Coastside Unitarian Universalist Church's Ron Ahnen speaks on "Love and Resistance: Reflections from Minnesota"

Date:
Sunday, February 1, 2026, 11:00 am
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12:30 pm
Category: Spiritual
526 Main Steet, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
Half Moon Bay, California 94019
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If you are reeling from the events in Minneapolis last week, you will not want to miss our speaker, Ron Ahnen, this Sunday, February 1, 11am, speaking on “Love and Resistance: Reflections from Minnesota,” at Odd Fellows Hall in Half Moon Bay. Ron traveled to Minneapolis last week along with 600 other clergy members. He participated in the 50,000 strong March for Truth and Freedom, demanding an end to the ICE occupation. He returns to UUCC to share his message that love and sustained resistance are both required in confronting state violence.

Over 3000 federal ICE agents have now been deployed in Minnesota and their use of violent strategies to abduct neighbors and break apart families has led directly to shooting confrontations resulting in death. In Minneapolis, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both U.S. citizens, were killed within 19 days of each other. Come learn from Ron’s first-hand experiences from Minneapolis’ resistance this Sunday, February 1st, 11am, Odd Fellows Hall, 526 Main Street, Half Moon Bay.

Ron Ahnen was recently welcomed into preliminary fellowship by the UUA’s Ministerial Fellowship Committee (MFC) and will be ordained this spring at Mount Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church in Walnut Creek. In 2025, he finished both his Master of Divinity degree at Starr King School for the Ministry and a year-long internship at the First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Currently Ron is also a professor of Latin American politics and international relations at Saint Mary’s College in California.