Yearly Archives: 2024

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #176, MAY 8, 2024

May 10, 2024 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/war-watch-wednesdays-176-may-8-2024.html Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, Doomsday Clock Statement . Israeli Nuclear Weapons v. Nuclear Proliferation Treaty.Dee Knight. A Realistic Path to Peace. “Nuclear Dangers: Ukraine War, the Third Year.” Zoom, 1p.m., ET, Grigory Yalinsky, previously announced. “A moment of historic danger: It is still 90 seconds to midnight 2024 Annual Report and Doomsday Clock Statement.”Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Rachel Bronson, President & CEO; Editor, John Mecklin, January 23, 2024 https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/ Ominous trends continue to point the world toward global catastrophe. The war in Ukraine and the widespread and growing reliance on nuclear weapons increase the risk of nuclear […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #177, MAY 6, 2024

May 6, 2024 in Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/omni-climate-memo-mondays-177-may-6-2024.html Patrick Mazza on Convergences of Ecological Overshoot, Wars, Billionaires. Friends Committee on National Legislation Knows the Connections and Responds. Convergence of Climate Crisis, Overshoot of Ecological Boundaries, Concentration of Wealth, Expansion of Militarism, Wars. PATRICK MAZZA. “A World Going in the Wrong Direction.“ COUNTERPUNCH (MARCH 28, 2024). The converging crises facing our world today shout out the fact that their roots are systemic. Tinkering around the edges won’t solve these problems, because they are embedded in the systems logic itself. The climate crisis is the signature of this. While definite progress has been made in deploying low-carbon energy technologies, overall carbon […]

UKRAINE WAR #32, May 5, 2024

May 6, 2024 in Current Events

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/omni-ukraine-war-anthology-32-may-5-2024.html What’s at stake: We are a part of the US Peace Movement. I described 1,200 organizations in Peace Movement Directory (2001), and the spirit continues inside the US Warfare State, as Code Pink and World Beyond War demonstrate. Our own OMNI, mainly on the local level likewise comprehensive, ranges from feeding people to opposing war and climate change. (Btw, Medea Benjamin has visited us twice.) Join Code Pink, Join World Beyond War. Join OMNI. They need your support to be even better. There’s no time to play or pretend temperature is […]

Livestream Links for Britin Bostick’s talk

May 2, 2024 in homeless / housing

Livestream of the Homeless Solutions Talk tonight will start as close to 6:30 as possible, with a little introduction at the beginning. Last month we had serious technical problems that confused things for awhile. We’re so pleased that some folks figured out where to find the stream at the Omni page even though that wasn’t the plan at all. And happy that over 300 people accessed the recording after the meeting was posted. This month we’re still trying to get a good page set up to stream from. We hope to go from Omni’s page at https://www.facebook.com/omnicenter , but if […]

Homeless Solutions Post

April 30, 2024 in homeless

Welcome to “The Post” Homelessness is COMPLEX.We’re all in this together. How can we operationalize that key progressive value? If we’re taking care of “the least of these” we can be confident that when we need help ourselves, the infrastructure to take care of us all will be right there waiting. Next Homeless Solutions meeting Talks that Matter Thursday May 2 – 6:30 pm – Omni Center Featuring Britin Bostick, Long Range Planner and Special Projects, City of Fayetteville The schedule changed a bit for this session of Homeless Solutions. We planned to have Dr. John Gallagher come share the results […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #176, APRIL 29, 2024

April 29, 2024 in Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/04/omni-climate-memo-mondays-176-april-29.html Greta Thunberg for Science Zack Frye on Settler-Colonialism v. Nature By repeating its superb documentary on Greta Thunberg, PBS has again invigorated global resistance to climate change, and again exposed the hucksters of quack remedies. Greta is an adult lay scientist, critical thinker, and ethical leader roaming the planet to gather the facts, investigate claims and evidence, and to demand our leaders to take action to save life on earth, as the film shows over and over. Above all, she tracks the emergency. Will trees as carbon sinks save us? Well, yes, but not […]