women's role in the act that proposes a strategic roadmap
for divesting from the police state and investing in community safety. Read here.

Calling in Call Out Culture webinar with Loretta Ross, longtime anti-racist and
feminist educator, a founder of the reproductive justice movement and one of the
voices that informed SURJ Values. Call Out culture undermines our efforts to
build what is needed for transformative change. Nov11, 5:30-7:30pm. Register:
https://bit.ly/RossABIhttps://bit.ly/RossABI AND Nov. 12 9am: Panel on Illuminating
the Intersections--Reproductive Justice is Racial Justice https://bit.ly/ABIRossPanel

Alcoa/Blount Chapter of NAACP will meet online Sat. Nov. 21 at 11:45am. The
only agenda item is election of officers. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7704285423.
Blount County United will resume monthly meetings in January 2021.

Blount County SURJ Leadership Team next virtual meeting is Tues, Nov. 24 at
5pm. All are welcome. Contact us at blountcountysurj@gmail.com if you would
like to attend.

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A publication of Blount County Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) November 2020