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Sunday 2/23 5:30-8pm Omni Center For Peace, Justice & Ecology 3274 N Lee Ave Come join us for a fun, friendly and delicious dinner! Greetings, I hope all is well and that you’ll join us! If all is not well, even more reason to attend    Chip Balew, Organizer Facebook Event Here Please share/invite family, friends, associates and all earth/animal friendly & health minded kind folks. Please bring a vegan dish enough for 8 servings. If you want recipe ideas, check out www.vegweb.com Bring copies of your recipe, if you want to share. An ingredient list can be helpful, if someone […]

Arkansas Senate Bill 84 to allow industrial swine CAFOs in the Buffalo River watershed, came before the Senate Agriculture Committee again today.  SB84 was placed in a status of “deferred,” meaning it is removed from the agenda unless the sponsor asks to have it added back by 3:00 PM the day previous to their next meeting.  However, the committee by two thirds vote, can also vote to hear it at any time when they meet. The Governor is said to oppose this bill, as it is not supportive of her “outdoor economic initiative.” We certainly agree. There are rumors that the bill might be […]

Connecting Health and Nature: Building a Sustainable Future Arkansas Tech University, Russellville March 7 & Saturday March 8, 2025 Registration is open for Arkansas Environmental Education Association’s Environmental and Outdoor Education Conference. The conference is a professional learning event that brings together classroom teachers, non-formal educators, higher education students, Master Naturalists, and conservation professionals from around the state. This year’s theme,Connecting Health and Nature: Building a Sustainable Future, features hands-on workshops, field tours, concurrent presentations, and exhibitors. The 2025 conference keynote speaker is Dr. Crystal Green-Braswell. As the Coordinator of Staff Wellness and Culture for Little Rock School District she […]

Feb 25, 2025, 10am- 3pm

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.

STAND UP! for our Rights, Our Freedoms, Our Democracy!

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 […]