Yearly Archives: 2024

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

 in Climate Memo Mondays

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

 in Dick's Newsletter 2024

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 […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #180, MAY 27, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/omni-climate-memo-mondays-180-may-27.html Refugees Ecowatch.   “World Breaches 1.5°C for an Entire Year for First Time on Record.” Wennersten and Robbins.  Rising Tides: Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century. Todd Miller.  Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security.  The Climate Moment, Stories from this unique moment on Earth ….   “What’s happening with the climate?!  World Breaches 1.5°C for an Entire Year for First Time on Record.” https://www.ecowatch.com/average-global-temperature-record-2024-paris-agreement.html For the first time on record, the average global temperature has exceeded 1.5 degree Celsius over a 12-month period, according to new data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).   This year 2024 had the hottest January […]

Thich Nhat HahnLove Letter to the Earth

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Tawwaba Bloch  From:tawwaba@gmail.com At this very moment, the earth is above you, below you, all around you, and even inside you. The earth is everywhere. You may be used to thinking of the earth as only the ground beneath your feet. But the water, the sea, the sky, and everything around us comes from the earth. Everything outside us and everything inside us come from the earth. We often forget that the planet we are living on has given us all the elements that make up our bodies. The water in our flesh, our bones, and all the microscopic cells […]