Monthly Archives: February 2022

Join us in demanding NO NEW PRISONS

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Does Arkansas need more prison beds?Join us in demanding NO NEW PRISONSPlease sign this petition to Governor Hutchinson!https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edit?promo_id=15723   Governor Hutchinson announced an expansion of 498 beds to the Calico Rock North Central unit as a response to the backup of state sentenced Arkansans being housed in county jails across the state. The project is slated to cost between $60 and $100 million and is made possible by the state’s billion-dollar surplus pending approval from the legislature   There’s more at the link. Here’s a hint of what could happen instead of more prisoners: Arkansas’ punitive approach ignores data-backed solutions that […]

Open Mic for Peace – In person again!

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Sunday Mar 6 2022 – 7:00 pm(emergency-only Zoom link below)Open Mic returns in-person Hoping March will smile on us!Here’s a link to the emergency-only Zoom Open mic session on Mar. 6. But it’ll be better to come to Omni and enjoy the company of your people! It’ll be wonderful to see your faces and hear your voices, good friends! 7:00 pm at Omnihttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88258123344?pwd=Yk5makZubTFDcUtqQnRnQ3VSd3RTZz09Meeting ID: 882 5812 3344 Passcode: 703547

Holding Our Breath for Ukraine

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this photo is from some other war on Ukraine. Not this one. It illustrates something that world leaders forget. And we all forget in the safety of our relatively calm neighborhoods. Look at the young boy’s face as he watches the digging. This was a father an uncle a brother a friend that has gone from his life now but who was part of him. Who has now returned to the Earth in some very sad way. I wonder if the boy watched them die? Every death is very personal. Every death means something terrible for a family someplace.Light a […]

RUSSIA NEWSLETTER #11, February 24, 2022

 in Dick's Newsletters 2022

OMNI RUSSIA NEWSLETTER #11,February 24, 2022 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/02/omni-russia-newsletter-11-february-24.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/ US leaders have suffered so severely and so long in foreign policy from advanced political cataracts that I doubt if they will ever recover.  However, here is another anthology providing views alternative to those of our ruling Warriors.   I hope to send #12 soon (and #13!).   (I have called these “newsletters,” but they are more accurately described as anthologies, perhaps Resistance Anthologies.)  (Will you consider taking over the editorship of one of them?) CONTENTS RUSSIA (AND UKRAINE)NEWSLETTER #11, 2-21-22 Perspectives […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #62, February 23, 2022

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WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #62, February 23, 2022  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/02/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-62-february.html Soviet Phobia/Russo Phobia: In the 1990s US decided to expand NATO threateningly eastward and to exclude Russia.  (DICK)Rajan Menon, War with Russia? February 8, 2022. Progress? Let’s see. We’ve gone from unending wars in distant lands against enemies capable of little more than wielding firearms and roadside bombs — and those conflicts were disasters — to the possibility of a war in the European heartland between nuclear-armed foes. I mean, honestly, what could possibly go wrong? And it was all fated to happen in Europe because of that anti-democratic nightmare of an […]

Climate Memo Mondays, #63, February 21, 2022

 in Climate Memo Mondays

ContentsPublic Relations, Control of Information, and  Fossil Fuels CompaniesRise of Authoritarian Rule: Hett’s Book on Hitler’s Control of InstitutionsMother Jones Covers the Right-Wing War on DemocracyVFP: No War with Russia: Spend Money on Climate Emergency Fossil Fuels, “Public Relations,” Edelman.  Why Fossil Fuels Companies Have Been Able to Continue Extracting Oil, Coal, Gas  From 350.orgFor decades, fossil fuel companies have used public relations (PR) firms to fabricate their image, protect their reputation, greenwash their activities, and spread disinformation to the public.These PR firms operate in the shadows, but they are a key element of Big Oil’s success in deceiving the […]

Climate Cafe’ Invites You

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Tuesday Mar 1 – 6:30-8:00 pm on Zoom This is an invitation to The Resilient Activist’s Inaugural Climate Café  Register at the link to receive access to the Cafe’. This is your best opportunity to connect with a community that gets you, with folks who are experiencing many of the emotions that climate change has brought out in your heart and mind.   There is nothing for you to commit to except to gather your favorite beverage, a journal, find a comfortable spot with your Zoom window open, and just be you.   Each session will include facilitators from The Resilient Activist as well as […]

Vanguard’s Very Big Climate Problem

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Sunday Mar 6 – 1:30 pm on zoom In partnership with an international coalition, Earth Quaker Action Team is taking on one of the largest investors in climate destruction. Come hear why they think this is an effective strategy for change, why nonviolent direct action is part of their approach, and what they are asking Vanguard customers to do. (It may not be what you expect.) Eileen Flanagan is the Interim Campaign Director and former board clerk of Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT, pronounced “equate”). Ahead of the 2020 election, she served as Trainings Coordinator of Choose Democracy, which trained nearly 10,000 people in nonviolent strategies […]