Monthly Archives: December 2025

Recovery Demystified

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Registration Open: Accessible by Nature online course Accessible by Nature: Designing Environmental Education to Support All Learners – online course through AEEA  January 20 – March 17, 2026 The Arkansas Environmental Education Association is offering an online course on Universal Design for Learning in Environmental Education. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework to guide the design of learning environments that are accessible and challenging for all, rather than making modifications for individual students’ needs. This course will encourage you to reflect deeply on your practice to focus on how you plan and teach, not just the content you […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #261, December 24, 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025 / WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-261-december.html This final War Watch Wednesday draws attention to the danger of a nuclear WWIII.  Only planetary warming poses a greater threat to all species. To eliminate the danger of nuclear holocaust, three movements are important, and one is essential.   1.     The Peace Movement.    The overall problem is US militarism and aggressive empire.   OMNI has participated and is participating actively in many ways to this noble movement to avert catastrophic, planetary destruction.    A new book again explains the US War Machine and sets forth necessary remedies fundamental to the peace movement:  The Trillion Dollar War Machine: […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #260, December 22, 2025.

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Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-260-december.html OMNI’S FINAL CMM, unless someone will carry on its realistic analyses and ultimate hope.   OMNI continues its resistance to warming by its weekly general newsletter edited by Gladys Tiffany, its local actions, and its many anthologies already published and in preparation).  –Dick. RESISTANCEICN Sunday MorningCapitalism Nature SocialismMark Dunlea.   Putting Out the Planetary Fire.  2023.Green New Deal. Bill McKibben.  Here Comes the Sun.  2025. Recently Published Resistance: Two Magazines and Two Books  ICN Sunday Morning <newsletters@insideclimatenews.org>  12-21-25.  ICN Sunday Morning is now available as a podcast! Listen and subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and iHeart.    Reader donations make our work […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #260, December 17, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/war-watch-wednesdays-260-december-17.html [WWW has never been more needed, but next week’s edition will be its final issue, unless you will be the new editor.  I am preparing to move to an assisted living residence.  -D] Military-corporate-gov-media-neofascist Complex US Militarism and Warmaking. Kathleen Barry.  Unmaking War, Remaking Men:  How Empathy. . . . Nan Levinson. “Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal?” Theocracy Watch. Russophobia.US Corporate Media Increasingly Centralized.Common Cause.   Defending Arkansas PBS.Robert Reich.  Major Media Being Bought by Trump’s Billionaire Friends. TEXTS Empathy Unmaking War, Remaking Men: How Empathy Can Reshape Our Politics, Our Soldiers and Ourselves […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #259, December 15, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-259-december.html [Next week’s CMM will be its last, unless someone continues it.  Even though the online newsletter/anthology is much more needed now than when it arose out of OMNI’s Climate Book Forum that began in 2006—when our study was Climate Change, and our subject is now Climate Emergency–, I must give it up.   Dick] Paris Climate Agreement after 10 Years.EarthJustice.United Nations.Ecosocialism. Climate and Capitalism. Yale Climate Connections. Paris Climate Agreement Today. “Need to know info on climate change.” fran@deane-alexander.com via uark.onmicrosoft.com   12-13-25.       [Orig. pub. The Guardian, forwarded by Fran Alexander.]   ‘A shift no country can […]

VENEZUELA ANTHOLOGY #10, December 14, 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025 / VENEZUELA

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, Ecology, Constitutional Republic https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/omni-venezuela-anthology-10-december-12.html What’s at stake: LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND UNITED NATIONS CHARTERS:  Tariq Ali, Bush in Babylon, Chapter 7, “Empires and Resistance.”  Both Charters protest empire and preemptive invasions, and affirm self-determination and international law.  See pp. 191-93 particularly. But the Nobel Peace Prize was given to a coup leader backed by US? “María Corina Machado is a far-right Venezuelan coup leader who has been funded by the U.S. government since at least 2003. The Donald Trump administration is waging war on Venezuela, and if it can succeed in overthrowing the […]

Two record-setting destructive storms fueled by climate change

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Climate Moments Provided by the Reevaluation Counseling Community in Northwest Arkansas Two record-setting destructive storms fueled by climate change On October 28, Hurricane Melissa struck the island of Jamaica with winds of 185 mph– equal to the worst hurricane winds to ever strike land. Super-charged by the ocean and the atmosphere both having been made warmer by climate change, the storm affected some 1.5 million people in Jamaica and caused damages estimated at 10 billion dollars – which is equal to roughly half of the nation’s annual GDP. The day before, record-setting torrential rains struck Vietnam. In 24 hours, parts […]

“No Other Land”

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Viewing award winning movie “No Other Land” Tuesday Dec 16 – 6:00 pm – Arkansas Justice Reform Coalition 205 N. College Ave Hi friends, Reminder that we will be showing the award winning documentary No Other Land on Tuesday December 16th. We are as excited as you are to watch this film together! Come join us for an evening of learning, connection, and conversation. We will have pizza and snacks at the event!  Event Details  Date: Tuesday, December 16  Time: 6:00 – 8:30 PM  Location: Arkansas Justice Reform Coalition, 205 N College Ave, Fayetteville, AR 72701  Note: There will be an opportunity to donate to Fayetteville Feeds Families […]