This fall, Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial and economic justice, will be knocking doors and running phonebanks to speak with voters in majority-white counties in key battleground states. Join us to learn how you can participate from wherever you live! SURJ and movement partners have identified Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona as strategic states in which white voters could go either way or stay home,…

Antisemitism is both real and rising, and being mis-used to attack movements and initiatives for justice. In this session we will conceptualize antisemitism in the framework of a power analysis that integrates a holistic understanding about intersectional oppression and explores the role antisemitism plays in justice movements. We will review both where antisemitism came from, and how the narrative gets weaponized as a tool to disempower Black women in leadership and other marginalized communities. We will use a range of…

Mary Kuhn works with SlipStream to support energy transition strategies for affordable housing in the Midwest, including promoting passive architecture techniques in partnership with groups like Habitat for Humanity. 

Scholar-activist Bob Ross, who has previously engaged WFC with his work on sweatshop labor, turns his attention to the pandemic inspired policies that reduced poverty and temporarily stopped the increase in inequality. The author of two books on global capitalism (Global Capitalism: The New Leviathan and Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops), Ross taught urban affairs and social policy at Clark University for forty years. Much earlier he was among the founders of Students for a…