Monthly Archives: January 2023

KPSQ – Omni’s FM Radio Station 1st On Air Fundraiser

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KPSQ is the FM radio station licensed to the Omni Center. From Thursday February 2nd through Sunday February 5th, KPSQ will be broadcasting its first On Air Fundraiser. On KPSQ you will hear content that you won’t get anywhere else in the media or on the radio dial in Northwest Arkansas. Progressive news and current events, culture, and science. Shows covering climate, social justice, women and LGBTQ+ issues. And a vast eclectic variety of music including blues, jazz, world, Latin, folk, rock, reggae, hip hop and rap, with some shows having special emphases such as women and indigenous artists.  Just […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #111, January 23, 2023

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Acting Against Climate ChangeSolnit and Lutunatabua, eds.   Not Too Late: Changing the  Climate Story from Despair to Possibility.  Public Citizen: Controlling Anti-Social, Sociopathic Policies of Big BanksWorking for Responsible CompaniesClimate and Capitalism Magazine: Ecosocialism or Barbarism  Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, eds.   Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility.  Haymarket  (April 4, 2023).   Publisher’s description.  See all formats and editions   Audiobook  $0.00Free with your Audible trial   Paperback  $16.95   1 New from $16.95   Pre-order Price Guarantee. Details An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit (“the voice of the resistance”—New York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAY, #109, JANUARY 18, 2023

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/01/omni-war-watch-wednesday-109-january-18.html #106 rejected US bellicose militarism. #107 advocated empathy and stewardship. #108 warned of nuclear holocaust. All of these messages are finally appeals to block war, named in the UN Charter as the worst crime against humanity.   But some people must experience the terrible cruelty and destruction of war, either directly or by reading about or viewing them, before they will act.  That is why combat veterans are among the most persuasive opponents of war.   Dalton Trumbo attempted to provide that experience in his novel, Johnny Got His Gun KNOWLEDGE OF WAR’S CONSEQUENCES, ENDING WAR Johnny Got His Gun by […]

CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #110, January 16, 2023

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/01/omni-climate-memo-mondays-110-january.html   Andreas Malm.   Fighting in a World on Fire: The Next Generation’s Guide to Protecting the Climate and Saving Our Future.   For young people.Laurence Delina. Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation: Wartime Mobilisation. Andreas Malm.   Adapted by Jimmy Whipps With Llewyn Whipps.  Fighting in a World on Fire: The Next Generation’s Guide to Protecting the Climate and Saving Our Future.   Verso, 2023.   Paperback  $17.95$12.5630% off  272 pages / February 7, 2023 / 9781804291252  Available for pre-order.  An argument for bold action to halt climate destruction, adapted for young people from Andreas Malm’s best-selling book.  Young people are inheriting a world of climate […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #108, JANUARY 11, 2023

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-108-january.htmlNuclear WarDoomsday Clock from Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsArt Hobson. Praise for Abelow’s How the West Brought War to Ukraine.Subtitle:  Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe.  Benjamin Abelow.  Publishing success of his book.  DOOMSDAY CLOCK Watch the 2023 Doomsday Clock announcement.  BAS (1-9-23).  Tune in January 24 at 10AM EST to hear what leading scientists have set the Doomsday Clock to for 2023. Read more. Ukraine War Threatens Nuclear WarBenjamin Abelow.   How the West Brought War to Ukraine.Please read this short book about the Ukraine War, praised by Art Hobson,12-22-22 [WWW […]

CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #109, January 9, 2022

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/01/omniclimate-memo-mondays-109-january-9.html UNFCCC FailureFilm of Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’Martin Rees, If Science Is to Save Us UNFCCC 30TH AnniversaryThe Editors .  Monthly Review (January 2023).  (Volume 74, Number 8).   buy this issue.   This month’s “Notes from the Editors” marks the 30-year anniversary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The abject failure of this framework to enact meaningful progress on the planetary crisis continued to be on full display in 2022, including at November’s COP27 in Egypt. | more… THE LETTER: A MESSAGE FOR OUR EARTH Trailer This film explores the story about the Pope’s call to care for our planet. In […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #107, JANUARY 4, 2023

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-107-january-4.html Sandra Richter. Stewards of Eden.Empathy.  Lubna and the Pebble, The Expanding Circle, The Price of Empire Sandra Richter, Stewards of Eden.SCOT MCKNIGHT.    “War and the Environment.”  JULY 7, 2020.“The Bible speaks directly about war and the environment. If you besiege a town for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you must not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them. Although you may take food from them, you must not cut them down. Are trees in the field human beings that they should come under siege from you? Think about the wisdom of this, […]

Greetings Open Mic Folks

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A new year is upon us and Jan. Open Mic has fallen on New Year’s Day again this year. Most of our Omni people are not Superbowl fans because we always have a decent turnout even with hangovers and all!!! Maybe a loose theme could be NEW BEGINNINGS…STARTING OVER…something positive in that vein? Not a requirement…just a suggestion to kick off 2023. Sunday, Jan 1st, a t 7:00.  We want to give a HEADS UP theme for Feb. Open Mic.  WINTERING, DEATH, CROSSING OVER. Years ago we did that theme for our annual winter concert at Mike Shirkey’s and thought no one would come but […]