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Don’t Bomb Iraq

It’s hard to conceive, but it’s time again to stand up together to say NO to US war on Iraq! Here and all over the country, everyday people stood together in September against US military intervention in Syria, and though…

Happy Pride, Spokane!

PJALS Benefit Auction & Spring Soiree

Enjoy a fun evening with friends, family, and like-minded folks as we celebrate our work together for peace, justice and human rights! Friday, June 6th, Doors open at 5 pm St. John’s Cathedral, 127 East 12th Avenue, Spokane Fabulous food…

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…

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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…

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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…

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…

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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…

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…