Jessica Laniato

Their teams go where humans need them most to provide neutral, impartial, and independent emergency healthcare to people affected by disaster, disease, conflict, and exclusion.

Doctors Without Borders also does the crucial work of bearing witness

amplifying experiences of trauma, and speaking out to bring abuses and intolerable situations to the public eye.

If you want to be a part of change and employ your resources in the work that aids the most vulnerable amongst us, donating to Doctors Without Borders is an excellent place to start.

Doctors Without Borders works in over 75 countries around the world, including Sudan and Palestine.

You can donate once or set up a reoccurring schedule, whatever works for you and your finances.

This is an organization that is driven by medical ethics, not politics.

They exist to help people who are suffering, and their website is also an informative place to read and see firsthand accounts of what's happening on the ground in various places around the world.

Head over to doctorswithoutborders.org and click donate today.

You can even donate in honor of someone else as a holiday gift this season.

School boards and lawmakers around the country are banning and challenging books at a pace not seen since the 1980s.

The American Library Association tracked 729 challenges to library, school, and university materials and services in 2021.

And librarians have even been threatened with criminal charges and jail time in some places in this country for lending out challenged books.

Thank you so much for watching.

My favorite bookstore, Marcus Books, is the oldest independent Black-owned bookstore in the country and has a banned and challenged book list on their website.

You can go to MarcusBooks.com to see this list and to shop or visit whatever independent bookstore that you love.

Support banned and challenged books and authors today.

That brings us to the next exact transit of this week.

And it's happening on Tuesday, December 23rd at exactly 9 31 PM Pacific time.

We will have Venus at 21 degrees of Sagittarius and 26 minutes forming an exact square to Neptune at these same degrees.