Local Organizations

Local Organizations & Faith Communities

• American Muslim Empowerment Network (AMEN) facilitates community education about Islam and how to combat Islamophobia. 
• Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle
• Church Council of Greater Seattle (CCGS) brings together faith communities in and around Seattle with the mission of bringing “our spiritual commitments of love and reconciliation, peace and justice into the public square.”
• Council on American-Islamic Relations – Washington (CAIR-WA) works to “defend the civil liberties of Muslim Washingtonians no matter where they live or their level of income.”
• East Shore Unitarian Church 
• Episcopal Diocese of Olympia; St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, St. Thomas Episcopal Church
• Ithnaasheri Muslim Association of the Northwest (IMAN)
• Kadima Reconstructionist Community, “a progressive community of inclusion, social justice, and Jewish tradition for Jews and our allies.”
• Kirkland Interfaith Network (KIN), “a group of individuals and faith-based communities who work to serve those in need in and around Kirkland and the world.”
• Northlake Unitarian Universalist Church
• Palestine Solidarity Committee, Seattle, a grassroots organization with the goal of ending Israel’s occupation and restoring Palestinians’ full human rights. 
• Paths to Understanding (Neighbors in Faith), a nonprofit building relationships across faiths.
• Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice, an organization founded by the parents of Rachel Corrie, an American peace activist from Olympia who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer while undertaking nonviolent direct action to protect the home of a Palestinian family from demolition.
• Seattle Mennonite Church
• Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign (SeaMAC) facilitates education through public forums, church presentations, school presentations, and other face-to-face formats “to discuss how U.S. support for Israel enables Israel’s continued oppression and subjugation of the Palestinian people.”
• Students United for Palestinian Equality & Return (UW) is “a student group at the University of Washington dedicated to justice for the Palestinian people” that holds “educational, awareness, and speaker events annually, in solidarity with the Palestinian people.”
• Temple B’Nai Torah
• University Presbyterian Church
• Whatcom Peace & Justice Center, founded by participants for the Bellingham Peace Vigil, the nation’s longest-running weekly peace vigil (since 1967).