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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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Yvette Louisell released from Prison (Part 3)
By Nancy Street, PJALS member Some of you have followed the progress of Yvette Louisell as published in the Handful of Salt over many years. Part 1 appeared in 2005 and Part 2 in 2010. Seventeen year-old Yvette, who is…
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Share your PJALS story
  We want to hear your PJALS story! As we near the end of our 40th year of building a just and nonviolent world, we are asking for your help to tell the story of PJALS–through your experiences. Will you…
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Call for Submissions
  Love & Outrage, a quarterly zine produced by a writer’s collective of PJALS activists is seeking writers, activists, organizers, neighbors, working people & artists for… The Police Issue—The People Speak! People need to speak because the some are trying…
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Wake Up & Work: Anti-Racism in Action Workshop Series
Join PJALS steering committee member Taylor Weech and other guest facilitators tba at a series of evening workshops addressing what anti-racist principles look like in practice and planning ways to get involved as a multicultural coalition of members in identifying…
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Working Through a Tempest on Police Reform and Accountability
By Tim Connor The circumstances surrounding the death of Otto Zehm at the hands of Spokane police in 2006 marked a turning point in the relationship between city government and the Spokane community. After a local prosecutor declined to prosecute,…
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