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DO check your voter registration here:VoterView AR – Secretary of State website Go Vote Arkansas – Voter info in English and Spanishhttps://govotear.org/Voting Guide from St. Paul’s I apologize, but the Voting Guide isn’t online. If you’d like to have a copy please drop a note to omni@omnicenter.org and we’ll forward the PDF to you. If you requested it already it’ll be coming soon. Many of your questions answered here. Thank You to Building Beloved Community of St. Paul’s for compiling all this information in one easy place. Do you want to do more? Poll workers still needed (pay is about […]

Sept 29 – 6:00-7:30 pm – zoomArkansas voters will change state law on Election Day with up-or-down votes on all-important ballot questions, but many voters are unfamiliar with the issues they’ll have to decide. It’s difficult to even keep up with what’s still on the ballot and what’s been removed in court. With that in mind, the League of Women Voters of Washington County will host a ballot-issue forum on September 29th to help the public understand the questions before them. It’s a public service the League tries to provide every two years. This year, the forum will take place […]

Peace Day Global Big virtual event with celebrities Sept 21! Peace One Day Live Global Digital Experience 2020 on the UN International Day of Peace, 21st September #PeaceDayOn 21st September, join the full day of live broadcast with the most incredible speakers, actors, musicians and live action from the continents of the world

Someday you’ll get to meet Helen Kwiatkowski, an artist and teacher new to town, who has a life-long passion for peace. While she was teaching art in Texas she started organizing Pinwheels for Peace with her own art students and from schools all around the area. When she moved here last year she started looking for people and places to replicate this project in peace-loving Fayetteville.The Pinwheels for Peace Project is installed at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on East Street. Stroll through the grounds and listen to the gentle whirl like they’re prayer wheels sending out our longing for a […]

The only possible way to understand Trump voters – author Jack LunaThis isn’t what I want to be thinking about this week. I’d rather think about transformational networks. But this article came up that – to me – answers a question lots of us have been wrangling over. How to understand the Trump voters in our lives and our communities. This blog writer has a perspective I was longing for. He called it a “White coming ….”

Or, are progressives in NWA nervous about their neighbors?This week I got an email from an Omni friend who lives on Beaver Lake. Boaters for Trump have taken over the quiet cove where she lives, and since her yard has one of the few “Biden-Harris” signs in the neighborhood, they focus a lot of angst in her direction. Read more,

Group members labored long, hard and with devotion to pulling together a huge number of voting resources for people during covid. They want you to take advantage of their hard work, and share it with friends please! Download your free copy here:Voting Guide from St. Paul

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 […]