The Blogful of Salt
America is holy ground now
America is holy ground nowchristened with our blood, sweat and tears.She is our mother, she is our daughter ripeningwith promise and potential, weeping with inconsolable griefas she sets the table, calls us in from the wilderness of our pain with…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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2020 Member Priority Survey Results
The 2020 Member Priority Survey was circulated in November-December 2019, and 159 people responded – the largest response we’ve had!
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Our Young Activist Leaders Program is still proceeding through the pandemic-virtually!
YALP has an event at the end of every year, and this year YALP was planning on a social justice art showcase night with the categories writing, video, performing arts, and visual arts, called Arts in Action. The idea came…
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Smart Justice Spokane Coalition Is Extremely Concerned About Racial Inequities In Recent Jail Releases
SPOKANE – Smart Justice Spokane Coalition is extremely concerned about racial inequities in the recent jail releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Spokane County/City officials have failed to take action to address systemic racism in the justice system leaving African Americans,…
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Supporting Immigrant Families
Imagine showing up to work one day and being told to go home and not come back. That you won’t get paid for the work you have done since the last time you were paid and that you don’t qualify…
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