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Fayetteville does another amazing thing

 in Current Events

The Safe Camping Project opens in South FayettevilleSolomon Burchfield   8-13-20. The Safe Camp is quietly opening on the South end of Fayetteville. After years of uncertainty about how to help the population of homeless folks camping in local woods, the city has worked out a plan using covid relief money to establish a 12-acre plot where campers will be protected from many of the long list of threats they face on a daily basis and have access to vital services they previously had to travel a wide area to receive.New Beginnings Coordinator Solomon Burchfield has been talking to local campers (homeless folks […]

Postcards to Swing States

 in Current Events

A really effective way to shift the balance in NovemberHandwritten postcards got tested during the mid-term elections in several swing states, and the results were that progressive candidates who were featured with handwritten cards like this had a much higher win rate than could be expected from other promotions they received.Arkansas is not a swing state, unfortunately. But we can do this! If you’d be willing to write and mail a stack of postcards, email your contact info to omni@omnicenter.org, and we’ll get some cards to you. Request any number, but many folks are doing 50-60. We have until mid-October […]

Omni Center is proud to announce That we have become fiscal sponsor for the Black Action Collective Association

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Led by Director Lance Reed and CEO D’Andre Jones, the Black Action Collective will be the starting point for the amazing array of activities and events that D’Andre and Lance are known for. You’ll be seeing them in this newsletter and online on a regular basis, and you’ll want to participate in the informative events they’ll produce. D’Andre has also taken a position on Omni Board of Directors.Welcome D’Andre and Lance!

Where do we go from here? From Protest to Policy

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Weds August 19 – 7:00 pmZoom link and information at the Facebook eventD’Andre JonesAllies you have been asking where do we go from here, I am honored and eternally grateful to be apart of this illustrious panel with these amazing brilliant African American women. These women will address policy change in education, criminal justice, economic mobility and community engagement and participation. Join us Wednesday August 19th 7 pm. This will be the most informative opportunity for ally’s in the state!!! #Protesttopolicy!!#Reform!!#Blackwomenlead!!

Scary election simulation compared to Black Lives Matter

 in BLM

A war game exercise simulating the 2020 election unmasks some key vulnerabilities, compared to Black Lives Matter.I’m not saying all is lost. I’m just reading the same news you are and coming to terms with what we’re up against if we want to stay free and democratic. This article from Atlantic really got my attention……Scary election simulation – PeaceWeaver Blog

Films about Nonviolence

 in fims

Nonviolence International – films about nonvolence Movements and Monuments http://gabowitsch.net/films-about-nonviolence/Collection archivist Mischa Gabowitsch about this collection I initially compiled a list of films about nonviolent resistance in preparation for a workshop about the history, theory, and practice of nonviolence that I organized as part of the Berlin Colloquia on Contemporary History in February 2012. Later I incorporated suggestions collected by Beate Sissenich via the amsoc mailing list and by Stellan Vinthagen via the Nonviolent Research Network as well as a number of other films I have come across since. Inclusion in the list does not constitute endorsement (some of these films are outstanding, while others are terrible), nor […]

Thank Healthcare Workers at Fayetteville Chalk The Park

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Saturday Aug 8 – 9-11:00 am Wilson ParkMore info Contact: Dean Rawlings Recreation Programs Manager 479-444-3474 drawlings@fayetteville-ar.gov  Visitors Invited to “Chalk the Park” at Wilson Park this Saturday FAYETTEVILLE, Ark—Fayetteville residents and visitors are invited to create chalk art in Wilson Park this Saturday, August 8, from 9 to 11 a.m. during “Chalk the Park,” an event to honor and thank our healthcare workers.   Chalk artists of all ages may help decorate the Wilson Park Trail with chalked art, quotes and/or messages to show appreciation for healthcare workers who have been on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19 […]

The Great Shame 75 Years After the Big Bomb

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Yesterday seventy-five years ago the world changed for the worse when we – us the “good guys” dropped an atom bomb on 340,000 people in Hiroshima. Within the next couple of months 140,000 of them died. 70,000 immediately in the blast, the rest in agony from injuries and radiation poison.  A few thousand were soldiers. The rest were civilians. Almost all civilians.We should not have done that.  Never.  It was a despicable act that stains us in the same way that our hidden histories of racism and genocide have made this culture of embedded entitlement and legal greed what it is.The atomic […]