The Handful of Salt Handful of Salt March-April-May 2015 Click here to view or download a pdf of our newsletter. You can also read all the content in our blog. Click here for our calendar. Read more
News Powerful award-winning play “My Name is Rachel Corrie” to be shown in Spokane By Justin Mauger On Monday March 2nd, 7:00 pm, the award-winning play “My Name is Rachel Corrie” will be shown at the Magnuson Theater on the campus of Gonzaga University. This play is brought to the Gonzaga Campus by PJALS’… Read more
News Supporting Spokane’s Trans* Community I was shocked and saddened to learn of the physical attack on a trans* woman on West Main on Friday night, sending her to the hospital. An attack anywhere is unacceptable but I find myself especially troubled by an attack… Read more
News We demand: Prosecute Torturers! This week as a nation we learned more about our own country’s use of torture, authorized by extremists such as Vice President Cheney, President Bush, Secretary of State Condi Rice, and others throughout the Bush administration. The hundreds of pages… Read more
News “The Role of Religious Reconciliation for Stability in Iraq.” “The Role of Religious Reconciliation for Stability in Iraq.” Thursday, January 29th, 2015, 7:00 pm. at Gonzaga University, Jepson Bldg. Auditorium Free and Open to the Public Pax Christi Spokane, the local chapter of the national and international Catholic Peace… Read more
The Blogful of Salt PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TOWARD ALL PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TOWARD ALL By Louise Chadez, PJALS Steering Committee member This is one mantra of the season upon us, the season of giving. And with Thanksgiving just behind us, let us give thanks for all we… Read more
The Blogful of Salt Why I feel hopeful in Spokane Why I feel hopeful in Spokane By Liz Moore, PJALS Director Hope is precious, and when I find it I try to pay attention to it and share it. So I want to tell you about several recent experiences that… Read more
The Blogful of Salt Pre-emptive and Perpetual Elections Rusty Nelson on Peace and War Pre-emptive and Perpetual Elections I still like to vote, but I don’t love it, anymore. It’s not a matter of a polling place. I rather prefer voting by mail and don’t understand why it’s… Read more
The Blogful of Salt Building a movement to end the death penalty Building a movement to end the death penalty By Shar Lichty Abolishing the death penalty is the issue that brought me into social justice work and ultimately working at PJALS. For this and many other reasons it is an issue… Read more
The Blogful of Salt No Justice, No Peace No Justice, No Peace By Liz Moore This piece was written primarily with white people and non-Black people of color in mind as readers. I first heard this chant when I was a first-year student at Oberlin College, when I… Read more
