Yearly Archives: 2025

Vegan ThanksLiving Potluck Dinner

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Sunday November 23rd, 5:30-8pm Omni Center For Peace, Justice & Ecology  3274 N Lee Ave Fayetteville, AR 72703 Come join us for our ThanksLiving holiday celebration and dinner! An alternative to traditional and typical Thanksgiving dinners, where the animals stay alive and are not served on platters. Yay! Eating animal free foods; vegan, Whole Food Plant Based, raw plant foods, etc. helps us human animals stay alive and thrive, too! We give our thanks and honor all living beings and our planet with these compassionate, healthful, eco-logical and mindful food choices. Being vegan and plant based has become more common now, […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #256, NOVEMBER 19, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-256-november.html Protesting US Warmaking: Scholars Telling the Truth, Nuns Disarming Missiles, a Novelist Exploring War’s Effects, a Newsletter Editor Studies a Government Study, a Citizen Assesses US Fascism. The Trillion Dollar War Machine by William Hartung and Ben Freeman.  Bold Type Books, 2025.   For the publisher’s description see WWW #238, July 16, 2025.  “This is it: the definitive account of America’s wasteful, corrupt, and astonishingly ineffective military industrial complex.  William Hartung and Ben Freeman have done their fellow citizens a great service.   Taking their message to heart is a job for the rest of us.”  Andrew […]

VENEZUELA ANTHOLOGY #9, November 20, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/11/omni-venezuela-anthology-9-november-20.html What’s at stake: The U.S. is addicted to war. With the renaming of the Department of War, a proposed Pentagon budget of $1.01 trillion, and more than 750 military bases across some 80 countries, this is not a nation pursuing peace. For the past two decades, Venezuela has been a persistent target of U.S. regime change. The motive, which is clearly laid out by President Donald Trump, is the roughly 300 billion barrels of oil reserves beneath the Orinoco belt, the largest petroleum reserves on the planet. CONTENTSGrayzone.  Historical Patterns. Code Pink.  USA/CBS […]

UNITED FOR LAND – UNCCD NEWS ALERT UNCCD Secretariat 11-17-25

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UNCCD United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and Drought   www.unccd.int   See Water Files UNITED FOR LAND – UNCCD NEWS ALERT UNCCD Secretariat   11-17-25         UPDATES FROM THE UNCCD SECRETARIAT AND THE GLOBAL MECHANISM 17 November 2025 View this email in your browser UN meeting to review global progress on desertification, land degradation and drought UNCCD CRIC23 is set to convene in Panama City, 1-5 December 2025. Representatives of 196 countries and the European Union will meet in Panama from 1-5 December 2025 to review their efforts against desertification, land degradation and drought under the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #255, NOVEMBER 12, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-255-november.html Dick Bennett.  We Could Be Stronger Nuclear Resisters Now. Gerry Condon.  VFP.  Reclaim Armistice Day.Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan.  “Trump’s Orwellian Militarization of American Cities.”Chris Hedges.  “The Death House.” Dick Bennett.   WE COULD BE STRONGER RESISTERS NOW. When the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance was inaugurated during the 1960s/70s by our anti-Vietnam War Peace Organizing Committee, we were awake thanks to John Hersey’s book Hiroshima (1946) and Burdick’s and Wheeler’s Fail-Safe (1962) and many other writers and organizations, especially religious.  And since the 1980s a rising wave of protest against nuclear weapons has lifted the humanity of the “woke.”   […]

ARMISTICE REMEMBRANCE DAY FOR PEACE, NOVEMBER 11, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice,  Ecology, and Democracy https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/11/omni-armistice-remembrance-day-for.html What’s at Stake:   Militarization of USA.   David Swanson:  “For decades in the United States, as elsewhere, this day was called Armistice Day, and was identified as a holiday of peace, including by the U.S. government. It was a day of sad remembrance and joyful ending of war, and of a commitment to preventing war in the future. The holiday’s name was changed in the United States after the U.S. war on Korea to “Veterans Day,” a largely pro-war holiday on which some U.S. cities forbid Veterans For Peace groups […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #256, November 10, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett. Yale Climate Connections. US Rejects COP30, China Leads in Renewable Energy.UNIPCC Report on Climate Change and Land, 2019. Friederike Otto.   Climate Injustice. The Living New Deal Yale Climate Connections (11-11-25).   Yale Center for Environmental Communication · 195 Prospect St. · New Haven, CT 06511.The world is on track to overshoot the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming target negotiated in the Paris Agreement 10 years ago. “Current commitments put the world on a path of 2.3-2.5°C of warming by the end of the century. We are very likely to overshoot 1.5°C within the next decade – the priority now […]

United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 30 ANTHOLOGY November 10, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, Ecology, and Democracy https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/11/omni-united-nations-climate-change.html COP 30 BEGINS NOVEMBER 10 What’s at Stake: The two-week conference will convene most of the world’s nations to accelerate action toward the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Marking 10 years since the Paris Agreement — when nearly every country pledged to limit global warming to well below 2ºC compared to pre-industrial levels — this year’s conference comes at a pivotal moment, amid growing evidence of the need for stronger and faster global climate action.  TEXTS COP30 The 30th United […]