Monthly Archives: July 2024

HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE 2024 AUGUST 6 AND 9 (AUGUST 4 EVENT)

 in Dick's Newsletter 2024

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/07/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-186-july-17.html CONTENTS2024 PROGRAM Program for Hiroshima Nagasaki 2024 Theme:   What did we learn? Sunday August 4, 2024, Omni Center for Peace 6:00 pm meal prepared by MayDay Kitchen chefs 6:30 pm Program  Kelly emcee          Opening Song – Kelly and Donna Welcome, Founder Dr. Dick Bennett Speaker – Art Hobson – Topic:  Update on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Poem – Keynote – Marcina Langrine, Marshallese Education Initiative Music – Kelly and Donna Reading the names – Karen Takemoto Close with silence in honor of the dead 8:00 – Closing gratitudes […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #186, July 17, 2024

 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett ACTIONS AGAINST WAR AND WARMAKERSGaza ProtestsClimate Crisis and Militarism Connections Sinophobia Friends of Palestine Gaza Protests Continue! July Protests (via OMNI Center Newsletter) https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555082533749&mibextid=LQQJ4d Friends of Palestine continue their Friday Protests. Friday July 19 in Bentonville – Memorial Park by the Skatepark – 6:30-7:30 Friday July 26 in Fayetteville – Washington County Courthouse – 6:00-7:00 Climate Crisis and Militarism Project meeting.  Veterans for Peace VFP.  WEDNESDAY, JULY 17 5 pm CDT. CCMP focuses on the connections between U.S. militarism and the climate crisis and seeks to mobilize veterans and the general public to push the Pentagon […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #187, JULY 15, 2024

 in Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/07/omni-climate-memo-mondays-187-july-15.html Our corporate gov won’t do it, create your own insurgency.Stop methane: check out our landfill. More to be done.Learn about public transportation around the world.  Think big here. CREATING YOUR OWN INSURGENCYWhat’s stopping USA from reversing rising temperature, or at least from slowing it down (the chief subject of CMM)?The US Culture of Doom:US Capitalism, profit, growth, Fossil Fuel Industry, CO2.Politics of War, “Cold” and Hot, the propaganda-system-information control-nuclear-security-military-imperial-corporate-congressional-presidential-judicial/SC-fundamentalist religious-educational-agri-transportation Complex.Overpopulation and still growing. What should each of us do to become an insurgency? (“Insurgency” definition enlarged to encompass not only the government but the […]

The Climate Moment

 in Climate

Stories from this unique moment on Earth …. What’s happening with the climate?! Global Warming Is Particularly Bad for Women-Led Families  A new report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization with data from 24 low- and middle-income countries, finds that women-led families suffer more from extreme heat than other families. While heat stress is costly for all rural households, it is significantly more costly for households headed by a woman. Female-headed households lose 8 percent more of their annual income compared to other households. While many women are farmers, fewer women own the land they farm. Women-headed households […]

Grant’s Pass CaseSupreme Court decides to criminalize homelessness

 in homeless

Where will unhoused people go now? We’ll see how much cruelty there may be in this nation. This article has excellent an backgrounder on the case, and homelessness in America. We can’t allow Northwest Arkansas to follow this trend, wherever it might lead.  “Designed to be Cruel”: How Grants Pass Will Ramp Up the Policing of Homelessness The Supreme Court blessed bans on sleeping outdoors. In a Bolts roundtable, three experts explain that this may encourage aggressive policing over long-term housing solutions.

Peace Day Concert 

 in Current Events

Tickets are now available!!!!!!!  ***LIMITED SEATING!*** Peace Day Concert  for International Day of Peace Music by Emily Kaitz & Dennis Collins Dana Louise * Reading by Ginny Masullo Saturday September 21 Sequoyah Hall Mount Sequoyah Center 150 N Skyline Drive * Door: 6:00 pm (eating drinking, visiting) Show: 7:00 pm Light hors d’oeuvres provided Donation bar for adult beverages $20.00  Proceeds to benefit  Children’s Safety Center of Washington County ****************************************************** For tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/international-day-of-peace-event-tickets-936551198847?aff=oddtdtcreator For more information  Contact Helen: hk123@sbcglobal.net *************************************** PLEASE FEEL FREE TO FORWARD TO LIKE-MINDED FOLKS!

Friends of Palestine Gaza Protests Continue!

 in Current Events

July Protests https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555082533749&mibextid=LQQJ4d Friends of Palestine continue their Friday Protests. Friday July 19 in Bentonville – Memorial Park by the Skatepark – 6:30-7:30 Friday July 26 in Fayetteville – Washington County Courthouse – 6:00-7:00

Omni Center Climate Change Endowment AwardPeter S. Ungar, PhD

 in Climate

Distinguished Professor of AnthropologyDirector of Environmental Dynamics, University of Arkansas UAF, FULBRIGHT COLLEGE RESEARCH CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE ARCTICJune 27, 2024. CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Ungar! From Omni Founder Dick Bennett:UAF’s Dr. Peter S. Ungar, recently awarded Omni Center’s climate change fellowship, sent me an illustrated comic strip narrative of his and related research for K-12 kids. Here is the link, you’ll enjoy it. Among the hundred facts of the research I learned the word “ Fennoscandia” and gained a stronger identification with fellow herbivores– reindeer and lemmings et al.! Penny’s Adventures in the New Arctic