<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Mobilize racial justice in our community!</span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Showing Up for Racial Justice</span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Sunday Feb. 8</span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px">4-6pm</span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Champaign Public Library / 200 W. Green, Champaign, Illinois</span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Robeson Pavilion Room C</span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">At this important meeting, we will be shaping what a SURJ chapter looks like in our community, as well as identifying other ways in which we want to show up for racial justice. </span><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Some directions that have been identified: </span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Resource Accountability partners</span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Occasional reading group and/or Ongoing reading group</span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Mobilization around community concerns (e.g. council meetings, letters to the editor, protests)</span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Support for organizations who are having difficulty with members due to white ignorance about issues of racism</span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1586425478237007/?context=create&previousaction=create&source=49&sid_create=2197592845" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Please RSVP to the Facebook event</a> at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1586425478237007/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/1586425478237007/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">If you would like to join the listserv, please request membership here:</div><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cu-surj" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cu-surj</a><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px">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.</span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Learn more about SURJ at the national level here:</span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><a href="http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/" target="_blank">http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/</a></span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px"><br></div></div></div>
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