Monthly Archives: May 2024

The Climate Moment

 in Climate

Stories from this unique moment on Earth …. What’s happening with the climate?! World breaches 1.5°C for an entire year for FIRST TIME ON RECORD https://www.ecowatch.com/average-global-temperature-record-2024-paris-agreement.html For the first time on record, the average global temperature has exceeded 1.5 degree Celsius over a 12-month period, according to new data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). Last month was also the hottest January worldwide since C3S records began in 1950,

Walk Out For Palestine

 in Current Events

Thursday May 16 – 8:30 am Walk from Fayetteville High School to the Walton Arts Center Fayetteville High students are requesting the support of our community for their Walk Out for Palestine. From their Instagram post: This walk is to spread awareness for Palestine. Palestinians are currently facing a genocide against them. Photos of torture camps with Palestinians in them have been leaked. On 5/16/24 we will meet outside during the pledge 2nd Hour (8:30 am). We will walk to the Walton Arts Center and return for Advisory. Please spread this. If you cannot attend please share it so those […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #177, MAY 15, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/war-watch-wednesdays-177-may-15-2024.html Nakba Day May 15.     Medea Benjamin and David Swanson.  NATO.Daniele Ganser.  USA the Ruthless Empire.  NAKBA DAY Friendsofpalestinenwa   5-14-24 Nakba Day commemorates the Nakba, also known as the Palestinian Catastrophe, which comprised the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948, and the permanent displacement of a majority of the Palestinian people. Wikipedia During the war approximately half of Palestine’s population, 750,000 people were expelled from their homes.  By the end of the war, 78% of the total land area of the former Mandatory Palestine was controlled by Israel and at least 15,000 Palestinian Arabs had been […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #178, MAY 13, 2024

 in Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/omni-climate-memo-mondays-178-may-13.html Tom Dispatch and Stan Cox: Stop Wars and Warming or most of us will die or live in HELL. Stan Cox.  “Degrowth Is the Only Sane Survival Plan.”  Move to Amend, H.J.R. 54: Money Is Not Speech. You can hardly miss the news about climate change anymore, or perhaps what I mean is that you (yes, you!) can hardly miss feeling its effects. It’s been startling, to say the least. It doesn’t matter whether it was the month (the last 10 set global heat records, one after another) or the year (2023 was by far the hottest […]

STUDENT PROTESTS AGAINST ISRAELI COLONIAL SETTLEMENTS, ATROCITIES, AND GENOCIDE AGAINST PALESTINIANS, #1

 in Dick's Newsletter 2024

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology, May 12, 2024 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/omni-student-protests-against-israeli.html Also prepare for International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Nov. 29, 2024   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/un-international-day-in-solidarity-with.html, and for ISRAELI BDS DAY (BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS) AND PALESTINIAN LAND DAY, MARCH 30, 2025. CONTENTS (40 articles published in early May 2024; i.e., it’s an extremely limited sample of the countless articles in support of students, free speech, and academic freedom v. the decimation of Gaza; contact me if you would like to compile the 2nd shorter Anthology, I have the articles ready to edit) “History Is Indispensable to […]

JULIA WARD HOWE’S MOTHER’S DAY FOR PEACE ANTHOLOGY, May 10, 2024 (2nd Sunday of May of Each Year.)

 in Dick's Newsletter 2024

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace and Justice https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/omni-julia-ward-howes-mothers-day-for.html Code Pink MOTHER’S DAY FOR PEACE 2024 Sign our Mother’s Day petition to tell Congress: Protect the mothers and children in Gaza! Share the Mother’s Day petition on Twitter and Facebook! Join us in Congress for Mother’s Day! Support encampments in solidarity with Gaza! Support families in Gaza! RAGING GRANNIES WILL BE IN DC WITH CODEPINK MAY 9! TO ALL IN SEATTLE AREA 2024 “Join Ground Zero for Mother’s Day Weekend of Action, May 11-12, 2024.”   Abolish Nuclear Weapons GOOGLE SEARCH Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #176, MAY 8, 2024

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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

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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 […]