Current Events
Housing Crisis Task Force
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.
The Peace of Wild Things
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 […]
OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #214, JANUARY 29, 2025
Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-214-january.html Doomsday Clock 89 Seconds to Midnight.NUKEWATCH QUARTERLY (Winter 2024-25). New Corporate-Military-Congressional Warmaking Paradigm.UN-USA, UN Today (Nov. 2024): what we can expect for UN from Trump II. WHO’S WARNING US? The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has made its annual Doomsday Clock announcement. It’s now set at 89 seconds to midnight — the closest its ever been to catastrophe. Read the 2025 statement > For those who want to raise awareness around the announcement and help decrease existential threats, the Bulletin has also created a social media toolkit. Access the toolkit > NUKEWATCH QUARTERLY (Winter 2024-25) This number contains 20 articles, eleven […]
January 23 update on the Tiffany property
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 […]
“Boycott” Documentary
Friends of Palestine Screening “Boycott” Documentary Thursday Jan 30 – 6:00 pmOmni Center – 3274 N. Lee Ave Fay This documentary is about Arkansas. Do you recognize any of the dudes in that photo? When a news publisher in Arkansas, an attorney in Arizona, and a speech therapist in Texas are told they must choose between their jobs and their political beliefs, they launch legal battles that expose an attack on freedom of speech across 33 states in America. Boycott traces the impact of state legislation designed to penalize individuals and companies that choose to boycott Israel due to its […]
Women’s March in Bentonville Saturday
Saturday Jan 18 – 11:00 am – 2:00 pm *Sponsored by LOUDwomen & The People’s March. Contact: annadean13@gmail.com if you would like to help organize! Benton County Courthouse, 106 Southeast A Street, Bentonville Our purpose is to protest the proposed agenda of the incoming administration. We will have guest speakers, march, and RESIST. Let’s make it count in Arkansas! Contact: annadean13@gmail.com if you would like to help organize! https://map.peoplesmarch.com/events/women-s-march-bentonville-arkansas