Yearly Archives: 2024

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

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 […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #176, MAY 8, 2024

May 10, 2024 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

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

May 6, 2024 in Climate Memo Mondays

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 […]

UKRAINE WAR #32, May 5, 2024

May 6, 2024 in Current Events

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/omni-ukraine-war-anthology-32-may-5-2024.html What’s at stake: We are a part of the US Peace Movement. I described 1,200 organizations in Peace Movement Directory (2001), and the spirit continues inside the US Warfare State, as Code Pink and World Beyond War demonstrate. Our own OMNI, mainly on the local level likewise comprehensive, ranges from feeding people to opposing war and climate change. (Btw, Medea Benjamin has visited us twice.) Join Code Pink, Join World Beyond War. Join OMNI. They need your support to be even better. There’s no time to play or pretend temperature is […]

Livestream Links for Britin Bostick’s talk

May 2, 2024 in homeless / housing

Livestream of the Homeless Solutions Talk tonight will start as close to 6:30 as possible, with a little introduction at the beginning. Last month we had serious technical problems that confused things for awhile. We’re so pleased that some folks figured out where to find the stream at the Omni page even though that wasn’t the plan at all. And happy that over 300 people accessed the recording after the meeting was posted. This month we’re still trying to get a good page set up to stream from. We hope to go from Omni’s page at https://www.facebook.com/omnicenter , but if […]