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SURJ Springfield-Eugene Oregon

SURJ Springfield-Eugene Oregon

Access to safe abortion is a human health care right

A few days after SCOTUS’s barbaric decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, I spent time with one of my daughters who lives in Seattle. Her friend…

4 min readSep 14, 2022

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SURJ Springfield-Eugene Oregon

AHCPP: One Year On

“We call on people to learn more about policing in Eugene and the full perspectives of Committee members by reading their full published…

1 min readSep 1, 2022

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SURJ Springfield-Eugene Oregon

Violence and hate in the names of safety, goodness, and freedom: the death culture of white…

In the name of safety and goodness, an attack on the sovereignty of the body

6 min readJun 3, 2022

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SURJ Springfield-Eugene Oregon

ReflMedia & Bias

This past week I was having a conversation with an individual at work who has shared with me some of their daily and lifetime stresses and…

4 min readFeb 15, 2022

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SURJ Springfield-Eugene Oregon

On Calling In When We’re Called Out: how to be aware of and interrupt the default of white…

“In a sense, the battle is and always has been a battle for the hearts and minds of white people in this country. The fight against racism…

8 min readDec 14, 2021

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SURJ Springfield-Eugene Oregon

Repost: Guest View: What is justice in America?

The above opinion piece was published December 4, 2021 in the Register-Guard. Authored by SURJ’s own Carter McKenzie, who is part of the…

1 min readDec 7, 2021

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SURJ Springfield-Eugene Oregon

Repost from SURJ National: White People: Organizing Our Own to Stop the Violence

1 min readDec 3, 2021

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SURJ Springfield-Eugene Oregon

Indigenous land acknowledgements in Oregon

In our September meeting of SURJ Springfield-Eugene, we were engaged as a chapter in developing Indigenous land acknowledgements. We were…

6 min readSep 23, 2021

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Indigenous land acknowledgements in Oregon

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SURJ Springfield-Eugene Oregon

Gaslighting the universal right to breathe: the flawed logic of anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers

A teacher protesting the banning of mask mandates in her state of Florida recently stated:

3 min readAug 26, 2021

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SURJ Springfield-Eugene Oregon

Dismantling the Thin Blue Line through De-escalation and the Duty to Intercede

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder the demand to defund the police and end systematic racism has become ever louder, and as a result many…

6 min readJul 11, 2021

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SURJ Springfield-Eugene Oregon

SURJ Springfield-Eugene Oregon

Springfield-Eugene Oregon chapter of Showing up for Racial Justice, a national network of groups and individuals working to undermine white supremacy.

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