SSJ Freedom Circles
Launch A Freedom Circle!
You do not have to wait for permission to create change. And you do not have to do it alone.
Freedom Circles are small hubs where people come together to study, organize, and take action right where they live. They are spaces for learning, courage and collective action. Spaces where neighbors step into their power together.
Freedom Circles can begin with just a few people who commit to learning, growing and organizing together and can expand over time. What matters most is the shared willingness to show up and move forward together.
When you launch a Freedom Circle, you join a growing network of people committed to building a more just, free, and thriving future starting in their own communities. You will also get access to tools and support.
Lasting change begins in communities. It begins when people come together to understand the world around them, support one another, and work together.
Freedom Circles help transform isolation into connection, uncertainty into clarity, and concern into collective action. They help people move from feeling alone to becoming part of something larger than themselves.
Start where you are.
Find your people.
Learn together.
Organize!
Freedom Circles are oriented around these principles and traditions:
Black Study: We insist on the struggle for an anti-racist people-led democracy, created out of the ongoing work to abolish anti-Black systems of racial capitalism and carcerality, and to create reparative futures for all our people. Black Study recognizes the living bonds between Academic Workers and their People, bonds that unsettle the conventional boundaries and protocols of the university.
Black Feminist Praxis: Black Feminist Praxis is at the heart of Black Study. We recognize that Black womxn, through their political organizing and their community-building, have long articulated a feminist theory and praxis of intersectional people’s liberation in which “no one of us can be free until we are all free.”
Black Radical Traditions: We look to Black Radical Traditions across the African diaspora as our key sources for the praxis of liberation struggle, labor organizing, and movement-building.