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Spokane WA bans the box – passes Fair Chance Hiring

After three years of tenacious organizing with I Did The Time, NAACP, Greater Spokane Progress, and our other partners in the Smart Justice Spokane coalition – we won a very important victory! Last night, Spokane’s City Council “banned the box”…

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.…

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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…

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,…

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…

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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.

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…

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…

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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,…