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OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #182, JUNE 10, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/06/omni-climate-memo-mondays-182-june-10.html RESISTANCE:  why our climate is in crisis and what we can do.Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, The Big Myth.  Fossil Fuel Profits,     Political Ideology, Accountability of Institutions, Lobbyists, and     Corporations Supporting Capitalism.Carly, et al.  “The Fossil Fuels Behind Forest Fires.” Zach, Greenpeace. Electing Climate Champions. Nick Engelfried, Waging Nonviolence, Nonviolent Direct Action v.       Destruction of Forests. United Nations. Diane Bernard.  “The Climate Crisis Is Directly Related To Inequality. “ DeSmog.  PopularResistance.org (6-1-24).      “Climate Change Is Not Just About Fossil Fuel Profits, But Also the Political Ideology Supporting Capitalism.” In an interview with Rachel Donald of the podcast Planet: […]

CLIMATE CHANGE AND CHILDREN, EDUCATION, LAW ANTHOLOGY #2, June 6, 2024

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What’s at Stake:  What Shall We Tell The Children? Contents CLIMATE AND CHILDREN #2UN World Environment Day: UNESCO.  2024. Heather Short.  “A vision for transforming education in the face of climate and ecological breakdown.”  2024. MarjorieCohn.“Youth Plaintiffs in Court Against Montana.”  2023.  “From guns to climate, America keeps proving it doesn’t care about kids.”  2022.  Olivia Rosane.  “Young Victims Of Climate Disasters Sue EU States Over Energy Treaty.”   2022. “’aDULTEDUCATION’” has been confused….”  2019Richard Hunziker.  “Greenhouse Gas Concentrations in Atmosphere Are Accelerating.”  2019. Faramarz Farbod.  “Making Capitalism History.”  2019.  Arun Gupta.  “The Children’s Crusade.”  2019 Green Team at Shiloh Museum […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #180, June 5, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/06/war-watch-wednesdays-180-june-5-2024.html JACQUES BAUD’S BOOKS ON THE UKRAINE WAR in chronological order of publication 2022-2024, published by Max Milo, Paris.  Click on each title for the author’s (or publisher’s) description.   A statement he made in 2022 regarding the Ukrainian conflict provides a superlative illustration of Baud’s challenge to the reporting of the war by Western leaders and mainstream media.  These books are on order at UAF’s Mullins Library, providing faculty and students a scholarly alternative to the official, anti-Russian, pro-war propaganda.  –Dick Operation Z: The Hidden Truth about the War in Ukraine.  2022.  Governing by Fake News: […]

CLIMATE REFUGEES ANTHOLOGY #3 June 4, 2024

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/06/omni-climate-refugees-anthology-3-june.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/ Related Anthologies CLIMATE REFUGEES ANTHOLOGY #1     https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/omni-climate-refugees-anthology-1.html CLIMATE REFUGEES ANTHOLOGY #2, May 28, 2024 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/climate-refugees-anthology-2.html   TEMPERATURE, HEAT, CLIMATE CATASTROPHE Anthology #3, August 29, 2020. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2020/08/omni-temperature-heat-climate.html UNCCD United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification   www.unccd.int JUNE 17, 2021.https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/06/omni-celebrates-june-17-2021-unccd.html  UN World Water Day, March 22 UN World Oceans Day, June 8 CONTENTS CLIMATE REFUGEES #3 USA Tom Dispatch on Climate Migrants and Jane Little. Jane Braxton Little.  “Will We All Be Migrants Someday?” Jake Bittle.  The Great Displacement. UUFF.  “US Internal Displacement.” Thomas Fuller.  “Small towns desperate for […]

Citizens First Congress needs another Delegate!

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June 21-22 – Four Points Sheraton, Little Rock Bi-Annual Convention Want a glimpse of some dedicated progressives slogging through the murk of Arkansas state politics? Such groups do exist, and Omni is a member. If you’d like to know more, become one of the four delegates representing Omni. You’ll be part of the team working to adopt a people’s platform for the next legislative session while you learn more about Citizens First / Arkansas Public Policy Panel and politics in Arkansas. All expenses are paid for official delegates, and there’s one slot still open. If you’d like to know more, email omni@omnicenter.org ASAP […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #181, JUNE 3, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/06/omni-climate-memo-mondays-181-june-3.html Global Briefs, May 28, 2024[This new weather disaster reporting organization with suggestions for individual action looks  helpful.   Let me know what you discover about it. –D] First landfalling cyclone of the season, record-breaking temps, and more DISASTER BRIEFS, MONDAY, MAY 28, 2024  Global Disaster Briefs are your weekly (or more often, if needed) summaries and headlines from around the world about natural and man-made disasters, climate change, disease and health, and international conflict. See endnotes for resources used in putting this report together. Data is retrieved and summarized on the day of publication unless otherwise […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #179, MAY 29, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/war-watch-wednesdays-179-may-29-2024.html WORLD WAR II, the “Good War?” David Swanson.  Leaving WWII Behind. Daniele Ganser.  USA: The Ruthless Empire.   “In Leaving World War II Behind, David Swanson brilliantly destroys the myth that even if war is generally a bad thing World War II was the good war.  In a stunning, fact-laden exposition, Swanson demonstrates the systemic failures of the western governments together with their corporate enablers that generated the practices of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and concentration camps, empowering Hitler.  Swanson shows incontrovertibly that it was an underlying drive to preserve capitalism and destroy communist encroachment that […]

CLIMATE REFUGEES ANTHOLOGY #2 May 28, 2024

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/climate-refugees-anthology-2.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://Omnicenter.org/donate Related Anthologies CLIMATE REFUGEES ANTHOLOGY #1     https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/omni-climate-refugees-anthology-1.html TEMPERATURE, HEAT, CLIMATE CATASTROPHE Anthology #3, August 29, 2020. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2020/08/omni-temperature-heat-climate.html UNCCD United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification   www.unccd.int JUNE 17, 2021.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/06/omni-celebrates-june-17-2021-unccd.html  UN World Water Day, March 22 UN World Oceans Day, June 8UN World Refugee Day, June 20 CONTENTS #2 ARKANSASTwo Aspects of GrowthUSAMegadrought in US WestKatrina’s Climate CrimesGLOBALThe Crisis from 2007Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century (book) IPCC’s Latest Assessment, Slow-Motion ApocalypsePacific Islands Disappearing350.org Report, Global Climate StrikeStorming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security (book)Trump […]