SURJ Toronto believes in collective liberation – that none of us can be free until we end white supremacy. We must ground our organizing in a framework of mutual interest.

As an organization that seeks to organize white people for racial justice, and centres the leadership of Black, Indigenous and racialized community organizers, SURJ Toronto recognizes that accountability is essential to our role in realizing collective liberation.

SURJ Toronto condemns the white supremacists who are leveraging anger about the state’s pandemic response to spread hateful, fascist, racist, and antisemitic rhetoric and to further division and violence in communities.

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Toronto extends solidarity to the Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders who are resisting Coastal GasLink’s incursion into their lands, and condemns the recent militarized RCMP raids on Gidimt’en clan territory.