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Our Community of Action Going Forward Together

by Liz Moore, PJALS Director What I love most about PJALS is being part of a community of people who take action together based on the connections between human rights, economic justice, & peace. Our Steering Committee asked you, PJALS…

Yelling “Fire!” In A Crowded Bill of Rights

Rusty Nelson on Peace and War Cassandra, in ancient Greek stories, has become a more and more compelling character to me as I’ve observed the politics of institutional violence. What curse could frustrate you more than being able to see…

Pulling at the Threads of Violence in our Culture

By Rev. Dr. Todd F. Eklof, The Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane What a privilege it was to moderate during PJALS’ February 7th panel discussion on violence. We don’t hear about most the violence that occurs every day in our…

Rural Organizing Revisited

By Shar Lichty A few years ago, Liz and I had the privilege of visiting some amazing groups of rural progressives to do voter education around seven important ballot initiatives concerning revenue. We have since been wanting to make another…

Join Our Media Action Team

By Justin Filla The Peace and Justice Action League is looking for individuals who would like to join our Media Action Team. This Media Action Team will consist of authors who would like to write letters to the editor for…

Our generation has all the potential

Young Activist Leader reflection By Audrey Connor, Youth Sustainability Council, Community-Minded Enterprises Thus far into the program, YALP has really helped me understand the context of my thinking as both a semi-organizer and a private citizen. I feel so engaged…

We did it! Yes on Prop 1!

By Michelle Little After many years and a tremendous amount of effort by groups such as the Spokane Police Accountability and Reform Coalition, along with overwhelming support by local citizens of Spokane, we have taken a huge step in the…

Lobby Day Trip to End the Death Penalty

By Cly F. Evans Five Spokane area death penalty abolition supporters, most involved with INDPAG and/or PJALS, loaded ourselves in a van and made their way to Olympia to participate in the February 12 Death Penalty Abolition lobby day organized…

Pull the Pentagon Pork: Protect our Priorities, Protect Families

Update: Check out our photo petition on the National Day of Action to Pull the Pentagon Pork here! By Lucy Vazquez On Tuesday February 19th PJALS members met with John Culton, the Eastern Washington Director for Senator Patty Murray as…

Pulling at the Threads: Examining our Culture of Violence

By Justin Filla, Intern On Thursday, February 7th the Peace and Justice Action League held an event titled Pulling at the Threads: Examining our Culture of Violence. The event consisted of a panel of five individuals who spoke on the…