Yearly Archives: 2025

Death may be more interesting than you realize

 in Current Events

Fenix Gallery Hosts a Death Cafe with Greta Allendorf Death may be more interesting than you realize March 28 – 6:00-7:00 pm Fenix Gallery, Mount Sequoyah Meet Greta Allendorf, Death Doula and very interesting speaker. This presentation is part of and closes out Fenix Gallery’s recent show “Let’s Talk About Death Baby” that explores that most uncomfortable topic. But some of us would like to understand better. If you’re in that club, find out more here: https://www.fenixarts.org/event-details-registration/lets-talk-about-death-baby-with-greta-allendorf?mc_cid=7adf678298

Indivisible Empty Chair Town Hall

 in Current Events

Saturday March 22- 1:30 – Good Shepherd Lutheran, 2925 Old Missouri Road. Where are they? Cotton – Boozman – Womack? Senators Tom Cotton, John Boozman, and Representative Steve Womack are supposed to hold town hall meetings with their constituents. They’ve also been invited to attend and speak to the concerns of their constituents on March 22. They have not replied, so Indivisibles will have empty chairs for them to show the world their true colors on everything we care about. There will also be local experts present to talk about REAL issues, like climate change, education, immigration, homelessness and other […]

TRUMP, AUTHORITARIANISM, AUTOCRACY, FASCISM, NAZISM ANTHOLOGY #1, March 20, 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025

INSURRECTION ANTHOLOGY January 2, 2022 OMNI TRUMP, AUTHORITARIANISM, AUTOCRACY, FASCISM, NAZISM ANTHOLOGY #1, March 20, 2025 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/01/omni-insurrection-anthology-january-2.html https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-trump-authoritarianism-autocracy.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, Ecology, and Idea of Democracy https://Omnicenter.org/donate What’s at Stake:  Recently when I began editing articles and books into a new Anthology on Trump and Fascism, I realized my Anthology on “Trump’s Insurrection” constituted a first Trump-Fascism Anthology.  Among the lessons of these anthologies are how fragile is our “democracy” and how long and how emphatically we have been warned. OMNI: INSURRECTION ANTHOLOGY January 2, 2022, go to https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/01/omni-insurrection-anthology-january-2.htmlThis anthology gathers articles, books, […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #221, MARCH 19, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett    https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-221-march-19.html Bayard Rustin, Opponent of War.Origins of US Wars.  Everyone a Historian.The Mother of US Wars: Westward Conquest. March 17 was the birthday of Bayard Rustin, civil rights organizer (1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom), pacifist, socialist, and gay advocate.   UAF’s Black Studies Program is partly supported by an endowment from OMNI. THE ORIGINS OF US WARS?   Become a scholar historian. Despite being the most wealthy and heavily armed empire in the history of the world, the agencies and think tanks whose task it is to justify that empire have produced no more numerous publications […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #222, March 17, 2025

 in Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennetthttps://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-climate-memo-mondays-222-march-17.html A Nation Divided? How much?   Over basics? Lertzman.  “The US Has Never Been More Divided On Climate.” Mazza.  “Building Solidarity Around Survival: A Seattle Example.” New Articles and Reviews of Books in Climate and Capitalism. “The US Has Never Been More Divided On Climate” By Dr. Renée Lertzman, DeSmog. Popular Resistance.org (3-10-25).  In the autumn of 2014, I was sitting in a tiny shed at a writing residency in Point Reyes, Northern California. I was there to write my book about the psychology of facing planetary crises. One particularly warm afternoon, I was looking out at Tomales […]

Omni holds First Annual Gathering since covid!

 in Annual Gathering / Current Events

Saturday April 19 – 7:00 pm – Miller Hall, Mt. Sequoyah We’re so excited! Long time member Susan Idlet found us a site to hold an annual meeting at last! In partnership with Fenix Arts we are holding this year’s gathering at Mt. Sequoyah and welcoming you to this wonderful community building space. Since Miller doesn’t have a big kitchen it just won’t be possible to do lasagna dinners as we did for so many years. We’re planning a fancy dessert feast with music of Scott Cook and conversation about surviving these times among friends. Would you like to be […]

Indivisible Monthly Meeting

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Saturday March 15 – 1:30 – Good Shepherd Lutheran, 2925 Old Missouri Road. Here’s Donna Mulhollan lost in a crowd of people attending her postcard writing party at Omni Thursday night. They did 200 cards to make changes in Washington DC. If you need action, come to the Indivisible meeting Saturday and find your place. Come to Indivisible and bring a friend, to take your place in changing what’s happening right now!