Anti-Racism & Solidarity
For people racialized as white, having the skills to show up in solidarity with marginalized people is not a given. It takes brave learning and deep reflection on family history, ancestry, and patterns through time to help us know who we are, and how our families came to be white people in the U.S.
And this knowledge alone does not automatically lead to principled actions in solidarity with those who are the current targets of the U.S. empire. Racism is a tool effectively used to break existing and potential bonds of class solidarity.
There are many pathways for white-identified people to collectively heal the erasures, lies and ruptures of white supremacy. It requires radical vision, courage and frameworks that are critical and compassionate.
This page welcomes analysis, reflections and stories of historic and contemporary racial justice organizing efforts and multiracial solidarity movements.
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This essay argues that Ashkenazi ancestral recovery — reconnecting to suppressed Yiddishkayt and Diasporic culture — is inseparable from anti-racist and solidarity politics: when white-passing Jews heal our disconnection from our won heritage, we become more trustworthy, less extractive solidarity partners. Rooted in Radical Diasporism and the Bundist principle of doikayt (hereness), it offers a framework for Jewish identity that is explicitly anti-nationalist, committed to Indigenous solidarity, earth-rooted, and oriented toward collective liberation rather than ethnic insularity. At a moment when Jewish identity is being weaponized both to justify genocide and to suppress dissent, this piece builds on a long-buried Jewish political tradition that centers justice and belonging-in-place over state power.
This submission is the most important love letter I have ever written: an invitation to move beyond incremental gestures and towards deeper, accountable solidarity with Indigenous, Black, and other BIPOC communities. Written in the current political moment, it holds both hope and the hard-won skepticism of communities repeatedly betrayed by white supremacy, while calling for anti-racist education rooted in Indigenous leadership, truth-telling, accountability, and meaningful collective action.
What if white anti-racism were not only about what white people must reject, but also about what we can reclaim? This article explores ancestral recovery as a way for people of European descent to reconnect with the traditions of political resistance, meaningful culture, and multiracial class struggle that were taken from our ancestors when they were socialized to become "white." It argues that cultivating this rooted sense of belonging can strengthen white anti-racist organizing and help us build the powerful coalitions we need in this era of right-wing backlash.
This piece is about an action in support of the Oakland People's Arms Embargo (OPAE). It is also about the belonging we can find within our movements for justice, and the ways our own wounds / those of our ancestors can fuel our commitment to collective action and to each other.
For those of us with European ancestry, learning about our ancestors includes learning about where our people came from, about what our families gave up or had taken from them in order to become white, and about how our ancestors participated in and/or resisted white supremacy. Knowing this information helps us build a solid foundation and understanding to fuel our opposition to all forms of white supremacy, from systemic expressions to the ways it takes root in our souls. Learning our family history opens doors to other ways of being, it allows us to ask “what if” and imagine a different future.
This piece explores the attachment to the identity of being a "good white person" and what happens when we encounter racism in our family lineage as well as in ourselves. This feels particularly relevant now when the degree of overt racism makes it even easier to think of ourselves as good white people and “they” are the bad racists.
We share two pieces from our collaborative, creative white anti-racist project, honoring the Coffins and the Partisans, with visual art by Leah Jo and poetry by Caroline. We share some framing and some inquiries of how practices of cultivating relationships with chosen white anti-racist ancestors might strengthen our ability to relate to our blood ancestors in their wholeness, and help us be braver and more human in these times of empire and collapse.
Chris Crass dives into the need for white people to bring positive, liberatory leadership in our communities, groups, and efforts. Leadership to help white communities get free from the nightmare of white supremacy and join in broad-based movements to defeat authoritarianism and advance multiracial feminist democracy.
A multi-year, multidisciplinary art project and ritual that began as a response to the Italian American community's support of memorializing Columbus. It is an invitation for deep, collective liberation work for people of the Italian and Sicilian diaspora and beyond.
This submission explores how people of European descent woke up and rose up to act in solidarity with the Immigrant communities in Minneapolis.. This experience was an initial rekindling for many white people of the understanding of unity consciousness, our ancient wisdom, that has been terribly fragmented and replaced with colonizer culture that keeps us in separation consciousness. This piece was written in Feb. 2026. Now in Sept. 2026, solidarity and unity consciousness continues to nourish our local diverse community.