The Handful of Salt
Handful of Salt Nov-Dec 2017
Click here to download or view in pdf
Read more
News
Klein’s Strategy, Barber’s Campaign
By Liz Moore, PJALS Director Since 45 won the electoral college, SHOCK has been a daily re-occurrence! Shock Doctrine author Naomi Klein has a diagnosis and a prescription, and it’s so useful I want to share it with you here.…
Read more
The Blogful of Salt
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to anti-nuclear campaign group
Now more than ever we need a world without nuclear weapons.” -U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Twitter OSLO, Norway – The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a forceful show of support for…
Read more
News
Rusty Nelson on Peace and War: “Victory”
How many times have you used the word “Victory” in 2017, and what could you have possibly meant? Military victory is as oxymoronic as military intelligence in the 21st Century, and I’ve ranted before about the inability of any side,…
Read more
News
Now’s the Time for Fair Hiring!
Our families and neighbors need a Fair Chance Hiring Ordinance for Spokane! Mass incarceration is hurting our families and community! Without Fair Chance Hiring in Spokane, no matter how qualified our returning community members may be, their job applications are…
Read more
The Blogful of Salt
Snapshots from our Young Activist Leaders Program
Snapshots from our Young Activist Leaders Program posters made by new YALPistas at our 2017-2018 orientation; 2016-17 graduation; 2017 spring retreat.    
Read more
News
Fair Trade Holiday Shopping to Benefit PJALS!
Instead of tabling at the Festival of Fair Trade this year, PJALS is partnering with our friends at peace and justice publisher Syracuse Cultural Workers to offer you great products and raise funds to support our work. This allows you…
Read more
News
PJALS Books Not Bombs Benefit Book Sale + Book Donation Week
Drop off your already read books to benefit the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane and share some good reads! Where: Donation Boxes set up at the Community Building at 35 W. Main Avenue, Suite 120M Spokane, WA 99201-066…
Read more
The Blogful of Salt
Victory for No Discrimination Spokane!
One of the brightest highlights of 2017: The anti-immigrant profiling initiative Proposition 1 ballot was tossed off the fall ballot by Superior Court Judge Julie McKay! Prop 1 would have invited rampant racial profiling and harassment against Latinos, Asian Americans,…
Read more
The Blogful of Salt
Torture: Illegal & Immoral
In response to the settlement in the Mitchell and Jessen lawsuit, the Peace & Justice Action League released the following statement along with information on upcoming speaking events we are co-hosting with Washington State Religious Campaign Against Torture, and Spokane…
Read more