Buddhists and Racial Justice – Events and Resources

The SFBC is committed to working with Sangha Members and others to share resources and training and take action where we can towards ending the oppression of Black, Indigenous and People of Color in our own communities and around the world. 

This list is very much a work in progress.  

Triratna BIPOC/BAME events and spaces

• Welcoming Liberation has ended, but has led to a number of new initiatives – some of them are listed here. 

Triratna/SFBC events and recordings open to all

• EDJI Blog (Equity, Diversity, Justice, Inclusion)
• Awareness is Revolutionary – an international collective of Buddhist friends, mainly from Triratna, committed to drawing upon the wellspring of the Buddhadharma to inspire and guide us in appropriate and effective responses to a wide range of interlocking forms of social suffering.
• Courageous Conversations About Race: A series curated by Vimalasara, July 25, Sep 5 and Sep 26
• The Buddhist Center Online a series of conversatios: Getting Real – Soulful Meditation and Conversation with Viveka and Paramananda, following the pilot inspired by James Baldwin and his poem “For Nothing is Fixed” 
• Viveka – Mindfulness and the Creative Disruption of Bias – racism from the perspective of the Dharma (Facebook video – SFBC talk 2016)

A Selection of Local and Online Events and Resources recommended by Sangha Members

• Resources for Compassion in Action: standing against anti-AAPI Hate, from NYC.
• Speaking out against Asian American Violence – San Francisco Zen Center resources.
• An excellent compendium put together by members of Triratna on the East Coast: (Some Additional) Resources for Buddhists Committing to Racial Justice.
• Meditation Coalition Resources and classes.
• Showing up for Racial Justice Bay Area and San Francisco 
• Education:
  • Race – the power of an illusion, award-winning documentary discussing the origins, beliefs and consequences of what we call race.
  • Race Forward Building Racial Equity virtual trainings – how to challenge and change institutional racial inequities – spaces July and August.
  • A list of Anti-racism resources for white people
• Support Black-Owned Businesses
• Support Black-Owned Vegan Restaurants
• Petition to Rename George Washington High School after former student and national hero Maya Angelou
• Support for undocumented residents: Undocufund (SFBC is donating part of June Sangha Night income to this local non-profit.)
• EJI Equal Justice Initiative: https://eji.org
• Incarceration: companies exploiting prison labor.