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Showing Up for Racial Justice Nashville is a chapter of SURJ, a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial justice.

SURJ Nashville, a chapter of the national Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) network, is a group of individuals organizing white people for racial justice in Middle Tennessee. Through education, outreach, and mobilization, SURJ Nashville’s mission and purpose are: (1) to call white people into the work of unlearning racism and white supremacy that operates in personal attitudes and relationships

; (2) to call white people into the work of divesting from and dismantling racism and white supremacy that operates within systems and institutions; (3) to create spaces of learning, accountability, and transformation for people seeking to engage in the work outlined above; and (4) to support local, statewide, regional, and national people of color (POC) led movements for racial and social justice.

05/28/2024

Follow and plug in!

12/22/2023

Metro Arts Commission News Update: A new commissioner has been appointed.

Swipe to learn more and check out the latest article from Nicole Williams in the bio to recap the December 19th Rules Committee Meeting where another corporate lawyer has been appointed to the Metro Arts Commission.

Follow and look out for our teach-in that we’ll host this January to stay plugged in.

11/16/2023

JOIN US TODAY at the Metro Office Building (800 President Ronald Reagan Way, 1st Floor, Development Services Conference Room) from 11 am-11:50 am for the review of Daniel Singh and then from 12 pm-2 pm to hear Metro Human Relations’ update on our complaint to the board.

Bring signs in support of equity. Be present and show that there will be accountability and that decisions impacting Nashville must be made public.

11/14/2023

Let’s talk about Arts Equity! Find out how you can be a part of a movement towards equitable arts funding in Nashville - It takes all of us!

Join us for a Community Info Session for Arts Equity

Free pizza + drinks!

Tues. Nov. 14
7pm
located at 2131 26th Ave N

No RSVP needed
DM for questions

11/11/2023

TODAY

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Nashville protest 11.11.23
Organized by the Palestinian Community in Nashville

10/14/2023

TODAY

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Locally-organized, Palestinian-led protest in Nashville standing against genocide.

In our lifetime, Palestine will be free.

08/28/2023

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06/14/2023

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Allyship is inherently performative.⁣
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I know I’m shaking the table, but some of y’all been dozing off, so here we go.⁣
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Instead of asking me why allyship is inherently performative, ask yourself why you need to be seen as an ally. ⁣
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Why do you need that title? ⁣
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Why can’t you just do your work and go home?⁣
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Allies aren’t friends. ⁣
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They serve their own interests. And if your interests are subject to the whims of white supremacy, we’re all dead. ⁣
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Additionally, the dangerous first step in the pursuit of allyship is appointing ourselves as such without consulting the group we’re supposed to be in alliance with.⁣
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Did they give you a title? What do they think of your actions?⁣
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If you’re confused about the general consensus of the collective, it tells me 2 things:⁣
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1. You are not in relationship with these people.⁣
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2. You haven’t studied enough.⁣
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⚡️WHERE IS YOUR THEORY?⁣
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⚡️WHO ARE YOUR TEACHERS?⁣
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⚡️WHAT WOULD THEY SAY?⁣
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⚡️WHAT DOES THE TEXT SAY?⁣
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⚡️WHAT ARE THE HISTORICAL PRECEDENTS? ⁣
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⚡️WHAT IS THE VISION?⁣
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If you don’t know, go home. Start over.⁣
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Activism > Allyship⁣
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You don’t need a title. You just need to do your work.⁣
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⚡️𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐒𝐐𝐔𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐘 𝟒-𝗪𝐄𝐄𝐊 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝟑 𝐃𝐀𝐘𝐒.⁣
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⚡️𝐓𝐀𝐏 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊 𝐈𝐍 𝐌𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐎 𝐓𝐎 𝐉𝐎𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐓.

06/02/2023

Join SURJ Nashville for the next General Interest Meeting!

June 5th
7 - 8:30pm
on zoom

Sign up in the link in our bio!

It’s about time to come together and learn how we can collectively show up for racial justice in Nashville. It starts internally first, so over the next few months we will be getting together to discuss our relationships with whiteness and how to disrupt racism in our everyday lives.

05/15/2023

Community members will gather for a press conference outside the Metro Nashville Historic Courthouse Tuesday, May 16th, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. to share ongoing concerns about the increasingly anti-democratic actions by our state and local representatives.

On April 25th, Metro Council voted to approve the largest public stadium subsidy in the history of U.S. professional sports. Two recent polls found that over 50% of Nashville residents oppose the stadium deal, and only about 25% are in favor of the deal.

During a five hour public hearing, 70% of the roughly 140 commenters spoke in opposition to the deal. Despite this, Metro Council decided to back billionaires and deny democracy.
This stadium deal will come at the cost of mass gentrification, redevelopment, and displacement; increased policing and surveillance; and negative environmental effects that will disproportionately impact Black, Brown, Indigenous, low-income, and unhoused Nashvillians.

05/12/2023

Tennessee lawmakers have voted to abolish our Community Oversight Board that we voted to instate.

The bill is now in the hands of Gov Bill Lee to sign. Email Bill Lee and tell him to VETO SB0591 / HB0764 and show up to the next meeting May 22!

04/11/2023

Onto the next fight.

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State preemption is just another way to say white supremacy. Tennesseeans are under the rule of men that operate just as the South always has, like plantation owners. Their individual wealth, health, and safety is their priority, everything else is weaponized to protect it. Every law centers on coercive control and we're no stranger to punitive acts.

Undermining a Metro department created by public outcry, petitioning and campaigning by THE PEOPLE OF NASHVILLE despite the will of The Mayor, the Metro Council, and MNPD is the most clear example of Rule By Force that the legislature will undertake.
The constant barrage of abuse is exhausting. Take care of yourselves and one another and Keep showing up.

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Website

http://www.surjnashville.org/

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