We are excited to announce our 7th Annual Benefit
Solidarity: Building a Just Future for All of Us
In our Peace and Justice Action League community, we believe everyday people can accomplish extraordinary things together. For more than 45 years, we have organized for racial equity, economic justice, peace, and human rights. As we continue our long-term transformational organizing to build collective power 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 Peace and Justice Action League’s (PJALS) Virtual Benefit, Solidarity: Building a Just Future for All of Us, 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.
We are excited to announce our Keynote Speaker: Dr. Alfredo Carlos
Dr. Alfredo Carlos is the interim Director of Chicano Studies at Eastern Washington University and a former faculty Member in Political Science at California State University, Long Beach. He is also the Founder & Director of the Foundation for Economic Democracy an organization that promotes democratic worker ownership of businesses and community ownership of land and housing. He grew up in the LA/LB Harbor area in an immigrant working class family and community, which has informed his education and given him purpose to struggle for economic and racial justice in solidarity with working people trying to live with dignity. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine where he specialized in the fields of Political Economy, and American Racial and Urban Politics. He earned his M.A. in Political Science from California State University, Long Beach with a focus in Comparative Politics and International Relations and has a B.A. is in History and Chicano Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the co-author of The Latino Question (Pluto, 2018), which was named “Best Book in Latino Politics” in 2019 by the American Political Science Association.
There is no cost to attend – guests will have the opportunity to donate to PJALS largest fundraising event.
Four ways to support our Spring Fund Drive & Annual Benefit today:
- Host a Virtual Table or Viewing Party for you and your friends. Sign up here and find the Table Host Packet here.
- If you are unable to host a table but want to attend, you can reserve a spot for you and your household here.
- If you are unable to attend this year but want to donate to support our Spring 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 at this exciting event on May 25th!
Thanks to Our Benefit Sponsors!
Premier Sponsor:
Group Health Foundation
Group Health Foundation aims to shape and accelerate efforts to improve health equity and advance community aspirations for a vibrant, healthy future in Washington.
Keynote Sponsor:
Program Sponsor:
Powering Justice:
