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Occupy the Capitol
By Amanda Hunt PJALS and Washington Community Action Network worked together to get 20 Spokane residents to Olympia to Occupy the Capitol at the end of November We went to speak to our legislators and to encourage legislators to take…
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Facing Race: How Budget Cuts Are Increasing Racial Disparities
Washington’s communities of color and low-income communities have faced unequal pain in this recession. High levels of unemployment, home foreclosure, and racial inequities in health, education and criminal justice continue to devastate communities of color. By 2030, one in every…
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Students speak out for revenue at EWU legislative panel
By Alyssa Henderson In November, we new interns at PJALS successfully held a legislative panel on EWU’s Cheney campus. The panel was sponsored by PJAL-EWU (the new club on Eastern’s campus that we kicked off in September) and the Associated…
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Jobs, Not Jails, for Spokane County
Nationally, communities use rehabilitative programs for people in the criminal justice system 70% of the time and jail only 30% of the time. In Spokane County, it is just the opposite – we incarcerate 70% of the people and provide…
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Steve Williams, keynoting our Peace and Economic Justice Action Conference
Steve Williams is a longtime community organizer and political activist. Steve was the founder and former Executive Director of POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights), a 15-year old membership organization of low-income and working class African Americans and immigrant…
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Clyde Bellecourt, AIM co-founder, to speak in Spokane
PJALS is delighted to welcome Clyde Bellecourt, Wounded Knee organizer & American Indian Movement co-founder and national director, Ojibwe name Nee Gon Nway Wee Dung “Thunder Before the Storm.” Clyde Bellecourt will address the 1973 AIM occupation of and subsequent…
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Thank you for a wonderful year!
It’s such a pleasure to work with the wonderful members and volunteers who make PJALS a strong and effective organization. Thank you for your donations, your time, and your belief that we can act together to shift the balance of…
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November-December 2011 Handful of Salt
Click here to view or download a pdf of our Handful of Salt newsletter from November-December 2011.
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Death and Life in the USA
Rusty Nelson on Peace and War By Rusty Nelson The death penalty in the US looks a lot like it did in 1986. In fact it looks so similar that, for the 87th time, I’m tempted to throw up my…
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Hello PJALS!
By Shar Lichty, Organizer Although many of you already know me from my time with PJALS over the past two years, first as a BASW practicum student and then as a VISTA Volunteer, I wanted to say hello as I…
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