Hiroshima Nagasaki Remembrance
Sunday August 4, 6:00 pm at Omni Center
Register for the event and dinner here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hiroshima-nagasaki-remembrance-tickets-946790334377
Event description
Nuclear War: What Have We Learned? Hiroshima Nagasaki Remembrance this year will take place in the cool indoors of Omni Center, but will still focus on the critical issue of the danger of nuclear weapons in our very unsettled times. More critical with every passing day.
Dinner designed and prepared by the fine chef’s of MayDay Kitchen NWA. Ever since the beginning of covid, MayDay has been preparing delicious, healthy food for homeless people in Fayetteville and feeding them at Walker Park. The donation made for your meal will go to MayDay as a fundraiser to support their good work. Other donations can also be made at the event.
$20.50 meal donation to MayDay Kitchen NWA
· Music performed by Kelly and Donna Mulhollan of Still on the Hill
· Speakers — Marcina Langrine, Program Manager of the Marshallese Education Initiative located in Springdale, and Dr. Art Hobson, University of Arkansas Emeritus Professor of Physics.
Speaker bios
· Marcina Langrine, Marshallese Education Initiative. The Marshallese experience of nuclear testing is one of the darkest chapters of American history that the Island peoples in Northwest Arkansas continue to suffer every day. Marcina is a storyteller ready to share the history of what happened to her people, and why it should never happen again to anyone.
· Art Hobson, Professor Emeritus University of Arkansas Fayetteville. Art is author of many books, including topics of nuclear war. His extensive background in physics gave him an understanding of nuclear impact before it was well-understood by most Americans, and he included the topic, along with issues about climate change (also not understood at the time) in his classes.
Omni Statement on War in Israel / Gaza
OMNI unequivocally stands with our Jewish and Muslim community members and neighbors, and vows to be a space of refuge for all. We stand against bias in our community and condemn those who wish to stereotype others and perpetuate hate/violence.
OMNI unequivocally stands against Hamas and all those who enrich and support them. The slaughter of human beings is never a move towards justice and Hamas is a danger to both the Israeli and Palestinian people. We understand that people are not their government.
OMNI unequivocally stands with the Palestinian people and all oppressed people around the globe. There is no justification for the bombardment of innocent people’s homes nor the breaking of international law. There is no justification for dehumanizing people.
OMNI unequivocally stands against illegal Israeli settlements in the West bank, state sanctioned violence, and the creation of enforced borders. We believe that no human should control another, that governments cannot own the earth, and that state violence doesn’t create safety.
OMNI unequivocally stands in support of peace and against war and violence. We agree with MLK that, “True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
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OMNI calls for the release of all Hostages held by Hamas, the release of all nonviolent political prisoners held by the Israeli state, an immediate ceasefire, and a return of gas, water, internet, electricity, medical care, and international aid to Gazan civilians.
OMNI calls on you as Omni members to have respectful conversations with your friends and family and to call your representatives both local and national, to demand a ceasefire.
To find your representatives information go to: https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/
For a script and automated phone call download the app “5 calls”
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If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this statement or any related issues please feel free to reach out to an Omni Board member at: omni@omnicenter.org
For more information about this conflict:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/podcasts/the-daily/israel-palestine-1948.html (Transcript attached)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/18/israel-gaza-hamas-palestinians
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/israeli-crimes-against-humanity-in-gaza-letter-from-palestine/
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Helping build a future for the next generation of peace people … It’s for all of us
Greetings Peace People out there
To build a future, Omni suggests that Fayetteville build a timebank. In fact it’s already under construction. It’s a good vehicle for creating connection and cohesion, and helping communities get themselves through hard times.
This is Fayetteville. Connected and cohesive is what we want to be, because
we’re all in this together. We have history to build on that will let us do that
when other communities find it a far stretch. One lesson of covid might be that we’ve been shown where healing needs to happen, so we can go there to heal.
Here lies the work of peace.
hOurWorld.org—An internati onal network of neighbors helping neighbors. https://hourworld.org/
Timebank.org—Building the timebanking movement https://timebanks.org/
What is a timebank?
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Time-Based Currency
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time –
based_currency
Timebanking: An Idea Whose Time Has Come – Yes Magazine 2011
About the time of the Occupy Movement, and during the post-2008 economic crash time-banks got some good press. Cooperative currencies like time dollars are especially helpful during hard economic times. Thankfully, the economy is strong now, but no one expects that to last forever.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/
economy/2011/11/18/time -banking-an-idea-whose-ti me -has-come
NPR 2011 Beyond Barter: Banking on Connections
https://www.npr.org/2011/07/19/138510242/beyond-bartering-banking-oncommunity-connections
The Timebank Solution – Stanford Social Innovation Review 2015. Interview with Time-banks founder Edgar Cahn and Christine Gray
https://ssir.org/arti cles/entry/
the_ti me_bank_solution
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