Yearly Archives: 2025

BUFFALO RIVER EMERGENCY PLEASE ACT NOW!

 in Buffalo River

Another Call To Action For The Buffalo River! Stay tune here. Bill filed to derail state’s efforts to protect Buffalo River from hog farming We know you have received several messages from BRWA recently asking for your help in securing a permanent moratorium prohibiting any future swine CAFO permits in the Buffalo National River watershed. Now the legislature is considering a bill which would prohibit moratoriums statewide, including specifically the Buffalo River watershed. Senate Bill 84 is an obvious attempt at an end-run around current rule makings which would establish a permanent moratorium in the BNR watershed. Vote will likely […]

January 23 update on the Tiffany property

 in Current Events

Gladys Tiffany, Director Omni Center for Peace Justice & Ecology It’s been quieter lately. The renters are scattered and still struggling to find their place out there in the monitized world. The couple with health problems has found a permanent apartment in Elkins and needed another $100 to cover it. Thanks to you Omni folks and friends it was available. The veteran is more or less settled in an apartment, and the two who are still staying with him are negotiating with his landlord to get another apartment that’s supposed to come open in February. That should be permanent. The […]

“Boycott” Documentary

 in Current Events

Friends of Palestine Screening “Boycott” Documentary Thursday Jan 30 – 6:00 pmOmni Center – 3274 N. Lee Ave Fay This documentary is about Arkansas. Do you recognize any of the dudes in that photo? When a news publisher in Arkansas, an attorney in Arizona, and a speech therapist in Texas are told they must choose between their jobs and their political beliefs, they launch legal battles that expose an attack on freedom of speech across 33 states in America. Boycott traces the impact of state legislation designed to penalize individuals and companies that choose to boycott Israel due to its […]

Dining Veganically

 in Community

Omni Vegan Potluck “Dine Out Together”Sun Jan 26 – 6:00-8:00 pm Khana Indian 2101 N College Ave, Fayetteville Dining Veganically Doesn’t that plate just make you hungry? There’s one just like it waiting for you at Khana. Or maybe one of their other tasty vegan meals. More information by clicking the links for Facebook Events. But don’t believe the address. It really is on College Ave.

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #213, JANUARY 22, 2025

 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-213-january.html Bertram Gross.  Friendly Fascism: NCTE George Orwell Award. [I am recovering from covid, feeling much better today.  I had roughly prepared WWW 213 before the virus struck.] Gross’ analysis of US fascism is over 40 years old but is truer today than then. Bertram Gross.  Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America.  M. Evans & Co., 1980.  South End P (paper), 1980. Gross cites George Orwell’s novel 1984, published in 1948, several times while elucidating the politics of oligarchies..   In a section entitled “Triplespeak” (p. 204) he begins with the contradiction-and deception- riddled […]

US OLIGARCHY ANTHOLOGY #1 January 20, 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Equality January 20, 2025 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-us-oligarchy-anthology-1.html What’s at Stake:  This is the first OMNI anthology to be entitled “oligarchy,” but the reality of inordinate power of a few unelected individuals and corporations ruling the US government is familiar under a variety of labels.  See my anthologies, including on Capitalism, Climate Crisis, Cold War, Citizens United, Control of Information, Culture of War, Democracy, Economic Inequality, Fascism, Gaza, Gerrymandering, Imperialism, Israel, Military-Industrial-Congressional-Presidential Complex, NATO, Neocon, Right Wing, Ukraine War, Unions, Wars.   Resistance is also already familiar, to name a few topics: Common […]

Women’s March in Bentonville Saturday

 in Current Events

Saturday Jan 18 – 11:00 am – 2:00 pm *Sponsored by LOUDwomen & The People’s March. Contact: annadean13@gmail.com if you would like to help organize! Benton County Courthouse, 106 Southeast A Street, Bentonville Our purpose is to protest the proposed agenda of the incoming administration. We will have guest speakers, march, and RESIST.  Let’s make it count in Arkansas! Contact: annadean13@gmail.com if you would like to help organize! https://map.peoplesmarch.com/events/women-s-march-bentonville-arkansas

Climate Moment

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Carbon emissions of richest 1% increase hunger, poverty, deaths  Research by Oxfam found that the world’s 50 richest billionaires produce on average more carbon emissions in under three hours than the average British person does in their entire lifetime. Their analysis also shows that the past three decades of consumption emissions of this wealthy group have caused global economic output to fall by $2.9tn and crop losses equivalent to the caloric needs of 14.5 million people a year. The wealthiest 1% – who tend to live climate-insulated, air-conditioned lives, mostly in the Global North – produce as much carbon pollution […]