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IPYG Atlanta – The Charter for Compassion’s International Peace Youth GroupSaturday Aug 28 – 4:00-6:00 CSTregister at link belowzoom link upon registrationIPYG Atlanta is hosting our first ever virtual peace concert: RELEASE THE PEACE Concert!! On Saturday, August 28th 2021 – join us from 5-7pm EST (4-6 Central) for great performances, activities and presentations geared towards spreading a culture of peace around the US!We would love it if members of the OMNI Center could attend and enjoy this event together! Feel free to share the flier and the RSVP link with anyone you think would be interested in attending!Peace by Peace Let’s […]

Ok, we get the point, Mother Nature. You’re not done with us yet. There are still lessons to be learned from coronavirus, and we need to take this seriously until everyone has this well in mind. For some reason, that could take awhile. Omni was just getting excited about the potential to begin doing things together again and have been caught up short. Hiroshima Nagasaki Day this Sunday is a case in point. When the current spike started we realized it would affect our plans, and decided to livestream to our Facebook page to let more Omni folks share in […]

Sun Aug 8 – 7:00 pm – at Omni Center Outdoors, In-person as of nowLivestream and recorded on Facebook the Omni Center for Peace, Justice & Ecology pageVideo page: https://www.facebook.com/omnicenter/videos/?ref=page_internal)There are critical nuclear issues going on right now, at the same time critical covid issues are also on the table. Omni will hold the annual commemoration in person on the lawn at Omni on Sunday August 8. Many wise people will be uncertain about meeting in-person, so the event will also be live-streamed and recorded. If you aren’t vaccinated, please don’t endanger yourself by attending. But some will be present, […]

This is important to us all!Reapportionment Hearings Coming Up Thursday August 5More info: Loriee Evans <loriee.indivisiblelrca@gmail.com>Hi everyone,   I wanted to share this Indivisible toolkit of resources on the upcoming Board of Apportionment public hearings that begins on July 29th. Please feel free to share, copy, grab, use the information however is most useful to your organization. It would just be great to spread the word wide about the meetings widely. https://www.indivisiblelrca.org/calltoactionblog/your-community-fair-maps   Please help to spread the word in communities and get representation at all the public hearings. Attendees will all have a chance to pass the mic, and all comments […]

PEACE IS BUILDING Department of Peacebuilding Past and Future Twenty years ago, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (OH) introduced into Congress a bill to create a cabinet-level Department of Peace (DoP). This was exactly two months before 9-11-2001.  PEACE IS A PART OF AMERICA’S DNA from the days of George Washington, but how do we transition to a culture of peace? That is the question.  A DoP is part of the answer. Going forward, we continue to build support for the Department of Peacebuilding Act of 2021 (DoP 2021) which is sponsored by Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA).  We need your help.On this 20th anniversary of DoP legislation, we commemorate those who have remained […]

Peace Week is a good time to check this out!Conflict Transformation Education online for you!from the peace experts – Peace Directhttps://www.peacedirect.org/us/   We’re excited to tell you about the launch of our new online course, ‘Conflict Transformation’.   The course is relevant to anyone working in conflict situations. It offers a practical toolkit for building peace locally. Whether you’re working in peacebuilding, human rights, aid, development, democracy or environmental sustainability, this course can support your work.  ‘Conflict Transformation’ includes 8 modules, a variety of real life scenarios and case studies from across the world. For a limited time only, the course is […]

Sept 21 – An Intl Day of Peace Event 7:00 pm – Faulkner Performing Arts Center, UA ADMISSION FREEA Peace Week Event Co-Sponsored by the UA Dept of Communications Film Appreciation Society and Omni Center Live Accompaniment byThe Mont Alto Motion Picture OrchestraFaulkner Performing Arts Center                                     All Quiet on the Western Front opened to wide acclaim in the United States 1930. Considered a realistic and harrowing account of warfare in World War I, it made the American Film Institute‘s first 100 Years…100 Movies list in 1997. A decade later, after the same organization polled over 1,501 workers in the creative community, All Quiet on the Western […]

The Arkansas Advisory Committee will issue findings and recommendations in a report to the US Commission after all testimony has been received.   Release: https://www.usccr.gov/files/2021/06-22-IDEA-Press-Release-Public-Comment.pdf Do you know of children with disabilities in the Arkansas education system? Are they receiving the free and appropriate public education they have a right to expect? The US Commission on Civil Rights wants to hear about their experiences from people who care. Find more information at the link.   #####   The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, established by the Civil Rights Act of 1957, is the only independent, bipartisan agency charged with advising the […]