Dick’s Newsletters 2021

HOW COULD WE HAVE KNOWN?  A Timeline 1926-2000. Compiled by Dick Bennett, revised New Year’s Eve 2021. https://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/2151229136087998997 A CHRONOLOGICAL SAMPLE OF BOOKS, ARTICLES, FILMS, EVENTS REVEALING THE LONG, OBSTRUCTED LEARNING CURVE OF GLOBAL WARMING ANTICIPATING THE PRESENT URGENCY OF GLOBAL CHANGE BECOMING CLIMATE CATASTROPHE/EMERGENCY/CHAOS:  FROM 1926 TO 2000.   The expanded Timeline years 2000 to present will appear soon.  (Years in 18 point type; texts in 12.  Roughly, Green indicates advancing knowledge of the reality of climate change, of ensuing climate calamity, emergency, and chaos, and of resisters.  Red indicates villains and villainy defending the status quo by corporations, denial, […]

OMNI UN COP26 Glasgow Followup #2, 11-17/12-4, 2021 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/12/omni-un-cop26-glasgow-followup-2-11.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS I reported all I received after 11-17, leaving blank the days my sources did not report on COP26. 11-19Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Guterres’ dark appraisal of COP 26 (“the      army of corporate executives and lobbyists”), COP 27 UNA/USA  Keyon Rostamnezhad, UNA/USA Today  UNA CALL TO TAKE ACTION  Read IPCC Report 11-20Baraka, Black Agenda Report, Popular Resistance.org: COP26 Northern Colonial Capitalist Greenwashing. 11-24Prashad and Alexandra, Two gains at COP26: next COP in 2022 and 1.5     degrees Celcius kept alive.Harris, Climate […]

OMNI UN INTERNATIONAL DAY IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE NOVEMBER 29, 2021. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/un-international-day-in-solidarity-with.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology. https://omnicenter.org/donate/   CONTENTS UN International Day in Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Nov. 29, 2021 AFSC, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2021. Weekend Reading.“Detained Bodies”   Friends of Sabeel North       America friends@fosna.org.    9-1-21. George Paulson: Abby Martin, BDS, Miko Peled, doc. film “Gaza      Fights for Freedom”“Our Effort, or Our Apathy?”  Noura Erakat for Eyewitness     Palestine info@eyewitnesspalestine.org  5-9-19. Free Palestine Movement?     TEXTS UN International Day in Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Nov. 29, 2021 AFSC.    U.N. Day […]

–THANKSGIVING DAY NEWSLETTER #9, NOVEMBER 25, 2021, NATIONAL DAY OF GRATITUDE, MOURNING, AND ATONEMENT.  And BLACK FRIDAY/BUY NOTHING DAY NOV. 26. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/omni-national-day-of-mourning-9.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING #9, 2021 James W. Loewen, Truth about First Thanksgiving Cole’s Hill, Frank James, Massasoit Matt Taibbi, the Pilgrims and the Taliban 4 essays from Popular Resistance.org   UAINE, Kisha James, 52nd Day of Mourning in Plymouth   Thanksgiving March to Free Indigenous Kids   Racism and Human Rights   Protest of Arresting Journalists of Wet’suwet’en Day of Mourning #8, 2020 […]

BUY NOTHING DAY NEWSLETTER #3, November 24, 2021. Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and the Environment. Omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS #3 Nov. 24, 2021 2021 Fridays for Future Google Search 2021 BND Google Search 2019 Strikes, Calls for National Emergencies, PLANET EMERGENCY In the wealthy north, instead of Black Friday, shopping, consuming, commodifying, flying, driving, growing, developing, heating up the atmosphere, destroying the planet, do the opposite: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Stop Population Growth, Join Fridays for Future, BUY NOTHING, STRIKE!  TEXTS 2021 FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE GOOGLE SEARCH NOVEMBER 24, 2021 Fridays For Future is an international climate […]

BIDEN’S FOREIGN POLICY SAME OLD  IMPERIAL MILITARISM, NEWSLETTER #1 NOVEMBER 23, 2021 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/omni-under-biden-imperial-foreign.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS 2020-2021Kuzmarov, Hawk Biden’s Foreign PolicyPrashad, Biden Will Keep the Cold War RollingRich War Hawks in Biden’s Foreign Policy TeamTom Introduces Alfred McCoy on Biden’s Continuation of Obama’s Pivot toward ChinaAmy Frame, “Biden Oks $1 Billion in Weapons Sales to Saudis”Erica Fine, “Apocalyptically Dangerous” Nuclear Weapons DevelopmentBiden’s Secretary of State Sees No Change in Foreign Policy TEXTS 2020-2021  “Beware of the Hawk: What to Expect from the Biden Administration on Foreign Policy” By Jeremy […]

OMNI UN COP26 Glasgow Followup, #1, 11-14/ 11-17, 2021 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/omni-un-cop26-glasgow-followup-1-11-14.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS NOV. 14-2014 Corporate Accountability 11-14 2015 Morning Star Online  11-15 2016Earth Overshoot 11-16 Extinction Rebellion 11-16 Avaaz 11-16 Alexandria Octavia-Cortez  11-16 2017 Insider, Sierra Magazine, 11-17 Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, 11-17 TEXTS NOV. 14- NOVEMBER 14, 2021 As we run out of time to save the planet, COP26 ends in ‘utter betrayal’Originally published: The Canary by Peadar O’Cearnaigh (November 14, 2021 )  |  – Posted Nov 16, 2021 Climate Change, Environment, Movements, StrategyGlobalNewswireExtinction Rebellion, Glasgow Climate Pact, Greta Thunberg, United Nations Climate Change […]

OMNI UN COP26 Glasgow Countdown, #7, 11-12/  11-14, 2021 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/omni-un-cop-26-glasgow-countdown-7-11.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/ Contents OMNI UN COP26 Glasgow Countdown, #7, 11-12/11-14, 2021 Early Background Review, October 26, NRDCWill COP26 Move Us Closer to Solving the Climate Crisis? Leaders from across the globe will meet soon to accelerate actions to confront climate change. Here’s what to expect. October 26, 2021 A mural next to the Clydeside Expressway near the Scottish Events Centre, which will be hosting the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference from October 31–November 12, 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland […]