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A New Intern Meets PJALS Community
By Christina Walden Last week we had the annual membership meeting for PJALS! It was the first one I have attended as I am a new Intern this year. We had a great turnout of people from many generations and…
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Register for “Wake Up & Work” Anti-Racism Workshop Series
Join PJALS steering committee vice-chair Taylor Weech for a series of evening workshops addressing what anti-racist principles look like in practice and planning ways to get more deeply involved as a multicultural coalition of members in identifying and addressing the…
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Questions for Spokane Police Department Chief Candidates
Submitted on behalf of the Spokane Police Accountability & Reform Coalition on Friday Sept 16 2016. 1763
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Organize, Vote, Act!
By Liz Moore, PJALS Director Looking ahead, I am beginning to imagine what our work and our role would be living under a Donald Trump presidency or under a Hillary Clinton presidency. As I imagine this, I exhort myself to…
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Calling Us All In: Race, Class, Gender, and Justice
As we cap off our year of celebrating our 40th anniversary, we turn our gaze to the future and the work to be done. Join us on Thursday, October 13, 2016 for a lunchtime event at the Woman’s Club of…
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Thanks to Wonderful PJALS Volunteers
  Steering Committee: Louise Chadez, Cly Evans (Chair), Dom Felix, Jessica Jahn, Adrian Murillo (on leave), Taylor Weech (Vice Chair), Deb Svoboda, Ray Thorne (Secretary) Interns & Practicum Students: Hawa Elias & Bailey Russel, Gonzaga University; Ashley Bergman, Whitworth University;…
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Our priority areas for 2016-17
As determined by our member priority survey responses and our Steering Committee! A Just Society: Smart Justice and Police Accountability Peace: Truth in Recruitment, Consciousness-Raising about Militarism, and Mobilizing against War! Human Rights Community Organizing: Building collective power with targeted…
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Rusty Nelson on Peace and War; Fire!
  As tough as it always is to narrow the scope of my commentary, I had done the writing before going to church Sunday morning. I planned to tinker with it and submit it in the afternoon, almost in time.…
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Police Accountability Summer Gathering
By Jaclyn Archer, YALPista On August 12 and 13 community organizers from Spokane, Portland, Seattle, Olympia, and other Washington cities came together to discuss police accountability in the Northwest. The first annual Northwest Community Coalition on Police Accountability was held…
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PJALS Membership Meeting & Potluck
Thursday, Sept 29th 5:30pm Community Bldg, 35 W. Main Come join in our potluck dinner and annual membership meeting! New folks, friends, and kids welcome! We’ll share plans for campaigns and programs as well as a finance report, and we’ll…
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