Thursday Dec 5 – 6:30 pm at Omni Center Let’s discuss the list of suggestions made by the Housing Task Force to the City Council at their last meeting. Could be some inspiration here. A subcommittee that just formed itself may have an invitation to share with you too. Please come and hang out with some good like-minded folk. You’ll feel so much the better for it!
Gladys Tiffany, Director Omni Center for Peace Justice & Ecology Many of you have seen stories out about the property by the National Cemetery that Richard and Gladys Tiffany own. After a year of wrangling about a camp of homeless people there, and another year of cleaning up, now the city has decided to declare it a nuisance and condemn it. AND the apartment complex across the street is suing us for multiple problems. We know you’re wondering what’s going on. I haven’t wanted to take space in this newsletter meant to focus on community activities that encourage peace, justice and environmental sustainability, […]
It’s the season of gratitude, and with all the things eroding into crazy across the globe we can send out thoughts of peace and comfort to all those suffering ones, and hold the gifts of good lives we’re so fortunate to be enjoying right now. Special gratitude to all the Omni folks who have supported Omni over the years. Sending out some extra blessings aimed at you. Here’s a gift of gratitude. A short video on gratitude that features the voice of Brother David Stiendl-Rast speaking quiet words of his own sense of this season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLkmw7RBqYg
Remember Tuesday Dec 3 is the date for RUN-OFF ELECTIONS! If you live in Fayetteville or Prairie Grove, the election isn’t over yet! Early Voting starts Tuesday Nov 28 (next Tuesday) Here are the candidates waiting with baited breath to see who takes their office: Fayetteville Mayor – Molly Rawn or Mayor Lioneld Jordan Fay City Council Ward 4 – Monique Jones or Todd Hertzberg Prairie Grove Ward 2 City Council Brian Hawkins or Audrey Wetzel For complete information on the run off election go to the Washington County Election Commission. Washington County Election Commission – run off election site
Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-205-november.html Thomas Ricento. Can the US Survive White Christian Nationalism?Robert F. Keeler. Can the US Survive Militarism?Raymond Barglow. Can the US Survive Authoritarianism? US White Christian Nationalism Thomas Ricento. “Can America Survive as a Secular Democracy? Free Inquiry (Dec. 2024 – Jan. 2025). The question can be understood only via a truthful history of the US that recognizes the secondary role of immigrants seeking religious freedom and the primacy of colonialism and imperialism. Ricento recommends Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s excellent book: Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion (2021). […]
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecologyhttps://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/11/thanksgiving-day-anthology-10-november.html http://omnicenter.org/donate/ What’s at Stake: “In less than three generations the settlers would turn all of New England into a charnel house for Native Americans, and fire the economic engines of slavery throughout English-speaking America. Plymouth Rock is the place where the nightmare truly began. “ Glen Ford Contents National Day of Mourning #10 James Loewen. “The Truth About the First Thanksgiving.”Ruth Hopkins. “The First Thanksgiving: Separating Myth From Fact.” Arlo Guthrie. Alice’s Restaurant. (Rabbi Arthur Waskow, The Shalom Center).Matt Taibbi and Jared Moore. “Thanksgiving is Awesome.”Glen Ford. The Black Agenda. Kisha […]
Compiled by Dick Bennett Yale Program on Climate ChangeInside Climate News WeeklyRachel Myslivy. “Create Climate Justice.” UUA. [I’m thankful for Yale Program on Climate Change and Inside Climate News, now my main regular climate news sources. Tell me of others. Here are selections from each. These two reforming sources mainly nibble around the margins. If we need to change the economic system, to cope with the climate emergency, we must look elsewhere. ,–D] “Climate Change’s Four Irelands and the 2023 Irish Climate Opinion Maps.” Yale Program on Climate Change Communication <climatechange@yale.edu> Dear Friends, The Irish Environmental Protection Agency commissioned the Yale […]
