Yearly Archives: 2024

Help for Marie Riley’s family

May 17, 2024 in Current Events

Friend of peace Marie Riley passed very suddenly last week. Please sign up to help for her husband Art and son Justin while they’re getting re-oriented to life without her. Provide a meal through Meal Train. Meal Train is a wonderful service that helps people provide food for the hard times. It’s been set up by JoAnn Kaminsky, who always steps in to help wherever she can. “Some of you knew Marie Riley and especially Art Hobson. I put together two meal trains. One for now until Sunday while family is intown for the funeral and another for a couple of weeks […]

Walk Out For Palestine

May 17, 2024 in Current Events

Thank you Omni folks …. … who went out this morning to stand with students supporting ceasefire in Gaza. You are so awesome! Fayetteville High students asked for the support of our community for their Walk Out for Palestine. And Omni people and others stepped up.

The Climate Moment

May 16, 2024 in Climate

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). Last month was also the hottest January worldwide since C3S records began in 1950,

Walk Out For Palestine

May 16, 2024 in Current Events

Thursday May 16 – 8:30 am Walk from Fayetteville High School to the Walton Arts Center Fayetteville High students are requesting the support of our community for their Walk Out for Palestine. From their Instagram post: This walk is to spread awareness for Palestine. Palestinians are currently facing a genocide against them. Photos of torture camps with Palestinians in them have been leaked. On 5/16/24 we will meet outside during the pledge 2nd Hour (8:30 am). We will walk to the Walton Arts Center and return for Advisory. Please spread this. If you cannot attend please share it so those […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #177, MAY 15, 2024

May 15, 2024 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/war-watch-wednesdays-177-may-15-2024.html Nakba Day May 15. Medea Benjamin and David Swanson. NATO.Daniele Ganser. USA the Ruthless Empire. NAKBA DAY Friendsofpalestinenwa 5-14-24 Nakba Day commemorates the Nakba, also known as the Palestinian Catastrophe, which comprised the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948, and the permanent displacement of a majority of the Palestinian people. Wikipedia During the war approximately half of Palestine’s population, 750,000 people were expelled from their homes. By the end of the war, 78% of the total land area of the former Mandatory Palestine was controlled by Israel and at least 15,000 Palestinian Arabs had been […]

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 […]