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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