Monthly Archives: January 2025

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #215, JANUARY 27, 2025

January 28, 2025 in Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-climate-memo-mondays-215-january.html MAQ Review of On Infertile Ground: Population Control and Women’s Rights in the Era of Climate Change by Jade E. Sasser, New York: NYU Press, 2018, 189 pp. Jade Sasser medanthroquarterly.org A critique of population control narratives reproduced by international development actors in the 21st centurySince the turn of the millennium, American media, scientists, and environmental activists have insisted that the global population crisis is “back”―and that the only way to avoid catastrophic climate change is to ensure women’s universal access to contraception. Did the population problem ever disappear? What is bringing it back―and […]

BUFFALO RIVER EMERGENCY PLEASE ACT NOW!

January 28, 2025 in Buffalo River

Another Call To Action For The Buffalo River! Stay tune here. Bill filed to derail state’s efforts to protect Buffalo River from hog farming We know you have received several messages from BRWA recently asking for your help in securing a permanent moratorium prohibiting any future swine CAFO permits in the Buffalo National River watershed. Now the legislature is considering a bill which would prohibit moratoriums statewide, including specifically the Buffalo River watershed. Senate Bill 84 is an obvious attempt at an end-run around current rule makings which would establish a permanent moratorium in the BNR watershed. Vote will likely […]

January 23 update on the Tiffany property

January 24, 2025 in Current Events

Gladys Tiffany, Director Omni Center for Peace Justice & Ecology It’s been quieter lately. The renters are scattered and still struggling to find their place out there in the monitized world. The couple with health problems has found a permanent apartment in Elkins and needed another $100 to cover it. Thanks to you Omni folks and friends it was available. The veteran is more or less settled in an apartment, and the two who are still staying with him are negotiating with his landlord to get another apartment that’s supposed to come open in February. That should be permanent. The […]

“Boycott” Documentary

January 24, 2025 in Current Events

Friends of Palestine Screening “Boycott” Documentary Thursday Jan 30 – 6:00 pmOmni Center – 3274 N. Lee Ave Fay This documentary is about Arkansas. Do you recognize any of the dudes in that photo? When a news publisher in Arkansas, an attorney in Arizona, and a speech therapist in Texas are told they must choose between their jobs and their political beliefs, they launch legal battles that expose an attack on freedom of speech across 33 states in America. Boycott traces the impact of state legislation designed to penalize individuals and companies that choose to boycott Israel due to its […]

Dining Veganically

January 24, 2025 in Community

Omni Vegan Potluck “Dine Out Together”Sun Jan 26 – 6:00-8:00 pm Khana Indian 2101 N College Ave, Fayetteville Dining Veganically Doesn’t that plate just make you hungry? There’s one just like it waiting for you at Khana. Or maybe one of their other tasty vegan meals. More information by clicking the links for Facebook Events. But don’t believe the address. It really is on College Ave.

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #213, JANUARY 22, 2025

January 24, 2025 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-213-january.html Bertram Gross. Friendly Fascism: NCTE George Orwell Award. [I am recovering from covid, feeling much better today. I had roughly prepared WWW 213 before the virus struck.] Gross’ analysis of US fascism is over 40 years old but is truer today than then. Bertram Gross. Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America. M. Evans & Co., 1980. South End P (paper), 1980. Gross cites George Orwell’s novel 1984, published in 1948, several times while elucidating the politics of oligarchies.. In a section entitled “Triplespeak” (p. 204) he begins with the contradiction-and deception- riddled […]