Dick’s Newsletter 2024

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/04/omni-may-day-labor-day-international.html “International Labour Day 2024: Date, history, significance and all that you need to know.”  ByTapatrisha Das, Delhi.  Hindustan Times.  Apr 30, 2024 . International Labour Day 2024: From date to significance, here’s all that you need to know about the special day. International Labour Day 2024: The workers and the working class are the driving force of a country. They are the ones who do most of the work to initiate development. The nation and the state are built by its infrastructure, development and the economy. The workers get down […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a World of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/04/omni-zionism-anthology-1.html These readings offer a randomly selected, brief sampling of criticism of Zionism mainly from the point of view of individual Jews and Jewish peace organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace. I have not tried to represent the history of Christian Zionism, which is also complex and abundant.  –Dick Esther Farmer and Rosalind Petchesky, and Sarah Sills, eds.  A Land with a People:  Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism.  Monthly Review P (2023).  https://monthlyreview.org/product/a-land-with-a-people/ Anti-Semitism  Anti-Zionism  Decolonization  Palestine  Reviews  Settler colonialism  Zionism  A Land With A People Edited by Esther Farmer, Rosalind Petchesky and Sarah Sills.  226 pages, $19. […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/04/omni-earth-day-april-22-2024.html ContentsTAKE ACTION FOR THE EARTH: Featured Organizations Jane Fonda for Greenpeace Rabbi Waskow for The Shalom Report Union of Concerned Scientists Google Search Additional Articles’ Way to a Better Fighting for our planet’s survival   4-20-24Jane Fonda, Greenpeace USA via uark.onmicrosoft.com  Hi, James. Jane here. I’m not only a climate activist — I’m also a cancer survivor, twice over now. I realize I’m lucky to have had amazing doctors and nurses, and grateful to live in a time in which so much progress has been made in researching this awful […]

April 5, 202 Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://Omnicenter.org/donate What’s at Stake: Cuba’s long resistance to US attempts to destroy its socialist government and society as a whole, and, despite the oppression, Cuba’s signal achievements.    CONTENTS OF CUBA ANTHOLOGY #12 US WAR ON CUBA The People’s Forum, “Bread for Our Neighbors, Let Cuba Live”Liberation News Staff.  “Three Lies about Cuba Debunked.” Pedro Ross.  How the Workers’ Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution .  Rev. by Dick BennettAtilio Borón.   “Leave Cuba Alone.” Dario Calvisi.  “Biden Administration Prolongs Economic Warfare on Cuba.” W. T. Whitney, Jr.  […]

United for Peace and Justice (3-30-24).  [Ellsberg is our greatest anti-nuclear war whistleblower.  –D] Last year, the Defuse Nuclear War coalition celebrated the first Daniel Ellsberg Week. Seeking “to honor peacemaking and whistleblowing,” the cities of Albuquerque, NM, San Francisco and Berkeley, CA issued proclamations designating April 24-30 as Daniel Ellsberg Week. This year Defuse Nuclear War will commemorate Ellsberg’s life and work again by demanding a world beyond nuclear weapons. Daniel Ellsberg Week 2024 will take place from June 10-16. By organizing a picket line, teach-in, vigil, or other event, you can give your community a chance to get involved with the ongoing […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/03/omni-convergence-of-catastrophes-wars.html Compiled by Dick Bennett, for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology March 8, 2024 HTTPS://OMNICENTER.ORG/DONATE What’s at Stake:   These essays reveal how rapidly and significantly awareness has grown world-wide of the full scope of increasing, intensifying, interrelated problems.   But not so much in the US.   ― Thomas Hardy RESISTING DOOM of CONVERGING CATASTROPHES CLIMATE CHANGE EMERGENCY THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS NOWAnd our stance should be??   4-15-23      Dante in “The Inferno” places fence-sitters (one translation) just outside Hell, stung eternally by swarming wasps.   Another translation renders the word opportunists.      If nuclear weapons and global warming each alone threatens our […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-white-christian-nationalism.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology What’s at Stake: CONTENTS Dan Partland. God and Country: A Major New Documentary Examines the Rise, Power–and Threat—of Christian Nationalism.  Bradley Onishi.  “Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next.”  Lerone Martin.  The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism.  Jennifer Rubin.  “Losing Status, Wealth, and Privilege. Why White Christian Nationalists are in such a panic.”    Donald Yacovone.  Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity. […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-economic-inequalitypoverty-usa-and.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology HTTPS://Omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS Books Mark Paul.  The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights. John Freeman.  Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation. Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page.  Democracy in America? What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It. articles Ian Angus.  “Dispossessed: Origins of the Working Class.”  Chris Hedges. “Know Thine Enemy: We are Ruled by One War Party and One Political Class.” Katharina Buchholz. “The Living Wage Gap.” Prabhat Patnaik. “What the GDP Hides.” Ari Paul. “Source Who […]