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Please register tonight at our Opening Reception or tomorrow morning at the conference! Registration will open at 8am.

TONIGHT Friday, March 18: Opening Reception

Free, no conference registration necessary! Join PJALS members like you to chat and nosh at this fun event featuring music and spoken word performances by local artists: 14 congas, a powerful short play, songs from around the world, and original spoken word pieces by local artists. Come "meet and eat" at 5:30 (finger food potluck items welcome but optional!) and stay for performances starting at 6:30 and continuing til 8:30 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane, 4340 W. Ft George Wright Drive. Directions and map here: http://www.uuspokane.org/howdoigetthere.html 

Saturday March 19: Peace and Economic Justice ACTION Conference

* Check out the conference schedule and full list of panels and workshops here: http://pjals.org/spoken-word-and-musical-performances-by-local-artists  

* When: Doors open at 8am for our Networking Breakfast and Registration; Program begins at 8:45 am with the Community Choir; Conference adjourns at 5:30.

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Join us for our Peace and Economic Justice Action Conference on March 19!

* To pay at the door or by mail, click "show other options." See below for list of co-sponsoring organizations --if you are a member of any co-sponsor group, please register at the "member" rate!

Come welcome our keynote speaker, Derrick Crowe from Rethink Afghanistan, who will speak on our theme: Bring Our Billions Home: The Cost of War and Our Communities’ Needs.

Derrick is a five-year veteran of Capitol Hill, a peace organizer, and a trained “Creating a Culture Of peace” nonviolence facilitator. This training originated with the Fellowship of Reconciliation of which PJALS is an affiliate. His writings have been featured on the Huffington Post, Michaelmoore.com, and AlterNet.

You won't want to miss our Young Activist Leaders Panel, on how we can be better partners to youth activists, or our “Honor Vets by Listening to Vets” lunchtime panel organized by the Spokane Veterans for Peace.

We'll have great cultural performances, starting with the Community Choir to kick us off in the morning during our Networking Breakfast.

“Education for Action” workshop sessions on 24 topics will build the skills and deepen the analysis of participants, will be interactive rather than lecture based, and will help activists like you advance our movement for peace and justice!

Education for Action Workshops
You’ll be able to attend three!

• Activist Poetry in Practice
• Building the Bring Our Billions Home Campaign
• CHANGE 2012: Creating Hope to Achieve Needed Growth for Everyone
• Coalition Building Among Regional Peace Groups
• Countering Military Recruitment in High Schools
• Creative Direct Action
• Experiencing Peace Together
• Finding Our Public Voice
• From the Bottom Up-Borrowing from Zapatista strategies on community organizing
• Fundraising & Events 101: Putting the “Phun” in Philanthropy
• Fundraising for Social Change: Asking for Money
• Games for Activists: Bringing Theatre and Fun into our Work
• How to be an LGBT Ally
• How to Craft a Message and Stick to It in an Adversarial Setting
• Interrupting Oppressive Statements
• Keeping Your Activist Self Strong and Inspired
• Nonviolence and Social Change
• Online Organizing
• Palestine & Israel-Is There Now an Answer? A Path to Justice
• Personal Sovereignty: Racism, Anti-Indianism, and Healing
• Talk Radio for Progressives-Making Your Voice Heard!
• The US Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex: wars, greed, and political power: How to stop worrying and take action on campaign reforms and the Move to Amend
• What a People’s Economy Looks Like
• Working the Media for Social Change

We are proud to co-sponsor this event with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane, Spokane Vets for Peace, Spokane Progressive Democrats of America, Boundary County Peace Group, Yakima Valley Peace Advocates Network, NextUp Spokane, Eastern Washington Voters, The LGBT Center, Palouse Peace Coalition, Student Awareness League of SCC and Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation. If you're a member of any of these groups, please register at the member rate!

***We're delighted that UFCW 1439, Sharon Smith & Don Barbieri, Sustainable Structures, Sun People Dry Goods, Community Building Foundation, ACLU of Washington, VOICES, Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho, Washington Public Campaign, Liberty Park United Methodist Church, NAACP, and KYRS are also co-sponsoring our conference!

Our conference is generously hosted by the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane.