Monthly Archives: November 2022

CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #103 NOVEMBER 28, 2022

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/omni-climate-memo-mondays-103-november.html Resisting and Adapting to Climate Calamity Tom Athanasiou. Bernie Sanders’ Green New Deal.Peter Friederici.  Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope.Robert Gottlieb.  Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet.  Bernie’s Green New Deal I am reviewing writings I had marked to return to.  One is “Bernie’s Secret Weapon: Only a Global Green New Deal Can Succeed” by Tom Athanasiou (The Nation, September 30, 2019).  The article is three years old, but even more relevant today, for crisis has become emergency, and the public remains apathetic. The “10-year, $16.3 trillion price tag” reflects the “hard scientific truth […]

US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR ANTHOLOGY #27 November 26, 2022

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-101-november.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS OF US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR ANTHOLOGY #27  (9 articles, one book) Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies.  War In Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict.   CENSORSHIPCaitlin A. Johnstone.  “PayPal blocks multiple alternative media figures critical of U.S. empire narratives.”“100 million Russian books in line for ban.”ATROCITIESArt Hobson on Atrocities, Killing Civilians.“UN slams Ukrainian attack on Donetsk maternity hospital.” Eva Bartlett.   “Western media and politicians prefer to ignore the truth….”Jeremy Kuzmarov.  Ukrainian Shelling of Donetsk.Patrick Buchanan.  “The Real Purpose of the Ukraine War for the US and Ukraine […]

Circles NWA

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More Important Local Work for Justice A community-driven solution to poverty. Circles NWA is a community-driven program that works to increase upward mobility for individuals and families in poverty in Northwest Arkansas. Based on the national Circles®USA model, the Circles program builds intentional relationships (social capital) across socioeconomic lines that help open up long-term pathways for economic mobility and self sufficiency. Visit their website to see what kind of work is going on in Washington County RIGHT NOW Circles NWA

One Earth Project Marketplace

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Review by Gail Bingham, Fayetteville Friends Meeting (Quakers) One Earth is a “first world” foundation acting as an accelerator to get funding to initiatives around the globe to combat the impacts of climate change on those most vulnerable. They are challenging the philanthropic world not to stand on the sidelines and have created what they call the One Earth Project Marketplace to “scale climate philanthropy” by putting descriptions of amazing projects needing funding all in one place. They call their approach Philanthro-activism, and there is much to be inspired by in the description of the on the ground work globally here:  https://www.oneearth.org/project-marketplace/ In their words:  In […]

Was COP27 A Failure?

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In Sharm Al Sheik Egypt A short run-down of the results of COP 27. It was not a raging success, but a few positive things came from it. A note on the role the US plays in these meetings… the primary goal of many protesters was a fund for loss and damage. That was accomplished when Biden withdrew resistance to the fund. It’s never China. What a ruse. Covering Climate Now on COP 27…

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #101, NOVEMBER 23,  2022

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-101-november.html US Endless War and Ways to Stop the US System of War Dick, US Pervasive War System, Part I Hedges and Bacevich, “the folly of endless war” Walter Hixson, [US History of] Imperialism and War Quakers’ Way to Peace US Patriotism, US Militarism, and US WAR, Part I Why have we been at war since 1941?   The inclusive, pervasive patriotism is a main origin,  with its arrogant US Christian nationalism and US exceptionalism inserted in every nook and cranny of USA.  We are taxed and disciplined by relentless, yet to most invisible, patriotic propaganda for militarism, empire, and war.  […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #100, NOVEMBER 16, 2022

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-100-november.html ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS VFP No to Nukes.Alfred Meyer.  No to Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons.Rev. Carl Kabat.  Few Fools for Christ.Patrick Mazza.  US Could Use Nuclear Weapons Against Non-Nuclear.Ben Norton. “UN votes 152 to 5 telling Israel to get rid of its nuclear weapons,” NO TO NUKES, LET’S DO IT TOGETHER VFP Spokane – SAY NO TO NUKES Picket and Rally.”   VFP Weekly E-News (10-24-22). VFP Spokane, in conjunction with Defuse Nuclear War and UNAC developed a strategy and held an event to “Say No To Nukes” at the Foley Federal Courthouse on October 14th. Information packets were left at Senator Patty Murray’s […]