An Evening with Aaron Dixon & Youth Organizers

March 20 • 5:30 PM

Join our YALP cohort for a youth-led conversation with Aaron Dixon ahead of the 2026 Peace & Justice Action Conference. Youth voices centered. Community in solidarity.

Register 👉🏽 pjals.org/26conferencekickoff

Please join us in welcoming Alexa (she/her) as PJALS’ new Operations Coordinator! 🎉

With 14 years of small business leadership and a passion for equity, representation, and community care, we’re so excited to have her on the team.

Handful of Salt L, Vol. 1 — Spring 2026 👉🏽 pjals.org/spring26

Our 2026 keynote is

Author of My People Are Rising, Aaron Dixon— organizer, author, & movement elder. From marching with MLK to co-founding the Seattle Chapter of the BPP, his work centers community care, liberation, and building power.

March 21 | 8:30–5

Register now 👉🏽 pjals.org/2026conference

🧂 Handful of Salt L, Vol. 1 — Spring 2026 is live!

Inside: YALP grads + Spring session launch, 2026 Peace & Justice Action Conference, Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Day, staff welcomes & matching challenge results.

Read it here 👉🏽 pjals.org/spring26

Regular Rate Registration is NOW OPEN!

3 weeks out from the 2026 Peace & Justice Action Conference. Move beyond reaction into response—build futures rooted in care, creativity, strategy & solidarity.

Tracks on visioning, care, frontline issues & organizing.

👉🏽 pjals.org/2026conference

Learn nonviolent de-escalation + safety skills for protests & community events at our Peacekeeper Training with PJALS. Practice together + learn how to support actions with care.

March 14 | 1-5pm | Location shared after registration 👉🏽 secure.everyaction.com/L7ZUSjuFyEGh...

Ready to help shape the future of our movement? ✊

PJALS is recruiting new leaders for our Steering Committee to help guide our work for peace, economic justice, and human rights. Leadership rooted in impacted communities. Apply by March 3 👉🏽 pjals.org/steeringcommittee

Step into leadership with PJALS 🪜✨

Apply to join our Steering Committee and help guide our work for peace, economic justice, and human rights. We’re building multiracial, intergenerational leadership rooted in impacted communities. Apply by March 3: pjals.org/steeringcommittee

Connecting for Community is tonight! We’re sharing legislative priorities, key updates, and ways to take action this session — plus food & community care. 🕠 5:30–7pm. Location sent after registration. Bring a friend 💛

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No one should face intimidating systems alone. The WAISN Accompaniment Program provides in-person support for immigrants & refugees at court and immigration appointments — grounded in dignity, solidarity, and justice. Friday Feb 20 | 5:30-7 | Register here 👉🏽 pjals.org/waisnaccompa...

✨ The future we deserve is calling. ✨
Early Bird Registration is officially OPEN for the 2026 Peace & Justice Action Conference!
Come gather, learn, organize, and imagine what’s possible—at a reduced early bird rate.
🔗 Register now before prices increase! 👉🏽 secure.everyaction.com/s9eGztUho02G...

Join us Feb. 19, noon–1pm at EWU PUB 317/319 for “An EWU History & Defense” with Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown, PhD. Reflect on the roots + impact of EWU’s Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies program. Learn, connect, take action. 💛

✨ Connecting for Community ✨

Feb 19, 5:30–7pm

Join us to share legislative priorities, key updates, and ways to take action this session—plus food, conversation, and community care.

📍 Location shared after registration. Come through & bring a friend 💛

Register 👉🏽 buff.ly/bMnZZcj

Working people deserve better. This Saturday, union members, health care workers, patients, and immigrant rights advocates are rallying to demand a fair tax system. It’s time for a Millionaires Tax that funds schools, health care, housing, and more. Join us Feb 7, 2PM at B.A. Clark Park.

WOW. Registration is now CLOSED.

Over 450 people signed up for the in-person WAISN Rapid Response Training — an incredible show of solidarity for immigrant communities in Spokane & beyond. 💛

Missed it? Follow WAISN on socials or visit waisn.org for future Rapid Response opportunities.

Join our Leadership team!
We’re now accepting applications for the PJALS Steering Committee—our leadership and decision-making body. Help guide our work to engage everyday people in building a just and nonviolent world through peace, economic justice, and human rights.
👉🏽  pjals.org/steeringcommittee

Rapid Response Training 🧊 | Spokane (in person)

Learn to legally & non-violently document ICE/CBP activity, support immigrant neighbors, and share constitutional rights.

Fri Feb 13, 5:30–7pm. Location shared upon registration.

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A powerful day at the Olympia State Capitol for WAISN’s Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Day 🚌✊🏽

We’re grateful for everyone who showed up—and especially our volunteer peacekeepers who helped keep the day grounded, safe, and strong.

Huge thanks to @_seidr for these incredible photos 📸

Join us Sat, Jan 31 at the Fig Tree Legislative Conference!

Featuring PJALS leaders Liz Moore, Shantell Jackson, and youth organizer Fenrir Close lifting up art, music & people power for change.

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Today we honor the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his enduring legacy in the struggle for racial justice, economic dignity, and peace. His vision continues to guide our work. Our offices will be closed Monday, January 19 in observance of MLK Day.

Applications for our Operations Coordinator role will be officially closed at midnight. Last chance to get your applications in now! Huge thanks to everyone who applied and shared this opportunity. We’re grateful for the community showing up to support this work for peace and equity. ✨

Drumroll please 🥁

Our Member-to-Member Matching Challenge raised $37,480 total — including an $8,000 boost that grew our matching fund from $9,345 to $17,345 from 10 donors, plus $20,135 from 62 challengers!

PJALS members are the best.
It’s not too late to give: pjals.org/donate

WA Sens. Cantwell and Murray voted to pass the War Powers Resolution—thank them and urge continued opposition to U.S. military action in Venezuela. Rep. Michael Baumgartner supports this illegal act of war—demand he reverse course.

Take action: pjals.org/venezuela

NO WAR ON VENEZUELA! 🇻🇪

Congress must do its job.
We are asking members to take targeted action based on where certain elected officials currently stand. Elected officials need to hear from us immediately that we oppose this illegal war and demand accountability.

⏳ 1 week left! PJALS is hiring a part-time Operations Coordinator—help run our team, support justice & equity, and make an impact!

20 hrs/week, $28–$32/hr | Downtown Spokane + hybrid

Apply here 👉🏽 pjals.org/now-hiring-operations-coordinator

⏳ Final hours!

Today is the last chance to have your gift matched dollar for dollar — thanks to PJALS members, staff, and Steering Committee ($9,345 raised!).

Donate now and make your impact go twice as far 👉🏽 pjals.org/25mbr2mbr 💛✊🏽

⏳ 2 days left to double your impact!

Every gift through Dec 31 will be matched thanks to PJALS members, staff, and Steering Committee ($9,345 raised!).

Join the challenge and fuel long-term organizing for justice. 💛

👉🏽 pjals.org/25mbr2mbr

You can also read it on our website 👉🏽 pjals.org/winter-solstice

As the year turns, may we pause together, remember what matters most, and continue moving toward a world where all are safe, warm, fed, free, and loved.

Our Executive Director Liz Moore invites us to slow down, breathe, and listen within. ❄️✨

This Winter Solstice letter is a reflection on stillness, dignity, belonging, and our shared movement for collective liberation—rooted in breath, connection, and the quiet wisdom of the dark.