Vegan in Bellingham

  Sunday, March 2, 2025 / Presentation from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.  Optional  Q&A & Discussion Following the Presentation, 2:30 to 3:00 p.m.  In-Person Event  -   " Eight Families in Gaza: Amplifying Their Voices ." Bellingham Public Library Lecture Room (Central Branch) Event Description:  A presentation offering an opportunity to learn about eight families in Gaza who are connected to a local community member (Clarissa) who has received permission to share their stories, words, photos, and other media. This is an opportunity to learn more about their lives, loves, and challenges, and to find out more about ways you can offer meaningful and direct support to Palestinians in Gaza. (This event is affiliated with the Whatcom Coalition for Palestine and is   not   sponsored by the Bellingham Public Library).

In a way this isn't an update, because what I am sharing is nothing new. And the urgency I feel and speak of also isn't new. But it continues to grow, second by second, minute by minute, hour by hour.  So think of this as more of a reminder, an emphatic expression of urgency, of our required commitment, of our shared responsibility, and of reaffirming my own resolve to do more, say more, share more, in the hopes that the changes that are long overdue will come. And that they will come soon.  The destruction and devastation in Gaza is unlike anything I have ever seen before in my life. And the images and videos and descriptions cannot compare to the physical experience of being there and trying to live through this, trying to survive among the ruins and the rubble, trying to breathe through the dust and the dirt, trying to find life amidst death and deprivation. Trying to keep going despite the overwhelming sense of abandonment sinking like a heavy cloud atop the harshness of t...