Yearly Archives: 2025
HARMONIA IS BACK
SPRING IS HERE — AND HARMONIA IS BACK — WITH A HEALING SONG CIRCLE for these challenging times. Please join us on Sunday April 13 at 3pm at the Omni Center in Fayetteville 3274 N. Lee Ave. Featuring Susanne and her harp! We will be outdoors if the weather is lovely, and indoors if it’s not. There will be a donation basket to thank Omni for hosting us Email me back if you need more information; lesliejo.51@gmail.com
Arkansans for Autonomy SolidARity Day!
Bodily autonomy is under attack in Arkansas, so mark your calendars for our upcoming Arkansans for Autonomy SolidARity Day! On Monday, April 8, advocates across the state are uniting to protect and expand bodily autonomy, including reproductive rights, gender-affirming care, and essential health care services. This is a perfect chance to hear from powerful speakers in the movement and speak directly with your legislators. Details: • When: April 8 from 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. (Lunch will be provided) • Where: Arkansas State Capitol, 500 Woodlane St, Little Rock, AR 72201 • Parking: You can find metered parking along the streets of Capitol Avenue and […]
OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #223, APRIL 2, 2025
Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/04/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-223-april-2.html SEN. TOM COTTON, AR’S MCCARTHYITE RUSSOPHOBE“Senate Intelligence Committee hearing turns ugly with McCarthy-style lies about CODEPINK: Women for Peace.” Editor. mronline.org (3-30-25). On March 25, at the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on global threats with the five heads of intelligence agencies of the U.S. government, Senator Tom Cotton, accused on national TV a group I have worked with for over 20 years, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, of being funded by the Communist Party of China. During the hearing CODEPINK activist Tighe Barry stood up following the presentation of the Director of National Security Tulsi Gabbard’s lengthy […]
OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #224, March 31, 2025
Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-climate-memo-mondays-224-march-31.html Timothy Noah. Fighting Back. Yale Climate Maps. Portside Online News Magazine.Barry Sanders’ New Book on Moby Dick as Environmental Manifesto. Timothy Noah. Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance. The New Republic (March 27, 2025). Civil society can’t be saved in the courts alone. It’s up to us as a people to stand up and push back. Yale Climate Communication MAPS Dear Friends, Today, we are excited to release the latest Yale Climate Opinion Maps (YCOM), now current through our latest survey from December 2024. This tool identifies the diversity of public opinion across the country, including belief that […]
The Bad Bills List
#PrayingTogether #WorkingTogether #SaferTogether Thank you to all for the swift responses last week to the call to action! Together we kept pace with the much anticipated movement on anti-immigrant bills. It was collective efforts of directly impacted, allies and champions, which resulted in the following tally as we go into legislative spring break: HB1422 about a new and different drivers license for legal immigrants: Defeated on House floor (read from the Arkansas Advocate and Univision) HB1789 prohibit municipal identifications to immigrants who can’t prove status, affecting the Little Rock and North Little Rock municipal identification programs: passed out of committee […]
HERE TO STAY
March for the Dignity of Immigrant Workers MARCH 31st Gather at 1:30 PM in Murphy Park Springdale Live Music, Art, Theater Play by Workers 3:00 PM Peaceful March 1.7 miles to Luther George Park. Venceremos, an NWA worker’s rights group, is organizing this event. Vencermos’ mission is to “ensure human rights for the state’s poultry workers.” A lot of the poultry community is very vulnerable and they’re undocumented. They have concerns about what will happen now that Trump is the elected president. “This threat of deportations, this threat of discriminating more towards these communities, is something that is really concerning […]
Safer Together Postering Vigil
Sunday March 30 – 5:00 pm – Washington County Courthouse The crisis for immigrants in Arkansas has started. Really bad bills targeting them – and many who are here legally – are being pushed through the legislature. A rundown of those is further down in the newsletter. It’s scary, but there is good hope. At this point many, many people in NWA have developed friendships and family ties with people from other parts of the world, and the idea that they’re being targeted like this is repugnant. If you are one of those people lucky enough to care, and ready […]