Doom Resisters

Organizing white people to resist authoritarianism

Episode Summary

Erin Heaney leads an organization called SURJ, which specifically organizes white people, driven by a philosophy that racial and economic justice are in everyone's best interest.

Episode Notes

Erin Heaney leads an organization called SURJ, which specifically organizes white people, driven by a philosophy that racial and economic justice are in everyone's best interest.

White supremacists have been recruiting from communities that feel unsupported or isolated to bolster authoritarian movements. SURJ, which stands for Showing Up for Racial Justice, connects people across communities and reaches out to under-resourced individuals to build a sense of belonging and investment in equity. 

Resources and links:

• Multi-Racial Democracy, or Authoritarianism? 
• How Democracies Die . . . and How They May Survive
• Debate: Why Democracies Survive
• If you don’t have multiracial democracy, you don’t have democracy at all
• The Myth of a Majority-Minority America