UUCMP’s Social Justice Committee will host a fun fundraiser for the Watsonville Law Center on Sunday, November 9, 1 – 3 p.m. in our sanctuary with a taco bar and music and words from the center’s chief programs officer, Adriana Melgoza.

The Watsonville Law Center provides free legal services to low-income individuals on California’s Central Coast.

Newcomers and citizens are being kidnapped, disappeared, and deported with no respect for their legal rights. This is happening with ICE raids across California.

But we are not helpless to stop or slow this injustice!

The Watsonville Law Center has stepped up to resist!

With inadequate funding, hard work, and very little time this group has done dozens of trainings and produced 750 Monterey County community members trained and waiting to respond to active ICE raids!

They believe that everyone benefits when the most vulnerable among us thrive, and that a holistic collaborative approach is most effective. They focus on legal problems with long-term impacts and solutions, such as workers’ rights, consumer rights, and access to employment.