Yearly Archives: 2024

Peace Day Concert for International Day of Peace!

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Celebrate Arkansas Peace Week all month with Helen Kwiatkowsky Saturday September 21 Reading by Ginny Masullo  Sequoyah Hall Gallery Mount Sequoyah Center Door: 6:00 pm Show: 7:00 pm Advanced Tickets: $20.00  Tickets available on Mount Sequoyah Event page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/international-day-of-peace-event-tickets-936551198847?aff=oddtdtcreator Proceeds to benefit  Children’s Safety Center of Washington County During the month of September all sales of hand-made cranes will benefit The Children’s Safety Center. ************************* Advance Tickets: 20.00 (highly recommended) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/international-day-of-peace-event-tickets-936551198847?aff=oddtdtcreator Proceeds to benefit Children’s Safety Center of Washington County https://www.childrenssafetycenter.org

Canada passes its FIRST climate justice

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The Climate Moment Stories from this unique moment on Earth …. What’s happening with the climate?! Canada passes its FIRST climate justice law In June, Canada passed its first climate justice law. It was reported that “This new law requires the federal government to develop and regularly report on a strategy to prevent environmental racism and advance environmental justice. It promises a measure of accountability to communities that have long been on the front lines of climate disaster, pollution and environmental risks.” Activists submitted more than 10,000 petition signatures in a “groundswell of support” for the legislation. This year had the hottest […]

ISRAEL-PALESTINE ANTHOLOGIES #18 9-18-24

 in Dick's Newsletter 2024

COMPILED BY DICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGYhttps://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-israel-palestine-anthologies-18-9.html CONTENTS ISRAEL-PALESTINE #18 In Chronological Order 2016 to 2024 What’s at Stake:  Keeping Hope Alive in the Midst of Genocide. 2016Apcon and Young.  Documentary Film on Peacemakers.2018Freedom Flotilla Poetry Award to Local Poet Gerry Sloan. Heather Gray on Peace-making Peled Family. UNRWA Seeks FundingGlenn Greenwald.  Court Rules Boycotting Constitutional Free Speech. Rabbi Naomi Levy.  Rob Eshman Receives Press for Peace Award.Dr. Virginia Tilley Interviewed regarding Israel as an Apartheid Regime and the One-State Solution to the Conflict.Michael Sfard.(Book). The Wall and the Gate and the Palestinian struggle for […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #195, SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-195-september.html Struggle—La Lucha–for Democracy Dick.  Anti-Democratic Republican Party Advancing.Prabhat Patnaik.  Worldwide Attenuation of Democracy.Dick.  The Idea of Democracy, The Democrats v. The Republicans,  the ACLU and Electoral Democracy/Voting Rights.   Anti-Democratic Forces Advancing.  The extreme right-wing Republican Party, heavily financed by wealthy individuals and corporations and reinforced by its new comprehensive Project 2025, has gained control of the presidency for one term and is striving to repeat that victory; it instigated a (failed) insurrection against Pres. Trump’s defeat; it now controls or almost controls both Senate and House;  its majority of justices control the US Supreme Court; […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #196, SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennetthttps://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-climate-memo-mondays-196-september.html ASPECTS—CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES–OF THE CLIMATE CATASTROPHE, CLIMATE CHAOS, NAMING THE CRIMINALS, GOING TO COURTListen to Marine Sponges: It’s Possibly Hotter Than Even the IPCC Reported.Rising Seas, Disruptive Tides, and Risks to Coastal Infrastructure.Robert Weissman and Public Citizen v. BP and its CEO Mr. Murray Auchincloss.  And you and I.Resisting Doom.  And I and you. Controversial Study Says 1.5°C Warming Target Already Breached By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch.  Popular Revolution.org (2-8-24).  A new study using marine sponges collected off the coast of Puerto Rico has found that the planet has already warmed more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. […]

VENEZUELA ANTHOLOGY #6, September 15, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-venezuela-anthology-6-september-15.html (#2, 7-16-20; #3, 9-9-20; #4, 2-14-21; #5, 8-27-24) http://omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS OF VENEZUELA ANTHOLOGY #6 VENEZUELA’S STRUGGLE FOR NATIONAL INDEPENDENCEUS-LED WAR vs. VENEZUELAUS Anti-Democratic Meddling in Venezuelan Elections.Alan MacLeod.  US Meddling in Venezuelan Elections.Margaret Kimberley and Ajamu Baraka.  “Venezuela Is a Democracy.”Peoples Dispatch.  Despite of or Because of Attacks on Its Electoral System, and even coup attempts, people around the world express solidarity with Venezuela.Ed Newman.  Alba Movements from 25 Countries Support Venezuela.Vijay Prashad.  Eye-witness Report from Caracas of the Election Declares Maduro’s Election fair and decisive, despite […]

VENEZUELA ANTHOLOGY #7

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Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-venezuela-anthology-6-september-15.html (#3, 9-9-20; #4) http://omnicenter.org/donate/ #1, http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2019/05/venezuela-newsletter-1-from-omni-center.html#2, 7-16-20  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2020/07/omni-venezuela-newsletter-2.html#3, 9-9-20  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2020/09/omni-venezuela-newsletter-3-compiled-by.html       #3 reaches back to 2018.#4, 2-14-21    p. 70#5, 8-27-24  https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2151229136087998997/3753817779419620546#6 #7 CONTENTS VENEZUELA #5US WAR AGAINST VENEZUELADe La Cruz, et al.  Viviremos: Venezuela vs. Hybrid War.Ensberger and Podur.  Extraordinary Threat: The U.S. Empire, the Media, and 20 Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela.“Biden Extends U.S. Campaign to Crush Venezuela.”(5 articles).Alan MacLeod.  “…US Plans for War and Terror against Venezuela.”Dan Beeton.  “The Venezuelan Coup, 20 Years Later.”Ryan Swan.  “Venezuela Seeks Investigation [of war crimes] by ICC.”“Alex Saab Is Being Tortured….”Ricardo Vaz.  US Meddling in […]

The Climate Moment

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Stories from this unique moment on Earth …. What’s happening with the climate?! Wealth Tax on the Wealthiest Half of 1%Could Raise $2.1 trillion Annually The Tax Justice Network recently reported that if all countries enacted a wealth tax on the wealthiest 0.5% of their populations, as Spain did recently, countries would raise $2.1 trillion per year. They noted that this sum is almost twice the entire cost of the external financing that developing nations will need annually to combat climate change. This year had the hottest January worldwide since C3S records began in 1950,