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A really effective way to shift the balance in NovemberThere’s still time to get yours!Handwritten 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 […]

Arkansas Citizens’ Climate LeagueMonday Sept 14 – 7:00-8:00 pm on ZoomSign Up Now Open for Enviro-Justice Virtual Event!Registration is now open for our online event “Enviro-Justice Primer: A Conversation About Building Community” from 7-8 p.m. Sept. 14 via Zoom!   This online workshop will give an overview of the history of the environmental justice movement, and a look at practical tools and techniques that we can use to help us better engage environmental justice issues.    The event is free and open to anyone who registers! Donations can also easily be made while signing up and help to make educational programming like […]

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 […]

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 […]

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!

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!!

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 […]

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 […]