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Tragedy in Newtown

Our thoughts, hearts, and sorrow are with the families, children, teachers, and entire community of Newtown, CT, in the wake of the devastating tragedy of 28 people, including 20 children, shot and killed today in Sandy Hook Elementary School. A…

We said: “Money for People, Not for War!”

With the support of 18 faith communities, businesses, and organizations, we delivered 1123 signatures to Senator Murray and Senator Cantwell, urging them to vote for “Money for People, Not for War!” Thank you for signing in support! You can still…

Police Accountability: Urge City Council to vote YES on Charter Amendment

Monday Dec 17, 6:00 pm, City Council Chambers, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd Please come urge City Council members to vote YES to send this Charter Amendment to voters. This Charter Amendment will give the Office of Police Ombudsman permanent…

PJALS statement on Coal

See below to RSVP for the Dec 4 hearing on the impact of coal trains & exports. PJALS advocates leaving both coal and uranium in the ground, in order to accelerate as much as possible the rapidly growing deployment of…

Bowling for Water FUN-draiser

Share a FUN evening of bowling to help provide drinking water for the children of Gaza. Register now! What will your team theme be? Are you with the ugly Christmas sweaters or the hippest bowling shirts? When: Saturday December 1,…

Community Meeting for Police Accountability

Will you come to and invite your friends to this Community Meeting of the Spokane Police Accountability & Reform Coalition? Facebook event here, and a flier you can print is here! Because of pressure and pushing from community members, Spokane…

Join us Sunday for our Annual Membership Meeting!

We hope you’ll join us at our Annual Membership Mmeeting, this Sunday November 11. We’ll have lunch at 1:00 pm and then start the meeting at 2:00 pm. There’s a suggested donation of $7 for the lunch. We’ll be in…

KYRS Local News Nov 2

Highlights, history and analysis from Thursday’s news conference announcing the submission of a newly proposed Police Ombudsman Ordinance for the City of Spokane by the Center for Justice and the Peace & Justice Action League of Spokane. Includes and interview…

PJALS supports new strong Police Oversight ordinance

Liz Moore, PJALS director, gave this statement at a PJALS and Center for Justice press conference this afternoon, where our organizations released a newly drafted ordinance strengthening independent oversight of the Spokane Police Department, with the support of the League…

My Recipe for Peace

Liz Moore shares her Recipe for Peace with us. Thanks to One Peace, Many Paths for organizing the event that brought us together. http://www.onepeacemanypaths.org/