Medicine Hat is part of Built for Zero Canada, a national movement of 39 communities working to end chronic and veteran homelessness as a first step to ending all homelessness, powered by the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness. If Alberta Canada can end chronic homelessness, surly Fayetteville Arkansas can do SOMETHING to end this crisis.
Long long ago before covid, a friendly homeless guy named Jerry started camping in the yard of an old white apartment house on Government Street. It was a quiet place, next to the National Cemetery and across the street from the sale barn where the neighbors were mostly cows. One of the tenants asked the landlord if Jerry could stay, and they all struck up a friendship. They were friends for a long time, until the tenant got sick and died. But Jerry and the landlord are still friends. Then covid came. With it came a lot of wild and crazy things. Nobody could go […]
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/07/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-134-july-12.htmlJuan Cole, From Militarism to Invading Ourselves.Roots Action. Unrestrained US Military Spending.WBW’s Nonviolent Resistance to Militarism conference September 22-24. OMNI at FARMER’S MARKET this Saturday, JULY 15, 2023. Our Table is at the NW corner of Fayetteville Square beginning 8 a.m. We have free copies of Nukewatch Quarterly, Jeffrey Sachs’ article on US/NATO provoking the Ukraine War, two urgent petitions, and more to explain why we should take action against the Ukraine War. Sandy Lee-Shirley, Abel Tomlinson, Dick Bennett, and more. Here is the conclusion of Cole’s analysis of the Bush, Cheney, Rice admin.’s lying, illegal, cruel, atrocious invasion of Iraq […]
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/07/omni-climate-memo-mondays-135-july-10.html Terrifying Tuesday.Global Heat, Greenland ThreatMichael Mann’s New Book, Our Fragile Moment “’Terrifying’: Tuesday Was Hottest Day Ever, Breaking Record Set Just 24 Hours Earlier.” July 5, 2023. Data from the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction shows that the average global temperature reached 17.01°C, or 62.62°F, on Monday—making it the hottest day ever recorded. The record lasted just 24 hours. On Tuesday, the global average temperature peaked at a new all-time high of 17.18°C as regions worldwide—from Asia to Africa to the U.S. South—reeled from dangerous heatwaves. READ THE FULL STORY Climate change studies by the IPCC and policymakers show […]
Joe Lauria. “Ukraine Timeline Tells the Story.” Chris Hedges. “They Lied….” Editors. Monthly Review. A Socialist Disarmament Strategy. Joe Lauria. Special to Consortium News. “Ukraine Timeline Tells the Story.” July 6, 2023. Without historical context, buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand Ukraine. (Forwarded by E. San Juan, Jr.) AMERICAN EMPIRE, ANALYSIS, HISTORY, INTELLIGENCE, RUSSIA, RUSSIAGATE, UKRAINE, WIKILEAKS The way to prevent understanding of the Ukraine war is to suppress its history. A cartoon version says the conflict began in February 2022 when Vladimir Putin woke up one morning and decided to invade Ukraine. There was no other cause, according to this version, other than […]
Community First Village 2020 Video Tour This week’s video is a backgrounder about the beginning of Community First Village. It’s been around for over 20 years and is now getting ready to expand again. The nonprofit that runs Community First Village is Mobile Loaves and Fishes. MLF started a food truck project to feed the several thousand of Austin homeless 20 years ago and then got into the housing business. Founder Allan Graham says “We want to empower the community around us into a lifestyle of service with the homeless. We achieve this vision through Community First! Village by taking […]
Monday July 10 – 5:30 pm – City Hall Room 219 In order to ao allow a small group of homeless people to stay on their personal property so they won’t be constantly driven from pillar to post, Richard and Gladys Tiffany are applying for a conditional use permit now required by the city for civic service like this. We can tell you that they’re a pain. The Department of Planning and Zoning has recommended that the conditional use permit be denied, even though there is nowhere else for the people to go. They really don’t like homeless people cluttering […]
Put LEARNS on the ballot by signing petitions at the Farmer’s Market from 9:00-1:00 today and each Market of July (Tues and Thursday too). If you prefer to stop by Omni Center and sign there, petitions are available. 3274 N. Lee Ave.
