Daily Archives: January 24, 2025


January 23 update on the Tiffany property

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

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

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

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 […]