Yearly Archives: 2025

Thank you so very much, Fayetteville

 in Current Events

Final thoughts on New Beginnings ‘Pilgrimage for Home’ From Board mem\ber Rob Ryerse Robb Ryerse from New Beginnings You helped make Walk With Us: A Pilgrimage for Homes a resounding success. Not only did more than a dozen pilgrims walk from Bentonville to Fayetteville to raise awareness about chronic homelessness, they were also joined by many more for the Last Mile and a Community Meal at New Beginnings. It was truly a special celebration. Even though the walk is now complete, the work continues. We are getting ever closer to hitting our fundraising goal of $50,000. This money goes to support […]

Ziva Branstetter & Kathleen DuVal Pulitzer Prize Winners

 in Current Events

Ziva Branstetter, daughter of local celebrity and Omni member Art Hobson, is a journalist for ProPublica and did a great report on the impacts of the death of Roe v. Wade, that won her a Pulitzer Prize recently. Along with history author Kathleen DuVal, who did an amazing book on native Americans over a thousand years. They’ll be home visiting soon and Their departments are throwing them a well-deserved party. Come say ‘hi’!

Help for immigrants attacked by ICE in our own area

 in Immigration

There’s a group working out of Rogers to help immigrant families who’ve been targeted by ICE, one person and one family at a time. If you’d like to help them, there is a way. Nicole Mozzoni is collecting for several families, with more to come. Her phone is 479-644-0710, if you can help. Right now a big need is for a family who’s father was picked up and deported from his workplace, leaving his family behind. The stress on his wife made her have a stroke. Now she and the kids need warm-weather clothing to get through the winter. Here’s […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #253, OCTOBER 29, 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025 / WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-253-october.html Emmanuel Todd. Russophobia. Robert Reich. Stopping Bullies. Marge Piercy. Conservative Majority (poem). Anti-war: Johnstone Paints Benjamin.Voices from Vietnam Coming to Fayetteville.Dick’s Sources Emmanuel Todd. “Russia is our Rorschach.” ACURA (Oct 21, 2025).Last April, I was interviewed by a Russian television channel about Western Russophobia and I had an epiphany. . . .“our Russophobia has nothing to do with you. It’s a fantasy, a pathology of Western societies, an endogenous need of ours to imagine a Russian monster.” Read in browser » [The author focuses on France. An earlier, famous psychiatric explanation of US Soviet policies […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #254, October 27, 2025

 in Climate Memo Mondays / Dick's Newsletter 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-254-october.html DICK’S SOURCES FOR HIS ANTHOLOGIES AND WEEKLIES  10-22-25   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/10/dicks-sources-for-his-anthologies-and.html INFORMATION ABOUT INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS (10-20-25). Dear ICN Reader,I’m Jamie Smith Hopkins, managing editor at Inside Climate News. I’d like to tell you about how we work and why your donation is so crucial to help us keep going.While visiting our website or opening our newsletter, you may have noticed something that sets us apart from many other news outlets: our news is free to read. That’s because Inside Climate News is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. We do not charge a subscription fee, lock our news behind […]

UKRAINE WAR ANTHOLOGY #36 October 28, 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace,Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/10/omni-ukraine-war-anthology-36-october.html What’s at Stake:  The Present:  Big Serge: Russia is now winning the war.   Origins of the War.   Robert Parry: “deep divisions in the region led to the 2004 Orange Revolution, 2014 uprisings, and the violent overthrow\coup d’etat of democratically elected Yanukovych,” leading to plebiscites by citizens of S. eastern Ukraine inviting Russia to intervene.    Ending the War.  Ways to Give Peace a Chance. CONTENTS UKRAINE WAR ANTHOLOGY #36THE WAR TODAYBig Serge.   “Russo-Ukrainian War: Autumn 2025.”   Origins of the WarOliver Stone, “Ukraine on Fire.” NYT: “Leaker Exposes US” Involvement in […]

DICK’S SOURCES FOR HIS ANTHOLOGIES AND WEEKLIES 10-22-25

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/10/dicks-sources-for-his-anthologies-and.html  (not complete) INDIVIDUALS Joanie Connors (forwards)*Chris HedgesJayapal, Pramila*Caitlin Johnstone  (orig., sub.)Vijay PrashadProf. Mazin Qumsiyeh*Robert Reich (orig., sub.)*Scott Ritter (orig., sub.), *Real Scott Ritter*Bernie Sanders (orig., sub.)*Pat Snyder (forwards ADG)*Sonny San Juan (forwards)Williamson, Marianne ORGANIZATIONS (free, donation, subscription to its publication) *AAUP (Am Assoc. of Univ. Professors)*ACLUACLU of ArkansasAdalah Justice Project*AFSC (see: FCNL) American Humanist (mag. Defunct but org. active)Americans for Financial ReformAmericans United for Church and StateAmnesty InternationalAPWU (American Postal Workers Union auxiliary)Arkansas Climate League*Arbor Day Foundation Back from the BrinkBethlehem Univ. Fund (Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh)Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (and Einstein Circle) *Catholic Worker*Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)Climate Mobilization*Code […]