How white folks can take anti-racist action in COVID19

White people have a role to play in building an anti-racist response to COVID19. In this webinar, we'll talk about how to shut down racist scapegoating for this crisis and get involved in building a multi-racial movement for the things we all need in your region!

BIPOC and immigrant communities will be among those hardest hit by COVID19 due to existing racial inequalities, but the state’s responses to COVID19 may not reach them, may exclude them altogether, and in some cases, may even worsen their situation. This agenda requires and depends on white silence or active opposition to multiracial movements that are out to win the things we all need--like fully funded healthcare, affordable housing and a sustainable climate.

This webinar took place online on April 29th 2020. The recordings are available below (breakout group discussions and the report backs are not included). If you require a transcript to access this content, please email: surjto.families@gmail.com. 

Facilitator Bios:

Emma Jackson is a community organizer and queer settler living on Treaty 6 territory. She organizes with Climate Justice Edmonton and 350 Canada.

Chanelle Gallant has been an organizer, writer, speaker and troublemaker in sex work and racial justice movements for 20 years.

Annie Morgan Banks is an organizer and printmaker, living on Ohlone territories in the Bay Area. She is a co-founder of the Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Front-Bay Area and a member of the Anti Police-Terror Project.

Johanna Lewis is a community organizer with Showing Up for Racial Justice - Toronto, a doctoral candidate in History at York University, and a queer femme parent of two strange and magical children.

Sheryle Carlson is a white settler, degrowth proponent, organizer in support of racial justice, Indigenous and migrant rights, living in amiskwacîwâskahikan, Edmonton.

Part 1 - Intros and openings

Part 2 - Context: Racism & Covid-19

Part 3: White Anti-Racist Organizing and White Organizing Culture

Part 4: How To Take Anti-Racist Action during COVID-19

More resources

Still have questions? Here is a list of further reading

Wondering what you can do in your city? Here is a list of mutual aid and community organizing groups to support.

Want to get involved in your area? Here is a form to fill out if you want to be put in touch with those organizing in your region.