ADD YOUR NAME: Re-open Spokane County with justice, safety, and liberty for all
Will you add your voice to the call from the Smart Justice Spokane coalition? Urge local elected officials to re-open Spokane County with justice, safety, and liberty for all. When you sign your name, we’ll send your email with the message below to County Commissioner Kuney, County Commissioner French, County Commissioner Kerns, County Commissioner Kuney, […]
7 ways you can demand justice for George Floyd
George Floyd was a Black man who was murdered in front of a crowd in broad daylight in Minneapolis on Monday. As you may already know, the four officers, including Derek Chauvin, who executed the killing, and Tou Thao, were fired from the force on Tuesday. As Color of Change puts it: This is a […]
Will you help fuel grassroots organizing and activist education today?
We’re launching our spring fundraising campaign, in the midst of pandemic times. People in positions of power are using this coronavirus crisis to advance their own anti-democratic agendas. The greedy few at the top want to add fuel to systems that only work for them, while they try to divide us against each other based […]
PJALS Spring 2020 Newsletter
PJALS 2020 Priorities – and our key strategies. Member Survey Results – priorities and feedback from members like you Our Young Activist Leaders Program is still proceeding through the pandemic — virtually! – creating an online gallery of Arts in Action! Smart Justice Spokane Coalition Is Extremely Concerned About Racial Inequities In Recent Jail Releases – nine immediate […]
Webinar: Understanding and Preventing Online Recruitment of Youth Into Hate Movements
Wednesday, May 13th 7-8:15 pm via zoom It is reasonable to assume that any child or teenager who is spending hours a day or a week online has been exposed to neo-Nazi or white supremacist propaganda, whether they know it or not. Sometimes propaganda is presented as “edgy humor” or may take the form […]
Webinar: Anti-Asian Racism-Bystander Intervention Training
With the COVID-19 pandemic, we are seeing an alarming increase in biased incidents and hate crimes against people of Asian descent in the United States and across the world. President Trump and others in positions of power have tied the virus to Chinese people and individuals are blaming Asian Americans for the outbreak. Asian Americans […]
2020 Priorities
Thank you so much for your support of PJALS. Your dedicated and generous support over years is the reason we are celebrating 45 years this fall. The PJALS Steering Committee set our 2020 priorities at a retreat with staff in February. Together, staff and Steering Committee discussed the Member Priority Survey Results, the paradoxes […]
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