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2025-2026 Priorities
We use a participatory member-driven approach to set our organizational priorities: our bi-ennial Member Survey tells us what issues are most important to members and provides feedback to our Steering Committee, which then finalizes the priorities. Our Values and Commitment call us to use an intersectional racial equity lens on every issue, in all of our work.
Advocating and Protecting Human Rights
We will build community capacity to resist and defy targeting of immigrant and queer/trans communities in the Spokane area, educating and raising consciousness about the attacks as tactics of imperialism and white Christian nationalism.
Ending Mass Incarceration & Increasing Police Accountability
Countering white Christian Nationalism
We will educate about and expose white Christian nationalism and how it shows up in our region, so we know how to counter and disrupt it, including naming the ways it is actively harming everyone and the ways we support and/or benefit from it.
Education for Action on Grassroots Organizing and Racial Justice
Takes place across our work: an intersectional racial justice lens is applied to all issues, and the best ways to plug in are BOLD, our Showing Up for Racial Justice committee and our Peace and Justice Action Committee. Skill-building, speakers, and issue-specific education happens at our annual Peace and Justice Action Conference and at other events and workshops throughout the year.
Young Activist Leaders Program (YALP)
Engages the next generation of leaders in organizing and empowers youth as leaders in PJALS. Our multi-generational membership consistently identifies this work as a priority. Learn more here.
Countering US Imperialism and Militarism
We will educate and engage the community about the impact of US military spending, military recruitment, weapon production and sales, and the effect of US imperialism – currently focusing on Gaza, West Bank and Panama Canal, etc.
Young Activist Leaders Program
Our leadership development program empowers young people who value equality, human rights, and peace to explore social justice together. We provide a gathering place for asking questions, educating each other, and helping grow a vibrant network committed to PJALS’ values.
Let’s be BOLD together!
You are invited to be part of our BOLD Project – Building, Organizing, Leadership Development! When we come together to reject racism as a weapon of the reactionary rich, we ensure that the government works for all of us, of every race and color.
Peace and Justice Action Committee
We have a commitment to develop our stand for peace and to redefine our international peace and human rights work in the context of recent volatile escalation of militarism, anti-Muslim bigotry, racism and anti-Semitism. Our Peace and Justice Action Committee focuses on this commitment.
Showing Up for Racial Justice Committee
We partner with leaders of groups targeted by racism to identify and support Spokane campaigns and needs. We also work to educate white people on the role of white supremacy and/or privilege in maintaining racist systems and on the potential new role in dismantling them.