Monday Oct 9 – all day – UA Campus Native American Student Association event Commemorative Trail of Tears Walk 1:00-2:30 Union Mall Tribal display and historical readings, rural Native food traditions, art of storytelling, art, and Native American film screening of “The Silent Enemy” 7:00 pm Union Ballroom Full details here: Indigenous People’s Day details
Thank you Fayetteville, and a special thank you to Terry Tremwel for amazing help! Install day Saturday Nov 4 (weather permitting) The Solar-on-the-Roof Project kicked off August 26, and Fayetteville responded. The big one this week is that Terry and Margaret Tremwel donated all 19 solar panels needed, which we estimate would cost us $5200!! Because of this big gift, we’re now within $1000 of what we need to complete the project, and feel confident we can get underway. Installer Flint Richter of Richter Solar is working with us to get the details together, and the install date is set […]
Local Girl Returns Bringing Global Stories Women of Conscience: Resisting While Existing Monday Oct 23 – 6:00 pm – Rolling Hills Baptist Church, 1400 E. Rolling Hills Dr. Ann Wright returns to Northwest Arkansas to talk about the world from a global peace activists perspective. Ann is a Rogers native with a long history of diplomatic and military service, who retired rather than follow orders against her conscience about war in Iraq. She took up full time peace activism and has since been covering the globe. For this visit she wants to talk about the situation with North Korea, and […]
RESULTS! Thursday Oct 19 – 6:00 pm – Fayetteville Library Join Jan VanSchuyver and friends for a special advocacy workshop. Only a few seats still open. “How can I make a difference?” It’s a question many of us are asking these days. In addition to helping locally, many are turning to advocacy – influencing Congress to make decisions that impact lives in a positive way. This workshop will clear up some of the mystery of advocacy and empower you with takeaway tools that you can begin using immediately to influence your members of Congress for a better world. Brought to […]
KPSQ FM Radio – 97.3 and online at kpsq.org — Will be off the air starting Sunday at 10:00 am until the beautiful new studio is all hooked up. Don’t be alarmed if you don’t hear us on the air. We’ll be back on as soon as possible! In the small photo, can you find the hand-carved initials that Kelly Mulollan added to the furniture he hand-built? If you can’t find ’em there are bigger before-and-after photos at the KPSQ webpage. Thank you hard-working and amazing KPSQ team
Monday Oct 25 – 6:30 pm – OMNI Center Movie and discussion led by Jon Comstock, Sponsored by OMNI and NWA’s Liberty Initiative Money bail is one of the main feeders of America’s mass incarceration system – and yet something most Americans know very little about. Brave New Films is producing a series of short films to change that. The money bail system is broken: Low-income Americans are sitting in jails for days, months, and even over a year simply because they can’t afford to pay bond amounts. The reality is that a great many people are in our county […]
Sunday, Oct 1 at 6 pm at Good Shepherd Lutheran On October 1st, People Power – the ACLU’s grassroots mobilization program – will launch a new campaign focused on organizing local communities to protect and expand our fundamental right to vote. The plan is simple: organize THOUSANDS of grassroots events in communities all across the U.S. We’ll be ready to fight back against attacks on our voting rights and put pressure on our lawmakers to expand this fundamental pillar of our free society.
Rapid Responders 2 – Letter Writers for the Public Good Wednesday Sept 27 – 5:00 pm – OMNI Library Support group for people writing letters to the editor. Aspiring writers also invited — including you!
