Nat and Nino interview Sarah Stockholm, the National Network Strategic Campaigns Director for Showing Up for Racial Justice (aka SURJ). In the Spring of 2020, as the pandemic spread in US prisons, Sarah organized white folks to support prison abolition in a campaign that got folks committed by asking them to tell their stories. We talk about storytelling and narrative as a way to bring white folks to action in the movement for racial justice, along with homecoming, escape, practice, rivers, and finding the people who can stand by you.
With Sarah Stockholm
Sarah Stockholm is the National Network Strategic Campaigns Director for SURJ (aka Showing Up for Racial Justice). They are an organizer, popular educator, Theatre of the Oppressed practitioner and writer from rural working-class communities in South Dakota with over a decade of experience waitressing and working for collective liberation. She has worked on a variety of organizing issues including Palestinian & Indigenous solidarity, tenant protections, climate justice, police accountability, and US militarism. Sarah loves spending time with her sisters, dancing to live music and rock climbing in the Pacific Northwest where she currently lives.
