Monthly Archives: December 2024

Update on the Tiffany property after the first hearing

December 21, 2024 in Current Events

Gladys Tiffany, Director Omni Center for Peace Justice & Ecology Dec 20 2024 The first real hearing on the first lawsuit – the SZ Apartments against us – about the fate of the old white house and the people living in it, happened Tuesday before last. We worked very hard to prepare for it and felt like we had solid evidence to support our claims that the house is not the source of crime and mess it may have seemed to be before the homeless camp closed. But at the hearing, the charges had shifted to it being a potential fire […]

Holiday Vegan Potluck is THIS SUNDAY

December 21, 2024 in Current Events

Dec 21 – 5:30 pm – Omni Center Check out the Facebook page for more information

Palestine Solidarity Caroling

December 21, 2024 in Current Events

Happy Holidays dear Peace People

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #208, DECEMBER 18, 2024

December 20, 2024 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-208-december.html WARRINGMatthew Ehret Insights. “Which Foreign Policy Paradigm for the USA? Hegemony and Annihilation or Restoration of Sanity?” TRANSCEND Media Service. 10 Dec 2024. Compared to the great initiatives of the past 260 years, the USA of the past several decades is a strange and foolish creature running roughshod over the dignity of people and nations in a race for mass nuclear extermination. PREVENTING WARSTHE NUCLEAR RESISTER (Nov. 12, 2024). This number reports on resisters jailed from California to New Hampshire. A day- by- day record of the US and Canadian protesters of the genocide in Gaza […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #209, DECEMBER 16, 2024

December 18, 2024 in Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-209-december.html PLANET OVER PROFITPOP is a youth-led climate justice group building people power and using direct action to take on the fossil fuel industry and put Planet Over Profit. Fossil fuel companies – and the banks and asset managers that finance them – are driving us off the cliff of climate collapse. The wealthiest 1%, with their dirty investments and private jets and yachts, rob us of a livable future while ordinary people struggle to make ends meet and survive. If our so-called “leaders” won’t act on climate, it’s on us to hold them accountable and reclaim […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #207, DECEMBER 11, 2024

December 12, 2024 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-207-december.html Resisting Militarism, Wars, and Empire GEORGE ORWELL AWARDS from the NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH [Everyone should read Orwell’s 1984, and everyone connected professionally or indirectly to the study of LANGUAGE and POLITICS should be promoting the NCTE awards. Maybe I’m talking about everybody.–Dick]This award recognizes people who have made notable contributions to the critical analysis of public discourse. The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) has given out this award since 1975. Wars and other dysfunctions are planned, started, and sustained by deception by language manipulation. The award is given to an author, editor, […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #208, DECEMBER 9, 2024

December 10, 2024 in Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-208-december.html More Books from “Ecosocialist Bookshelf”Articles from Climate and Capitalism MORE BOOKS FROM “Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2024.” September 2, 2024. Climate change silently accumulates a thousand tiny conflagrations, increasing health risks for billions of people, reducing productivity and amplifying inequality in a host of ways. Rob Jackson. INTO THE CLEAR BLUE SKY: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere. Simon & Schuster. Jackson, chair of the Global Carbon Project, argues that we must not only slash emissions, but also repair the damage by removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Restoring the atmosphere means reducing the amount of greenhouse […]