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The Climate Moment

 in Climate

Stories from this unique moment on Earth …. What’s happening with the climate?! 2000 Elder Swiss women win human rights case against Swiss government’s failure to protect life by implementing adequate climate policies  The European Court of Human Rights has decided that Swiss authorities have violated the right to life of a group of elder women in Switzerland by not implementing sufficient climate change policies. “For the first time, an international tribunal recognizes that human rights include the right to climate protection,” said one activist. The European court’s ruling is binding and requires the Swiss to take greater action to […]

Help for Marie Riley’s family

 in Current Events

Friend of peace Marie Riley passed very suddenly last week. Please sign up to  help for her husband Art and son Justin while they’re getting re-oriented to life without her. Provide a meal through Meal Train. Meal Train is a wonderful service that helps people provide food for the hard times. It’s been set up by JoAnn Kaminsky, who always steps in to help wherever she can. “Some of you knew Marie Riley and especially Art Hobson. I put together two meal trains. One for now until Sunday while family is intown for the funeral and another for a couple of weeks […]

Walk Out For Palestine

 in Current Events

Thank you Omni folks …. … who went out this morning to stand with students supporting ceasefire in Gaza. You are so awesome! Fayetteville High students asked for the support of our community for their Walk Out for Palestine. And Omni people and others stepped up.

The Climate Moment

 in Climate

Stories from this unique moment on Earth …. What’s happening with the climate?! World breaches 1.5°C for an entire year for FIRST TIME ON RECORD https://www.ecowatch.com/average-global-temperature-record-2024-paris-agreement.html For the first time on record, the average global temperature has exceeded 1.5 degree Celsius over a 12-month period, according to new data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). Last month was also the hottest January worldwide since C3S records began in 1950,

Walk Out For Palestine

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Thursday May 16 – 8:30 am Walk from Fayetteville High School to the Walton Arts Center Fayetteville High students are requesting the support of our community for their Walk Out for Palestine. From their Instagram post: This walk is to spread awareness for Palestine. Palestinians are currently facing a genocide against them. Photos of torture camps with Palestinians in them have been leaked. On 5/16/24 we will meet outside during the pledge 2nd Hour (8:30 am). We will walk to the Walton Arts Center and return for Advisory. Please spread this. If you cannot attend please share it so those […]

Livestream Links for Britin Bostick’s talk

 in homeless / housing

Livestream of the Homeless Solutions Talk tonight will start as close to 6:30 as possible, with a little introduction at the beginning. Last month we had serious technical problems that confused things for awhile. We’re so pleased that some folks figured out where to find the stream at the Omni page even though that wasn’t the plan at all. And happy that over 300 people accessed the recording after the meeting was posted. This month we’re still trying to get a good page set up to stream from. We hope to go from Omni’s page at https://www.facebook.com/omnicenter , but if […]

Homeless Solutions Post

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Welcome to “The Post” Homelessness is COMPLEX.We’re all in this together. How can we operationalize that key progressive value? If we’re taking care of “the least of these” we can be confident that when we need help ourselves, the infrastructure to take care of us all will be right there waiting. Next Homeless Solutions meeting Talks that Matter Thursday May 2 – 6:30 pm – Omni Center Featuring Britin Bostick, Long Range Planner and Special Projects, City of Fayetteville The schedule changed a bit for this session of Homeless Solutions. We planned to have Dr. John Gallagher come share the results […]

Article by Joanna Person-Michener

 in Current Events

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Fayetteville- … UUers deeply value the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part, ,which is our 7th principle. This principle calls us to environmental appreciation, stewardship and protection. Aptly this Sunday Doug Krueger will speak to us on how Every Day is Earth Day, which is a sentiment with which I’m sure most of us agree. Even so, Earth Day is traditionally celebrated on April 22nd, which first began in 1970 and is now the largest civic event world-wide, with over 1 billion people participating across more than 193 nations annually! Likewise, to […]