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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/

November is for SOAW

Rusty Nelson on Peace and War Remember School of the Americas? School of Assassins? Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation? Some of us will never forget our experiences at Ft. Benning or the U.S.-sponsored atrocities that made us passionate about…

Risk Takers

By Mike Edwards, PJALS member “Risk takers” is a Republican phrase that has become synonymous with describing the men who singlehandedly grow the economy and in the process, lead America to a better, more ethical, wealthier future. What politicians say…

Col. Ann Wright: Patriot for Peace

by Michelle Little, intern I have often felt that many of the wars we are waging in foreign countries were wrong. I remember watching the initial bombing in our second war with Iraq played live on my television screen in…