PJALS 11th Annual Benefit Dinner: People Power: Shaping Our Future Together
Join the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane (PJALS) for our 11th Annual Benefit Dinner on Wednesday, October 14!
This year, we’re moving our Annual Benefit to the evening to make the event more accessible to our community. Together, we’ll celebrate the people, relationships, and collective action that make our work for peace and justice possible.
People Power: Shaping Our Future Together
PJALS’ Annual Benefit is our largest fundraiser of the year and an important opportunity to sustain and grow our work. At this year’s event, members, donors, and new friends will hear firsthand how PJALS is building people power across our community—expanding the number of people who feel confident leading others into strategic action to expose and transform systems of hate, violence, exclusion, and oppression.
There is no cost to attend. Guests will have the opportunity to make a donation to support PJALS and help sustain this work into the future.
Come celebrate what we can accomplish when we come together—and help shape the future with us.
Wednesday, October 14
🕠 Doors open at 5:30 PM | Program: 6–7 PM
📍 (Register for Location)
Reserve your seat or table today!
In our Peace and Justice Action League community, we believe everyday people can accomplish extraordinary things together. For 50 years, we have organized for racial equity, economic justice, peace, and human rights. As we continue our long-term transformational organizing to build grassroots capacity and collective power to defeat fascism and dismantle structural oppression., our calling is to build a multi-racial, intergenerational, all-gender, rural-urban, bottom-up movement centered on the leadership of impacted people.
At the Peace and Justice Action League’s (PJALS) 11th Annual Benefit members, donors, and new friends will get the opportunity to be part of this movement for peace and justice. Guests will hear firsthand how PJALS expands the number of people confident to lead more people into strategic action to expose and transform systems of hate, violence, exclusion, and oppression to build a just future for all of us.
Speakers:
Keynote Speaker: Pui-Yan Lam, PJALS Steering Committee
Pui-Yan Lam is an immigrant from Hong Kong and has been a resident of Spokane for more than 20 years. She works as a professor of sociology at Eastern Washington University. She has served in community organizations such as Spokane Community Against Racism. Asians for Collective Liberation, Greater Spokane Progress, and Refugee and Immigrant Connections of Spokane. She is also an executive board member of the Spokane Regional Labor Council.
Community Partners:
Margot Mejia, Refugee and Immigrant Connections Spokane
Kate Bitz, Western States Center
Additional Speakers:
Liz Moore, PJALS Executive Director
TBA, PJALS Youth Organizer
Michaela Brown, PJALS Steering Committee Member
Four ways to support our Fall Fund Drive & Annual Benefit today:
- Host a Table at our in-person luncheon for you and seven of your friends. Sign up here. NOTE: you do not need to have your guest list before signing up. Shar will follow-up with your Table Host Packet with helpful information and timeline.
- If you are unable to host a table but want to attend, you can reserve a spot here.
- To support our Fall Fund Drive, you can easily do so here.
- Sponsor the Benefit as an individual or business. You can find more information here and donate here.
We hope to see you on October 14th!
Thank you to our generous community sponsors:
- Asians for Collective Liberation Spokane
- Asians for Collective Action Spokane
- Inatai Foundation
- Inland Northwest Unitarian Universalist Community
- Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund
- Symbio Consulting
- Waters Meet