Daily Archives: August 15, 2020

Arkansas Citizens’ Climate LeagueMonday Sept 14 – 7:00-8:00 pm on ZoomSign Up Now Open for Enviro-Justice Virtual Event!Registration is now open for our online event “Enviro-Justice Primer: A Conversation About Building Community” from 7-8 p.m. Sept. 14 via Zoom!   This online workshop will give an overview of the history of the environmental justice movement, and a look at practical tools and techniques that we can use to help us better engage environmental justice issues.    The event is free and open to anyone who registers! Donations can also easily be made while signing up and help to make educational programming like […]

The Safe Camping Project opens in South FayettevilleSolomon Burchfield   8-13-20. The Safe Camp is quietly opening on the South end of Fayetteville. After years of uncertainty about how to help the population of homeless folks camping in local woods, the city has worked out a plan using covid relief money to establish a 12-acre plot where campers will be protected from many of the long list of threats they face on a daily basis and have access to vital services they previously had to travel a wide area to receive.New Beginnings Coordinator Solomon Burchfield has been talking to local campers (homeless folks […]

A really effective way to shift the balance in NovemberHandwritten postcards got tested during the mid-term elections in several swing states, and the results were that progressive candidates who were featured with handwritten cards like this had a much higher win rate than could be expected from other promotions they received.Arkansas is not a swing state, unfortunately. But we can do this! If you’d be willing to write and mail a stack of postcards, email your contact info to omni@omnicenter.org, and we’ll get some cards to you. Request any number, but many folks are doing 50-60. We have until mid-October […]

Led by Director Lance Reed and CEO D’Andre Jones, the Black Action Collective will be the starting point for the amazing array of activities and events that D’Andre and Lance are known for. You’ll be seeing them in this newsletter and online on a regular basis, and you’ll want to participate in the informative events they’ll produce. D’Andre has also taken a position on Omni Board of Directors.Welcome D’Andre and Lance!

Weds August 19 – 7:00 pmZoom link and information at the Facebook eventD’Andre JonesAllies you have been asking where do we go from here, I am honored and eternally grateful to be apart of this illustrious panel with these amazing brilliant African American women. These women will address policy change in education, criminal justice, economic mobility and community engagement and participation. Join us Wednesday August 19th 7 pm. This will be the most informative opportunity for ally’s in the state!!! #Protesttopolicy!!#Reform!!#Blackwomenlead!!