Monthly Archives: January 2025

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #211, JANUARY 8, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-211-january-8.html Leading the TV news this Wednesday morning: fires in Los Angeles, Trump wants Panama and Greenland for US national security and the free world v. Russia and China. William Astore.  The US Empire of Air, Naval, and Land Bases. Patrick Lawrence.  The US is Spoiling for a Fight. Chomsky and Robinson.  How US Foreign Policy Endangers the World. William Astore.   “The Trillion-Dollar Blob.”  ACURA.  Dec 06, 2024.   “America has a bellicose, bullying, immature leadership that thinks military might is the answer to everything, as reflected by U.S. Special Forces in 80+ countries and roughly 800 […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #212, JANUARY 6, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-climate-memo-mondays-212-january-6.html  A FEW of the ORGANIZATIONS IN THE NEW YEAR FOR THE PLANET Indigenous People: Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund  Scientists and their allies: Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) One Org.’s Action on Multiple Fronts:  GreenpeaceClimate Resilient Farming:  AFSCReporting on the Calamity:  Inside Climate NewsAnd Yale Climate Connections (All of the anti-nuclear weapons orgs. too.) Indigenous Voices to Preserve Our Planet “Our ancestors have passed down traditional ways that best protect Mother Earth for generations” by Judith LeBlanc, Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund <info@nativeorganizing.org>   Dec 22, 2024. Native peoples view lands, waters, and all living beings on […]

Open Mic This Sunday

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January 5 – 7:00 pm – New Years Open Mic with a positive spin THIS SUNDAY! New Years Open Mic with a positive spin THIS SUNDAY! The campus environmental youth group, Zero Hour, will be joining us. Bring your song or words our just your ears and help us ring in the new year.  Kelly and DonnaOmni Center

Climate Moment

 in Current Events

Australian climate activists blockade world’s largest coal port “Rising Tide” climate activists recently caused a temporary suspension of shipping at the world’s largest coal port in Newcastle. More than 100 kayaks blocked the shipping channel as part of several days of protest actions that led to 173 arrests.   A few days later, in a coordinated act of civil disobedience, hundreds of protesters blocked the road to Parliament in Canberra, leading to more arrests.  The protesters are calling on the government to immediately cancel all new fossil fuel projects and end all coal exports from Newcastle by 2030. It is also calling […]

Volunteer for the PIT count — for Homeless Solutions and interested volunteers

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From Debbie Martin Director Continuum of Care NWA Information for your team for the PIT count. Dear Community Members, We are gearing up for the 2025 Point In Time (PIT) Count, an annual effort to document homelessness in our community and gather crucial data to address housing needs. The PIT Count provides essential insights that help shape service planning and resource allocation for those experiencing homelessness. We need your help to make this year’s count a success, and it’s deeply meaningful for everybody who helps! Volunteer Opportunity: We are seeking volunteers to support this important event. Training will be provided […]

Update on the Tiffany property

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Gladys Tiffany, Director Omni Center for Peace Justice & Ecology Jan 5 2025 If the SZ Apartment Corporation and the legal system have no heart, that’s not true of Omni people. You are people who have heart in spades. You’ve donated over $3300 to help the eight people who live in this apartment find other housing over the winter. If you’ve gotten the posts from Facebook and GoFundMe you know that one couple has found a safe place and is moving now – thanks to your generosity – and others are still struggling to find a place. Some feel that […]

Supporting Omni through the coming year

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ou may have gotten our letter in the mail. It’s the only fundraiser that keeps Omni Center itself running all year. It’s important to Fayetteville that there’s an Omni Center here. There aren’t many towns with a place where progressive values that support peace, justice and a thriving Earth exist. Right now, more than ever before, Omni Center is needed. Your support will keep the doors open and the coffee pot on, waiting for you. The people you love, and the issues you care for most are supported here, no matter what else is thrashing about in the winds of […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #210, JANUARY 1, 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025 / WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-210-january-1.html HOPE FOR NEW YEAR TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Noam Chomsky and Nathan Robinson, The Myth of American Idealism: How US Foreign Policy Endangers the World.  2024.   Pp. 207-9. The US Began the Nuclear Threatening and Race for Nuclear Superiority.“The United States began developing plans for potential nuclear attacks against the Soviet Union years before the Soviets had nuclear weapons of their own. . . .The Truman administration did not hesitate to use nuclear weapons as a means of diplomatic coercion.”  Chomsky and Robinson, pp. 208-9 (I have quoted C&R verbatim but have arranged their text […]