Yearly Archives: 2022

Gulf Waters Need Your Signature — very much!

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Food and Water Watch letter to Biden   Are you in a group or organization who cares about climate and water protection? Food and Water Watch is looking for groups just like you to sign an important letter to the Biden administration. 80+ climate and environmental justice organizations – including Omni Center — sent a sign-on letter to President Biden and Interior Secretary Haaland to ban offshore drilling by creating a new Five-Year Offshore Lease Program with no new lease sales beginning in 2022. The letter also calls for Secretary Haaland to follow the law and reject controversial Lease Sale 257, […]

62.  Climate Memo Mondays, February 14, 2022

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62.  Climate Memo Mondays, February 14, 2022 http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/02/climate-memo-mondays-62-february-14-2022.htmlGreta Thunberg from Age 15 to 18, World Tour for the Planet.Australia’s Drought: Quentin Beresford’s book Wounded Country.Capitalism and Growth: DEgrowth Necessary. CLIMATE AND POLITICS, POLITICS OF CLIMATE GRETA THUNBERG.  “A Year to Change the World, Episode 3.”  PBS, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, 7p.m.  (Episode 1 appeared Feb. 3, 7 p.m.; Episode 2 Feb. 10, 7 p.m.)  All on PBS4 World Ch. 700. CAPITALISM AND CLIMATEAustralia’s Drought: Quentin Beresford’s book Wounded Country. ‘Look up’, Australia: How capitalism and climate change are turning our food bowl to dust.  Editor.  Mronline.org (2-8-22). Quentin Beresford’s book […]

60.   WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS,#60   February 9, 2022

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60.   WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS,#60   February 9, 2022Conversion Movement from war to peace:Mandy Smithberger, Shifting tax dollars from fear and militarization to hope and human needs.Michael Klare, Stopping the encirclement of China and Russia. jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/02/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-60-february-9.html “US should shift military spending to pandemic and climate change.”  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (11-26-21). The COVID-19 pandemic vividly illuminated the many ways in which the American approach to national security has been fundamentally focused on the wrong threats, writes Mandy Smithberger, director of the Center for Defense Information at the Project On Government Oversight. Read more. TOMGRAM Michael Klare, Welcome to the New Cold War in […]

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY NEWSLETTER #2 February 7, 2022

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/02/omni-economic-inequality-newsletter-2.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTSECONOMIC INEQUALITY NEWSLETTER #2 February 7, 2022 Eric Schutz.   Inequality, Class, and Economics. Sanjay Roy.  “World Inequality Report 2022.” Meagan Day.  “The Rich Are Committing Crimes Against Nature.” Vijay Prashad.  “A Programme for a future society that we will build in     the present.” (2022) Nicole Aschoff.  “Smooth Criminals.”  Jacobin (Fall 2021).  Martin Hart-Landsberg.   “The dollar costs of inequality: they are greater     than you think.” Tomgram: Liz Theoharis.  “The Politics of the Poor in an America on     Edge.”  UN Wire.  75% of innoculations so far went to only […]

CUBA Newsletter #10 January 30, 2022

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OMNI CUBA Newsletter #10 January 30, 2022 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/01/omni-cuba-newsletter-10-january-30-2022.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS CUBA NEWSLETTER #10, January 29, 2022 Probably very little pertaining to Cuba is not affected by the long US intervention to overthrow its government—from blowing up an airplane to unceasing blockade and  hostile propaganda.   So the following subject groupings of the essays should be understood as my perception of the main topic(s) of each. US Intervention Whitney, Corporate Media’s Negative News about Cuba Satire of US Reporting of Cuba Guantanamo MacLeod. Cuba, Protests v. Government Havana Syndrome a […]

RUSSIA NEWSLETTER #10, January 28, 2022

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RUSSIA NEWSLETTER #10,January 28, 2022 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/01/omni-russia-newsletter-10-january-28.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology. (#1 March 21, 2014; #2 April 10, 2014; #3 May 16, 2014; #4 July 22, 2014; #5 March 10, 2015; #6 Sept. 1, 2016; #7, October 3, 2017; #8, Nov. 10, 2021; #9, January 20, 2022) https://omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS RUSSIA NEWSLETTER  #10 This anthology begins with indignation by Tomlinson, WBW, and Butterfield, moves to analysis and action by Lowendorf, Franklin, and Prashad, to an appeal for peace by WBW, and to the extensive scholarship of Prof.  Zunes . Abel Tomlinson. “The US Wants […]

Climate Change Forum

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On Feb, 6th, at 1:30 on zoom, The Climate Change Forum is hosting Teresa Turk, Ward 4 Fayetteville City Councilor, to speak about her proposal “A Climate of Change: Steps to creating a more resilient NW Arkansas.” She’ll give a 20 minute powerpoint presentation leaving plenty of time for discussion and idea generation. Plus join to share your ideas for a resilient NW Arkansas. Zoom link also available at omnicenter.org Climate Change Forum zoom link, Feb 6, 1:30 pm  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83523521484?pwd=OWVmcHVwdlhzR3RuM3dzVk5WUG8rdz09

2 Open Mic for Peace – on Zoom for February

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Sunday Feb 6 2022 – 7:00 pmZoom link below Open Mic in omicron season: Back to zoom for February’s Open Mic. Makes us sad, but we all want to stay healthy. Maybe March will smile on us! Here’s a link to the Zoom Open mic session on Feb. 6. It’ll still be wonderful to see your faces and hear your voices, good friends! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88258123344?pwd=Yk5makZubTFDcUtqQnRnQ3VSd3RTZz09Meeting ID: 882 5812 3344 Passcode: 703547