Monthly Archives: October 2022

CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #96, OCTOBER 10,   2022. 

 in Dick's Newsletters 2022

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-96-october-10.html New hope-centered resistance books, article, legislation:Friederici, Beyond Climate Breakdown.Gottlieb,  Care-Centered Politics.Charlie Wood.Burnout.Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. 2 new climate resistance books from MIT Peter Friederici.  Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope.   Foreword by Kathleen Dean Moore.  MIT, 2022.  200 pp.  “We need new stories—stories that center the persistence of life, rather than of capitalism.” Robert Gottlieb.  Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet.  MIT, 2022.Description   Author(s)   Praise Why a care economy and care-centered politics can influence and reorient such issues as health, the environment, climate, race, inequality, gender, and immigration. Charlie Wood.“There’s No Place for Burnout in […]

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTIONNUCLEAR, CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL WAR ANTHOLOGY #4. October 9, 2022

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-weapons-of-mass-destruction.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology.   (#1 July 16, 2012; #2, 9-7-13; #3, July 4, 2021). https/:omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS #4 WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION    And US CollegesNUCLEAR WEAPONS OMNI Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembrance Abolition of Nuclear Weapons International Campaign US Latest War BudgetUAF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CHEMICAL WEAPONSArt Hobson. “Chemical weapons, and war.”  (WWI).  A poem for these times. George Paulson.  WWII US Mustard Gas. Veterans for Peace Reports  Agent Orange.US & Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange. Fifty Years of US Chemical War in S. E. Asia. BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS US Germ Warfare […]

October Time Exchange Potluck

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October Time Exchange Potluck Tues Oct 25 – 6:30 pm – Omni Center These potlucks are becoming very sweet affairs. Put this date on your calendar and plan to come check it out this month. Join us at this month’s Potluck to learn more about how a time bank works and how you can be part of it.

Still on the Hill shares

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Valarie Kaur story of Darkness t’s a dark time and may be getting darker before it’s over. Donna and Kelly Mulhollan share a book they’ve come to love, and, of course, a song that goes with it! “See No Stranger” by Valarie Kaur Especially important since there have been more murders of Sikh people recently, that are so tragic in a small community like American Sikh’s. Valarie is a brilliant spokesperson for her faith and her people making their way through a dark time, just like all of us. The book and the song are an inspiration for life that […]

Election Warriors still needed in Fayetteville

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What can you do to help Arkansas stand up to the right-wing challenge? Poll Watchers are needed in some of our 56 polling places. Poll Watching has been pretty calm in previous elections. Since we’re not a swing state it may remain that way again. But it’s very important that both major parties have watchers available in the event that something does happen. In charge of recruiting and training Poll Watchers for the Democratic Party can be reached at this email. There’s a brief training, and you’d be assigned to a particular polling place. It’s a community service that can […]

Special on Issue #2

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help you neighbors prep too! BallotReady from Ballotpedia https://www.ballotready.org/ An important issue on the ballot this year is Measure #2 – “The Supermajority Vote Requirement”. This measure was proposed and placed on the ballot by super-conservative legislators last year. They don’t like it that Arkansas has a strong method to give citizen voices in Issues like a higher minimum wage, or approval of medical marijuana, for instance. Clearly very important to regular people, but disapproved of by certain groups. You probably noticed that the legislature was very annoyed by the minimum wage measure. Remember how they tried to scratch that […]

Ballot Measures… Politics in Arkansas not getting better yet

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There are several ballot measures on the November ballot that Arkansans need to be aware of, and most are not good ones. They’re all worded to confuse us, of course. Here’s the run-down. Special Election and first of the issues on the ballot: Jail Expansion – .25% sales tax for both issues, $113,500,000.00! Jail expansion should be the LAST option for reducing the jail population, not the ONLY option. But that’s what our sheriff thinks. And the Quorum Court majority slavishly agrees.  VOTE NO. Juvenile Court – included in 25% sales tax but can be voted on separately. $28,500,000.00. This issue is […]

CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #95, OCTOBER 3, 2022 

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-95-october-3.html November 15 Earth’s Population reaches 8 billion.Marcy Franck.  An Optimist’s Embrace of The Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act.President of Marshall Islands Calls for Total War on CC MARK YOUR CALENDAR: NOVEMBER 15I have reduced my study of the converging calamities mainly to war and warming, but overpopulation is never far from mind through membership in Population Connection:  “Population Connection is the national grassroots population organization that educates young people and advocates progressive action to stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by earth’s resources.”  Its Septermber 2022 number includes half a dozen items about the catastrophe of […]