Join our Workplace Know-Your-Rights Canvassing Training 🛠️
📅 Wed, April 29
⏰ 5:30–7:30 PM
Learn how to support workers, share rights-based info, and build connections with local workplaces. No commitment required—just come learn.
Food provided. Location shared after registration. 👉🏽 pjals.org/wand2
Build the skills to take action ✊🏽
Join our Nonviolent Direct Action Training to learn strategies for mass mobilization, de-escalation, and effective civil resistance. April 25 | 9-1PM
Free to attend. Come build people power with us.
Register 👉🏽 pjals.org/april-NVDA
Join us April 23 (5:30–7:30 PM) for PJALS’ annual member meeting 💛
An evening of connection, updates, and community —share a meal, hear what’s happening in our campaigns, and connect with folks across Spokane working toward justice.
Register for location/details: pjals.org/annualmembermeeting
Protests & community events are powerful tools for change—and Peacekeepers help make them safe and strong ✊🏽
Join our Peacekeeper Training to learn nonviolence, de-escalation, and safety skills for actions.
April 18, 1–5pm
Register: pjals.org/nonviolenceinaction2
People Power: Organizing Against Authoritarianism ✊🏽
Join us THIS Saturday (April 4, 9AM–4PM) for a hands-on workshop on collective resistance + building powerful movements.
Coffee at 8:30 ☕ Lunch included 🥗
Location shared after registration
Get tools + strategy. Join us. 👉🏽 pjals.org/peoplepower
We’re proud to support Spokane’s first Black Earth Day 🌱
Join us April 18 (10–3) for *From Seed to Soul* — a free, multigenerational celebration uplifting Black leadership in environmental justice.
📍 MLK Jr. Center
🎨 Artwork by mamawolfmedia
Volunteer: bit.ly/3NRxnaa
We’re so grateful to all the organizations supporting the 2026 Peace & Justice Action Conference 🔮 Your partnership makes this gathering possible!
Reminder: the PJALS Member Rate is open to members of co-sponsoring organizations!
Sign up: pjals.org/2026conference ✊🏽
From BDS to workplace organizing to resisting authoritarianism—learn practical skills you can use now.
🗓️ March 21, 2026 | Spokane
Register 👉🏽 pjals.org/2026conference
Organizing 🛠️
The nuts-and-bolts track for building real skills.
Whether you’re new or experienced, these sessions focus on the tools, strategies, and practices organizers need to build strong, effective movements.
Workplaces are often on the front lines when immigration enforcement targets our neighbors. Learn how to share workplace know-your-rights info and support community readiness.
Join our Canvassing Training
Mar 26 | 5:30–7:30 PM
Pizza provided. Space limited.
Register 👉🏽 buff.ly/2SFsSRU
From CRT to universal healthcare to rapid response safety—these sessions focus on what’s happening now and how we act.
🗓️ March 21, 2026 | Spokane
Register 👉🏽 pjals.org/2026conference
Issues at the Frontlines ✊
What are the most urgent struggles shaping our communities right now?
This track brings together organizers and directly impacted leaders to break down current threats and build collective, coordinated responses.
Workshops in the Rest, Joy & Revolutionary Care track:
- Caring for Self as You Fight for Others
• Art & Grit: Community and Self-Care for Resistance
• Reclaiming Ourselves and Our Power Through Embodiment
• Collage the Future
🗓️ March 21, 2026 | Spokane
Register 👉🏽 pjals.org/2026conference
The goal isn’t just to show up for the moment — it’s to do this work for a lifetime.
Together we’ll explore balance, boundaries, community care, creative resistance, and body-based practices that help organizers stay grounded, resilient, and connected.
Rest, Joy & Revolutionary Care ✨
Joy is part of the work. Movements that last require care, creativity, and space to reconnect with ourselves and each other.
This track centers sustainability, embodiment, and creative practices that help keep movements alive for the long haul.
💙 Our Member-to-Member Matching Challenge results are in! Thanks to 62 generous donors, we exceeded the match and raised $37,480 total — our largest yet! Your support fuels PJALS’ work for justice, care, and community power. 🙌🏽
Handful of Salt L, Vol. 1 — Spring 2026 👉🏽 pjals.org/spring26
YALP grads are moving out into the world of organizing! 🎓 The Spring 2026 session starts March 20 — explore activism through organizing, art, and mentorship, including a discussion with Aaron Dixon of the Seattle Black Panther Party
Handful of Salt L, Vol. 1 — Spring 2026 👉🏽 pjals.org/spring26
The 2026 Peace & Justice Action Conference is Sat, March 21 | 8:30–5pm. From Survival to Vision: Crafting the Future We Deserve. Build skills, deepen connections, and imagine futures rooted in justice. Location shared on registration.
Handful of Salt L, Vol. 1 —Spring 2026 👉🏽 pjals.org/spring26
Workshops in the Visioning the Possible track:
• Generative Justice: An Indigenous Vision of Community Building
• Throughlines – A Cause for Solidarity
• A Language of Life
• Grasping at the Roots
• Keynote Breakout Session
🗓️ March 21, 2026 | Spokane
Register: pjals.org/2026conference
These workshops explore political analysis, Indigenous visions of community, solidarity across movements, and the deep roots of transformative change.
Together we’ll ask: How do we sharpen our tools, deepen our relationships, and strengthen the strategies that help movements grow?
Visioning the Possible ✨
What does the world we’re fighting for actually look like?
The Visioning the Possible track at the 2026 Peace & Justice Action Conference invites us to move beyond reacting to crisis and into imagining—and building—the futures our communities deserve.
This Jan. PJALS joined WAISN for Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Day at the WA state capitol! 🚌 Over 300 advocates from across the state came together to push for immigrant rights, dignity, and protections. Community power on full display! 💙
Handful of Salt L, Vol. 1 —Spring 2026 👉🏽 pjals.org/spring26
Welcome Joe as PJALS’ new Peacekeeping Coordinator! 🎉
Joe brings years of community experience, a long relationship w/ PJALS de-escalation trainings, and a commitment to racial equity. We’re excited to have him supporting our peacekeepers!
Handful of Salt L, Vol. 1 —Spring 2026 👉🏽 pjals.org/spring26
✨ Join us in making the 2026 Peace & Justice Action Conference a success! We need volunteers for greeters, guides, check-in, setup, lunch, merch table, and clean-up. Sign up & be part of the movement 👉🏽 volunteersignup.org/CA3DW
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...