Monthly Archives: August 2025

Arkansas Community Organizations

 in Current Events

https://www.acoaction.org Thousands of Arkansans will lose their health coverage, SNAP and housing. Public schools will lose more funding. It’s time to organize and fight back. We are organizing events to take place here in Arkansas during August. In September, we will organize events in the state AND take folks to participate in events in Washington, DC. Arkansas Community Organization (ACO) can take five people each week in September to DC. If you would like to get involved in our fight back campaign, please respond to this email or call us at (501) 376-7151 x 1. Let’s push back, stop the cuts and […]

Jack Williams Open Mic at Omni

 in Current Events

Tuesday Aug 12 – 7:00 pm at Omni Center Because of the sad fate of the Folk School, Jack’s Open Mic will be playing at Omni this week. And maybe for awhile. Jack’s fans know he is a legendary voice and an amazing song writer. Sure glad to welcome him and all who love him to Omni.

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #241, AUGUST 6, 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025 / WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett.    https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/08/war-watch-wednesdays-241-august-6-2025.html Hiroshima was destroyed by atomic bomb on August 6, 1945.  Nagasaki on August 9. OMNI HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE 2025August 10, 7p.m., at OMNI, Lee St.MC Kelly MulhollanKeynote speaker Prof. Michael Anthony, UAF History Dept.Songs by Still on the Hill, Geoff Oelsner, and HarmoniaReading of names.Discussion following with Prof. Art Hobson If you ask, what can I do to abolish nuclear weapons, my first reply is: support an organization that opposes nuclear weapons and successfully supported the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.   ICAN was the leader, and won the Nobel Peace Prize, but several other organizations […]

Wordle 1,509 4/6OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #242, AUGUST 4, 2025Wordle 1,509 4/6

 in Climate Memo Mondays / Dick's Newsletter 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/08/omni-climate-memo-mondays-242-august-4.html Inside Climate News (ICN) 7-26-25 David Schwartzman on What’s stopping a transition to renewable energy? This week on Yale Climate Connections July 25 – 31, 2025   Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk – and threatens a vital source of journalism     The deadliest floods in U.S. history     ‘It’s not over’: An open letter to David Suzuki This week’s radio episodesA warming climate means more mosquito bites     Waste from forest thinning gets new purpose in Northern California     Virtual power plants could transform electricity grids     Robotic machine helps rescue wood from the scrap heap     How […]

Hiroshima Nagasaki Memorial coming up August 10

 in Hiroshima Nagasaki

7:00 pm at Omni. Respond of the Facebook event please. More info there! Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemoration 2025 Both Harmonia and Geoff Oelsner will be performing their warm and healing music. Dr. Michael Anthony, UA Dept of HIstory, will tell the story of the Titan II missile explosion in Damascus, AR and how it relates to nuclear war. Dr. Anthony says: “The Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile was an engineering marvel. Tested in 1961, the ICBM could deliver a nine-megaton nuclear device (600 times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima) 5500 miles and accurately strike within a one-square-mile target. The […]

OMNI HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE ANTHOLOGY 2025 #2AUGUST 4, 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025 / Hiroshima Nagasaki

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/08/omni-hiroshima-nagasaki-remembrance.html What’s at Stake:  Just before and during the early 20th century, the Western powers expanded their colonialism into S. E. Asia and the Pacific.  The US took Hawaii, Wake Island, Guam, and the Philippines.   The French took IndoChina; the Dutch Malaysia.    Japan began a war against eastern Asia.    In 1941 the US and UK blocked imports into Japan critical to empire.   On Dec. 7, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the US declared war on Japan, Italy, and Germany.  In 1945  the US destroyed two Japanese cities […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #240, JULY 30 , 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025 / WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/08/war-watch-wednesdays-240-july-30-2025.html Hiroshima-Nagasaki Remembrance 2025World Beyond War.  Appeal to Nine Nuclear Governments.FCNL: Radiation Exposure Compensation Act expanded OMNI HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE 2025August 10, 7p.m., at OMNI, Lee St.MC Kelly MulhollanKeynote speaker Prof. Michael Anthony, UAF History Dept.Songs by Still on the Hill, Geoff Oelsner, and HarmoniaReading of names.Discussion following with Prof. Art Hobson Global Appeal to Nine Nuclear Governments World BEYOND War        To: The presidents, prime ministers, and legislatures of China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States From: Add your name here! We, the people of good will, of […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #241, JULY 28, 2025

 in Climate Memo Mondays / Dick's Newsletter 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/08/omni-climate-memo-mondays-241-july-28.html Union of Concerned Scientists.  Defend Science.News from Inside Climate News Weekly 7-26-25.Jennifer Clapp.  Titans of Industrial Agriculture.  “…Take Action to Defend Science.“  Union of Concerned Scientists.   Dr. Gretchen Goldman action@ucs.org  7-72-25. Dick,Danger Season—the period between May and October when the United States and its Caribbean territories experience their worst climate impacts—is here in full force. In recent weeks, communities in Texas, North Carolina, and New Mexico have been ravaged by climate-accelerated extreme weather events. The devastation is truly heartbreaking.  In the face of disasters like these, agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the […]