Yearly Archives: 2024

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #185, JULY 1, 2024

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Two orgs trying to engage with the public: YCC and ICN UAF Arctic Research Yale Climate Connection “Dangerously high temperatures plague the southern U.S.” This week, 52 million people in the southern U.S. are experiencing a heat wave made 400% more likely by climate change, according to Climate Central. And talking about it is an effective way to improve your friends and family members’ understanding of the connection between climate change and heat waves, new research from our colleagues at the Yale Program on Climate Communication suggests. Even just talking about heat — without saying the words “climate change” — can […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #183, June 26, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/06/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-183-june-26.html Dr. Caldicott.  Missile Envy: The Arms Race and Nuclear War Chris Bambery.  NATO Risks Catastrophe Dr. Helen Caldicott.  Missile Envy: The Arms Race and Nuclear War.  Bantam Books, Rev. ed., 1986.  This book was written over 30 years ago, but it is relevant today as a history of the post-WWII animosity of the USA against Soviet ideology and economics, now rivalry with Russia.  Here are a few of the chapters:  “Pathogenesis: The Pathological Dynamics of the Arms Race.”  The opening pages discuss how:  “From the beginning, the nuclear arms race in America has been fueled […]

CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #184, JUNE 24 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/06/omni-climate-memo-mondays-184-june-24.html LEGAL VICTORIES FOR PROTEST AND ACCOUNTABILITY “Hawaii Settles Climate Change Case Brought by Youth Activists.”  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette  (June 22, 2024).   Read more…    Hawaii settles climate change case brought by youth activists     [And what are AR’s governor, our county and city officials doing MEANINGFULLY to reduce cc? ] “Shell In Court Over Its ‘Dire’ Exacerbation Of The Climate Crisis.”  The Canary. PopularResistance.org (4-3-24).   Shell squared off against seven environmental groups in a Dutch appeals court on Tuesday 2 April, with climate activists accusing the multinational oil giant of failing to implement a landmark 2021 judgement – worsening […]

Here’s an Emerging Save Democracy project, Democracy Is Us

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Monday June 24, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM and every Monday night CDT Online Event from Peggy O’Neal Expand your ability to have and live in the country you truly want! Join us for this inspiring and interactive experience with breakout sessions, experiential learning and heart connection with other like-minded people who are passionate about waking up this country to true democracy! Democracy Is Us Weekly Community Gatherings What are Community Gatherings? Democracy Is Us started from a local activist concerned about the state of our democracy just like you, and looking for a way forward together. The Community […]

Gaza Protests Continue!

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Saturday June 22 – 11:00-12:30 am – Washington County Courthouse facebook page Friends of Palestine have a protest this Saturday 11-12:30 at the Washington county courthouse here in Fayetteville. There will also be one Sunday in at the town square 1pm-2pm! Thank you so much for spreading the word!

US SOVIET/RUSSOPHOBIA ANTHOLOGY #3 JUNE 24, 2024

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/06/omni-us-sovietrussophobia-anthology-3.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology CONTENTS US SOVIET/RUSSOPHOBIA ANTHOLOGY #3 Cold War IIJohn Bellamy Foster, et al.  Washington’s New Cold War: A Socialist Perspective.Engler.US, NATO, Canada: Bigotry v. RussiaNorton.  Unity Above TruthWestern CensorshipHall.  Radio New Zealand v. “Russian Propaganda”Johnstone.  DOJ v. “Weaponized Speech.”Other Effects of Western Cold WarBorenstein.  Russian Paranoia. Resistance to BigotryRed Books Day Peacemaking, PeacemakersDouglass.  JFK and the Unspeakable Kennedy and Kruschev  –Dick Chris Hedges and Jeffrey Sachs on Sachs’ To Move the World Scott Ritter.   Waging Peace and Daniel Ellsberg Researching Soviet/Russophobia in Mullins Library Contents of SovietRussophobia Anthology #2(Comment: […]

United Nations WORLD REFUGEES DAY NEWSLETTER #13, June 20, 2024

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United Nations WORLD REFUGEES DAY NEWSLETTER #13, June 20, 2024. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/06/omni-united-nations-world-refugee-day.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, and ECOLOGY    (OMNI Newsletter #1 June 20, 2008; #2 Dec. 4, 2011; #3 June 20, 2012; #4, June 20, 2014; #5, June 20, 2015; #6 June 20, 2017; #7, June 20, 2018; #8, June 20, 2019; #9, June 20, 2020; #10, June 20, 2021; #11, June 20, 2022; #12, June 20, 2023). http://omnicenter.org/donate/ What’s at Stake:  World -Scale Problems Need World-Scale Resistance   THE UNITED NATIONS HAS BEEN OUR GREAT DEFENDER AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES, ESPECIALLY VIA ITS […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #182, June 19, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/06/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-182-june-19.html PEACEMAKING, PEACEMAKERSJesus, Philip BerriganUnited Nations JESUS A REVOLUTIONARY FOR PEACE AND NONVIOLENT ACTIONBrad Wolf.    A Ministry of Risk: Philip Berrigan, Writings on Peace and Nonviolence.  Fordham UP, 2024.     Rev. by Mark Colville in The Catholic Worker (May 2024).      When Dana Copp, M.D., and I started OMNI in 2001, for peace and nonviolence, we did not have Jesus in the forefront of our minds, though we did have some of his followers, like Martin Luther King, Jr.  Copp was a scientist and I was a young skeptic, and such aspects of Jesus’ life as exorcism, […]