Yearly Archives: 2025
Housing Crisis Task Force
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
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
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
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 […]
Connecting Health and Nature: Building a Sustainable Future
Environmental & Outdoor Education Conference Arkansas Tech University, RussellvilleMarch 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 champions well-being and resilience-centered […]
For Gaza, With Love
From Susanna Brinnon Dear Friends, I’ve been wanting to find a way to help the people in Gaza, and I just met Fayettevillian Marriah Berquist who is doing that. One year ago she posted an editing job on an international site and was surprised to get a response from a 24-year-old woman, who was looking for work to feed her family – from Gaza. Majd Yousif’s brother had been shot and run over by a tank; 2 other brothers had hepatitis; and her mother was gravely ill — so she became the family member in charge. They were living under […]