Call for Artwork!
Help us make the movement more beautiful!
SURJ would like to invite you to submit artwork focused on white people organizing for racial justice.
We are working on giving our website a make-over and part of what we would like to do is include a gallery of art that speaks to and strengthens our work together.
Creative expression and cultural work have been central to resistance and liberation struggles throughout history. Through creative expression people are able to speak out, convey emotion, imagine new possibilities, sustain, evoke spirit, connect with ancestors, bring people together, and transform the personal and political.
We are looking for any medium that would be able to be posted on our website: poems, songs, prints, videos, creative writing, etc. We are also in the process of looking into using the art as part of a gallery or exhibit at our upcoming trainings, and incorporating it into our organizing efforts.
The pieces can be focused on a broad strokes of white anti-racist work, or on more specific struggles for racial justice related to the Occupy movement, housing, environment, anti-war, immigrant rights, queer liberation, prison abolition, etc.
We hope the language of our new mission and vision will inspire your creativity.
99% Dignidade Rebelde
We believe art is important to building strong movements for racial, social and economic justice. Here is some artwork focused on the Occupy/Decolonize Movement we are inspired by. The art is by Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Berrera of Dignidad Rebelde dignidadrebelde.com, Ernesto Yerena hechoconganas.com and Design Action Collectivedesignaction.org
dignidadrebelde.com United for Justice not Divided by Racism
To have copies of this poster sent to your city for distribution visit dignidadrebelde.com Statement from Melanie Cervantes and Chris Crass: 1. We want to build up powerful, working class-based, feminist, multiracial movements for collective liberation. The Occupy movement is an incredible convergence of movements for economic, social, racial, gender, and environmental justice. The Occupy movement not only resonates with millions of people, but it actively invites millions of people to participate in the creation of both the movement and the vision of what we are working towards. This poster is a tool to help build up the Occupy movement, deepen the anti-racist analysis of the movement, and express the solidarity of white communities with immigrant families of color in the 99%. We hope the poster will help express the Occupy movement’s support for immigrant rights struggles around the country. 2. We want to give anti-racists around the country tools for building up stronger anti-racist politics and practice in white communities. We hope the poster will give white people a way to express their outrage for the profound inequalities of capitalism and white supremacy. We want white people to have visible ways of standing with communities of color against racist attacks. We want to support the growing consciousness that racism against communities of color hurts everyone, and is part of what keeps the inequalities of capitalism intact. We want to support white people resistance to the brutality of racism against communities of color, while simultaneously helping white people understand the necessity of ending white supremacy as part of their own liberation from systems of oppression. 3. We want to challenge the ways that racism divides movements for justice, and give white people tools to work against these divisions. We want to support white people standing with communities of color in ways that feed and nurture a culture of solidarity, dignity, and love. While we work against the impacts of systems of oppression in our communities, families, and lives, it is essential that we also build up liberatory culture, relationships, alliances, and practices
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