Saturday Oct 25 Community Meal Feeds Folks will be helping to serve the Pilgrimage Community Meal and would like your help, Omni friends. We’ll be providing side dishes to go along with chili and cornbread served by a couple of other groups who feed homeless folks. Do you have a favorite picnic dish that would go along with chili? Drop Gladys a text at 479-283-2167 if you can bring something. It’s going to be just a lovely event.
Oct 23-25 – New Beginnings Northwest Arkansas Community inspiration and fundraiser for a leader in the movement to end homelessness in Northwest Arkansas. Neighbors will lace up their shoes and walk the Northwest Arkansas Razorback Greenway from Bentonville to Fayetteville. Over three days, participants will walk more than 30 miles, sleep along the way, and learn about homelessness in our community—all to raise awareness and funds for The Future of New Beginnings campaign and our next supportive housing neighborhood, Spruce Street Gardens. Join Us for The Last Mile On Saturday, October 25, the community is invited to walk the final […]
Ozark Natural Science CenterOctober 18-19, 2025 A fun family friendly music weekend to support ONSC’s non profit environmental education!
Dr. Joanie Connors Tea & Conversation — Buddhist Conceptions of Love Weds Oct 15 – 7:00 pm – Omni Center Buddhist Concepts for Love by Joanie Connors, Ph.D. This presentation will cover the 4 Buddhist concepts for love – lovingkindness (metta), compassion (karuna), appreciative joy (mudita), and equanimity (upeksha), We will also discuss nonviolence and how love of others (and self) provide a path for spiritual liberation. We will end with a discussion of how nonviolence compares to these teachings. Joanie Connors PhD is a local psychologist, therapist and writer who explores trauma, love and relationships from an eco-systems point […]
2 Years of Genocide Vigil on Oct 11 + Ride for Gaza Oct 12 at 3PM friendsofpalestinenwa Community Vigil Join us for a community vigil marking two years of genocide. The memory of beautiful Palestinian lives that were cut short by Israel with little regard from international powers will not be forgotten. For the first time, some celebration may be in order too. Date: Saturday, October 11th Time: 8 AM – 5 PM Location: Fayetteville Square (facing the Town Center) Throughout the day, community members will read the names and ages of nearly 20,000 Palestinian children killed since the start of the genocide. Come […]
Saturday Oct 18 – Two local options details below Indivisible protest in Rogers Separate protest in Fayetteville (sorry I don’t know the organizers but they must be great people) National Indivisible and partners are reporting that the number of No Kings protests has increased dramatically on a national scale. It must be true too. There are two local protests, one in Rogers and the other in Fayetteville. Hope that both have really good turnout. It’s encouraging that there’ll be exposure in Rogers. Those of us who’d like to spread the love further than the Fayetteville bubble might want to go […]
Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-250-october-8.html NUCLEAR WAR DANGER Scott Ritter. Highway to Hell: The Armageddon Chronicles, 2015-2024.NCTE’s George Orwell Award. Back from the Brink. “Action Alert: Urge Your Local and State Officials to Show Leadership.” Nuclear War Danger, Need for Arms Control, Nuclear Weapons Abolition Scott Ritter. Highway to Hell: The Armageddon Chronicles, 2015-2024. Clarity P, 2025. The world stands on the precipice of a nuclear Armageddon, the byproduct of a confluence of the demise of the foundational principles of arms control that had served as a check on the world’s two largest nuclear-armed nations, the United States and Russia, […]
(Highlighting JUNE 10, 2025, Anniversary of June 10, 1963, JFK’s Peace Speech, Scott Ritter’s Citizens’ Summit 2025, and 100 Years of US Enmity against SU/Russia). Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology What’s at Stake: Seeing the World as Others See It The bafflingly widespread dislike of neocon capitalist, oligarchical Russia is partly traceable to the long exclusion of Soviet/Russian culture in the US. For example, how many of you have read a book by a Soviet or Russian writer, or even an essay? I grew aware of this void in the 1970s when I began to study […]
