Meets Weds Feb 19 – 5:30 pm City Hall Room 326 People on this Task Force care about Fayetteville people who are losing their housing, but they need to hear from YOU friends! To come and silently observe can move mountains. For more information email Gladys at omni@omnicenter.org.
Saturday Feb 15 – 1:00 pm – Omni Center, 3274 N. Lee Ave. Renters in Northwest Arkansas are next meeting Saturday February 15 – to talk about their concerns – which are many. Any Omni folks who are renting will find the discussions very relevant to their experience. Discussions are ALWAYS lively learning experiences. If you don’t rent but support rights and well-being for renters of course you’ll find it interesting too.
To hold in the heart When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in […]
They keep putting off the committee presentation. That means they are getting your messages. Please send a message again! 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 […]
Thursday Feb 6 – 6:30 – Omni Center Thank you Homeless Solutions Folk for your faithful attendance at the Housing Crisis Task Force meetings over these several months! We know we’re making a dif! At the next meeting let’s discuss the last TF to update each other on what we’re seeing emerge. Where do we want to put our energy now? Who else do we need to connect with? Are there things we still need to learn? (very likely) If you’ve never been to a Homeless Solutions meeting before don’t let that stop you from joining us!
Public meeting Jan 22 was enlightening! It’s been fascinating watching the Housing Crisis Task Force move from baffled citizens asking themselves (just like all of us are) “what the heck’s going on with housing?” Slowly, as they interview area experts and talk to people all over town, what they’re revealing is a whole lot of different people in city government, the development community and a lot of related industries and agencies all doing their jobs to the very best of their ability, as they are safely tucked into their own narrow silo, with no effective way to know how their work is impacting […]
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 […]
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 […]
