Monthly Archives: December 2021

OMNI UN COP26 Glasgow Followup #2, 11-17/12-4, 2021

 in Dick's Newsletters 2021

OMNI UN COP26 Glasgow Followup #2, 11-17/12-4, 2021 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/12/omni-un-cop26-glasgow-followup-2-11.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS I reported all I received after 11-17, leaving blank the days my sources did not report on COP26. 11-19Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Guterres’ dark appraisal of COP 26 (“the      army of corporate executives and lobbyists”), COP 27 UNA/USA  Keyon Rostamnezhad, UNA/USA Today  UNA CALL TO TAKE ACTION  Read IPCC Report 11-20Baraka, Black Agenda Report, Popular Resistance.org: COP26 Northern Colonial Capitalist Greenwashing. 11-24Prashad and Alexandra, Two gains at COP26: next COP in 2022 and 1.5     degrees Celcius kept alive.Harris, Climate […]

What’s the Buzz About? A Wild Bee Workshop

 in Current Events

Saturday Dec 18 – 2:00 pm – Omni CenterEntomology PhD student and wild bee researcher Olivia Kline will give a presentation on the importance of native bees to the local ecology and agriculture. Olivia will give an overview of the results of her research into the surprising variety of wild bees and their critical role as pollinators. She will discuss ways to promote bee populations through native plants and habitat. We will also look at simple ways to build a wild bee house for your yard.   We might also say that we’re limiting the in-person participants to 20 people (masked and […]

Human Rights Day weekend Dec 10-12

 in Current Events

View “The Boys Who Said No” and Roundtable DiscussionView the movie Dec 10-12Gather for the discussion on Dec 12 As Congress debates the future of the draft right now, please join us on Human Rights Day weekend for an online screening of the film and a discussion about how we can take lessons from the past to support today’s resisters. “The Boys Who Said “No” – Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Judith Ehrlich, The Boys Who Said NO! tells for the first time the inspiring story and impact of the draft resistance movement. REGISTER HERE   When you register, you will receive a link to […]

Open Mic Night!

 in Open Mic

Sunday Dec 5 – 7:00 pmIn Person at Omni!Covid safety in mind! Stay tuned!Greetings Omni folks,Dec. Open Mic is right around the corner. My how time flies! We will be hosting at the Omni Center Sunday, Dec. 5th at 7:00 as usual…at least for as long as everyone feels safe. The numbers of covid cases are climbing here in Arkansas…we hope everyone that comes is vaxxed, for the safety of all. I wish we had the where-with-all to do both LIVE an ZOOM of open mic but we are not that savvy.Maybe sharing songs about winter, solstice, holidays???? (Not specifically Christmas Carols…but along the line […]

Arkansas Agriculture: Water, and Dicamba

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Climate Change Forum: Arkansas in the Time of Climate ChangeArkansas Agriculture: Water, and DicambaDec 5 – 1:30 pm – zoom link belowReal issues facing Arkansas today. Continuing the series on environmental issues here in Arkansas. Our choices also impact climate change and environmental damage. This session comes out of the 2021 Audubon EnviroPolicy Summit;AgriPanel held just a couple weeks ago.Two Hot Issues in Arkansas Agriculture: Water & Dicamba  14.5 million acres of Arkansas’s land resources are considered active farmland. One of the state’s most important economic drivers, agriculture, is also directly connected to Arkansas’s natural environment. In this session, the panel will […]