The Handful of Salt Handful of Salt for June-July-August 2014 Click here to view or download a pdf of our newsletter. You can also read all the content in our blog. Read more
News Year of Youth! PJALS members like you supported youth as leaders for justice in three ways this year! Congrats to the graduating YALPistas of 2014! Our Young Activist Leaders Program offers passionate youth leaders ways to strengthen their own youth-led groups. Hear from… Read more
The Blogful of Salt Young Activist Leaders program: “organize, mobilize, and facilitate” The Young Activist Leadership Program has been instrumental in teaching me how to organize, mobilize, and facilitate for a number of causes, including teaching me how to efficiently manage my own grassroots movement. YALP has brought my activism to a… Read more
The Blogful of Salt Young Activist Leaders program: “stretch the limits of our everyday thinking” It has been very refreshing to connect with other young activists from different back-grounds and experiences with different goals and aspirations. YALP has proven to me to be a very open, comfortable environment to ask the questions we’ve hesitated to… Read more
News Write, Tinker, Abolish Rusty Nelson on Peace and War By the time I wrote my first editorial about the death penalty, Nancy had produced several articles, including a commentary in the Spokesman Review, but Washington had not yet killed Dodd and Campbell. Lethal… Read more
The Blogful of Salt Young Activist Leaders program: tools, skills, confidence! YALP has given me many tools and ability to connect with other social justice advocates. The tools I’ve learned I have taken back to young people I work with at Odyssey Youth Center. This has included planning successful events, running… Read more
News Dom Felix: “Impossible to Leave” I have truly enjoyed my time as a PJALS Intern. I cannot imagine having done my practicum anywhere else. When other students in my cohort share their experience at their practicum sites I am surprised by stories where students feel… Read more
News Marching for Immigration Reform Jeremiah Manes and YALP alum Molly Ftizpatrick carry the PJALS banner at the May 1 2014 march for Immigration Reform. PJALS Organizer Shar Lichty and member Mark Hamlin offered a Peacekeeper training for MEChA de EWU members who organized the… Read more
News Jeremiah Manes: “Creating the Culture We Want to See” As a social work student at Eastern Washington University, I joined PJALS to gain the field experience that supplements classroom learning. With elementary awareness of privilege, oppression and social injustice, but without knowledge of the activist skill-set used to counter… Read more
News Activist in Residence: PJALS reaching EWU students on campus Over 200 students learned about PJALS, social justice campaigns, being allies to each other, nonviolence, and more through workshops & class presentations by PJALS director Liz Moore. Participants who completed all 4 Activist in Residence workshops received certificates in Social… Read more
