Daily Archives: December 12, 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennetthttps://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/omni-christmas-for-peace-anthology.html What’s at Stake.  The abolition of war. CONTENTS HIGHLIGHTS World Beyond War.  “Christmas Truces Past and Future.”  World BEYOND War is a global network of volunteers, chapters, and affiliated organizations advocating for the abolition of the institution of war. Howard Thurman.  Jesus and the Disinherited.PBS Christmas 1914 Truce on the Western Front, All Is Calm.Suggested readings, films, music on Jesus, War, and Capitalism.Jesus and Refugees.Silent Night, the 1914 Truce.OMNI Newsletters on NonviolenceVet Jim Hale’s Poem on WWI and VNWar.Joyeux NoèlMike Masterson on Commercialized Christmas TEXTS Christmas Truces Past and Future World BEYOND War           Dec 10, 2025 […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/omni-center-for-peace-justice-ecology.html What’s at Stake:  “We are experiencing a world where commitments to protect and promote human rights have reached alarming new lows. While we have long fought against the degradation of rights by insisting on accountability of state and private actors for harm and centering the demands of those most impacted by systems of oppression in the U.S. and around the world, we mark this moment while in a profound human rights crisis. This Human Rights Day invites a reckoning: How did a global system built in the name of “universal rights” become structurally incapable of constraining […]