The Humboldt County (CA) branch held our almost-annual July 4 used book sale with our partners from Centro del Pueblo (a local immigrant rights group) again this year. The book sale raises money for our Edilith Eckert/Jene McCovey scholarship, which gives small grants to local groups for projects promoting Peace & Justice, locally to globally.

Centro applied for startup funds many years ago, and we helped them pass a sanctuary law in our county. They now have several paid staff and lots of projects but we still work together, and it was great to have younger folks to help us put up tables and move boxes of books.

We also raise money for the scholarship through a quilt raffle — one of our members is part of a group that donates quilts to local nonprofits (you can see the quilt in the background in the photo above). We’d love to have other WILPFers buy raffle tickets — they’re $5 each or 5 for $20. Send a check to Humboldt WILPF to P.O. Box 867, Arcata, CA 95518. There’s more about the scholarship here. 

We also helped write and will receive the City of Arcata’s Declaration of the International Day of Peace (though we don’t have any other IDP activities planned) and are just starting DEI work based on George’s training at the Congress in June.