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… Until Everyone Is Free
SURJ Toronto uses this tagline on our website and messaging to succinctly encapsulate a core value. But it’s by no means an original thought.
SURJ Jews for Palestine: End the deadly violence and occupation now
As Jewish members of Showing up for Racial Justice Toronto, we feel it is imperative to speak up about the ongoing violence and loss of life in Palestine and Israel. We dream of a day when every person is seen as valuable and worth protecting.
We Love, Support, and Rely on Lefty Journalism!
(aka wtf is going on with the dystopian Meta news ban, and how you can stay connected with rad independent Canadian analysis)
Land Acknowledgement at SURJ Toronto
SURJ Toronto organizes in and around Toronto, Ontario, so-called Canada, on territories that have been lived on, shared by, and cared for by Indigenous Nations – including the Anishinaabe, the Wendat, and the Haudenosaunee – since time immemorial.
Collective Liberation
SURJ Toronto believes in collective liberation – that none of us can be free until we end white supremacy. We must ground our organizing in a framework of mutual interest.
Accountability Statement
As an organization that seeks to organize white people for racial justice, and centres the leadership of Black, Indigenous and racialized community organizers, SURJ Toronto recognizes that accountability is essential to our role in realizing collective liberation.
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Our Theory of Change
Whose Freedom does the Convoy Stand For?
SURJ Toronto condemns the white supremacists who are leveraging anger about the state’s pandemic response to spread hateful, fascist, racist, and antisemitic rhetoric and to further division and violence in communities.
SURJ Toronto Statement of Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Toronto extends solidarity to the Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders who are resisting Coastal GasLink’s incursion into their lands, and condemns the recent militarized RCMP raids on Gidimt’en clan territory.