Current Events

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 […]

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 […]