RESOURCES TO TAKE ACTION

OUR PARTNERS:
The Brooklyn Movement Center:
Brooklyn Movement Center (BMC) is a Black-led, membership-based organization of primarily low-tomoderate income Central Brooklyn residents. We build power and pursue self-determination in BedfordStuyvesant & Crown Heights by nurturing local leadership, waging campaigns and winning concrete
improvements in peoples lives. Through our intersectional organizing, BMC centers a full range of issues and
Black identity that define a whole community.
Find out more about our campaigns at http://brooklynmovementcenter.org email us at
bmc@brooklynmovementcenter.org to get involved!
Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ):
SURJ is a national network of groups and individuals organizing White people for racial justice. Through
community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves White people to act as part of a multi-racial
majority for justice with passion and accountability. We work to connect people across the country while
supporting and collaborating with local and national racial justice organizing efforts. SURJ provides a space
to build relationships, skills and political analysis to act for change.
Visit nycsurj.com for information on getting involved and to sign up for our listserve!
Next SURJ NYC chapter meeting: 6:30 pm*, Wednesday, September 21st at Project REACH
4th Floor, 39 Eldridge St, New York, New York 10002
* 6 pm for new member orientation
LOCAL RACE ACTION GROUPS:
Congregation Beth Elohims Dismantling Racism Action Group
Last year, more than 100 CBE members engaged in a study series about systemic racism in America. Now
they have formed a Dismantling Racism Action Group, which will work as allies on a specific campaign to win
concrete change for racial justice in New York. For more information, contact Lisa Vinikoor at
lvinikoor@gmail.com
Kolot Chayeinus Race Working Group
Kolots Race Working Group has been working over the past three years toward becoming an anti-racist
synagogue. They would like to speak with other congregations engaging in work on race and racism. Contact
Franny Silverman, Director of Learning and Action, franny@kolotchayeinu.org
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS:
Anti-Racist Alliance
This is the Northeast organizing body of the Peoples Institute for Survival & Beyond, and they host trainings
and other opportunities to share resources around anti-racist organizing.
http://www.antiracistalliance.com/index.html
The Campaign to Shut Down Rikers
An NYC grassroots collective of activists dedicated to the immediate shutdown of Rikers Island jail complex.
http://www.shutdownrikers.org/
Breaking White Silence
An NYC based collective of white anti-racist organizers who set up at various places throughout the city to
have conversations about race. They set up shop regularly at Prospect Park Farmers Market on Saturdays
from 1-3pm, and also set up in other spaces by request.
https://www.facebook.com/breakingwhitesilence/?fref=ts

Communities United for Police Reform (CPR)

Communities United for Police Reform and a citywide coalition of over 200 organizations are calling for the
New York City Council to pass the Right to Know Act into law to help end police abuses. It would promote
police accountability in New Yorkers' most common interactions with the NYPD to prevent abuses and
unconstitutional searches that continue in communities across the city.
http://changethenypd.org/
Families United for Racial and Economic Equality
FUREE is a member led Brooklyn-based multiracial organization led by mostly women of color and organize
and unite low-income families to build power to fight against systems of oppression.
http://furee.org/
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ)
For 25 years, Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) has pursued racial and economic justice in New
York City by advancing systemic changes that result in concrete improvements in peoples everyday lives. We
are inspired by Jewish tradition to fight for a sustainable world with an equitable distribution of economic
and cultural resources and political power.
http://jfrej.org/get-involved-2/
Justice League NYC
Justice League NYC, a project of The Gathering for Justice, is a task force of juvenile justice experts,
advocates, activists, and artists who have come together to work specifically on issues relating to juvenile
justice.
http://www.gatheringforjustice.org/
Movement for Black Lives
In response to the sustained and increasingly visible violence against Black communities in the U.S. and
globally, a collective of more than 50 organizations representing thousands of Black people from across the
country have come together with renewed energy and purpose to articulate a common vision and agenda.
We are a collective that centers and is rooted in Black communities, but we recognize we have a shared
struggle with all oppressed people; collective liberation will be a product of all of our work.
http://movementforblacklives.com/
Millions March NYC
Millions March NYC is a multiracial grassroots collective of activists committed to building and strengthening
the Black Lives Matter movement.
https://www.facebook.com/millionsmarchnyc/
The Peoples Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB)
A national and international collective of anti-racist, multicultural community organizers and educators
dedicated to building an effective movement for social transformation.
http://www.pisab.org/
White Noise Collective
A collective of activists, organizers and educators in the Bay Area and NYC who raise awareness at the
intersections of race and gender. They have an EXCELLENT resource page.
http://www.conspireforchange.org/
Whiteness Project
Whiteness Project is an interactive investigation into how Americans who identify as white, or partially
white, understand and experience their race.
Whiteness Project is conducting interviews with people from all walks of life and localities in which they are
asked about their relationship to, and their understanding of, their own whiteness. Each video interview is
paired with a statistic that provides a greater societal context and offers an opportunity for self-reflection
by the audience on their own thoughts about race.
http://whitenessproject.org/