The Justice Circles for Fall 2011 have started!

Would you like to share your experiences and gain organizing skills while forming relationships with women who have a shared vision of justice? Join a Women's Justice Circle and come share and learn with us as we take action against injustices that concern us all.

Articles:

• Creating Community, Organizing for the Common Good. Stories from Centralia, Chehalis, and Woodland
• Community Garden Started by Nuestra Casa Volunteers
• Campaña Quetzal Site Action and Story

For a brochure contact IPJC: ipjc@ipjc.org or 206.223.1138

Each Women's Justice Circle...
Positions low-income women in leading roles.
Creates a space for women's voices to be heard
Builds partnerships with churches, hospitals, colleges, or community organizations and strengthens social networks for community support.
Fosters mutual and respectful relationships among participants.
Discovers participants' collective power.
Teaches basic community organizing skills.
Empowers women to take action for change.
Is offered in Spanish or English.

To date, we have coordinated over 175 Circles throughout the state, including Eastern, Central and Western Washington, as well as Western Oregon.

A través de los Círculos de Mujeres para la Justicia, un programa de Intercommunity Peace & Justice Center (www.ipjc.org), mujeres de bajos recursos económicos han descubierto que pueden hacer frente a la injusticia y a las causas subyacentes de la pobreza. Este video fue realizado para Latinas Conectadas para el Cambio, conferencia en español que se llevó a cabo el 5 de marzo de 2011 en Sunnyside, WA.

11/06/09 interview with Jaime Méndez, news anchor from Noticias Noroeste

Watch the story of Women's Justice Circles!