Monthly Archives: September 2020

League of Women Voters 2020 Virtual Ballot Issue Forum

 in Current Events

Sept 29 – 6:00-7:30 pm – zoomArkansas voters will change state law on Election Day with up-or-down votes on all-important ballot questions, but many voters are unfamiliar with the issues they’ll have to decide. It’s difficult to even keep up with what’s still on the ballot and what’s been removed in court. With that in mind, the League of Women Voters of Washington County will host a ballot-issue forum on September 29th to help the public understand the questions before them. It’s a public service the League tries to provide every two years. This year, the forum will take place […]

Peace One Day Live Global Digital Experience

 in Current Events

Peace Day Global Big virtual event with celebrities Sept 21! Peace One Day Live Global Digital Experience 2020 on the UN International Day of Peace, 21st September #PeaceDayOn 21st September, join the full day of live broadcast with the most incredible speakers, actors, musicians and live action from the continents of the world

Peace Day in Fayetteville with Pinwheels for Peace –

 in Current Events

Someday you’ll get to meet Helen Kwiatkowski, an artist and teacher new to town, who has a life-long passion for peace. While she was teaching art in Texas she started organizing Pinwheels for Peace with her own art students and from schools all around the area. When she moved here last year she started looking for people and places to replicate this project in peace-loving Fayetteville.The Pinwheels for Peace Project is installed at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on East Street. Stroll through the grounds and listen to the gentle whirl like they’re prayer wheels sending out our longing for a […]

Pondering conversations with Trump voters

 in Current Events

The only possible way to understand Trump voters – author Jack LunaThis isn’t what I want to be thinking about this week. I’d rather think about transformational networks. But this article came up that – to me – answers a question lots of us have been wrangling over. How to understand the Trump voters in our lives and our communities. This blog writer has a perspective I was longing for. He called it a “White coming ….”

Where’s Gandalf?

 in Current Events

Or, are progressives in NWA nervous about their neighbors?This week I got an email from an Omni friend who lives on Beaver Lake. Boaters for Trump have taken over the quiet cove where she lives, and since her yard has one of the few “Biden-Harris” signs in the neighborhood, they focus a lot of angst in her direction. Read more,

Black Lives Matter In Northwest Arkansas

 in BLM

Join Bridge The Gap in Harrison, Omni folks Sunday Sept 6 – 1:00 pm – Harrison Town Square!Local Black Lives Matter protesters have been holding actions all across Arkansas strategically and with care. They want to connect even in the most rural parts of the state where Southern culture might struggle to understand that Black Lives Matter.Join us for a community cookout with Bridge the Gap NWA and the residents of Harrison and greater Boone County on Sunday, September 6th at the Square. Family-friendly, Covid-cautious, gun-free, and open to the public with FREE food courtesy of Fayetteville’s MayDay Community Kitchen. […]

Weaving a Community to Endure It All

 in Community

The times they keep achanging, and covid and climate change and who knows what else ensure they’re gonna keep achanging. It’s increasing the pressure on all our networks and making things more uncomfortable all the time. Progressives need to start honing-in on ways to build real bonds of care and understanding among each other that get our herds of cats moving in the same powerful direction in confidence and mutual trust. It’s a tall order but we need it now more than ever.Here’s why I think we can do it: (read more here)