The Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation Trust (GREAT Trust) is a 38-page proposal inspired by a pledge. The proposal outlines a plan for Gaza’s future, detailing economic and infrastructural development. It is modeled on a concept related to a particular pledge, but specific details are left out. The GREAT Trust’s goal is to foster transformation and acceleration in the Gaza region.
Starbucks is mandating a return to the office for some remote employees, increasing the required in-office days for corporate employees to four per week, starting in early October. In addition, “people leaders” must now be based in Seattle or Toronto within a year, a tightening of previous relocation requirements. While affected employees who choose not to relocate will be eligible for a voluntary exit program. The company’s CEO, Brian Niccol, has also relocated to Seattle since his hiring last year.
The remains of approximately 275 African American tenant farmers are being moved from a former Virginia plantation to a new, dedicated burial ground to make way for an industrial park. This relocation, while eliciting mixed emotions among descendants, is being conducted with their significant input on the design and memorialization of the new cemetery. Archaeologists are exhuming the remains, with some descendants hoping for identification through genetic testing. The project, funded by logging revenue from the land, aims to honor the lives of those who were previously buried without proper recognition, emphasizing their dignity and significance.
John Q. Hosedrinker