Dick’s Newsletter 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/05/may-day-labor-day-international-workers.html What’s at Stake:  “Our movement is historic: every year on International Workers Day, millions of people take to the streets around the world, commemorating workers’ struggles of the past and building power for the future.” CONTENTS Fayetteville, AR MAYDAY 2025 NYC MobilizationWin Without War WWWProgressive Change Campaign Committee PCCCProgressive Caucus Action Fund PCAF People Power UnitedVeterans for Peace Social Media Toolkit – Google Drive UUSJ Enews (2024 articles that arrived too late for inclusion in 2024 Anthology.) TEXTS May Day Workers Day Picnic of UA Education Assoc/Local 965 […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/04/omni-earth-day-april-22-2025.html What’s at Stake:   This April 22, the 55th Earth Day, reminds us of our struggle to create a livable planet for all, and how much is still at stake. Yet Arkansas’ members of Congress want to turn back the clock.   Futile as it might seem, let them know how you feel, to add to your protests.    Arkansas Senators, Representatives, and Congressional … CONTENTS EARTH DAY APRIL 22, 2025 OR Books AFSC, American Friends Service Committee FCNL, Friends Committee for National Legislation UUSJ, Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/04/omni-supporting-nevada-desert.html Nevada Desert Experience  “The Fierce Urgency of Now!” – Sacred Peace Walk in Nevada April 12-18, 2025. You don’t often get email from info@nevadadesertexperience.org. Learn why this is important Web version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward TABLE OF CONTENTS • Sacred Peace Walk. April 12-18 • Why We Walk • TO USE A MOUNTAIN – yucca mountain documentary • “The Only Sane Solution” Resisting Nuclear Weapons in Europe Sacred Peace Walk. April 12-18 When Martin Luther King Jr. referenced “The fierce urgency of now” in his speech delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, he was […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, Ecology, and the Idea of Democracy https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-trump-authoritarian-totalitarian.html What’s at Stake:  Observers were studying currents of US authoritarianism in the 1930s as Sinclair Lewis’ novel It Can’t Happen Here illustrates, long before Trump appeared in his first term Jan. 20, 2017.    Defenders of the US idea of democracy have had a long time to build its structure, yet it seems fragile under Trump’s onslaught.               CONTENTS 2008 Myerson and Roberto.  “Fascism and the Crisis of Pax American.” 2016 John Broich.  We Asked Sixteen Historians. Noam Chomsky     Heather Saul.  Noam Chomsky’s […]

INSURRECTION ANTHOLOGY January 2, 2022 OMNI TRUMP, AUTHORITARIANISM, AUTOCRACY, FASCISM, NAZISM ANTHOLOGY #1, March 20, 2025 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/01/omni-insurrection-anthology-january-2.html https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-trump-authoritarianism-autocracy.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, Ecology, and Idea of Democracy https://Omnicenter.org/donate What’s at Stake:  Recently when I began editing articles and books into a new Anthology on Trump and Fascism, I realized my Anthology on “Trump’s Insurrection” constituted a first Trump-Fascism Anthology.  Among the lessons of these anthologies are how fragile is our “democracy” and how long and how emphatically we have been warned. OMNI: INSURRECTION ANTHOLOGY January 2, 2022, go to https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/01/omni-insurrection-anthology-january-2.htmlThis anthology gathers articles, books, […]

(Reprinted). http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/03/russia-ukraine-newsletter-1.html https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-russia-newsletter-1-russia-and.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology. [Note: in a few years I changed my title from Newsletter to the more accurate Anthologies.   I am reprinting Anthology #1 because a decade later some part of the anti-war position seems to have reached the new War Lord, and President Trump seems about to end the US-NATO-Ukraine-Russia War!  It’s good time to review the struggle of truth-tellers and peace-makers to prevent then to stop the Ukraine War.] What’s at Stake:    The US superpower, imperial propaganda system is inciting fear and hatred of Russia, as […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-white-christian-plutocratic_20.html What’s at Stake:   “Christian nationalism radically shapes what Americans think about who they are as a people, what their future should look like, and how they should get there.”  Andrew Whitehead. CONTENTS Local Connection:  FFRF Chapter Actions. History Whitehead.  Taking America Back for God. Onishi.  Preparing for W ar: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism.Seidel.“The Shadow Network, Project 2025….”Seidel.   “Church-state separation and. . .Christian Nationalist abuse of power.”   Taylor.  The Violent Take It by Force. Du Mez.  Jesus and John Wayne. History, Analysis, Action American […]

COMPILED BY DICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGY https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-sovietrussophobia-and.html What’s at Stake:   When Trump and Secretary Hegseth yesterday announced Trump’s decision to accept Putin’s terms for an end of the Ukraine War, I was completing this Anthology.   OMNI had published 6 anthologies offering 75 articles that increase evidence of Soviet/Russophobia as a central pathology dominating US culture and an impetus for many US wars.  In addition, most of the anthologies on US wars describe animosity toward the USSR/Russia, including the 34 anthologies on all aspects of the Ukraine War.   Ukraine War anthologies nos. 32-34 contain 66 […]