Good Food Purchasing Policy Kickoff Day!
Thurs Oct 12 – 5:30-7:00 – Feed Communities, 221 S. Locust, Fayetteville Sponsored by Workers Justice Center NWA Full info HERE
Current Events
Indigenous People’s Day
Monday Oct 9 – all day – UA Campus Native American Student Association event Commemorative Trail of Tears Walk 1:00-2:30 Union Mall Tribal display and historical readings, rural Native food traditions, art of storytelling, art, and Native American film screening of “The Silent Enemy” 7:00 pm Union Ballroom Full details here: Indigenous People’s Day details
Local Girl Returns Bringing Global Stories
Local Girl Returns Bringing Global Stories Women of Conscience: Resisting While Existing Monday Oct 23 – 6:00 pm – Rolling Hills Baptist Church, 1400 E. Rolling Hills Dr. Ann Wright returns to Northwest Arkansas to talk about the world from a global peace activists perspective. Ann is a Rogers native with a long history of diplomatic and military service, who retired rather than follow orders against her conscience about war in Iraq. She took up full time peace activism and has since been covering the globe. For this visit she wants to talk about the situation with North Korea, and […]
RESULTS!
RESULTS! Thursday Oct 19 – 6:00 pm – Fayetteville Library Join Jan VanSchuyver and friends for a special advocacy workshop. Only a few seats still open. “How can I make a difference?” It’s a question many of us are asking these days. In addition to helping locally, many are turning to advocacy – influencing Congress to make decisions that impact lives in a positive way. This workshop will clear up some of the mystery of advocacy and empower you with takeaway tools that you can begin using immediately to influence your members of Congress for a better world. Brought to […]
Veggie Potluck September
Weds Sept 13 — 6:30 pm — OMNI Come on back after the August break. Good food, good friends, and discussion about Native American cuisine from a new cookbook that Dick Bennett has been reading. If you have a Native dish you’d like to share it’d be welcome.
A Soldier In Our Midst: Pride for Some, Pain for Others
Saturday Sept 9 – 12:00 noon-2:00 pm Walmart Auditorium in the Shewmaker Center for Workforce Technologies, NWACC Campus, One College Drive, Bentonville WHAT DO YOU THINK? You and I have an opportunity to demonstrate to each other that we have the courage and fortitude to listen to each other – even when we have different opinions on the subject. The Confederate Soldier on the Bentonville Square is worth a healthy conversation – don’t you think? Is it really only all about “move it” or “keep it”? Can we not expand the discussion to how to best to assure respect and […]