When you know that there’s more to a story than what you have been told, more than what you have read and seen from a distance, what do you do? Marda Dumsky researched and wrote a book.

How can you give sustainably to your loved ones? We all have too much stuff, and too much waste! Here are some ideas we love, and most of them don’t even need wrapping.

We need global solidarity against settler- colonial annexation of Indigenous lands. The leaf compared maps of settler colonization by the United States and Israel. Targeting this leaf for defacement attempts to silence and disrupt Indigenous solidarity.

Palestinians have learned in crisis to gather their collective strength through solidarity. Mutual aid is second nature to them. They are resilient, compassionate - and still defiant. We can learn this community spirit from them.