Paradise is all around us: Indigenous Peoples’ fight for clean water in Guatemala
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Indigenous and Rural Communities in Guatemala Demand Their Natural Resource Rights
On March 19th, 1,500 rural and indigenous community members in Guatemala began marching for nine consecutive days to defend their natural resource rights. Tragically, state-sanctioned practices are destroying forests and mountains, contaminating rivers and water sources, and preventing rural Guatemalan communities from sustainably producing their own food. Nearly one year ago, hundreds of rural Maya …
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Video Update on the Famine in East Africa
Originally posted on the Global Circle blog.
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Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Chukkat 5771
We read in Parshat Chukkat about the death of Miriam: “Miriam died and she was buried there. There was no water for the assembly, and [the Children of Israel] gathered against Moshe and Aharon.” This odd and disjointed sequence of verses is puzzling, and leads the Talmud to connect Miriam’s death with the disappearance of …
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On Passover, Water, and Earth Day… and How it All Connects
I learned a bit about water at my seder. Turns out water is a big deal– for better and for worse. Which, of course, we already know. The Nile plays a huge role in the Passover story —the death of Israelite boys; the rescue of baby Moses; the meetings with Pharaoh by the river. Water-based plagues …
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