Our Accomplishments

• Presenting a consistent voice and presence in opposition to war, militarization, and nuclear proliferation.
• Providing peacekeeper training for glbt marches and events, from Spokane’s first Pride celebrations in the early 1990’s to the present, in addition to other support for the glbt community.
• Helping to win passage of a Spokane ordinance for police accountability, mandating independent investigations and public reports on police conduct, in 2010.
• Leading our region’s opposition to US military action in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001.
• Hosting a dialogue between Muslim and Jewish clergy in the early 2000’s.
• Helping to win passage of and successfully defending Spokane’s human rights ordinance in 1999.
• Supporting a successful union organizing campaign at Château Ste. Michelle, including holding an educational forum on farm worker rights keynoting Dolores Huerta, in the early 1990’s.
• Anchoring statewide organizing for vigils and services for state executions.
• Advocating and educating around “free trade” and globalization issues, since the early 1990’s.
• Sponsoring an annual peace essay contest for over a decade.
• Organizing the Pacific Northwest’s only counter-Quincentennial event representing every regional Indian nation, in 1994.
• Establishing Spokane’s first fair trade store, in the early 1990’s.
• Ending the Spokane school district’s policy of excluding students from extra-curricular activities if they request not to have their information released to military recruiters, in the mid-1980’s.
• Leading the largest anti-racism march in the Inland Northwest, in the mid-1980’s.
• Supporting the passage of a state initiative to ban the transportation of out-of-state nuclear waste into Washington, in 1980.
• Supporting political prisoners from Native American communities in association with the American Indian Movement, in the mid-1970’s.
• Offering workshops and study groups on nonviolence, from 1976 to the present.
• Preventing funding for the B-1 bomber, in 1975.