Monthly Archives: February 2025

Buffalo River follow-up From the Ozark Society

 in Current Events

Arkansas Senate Bill 84 to allow industrial swine CAFOs in the Buffalo River watershed, came before the Senate Agriculture Committee again today.  SB84 was placed in a status of “deferred,” meaning it is removed from the agenda unless the sponsor asks to have it added back by 3:00 PM the day previous to their next meeting.  However, the committee by two thirds vote, can also vote to hear it at any time when they meet. The Governor is said to oppose this bill, as it is not supportive of her “outdoor economic initiative.” We certainly agree. There are rumors that the bill might be […]

Environmental & Outdoor Education Conference

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Connecting Health and Nature: Building a Sustainable Future Arkansas Tech University, Russellville March 7 & Saturday March 8, 2025 Registration is open for Arkansas Environmental Education Association’s Environmental and Outdoor Education Conference. The conference is a professional learning event that brings together classroom teachers, non-formal educators, higher education students, Master Naturalists, and conservation professionals from around the state. This year’s theme,Connecting Health and Nature: Building a Sustainable Future, features hands-on workshops, field tours, concurrent presentations, and exhibitors. The 2025 conference keynote speaker is Dr. Crystal Green-Braswell. As the Coordinator of Staff Wellness and Culture for Little Rock School District she […]

Housing Crisis Task Force

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Meets Weds Feb 19 – 5:30 pm City Hall Room 326 People on this Task Force care about Fayetteville people who are losing their housing, but they need to hear from YOU friends! To come and silently observe can move mountains. For more information email Gladys at omni@omnicenter.org.

SOVIET/RUSSOPHOBIA (and Socialismphobia) ANTHOLOGY #6, FEBRUARY 13, 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025

COMPILED BY DICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGY https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-sovietrussophobia-and.html What’s at Stake:   When Trump and Secretary Hegseth yesterday announced Trump’s decision to accept Putin’s terms for an end of the Ukraine War, I was completing this Anthology.   OMNI had published 6 anthologies offering 75 articles that increase evidence of Soviet/Russophobia as a central pathology dominating US culture and an impetus for many US wars.  In addition, most of the anthologies on US wars describe animosity toward the USSR/Russia, including the 34 anthologies on all aspects of the Ukraine War.   Ukraine War anthologies nos. 32-34 contain 66 […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #216, FEBRUARY 12, 2025

 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-216-february.html Dick Bennett.  Annie Jacobsen’s new book Nuclear War: A Scenario. NUCLEAR WEAPONS ABOLITION     The best introduction to Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario (2024) is probably a book published 39 years ago–Dr. Helen Caldicott’s Missile Envy: The Arms Race and Nuclear War (rev. 1986).  Here is a key passage from Missile Envy:  “The logical consequence of the preparation for nuclear war is nuclear war.  The behavior that perpetuates this race to oblivion can be changed only when people actually allow themselves to contemplate the true medical and ecological implications of such an event.  Only […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #217, February 10, 2025

 in Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-climate-memo-mondays-217-february.html Trump’s Environmental Record Inside Climate News WeeklyProtecting the CommonsA History of the Struggle A Glimpse of TRUMP’S ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD“During his first term in office, Donald Trump worked to weaken the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act.  He fast-tracked the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines.  He rolled back 85% of protected land in the Bears Ears Monument for drilling; and he destroyed Indigenous sacred sites and burial grounds, including Monument Hill in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument to construct his Mexico border wall. “(NOAAF)  2-10-25 This number of ICNW is packed with information regarding the Trump administration’s onslaught against the climate […]