Register here to join in support of the Raleigh Reparative Justice Resolution.

Raleigh Human Relations Commission will present it to the Raleigh City Council for adoption. You can read and sign the petition in support of the Resolution at this link. This campaign is in solidarity with the North Carolina Council of Churches, NC Synod ELCA, Wilson Temple, Livable Raleigh, among others. 

Join us for our first in-person chapter meeting since 2020. We're focusing on reparations!

Our guest speaker, Marsha Davis, Executive Director of the Tzedek Social Justice Fund, will share the United Nations' and the Movement 4 Black Lives' reparations frameworks in discussing how Asheville's local reparations movement fits into the national reparations conversation. Deborah Miles, Tzedek board member, CJJ member, and founder and former Executive Director of the UNC Asheville Center for Diversity Education, will further the reparations discourse by briefly exploring the Jewish perspective. We'll have time for questions and answers and some schmoozing too! 

CJJ is proud to co-sponsor the Workers Circle upcoming event with Andrea Miller, "Live from the Frontlines: How We Fight Back Against Voter Suppression in the States Right Now," on Tuesday, June 14, at 7:00pm.

Register to attend here!

Our democracy is under attack and the ability of every American to cast their vote and have it counted is in jeopardy due to recent state laws that were designed to suppress the votes of people of color, people with disabilities, and poor people. Join Andrea Miller, Founder of the Center for Common Ground, for an up-to-the minute discussion of these state voter suppression laws and how we combat them while equipping voters with the information they need to surmount the barriers placed in their way. We’ll also discuss examples of good state legislation that protects the right to vote, ensures language access, ample ballot boxes and other key provisions. Following our conversation with Andrea, we’ll be taking your questions. 

Whether you're one of our early members who got arrested at Moral Monday actions on the steps of the Capitol in Raleigh in 2013, or you saw a CJJ member last week at the market in that cool blue t-shirt and talked about the unjust redistricting maps, this event is for YOU! 

You might be wondering, CJJ is doing great stuff, how do I get involved? How do I get one of those awesome blue t-shirts? Who leads my chapter? Are there other CJJ-niks in my neighborhood?! How do I actually repair the world? 

Come to CJJ’s “This is who we are and what we do” Community Round Up! 

• Find out about how to join a campaign!
• Hear from some of our partners! 
• Meet the new Interim ED!
• Learn about our new democracy-in-action membership model! (Democracy is a verb!) 
• Meet chapter leadership! 
• It’s a meeting! It’s a party! Y’alla have a good time! 

As part of our commitment to creating a more just, fair, and compassionate North Carolina, we are dedicated to making CJJ events accessible and welcoming to all participants! These are some of the practices we employ to support this effort:

• Live Captioning — Live captioning is available for all participants, which can be activated by clicking the CC button in the bottom of your screen. Participants can hide/show the captions and adjust their size in the settings button found in the caret to the left of the CC button. 
• Visual Descriptions — The first time a person speaks, we invite them to provide a brief visual description of themself to enable full engagement from people who can’t see. Note: Descriptive accuracy is not a goal here. Please describe yourself as you want others to see you and with whatever information you want others to know about you.
• Pace — We ask that all speakers speak slowly and that in our conversations we minimize crosstalk (i.e. not interrupting or talking over each other). Similarly, we encourage participants to use the chat feature lightly, as a tool to enhance or resonate with what is being shared.

If there are other things we can do to further support your participation, please email [email protected], and we will connect with you directly.

Please also take a moment to familiarize yourself with our Community Norms & Expectations (available here) in advance of any CJJ event. CJJ seeks to create a culture that models the just and liberated world we’re fighting for and minimizes the replication of oppressive systems, structures, behaviors, and dynamics. These guidelines aim to support us in enacting these values.

Our right to vote — and our ability to exercise that right — is at the heart of democracy. Our GOTV (Get Out The Vote) Shabbat provides us with a moment to celebrate this cherished and hard-fought-for right; reflect on our responsibility to protect and promote it; and recommit ourselves to the critical work of getting out the vote for the 2022 midterm elections. 

CJJ invites congregations and individuals across North Carolina to join us for our first annual GOTV Shabbat on Friday, October 21, 2022. 

We'll host a virtual gathering from 5:00-6:00pm, and we hope you'll join us! If you are a member of a congregation or would like to host an in-person event in your home, we'll gladly provide you with additional materials and resources, including talking points, discussion questions, and a list of ways that people can take action on their own or as a group. 

Your synagogue's GOTV Shabbat could be the culmination of a week-long voter registration drive, a moment to learn more about the ongoing struggle for voting rights in North Carolina, or an opportunity to convene Jewish (or interfaith) congregations to gear up for GOTV efforts between now and November 1. The choice is yours! If you would like to be connected with a local voting rights organizer to join your congregation as a guest speaker, please email [email protected]. 

Join us for our first annual statewide membership meeting!