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+ Friends of Sabeel - North America offers "Reflection on the Sabeel Witness Trip, October 29 through November 6, 2009" by The Rev. Richard K. Toll, D.Min., D.D. Chairman, FOSNA. Excerpt: "The Sabeel witness visit this past month showed us new major expansion of settlements on the West Bank, more than I ever imagined since my most previous visit there in November 2008. Confiscations of land, destruction of villages, more by-pass roads and construction of the wall has shaken off the entire population of Palestinians. And the wall also separates Palestinians in one neighborhood from Palestinians nearby. The wall is so very ugly in the Bethlehem area especially and is used to choke off any hope for the thousands of Palestinians who live there. We observed families being evicted from their homes in the Sheik Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem, and the machinery of ethnic cleansing continues. Our trip was aptly entitled 'The Ongoing Nakba'. Evictions and land confiscation are visible everywhere and moving at a fast pace."
+ Today is the day that The Charter for Compassion is being unveiled. You can read it and hopefully decide to affirm it at CharterforCompassion.org. You can hear it by clicking on this video:
Spirituality and Practice offers greatly expanded and abundant resources on the practice of compassion.
+ Grist offers "Feed the world sustainably by 2050? Yes, we can!" by Tom Laskawy. It begins: "Adding a bit more data to food system reformers’ arguments, a new study led by Germany’s prestigious Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research takes on the question of whether we can 'feed the world' while preserving the planet come 2050. Short answer: Yes!"
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