Join us Wednesday, July 2nd for our next Cactus Book Club. This month’s featured organization Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) will lead the discussion on Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba. “What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe”.

Recommended bookseller: Niche Book Bar via their Bookshop

Showing Up For Racial Justice-Milwaukee (SURJ) is “a Southeastern Wisconsin network of groups and individuals undertaking the work of challenging and dismantling racism by calling in our fellow white people to learn, build relationships, organize, mobilize and act against white supremacy with passion and accountability. We are called in to organize ourselves in order to be better co-conspirators and more useful agents in the fight against racism and racial injustice”.

ABOUT US: Cactus Book Club (CBC) meets on the first Wednesday of the month from 5:30-7:30 in the venue room at Cactus Club. Each month a different business, community organization, collective, or mutual aid group chooses the book & recommended bookseller then leads the discussion. We read sociopolitical fiction and non-fiction, with a focus on works by women, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and/or otherwise under-published groups. You don’t have to finish reading the book to attend. All book club meetings are free. No registration required. 18+. CBC is part of our ongoing Cactus+ programming. Contact: kelly@cactusplus.org with questions.

Interested in leading a book club? Apply here