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OMNI NEWSLETTER: EVENTS, ACTIONS, COMMENT
DECEMBER 7, 2005, BUILDING A CULTURE OF PEACE
Your contributions to this newsletter are welcome.
Next Newsletter in January. I wish you all a vigorous engagement for peace, justice, and ecology. Dick Bennett
UPCOMING EVENTS
DECEMBER 9, FRIDAY, 7PM, BIONEERS
"This October, we, Path Walker and Diana Rivers, went to California to attend the 16th annual Bioneers Conference. The Bioneers motto is, "join us in improving the environment by changing the world." All the presenters were actively involved in projects concerning ecology, justice, social change, peace, and all the places where these issues intersect. It was exciting to be part of the intense networking and sharing of ideas with people from around this county and the world, and to see so many organizations represented. We came back so impressed and inspired that we wanted to share Bioneers with people here by doing a presentation for OMNI members and for others in the community who might be interested - December 9th, 7 P.M., OMNI at the Deep End,, 902 W. Maple at the corner of Maple and Storer."
DECEMBER 10, HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
OMNI will display a sign outside United Campus Ministry reminding passers of this significant day. A good time to read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
NO WAR PROTEST by OMNI ON SUNDAYS from Dec. 11 through Jan. 1: DEC. 11, Dec. 18, Dec. 25, Jan. 1 You are of course free to protest as individuals, and I invite you to do it.
DECEMBER 11, SUNDAY, Video Underground presents "Spirit of Peace: A Peace Pilgrim Documentary" at 7:00 PM at the OMNI Center for Peace, Justice & Ecology. The story of Mildred Norman Rider who walked across the country for 28 years speaking out for peace. 841-2855. www.northwest-ark.com/vu Greg
DECEMBER 12, MONDAY, 5-minute Short Takes at CAT. Read something, sing, play, make an announcement or announcements like this one.
DECEMBER 13, TUESDAY, VOTING on Funding Highway Construction and Schools. Reflect upon Arkansas’ chief needs and priorities and VOTE.
DECEMBER 13, FILMING SHORT TAKES AT CAT, 12 NOON TO 1:30. Short takes are shown every day the following week at 11 am, 6 and 11 pm.
DECEMBER 13, Prof. Sam Totten will be interviewed about the genocide occurring in Darfur, a region of Sudan. Law Prof. Uche Ewelukwa, whose special field is human rights, will interview Totten. The program will be shown the week of Dec. 19-23. Prof. Totten, scholar of the prevention and intervention of genocide within the larger field of genocide studies, is also distributing a petition calling on Pres. Bush and congress to take action. For the petition: http://coalitionfordarfur.blogspot.com/2005/12/darfur-petition.html If unable to access that then simply email Totten at: stotten@uark.edu
With 400,000 deaths and 2 million displaced persons, the genocide in Darfur is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.
DECEMBER 13, 9P.M., AETN/PBS “FRONTLINE” explores how the culture of marketing has come to shape the way Americans understand the world and how the persuasion industries have migrated to politics, shaping the way politicians influence public opinion. Learn more about the show, revisit past episodes, even join the online discussions at .
DECEMBER 15, BILL OF RIGHTS DAY
OMNI will display a sign outside United Campus Ministry.
DECEMBER 15, OMNI STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING
5:30 Potluck, 6:00 Business.
DECEMBER 17, INVASION (March 2003) REMEMBRANCE AND PROTEST PLANNING MEETING
At OMNI 1:00. Contact Greg Moore (521-4706) or Chris Delacruz (chrisdelacruz2000@yahoo.com).
DECEMBER 31, NEW YEAR’S EVE, ONE VOICE PEACE COVENANT CELEBRATION School of Metaphysics and OMNI at United Campus Ministry, 10:00 PM to 1:00AM. 527-6804
FAYETTEVILLE, NWA, ARKANSAS
OMNI FUNDRAISER
hi folks, well...we did it! last night's bash was, in my opinion, a success on all levels...everyone seemed to have a great time and we raised a nice chunk of money...over $1700 so far with a little more to trickle in from items sold to folks who had to leave before the end of the evening. What an amazing job of setting up, orchestrating and then cleaning up after all was done. This is the stuff successful events are made of and together we made it happen. Thanks so very much for your support of omni. bless you all. peace, Karen
(From Dick: I am working on a list of our activities for which your money is used—and remember that OMNI has no ovehead: we are all volunteers. I. Honoraria, regular programs and ad hoc: for example, we bring speakers to our Hiroshima-Nagasaki Remembrance every August (Medea Benjamin in 2005), and we brought Ann Fagan Ginger to speak about human rights and Edward Lollis on peace monuments around the world. II. Awards: especially annually for our Martin Luther King, Jr., essay contest for students, our Critical Thinking awards for teachers, PeaceOut awards for young people’s writings on peace, Outstanding Arkansas Peacemakers awards, PeaceWriting awards for unpublished books.)
CULTURE OF PEACE OR WAR?
PEACE STORIES
TMN has been inviting veterans and their families to share their War Stories with readers of TMN. Shall OMNI start Peace Stories? Does this idea attract you to manage it for us? This is Building a Culture of Peace straight on by offering a peacemaking alternative to one of the countless grassroots activities generating the war culture.
WAR GOVERNMENT
We see often this claim: “the GOP majority has focused on limiting, not expanding, the federal government’s size and scope” (TMN12-6, Ronald Brownstein of the LA Times). But is this true? Brownstein omits the military establishment, which consumes half the US budget. Comment?
WAR TOYS
SAY NO TO WAR TOYS
Every holiday season, manufacturers prey on our children with pro-war propaganda disguised as innocent toys. Don't let your child be a victim of G.I. Joe! As you're out buying holiday gifts, make a point this year to show our children that war is no game. Set an example for the youth in your life and use the opportunity to teach them non-violence. Check out the No War Toys webpage for ideas and actions you can take to Say No to War Toys!
(http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?id=637).
TOY SOLDIERS BRING THEM HOME
Valerie Mapstone Ackerman became inspired by a story on NPR about a Chicago woman, who began her own personal campaign to bring our soldiers home from Iraq.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5021524
Basically, it entails acquiring toy soldiers (even though we all eschew war toys!), attaching a message to them ("Please bring me home") and then surreptitiously leaving them in public places, giving as Christmas presents, or taking to the offices of Cong. Boozman and Senators Lincoln and Pryor.
DECEMBER 7, PEARL HARBOR DAY, REMEMBERING AND CELEBRATING US WARS
Who, what caused Pearl Harbor, which brought the US into WWII? Read Roland H. Worth, Jr., No Choice But War: The United States Embargo Against Japan and the Eruption of War in the Pacific (McFarland, 1995). Here is one of his conclusions: “…without the [U.S. embargo] boycott the war would not have erupted when it did, if it had at all. Thousands of American servicemen [he forgot to mention the hundreds of thousands of civilians]died needlessly.”
OMNI DIALOG ON Terrorism in the Middle East: Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia
In our last Newsletter, I wrote the following:
TERRORISM Why did terrorists led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi bomb the hotels in Jordan? Let’s share what we learn, to help make sense of it. An AP writer in TMN (11-14) gave these 3 motives or goals: “toppling pro-American Arab rulers, erecting an Islamic caliphate, and targeting Israel.” Fred Ghitis in ADG (11-11) wrote: “the real objective is to undermine and ultimately depose the secular Jordanian government of King Abdullah II.”
Here is Dwayne Knox’s reply:
Dick, Perhaps a clue might be found in the name of al-Zarqawi's group?
Although it was barely mentioned at the time - and has been ignored since - the group formerly known as "al-Qaeda in Iraq" now calls itself "al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia".
I'm sure you are aware that present day Iraq and Jordan were created out of former Turkish provinces "liberated" by British armies during WWI. The British remade the region in it's own image - they created the "kingdoms" of Iraq and Jordan and imported "royalty" from Arabia to rule them. The Iraqi's killed their king in 1958, and dragged his body through the streets of Baghdad. For a brief period, before the overthrow of the monarchy - Jordan and Iraq formed the "Arab Union".
I think al-Zarqawi makes no distinction between the "countries" we call Jordan, Syria and Iraq. Those borders were drawn by Winston Churchill - with no regard for the language and cultures of the area. The population considers themselves Arab, or Turkmen, or Kurdish, regardless of present boundaries.
Iraq War Commentary
Ozarks at Large is currently accepting commentary submissions for an hour radio program that will feature a variety of Ozark voices discussing their thoughts, feelings, opinions and personal stories concerning the Iraq war. ”We are particularly curious about the personal stories, motivations, and daily life events that brought you to these current opinions and feelings. We are not simply looking for pro and anti war commentaries. Commentaries need to be approx. one and half pages double-spaced. Ozarks at Large is a weekly radio show featuring news, arts, events and voices from the Ozarks. Ozarks at Large is a production of KUAF 91.3 FM, Fayetteville and Fort Smith. For more information about the show please visit www.kuaf.comQuestions? send an email to ozarksatlarge@yahoo.com”
ARKANSAS PRIORITIES
---ATHLETICS VS. ACADEMICS: Gov. Huckabee has appointed Ben Mays to the state Board of Education. Mays crusades against the bloated, disguised athletic expenditures in the public schools, and demands the schools follow Act 52 of the 2003 special session requiring schools to track all athletic expenses. He suggests the state redirect money from athletics to academics in order to meet the court mandated order for equal and adequate schools.
---HEALTH INSURANCE: More than 240,000 children of Arkansas’ working poor have medical insurance through the ARKids First program started by Arkansas Advocates for Chidren & Families and Governor Huckabee. Not all the kids, but the uninsured rate has fallen from 19.4 % 8 years ago to 10% today. This important expenditure must be sustained and increased until all children are protected. (TMN 11-30).
INTERNATIONALISM
The Bentonville Christmas parade this year included Bentonville High School International Club members carrying flags from around the world. Here is an opportunity for us—to identify all the international interests and activities in NWA and bring them together for international amity. Will you lead the way?
CHARITY
HOMELESS
One of the problems with the local charity approach to poverty (fully exposed regarding the 19th century in novels by Charles Dickens and numerous other writers) is its erratic effectiveness: it might be good in one locality and poor or even absent in another. TMN (12-3) reported that Phillips County with the second highest number of people without homes in Arkansas has no homeless shelter. Where do the impoverished live? “…many were living in abandoned buildings, with friends, in a vehicle, or outdoors.” Our Ark. legislators should pass legislation to help the homeless equally?
ECOLOGY: BIRD COUNT
The Audubon bird count 2005 will occur soon, revealing the changes since the count began. The correlation of bird population changes with NWA sprawl would be very interesting. Share your ideas with readers of this newsletter.
WHISTLEBLOWER
An important whistleblower victory in NWA was announced 12-6 (TMN 12-7). Whistleblower James Hoelscher, Jr., was awarded $250,000 by the Beaver Water District, which fired Hoeschler for reporting violations of the Clean Water Act and for assisting two females (BWD claimed H. was fired for insubordination). Historically, whistleblowers, who expose wrongdoings by government agencies and corporations, usually suffer greatly, and their families, so it is gratifying when one receives some reward.
CRITICAL THINKING and the WAR
Jonathan Chait (LA Times) applies logical fallacy analysis to pro-invasion arguments (TMN 12-7) to expose the illogic of the “flip-flopping” and the “sunk costs” arguments. (OMNI has established a $500 annual award for the outstanding Fayetteville High School teacher of critical thinking, and knowledge of logical fallacies is a major instrument of clear thinking.)
FREE SPEECH TV on CAT Channel 18 daily 3am to 9am (paid for by OMNI
Examples of the programs:
---“Bush Family Fortunes,” Bush Admin. corruption: stolen election in Florida, $corporate financial bribery for deregulation etc. (by Greg Palast, based on his book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy).
---“Farm Inc.,” Part I, Part II by Alternative Voices
---“The World Tribunal on Iraq” in Istanbul, Turkey, June 2005. Global indictment of the US invasion.
---“Hemp and the Rule of Law,” advocates legality of industrial hemp.
---“Alternative Agriculture: Food for Life.” This David Suzuki The Nature of Things program describes the current corporate industrial/factory farm system (inseparable from the corporate fast food industry) as dysfunctional, ridden with hidden costs (polluted ground water, prophylactic overuse of antibiotics, etc.).
---“Freedom to Marry Day” Feb. 25 in San Francisco, a strong indictment of discrimination against gays.
---“Fetal Positions” about anti-abortion extremists and defenders of planned parenthood in Milwaukee.
---Every week day at 7a.m., Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now” (Fri.: grad students organizing at NYU, speech and association censorship at a college, etc.)
USA, WORLD
NEW ALI PEACE CENTER
The Muhammad Ali Center (www.alicenter.org), an $80 million education center dedicated to uniting people in peace from all races and creeds, has opened in Louisville, Ali’s hometown. The Center has already hosted a summit on mutual understanding, and it has a partnership with the UN and King’s College London for young people. In 1998, the UN named Ali a worldwide Messenger of Peace, and Amnesty International gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award. Despite being afflicted by Parkinson’s disease, Ali travels more than 100 days a year to support humanitarian causes. (from USA Weekend).
ALTERNATIVE GIFTS
See report in TMN (12-4-05) on nonprofits that provide shopping that helps others. Two of the several listed are Alternative Gifts International of Wichita (www.altgifts.org/bin/site/templates/spash.asp) and Heifer Int.
ELECTION MONEY$$
The Center For Responsive Politics tracks election money (the website name has changed to "open secrets").
http://www.crp.org http://opensecrets.org Carl
PATRIOT ACT VICTIMS FREED
A jury in Florida rejected the Patriot Act’s expanded search and surveillance powers and exonerated Prof. Sami Al-Arian and his co-defendents. Al-Arian was acquitted of 8 of the 17 counts, and the jury deadlocked on the others; Hatem Naji Fariz was found not guilty on 25 counts, and jurors deadlocked on the remaining 8; Sameeh Hammoudeh and Ghassan Zayed Ballut were acquitted of all charges. Al-Arian was indicted in 2003 as “one of the most important terrorist figures [and was] hailed by then Attorney General John Ashcroft as one of the first triumphs of the Patriot Act, which was enacted in the weeks after Sept. 11.” (TMN 12-7).
WAR
GET OUT OF IRAQ
MoveOn is circulating a petition calling on Congress to insist on an exit strategy to bring the troops home in 2006. http://political.moveon.org/iraq/
Ten Ways to Argue about the War by Tom Engelhardt and Michael Schwartz Engelhardt lists many of the recent bungles and wrongdoings by the US. Michael Schwartz takes the arguments that remain for war supporters and that still can confound antiwar people and answers them one by one. Bill
HERSH ON THE WAR
Go to http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/051205fa_fact to read SEYMOUR M. HERSH's article "Up in the Air" in the Dec 2005 issue of the New Yorker Magazine, Posted 2005-11-28. The article is about where he thinks the Iraq war is headed next. Chris.
US HASTE TO WAR
We are being distracted by the debate over whether faulty intelligence or outright fabrication by presidents led to all-out war against Vietnam and Iraq (see TMN 12-3, 5B, “Bad Intelligence Noted”). The much more difficult and dangerous problem is the eagerness with which the presidents and the congresses, with popular support, rush to wars with the most dubious justification—the militarism of the US. From the purported attack on our ships in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964 to the Iraqi WMD of 2003, our White House/Congressional warriors/war mongers leaped to war. You see how deeply entrenched these aggressions are: both actions made presidents and congresspeople popular patriotic heroes, and only later, far too late, after their own sons came home in body bags (few cared about the unlawful, immoral slaughter of perhaps 2 million slaughtered Vietnamese) , did the U. S. public turn against the wars. The peace movement must engage in a sustained demilitarization of our nation. OMNI is dedicated to the task. Will you join us?
SAVE THE KIDNAPPED CHRISTIAN PEACEMAKERS
“This is an call for help. I (Barbara Paleczny) know James Loney who is one of the four Christian Peacemaker captives kidnaped in Iraq last week. Most often I met him during vigils for peace on the streets of Toronto. He is one the Catholic Worker Community there. The kidnappers have threatened to kill James and the other three hostages. 1. Go to this website and sign the petition: http://freethecaptivesnow.org/
2. Send emails to the feedback pages of major international media, especially in the Gulf region, repeating the call to free the captives: Here are two: Aljazeera: http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage Click on 'feedback' at the bottom of the homepage. Al Arabiya: http://www.alarabiya.net/english.htm; contactus@alarabiya.net
Barbara Paleczny SSND Email: barb@paleczny.com or barbpaleczny@sbcglobal.net “
VIOLENCE
From child abuse in USA (TMN 12-3) to killing Iraqis (now at least 27,000 civilians since the March 2003 invasion), does the US need a crusade against its own violence? Send your Newsletter your opinion. Could we do it? We spent trillions of dollars building some 40,000 nuclear bombs targeted against the Soviet Union during the “Cold War” (when a few hundred would destroy civilization). We are spending billions of dollars on this unlawful, murderous war in Iraq. Could all that wasted money have transformed the nation and the world? Could every town like Springdale have had a with a Jones Center free to everybody and an economic philosophy of full employment?
WAR ON TERRORISM: SEPTEMBER 11 COMMISSION
Did you read the complaint by the former chairman of the Sept. 11 Commission that terrorist attacks pose great threat because of failure to implement security measures? (TMN 12-5). What was omitted? Not a word about changing US foreign policies which grow terrorists like tadpoles. Speak out.
WAR ON TERRORISM: TORTURE
Our Black House advocates use of (selected) torture to extract formation from suspected terrorists. The public is much infected by that unlawful, immoral policy. In response to the question, “Do you feel the use of torture against suspected terrorists to obtain information about terrorism activities is justified?” 23% of US respondents said “sometimes” and 27% replied “often”; only 36% said “never.” This contrasts with 60% “never” in Italy and 54% in Spain. (see TMN 12-7 for full report.). Support Sen. McCain’s ban on torture (TMN 12-5). Call our representatives
SECRECY: DRUG RESEARCH
The widening secrecy by this administration exceeds former administrations. A new example: TMN 12-3 (an article by AP writer Andrew Bridges) describes the efforts of some lawmakers to create a new federal agency and shield it from public scrutiny, using national security as their justification. The proposed Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency, or BARDA, would be exempt from open records and meetings laws for government agencies, protect the proprietary interests of drug companies, and give manufacturers immunity from liability. The bill has passed the Senate Health Committee. The consumer advocacy group, the National Vaccine Information Center, called the legislation “a drug company stockholder’s dream.” Let Boozman, Lincoln, and Pryor know your opinion.
WHY THE DECLINE OF US LIFE QUALITY?
Paul Rogat Loeb –“ It’s not our individual decisions that are gutting our pensions, raising medical costs sky high, and making our lives on this rich and fruitful earth increasingly precarious. The economic squeeze faced by everyone except a handful of individuals at the top comes from thirty years of deliberate political choices--union-busting, regressive tax and trade policies, an eroding minimum wage, and a collapse of moral and political restraints on destructive greed.” www.paulloeb.org Paul Rogat Loeb is the author of “The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear,” named the #3 political book of 2004 by the History Channel and the American Book Association, and winner of the Nautilus Award for best social change book of the year. His previous books include “Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time.” Let us hear what you think is the nature of our declines and what is causing it.
LIFE? WHAT IS “LIFE”? WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE GENUINELY “PRO-LIFE”? Let’s start a dialog here.
I. Does “life” include a fetus? Darrell Henschell argues that the Hebrew/Christian Bible gives the fetus no status, it contains no law prohibiting abortion, and Jesus never mentions abortion. See: www.fayfreethinkers.com
II. If “life” begins with birth, is there a hierarchy of human value in the H-C Bible—children, women, men? In other value systems? Should there be?
III. In your opinion what human “life” should be cherished, protected, and nourished? The poor, hungry, and malnourished?
IV. Should other species be included?
V. Does inclusion of fetuses as “life” distract us from the perils facing already existing humans and other species?
DARFUR
With 400,000 deaths and 2 million displaced persons, the genocide in Darfur is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. More should be done, says former US Ambassador to the UN Richard Williamson. Read his recent op/ed to the Chicago Sun-Times...
See also: George Arnold, “Genocide? Who Cares?” in ADG (11-29) and a letter by Justin Minkel, “Don’t Look the Other Way,” NAT (11-30).
TUESDAY DEC. 13, UA’s Prof. Sam Totten will be interviewed on CAT by Prof. Uche Ewelukwa about the genocide in Darfur.
Today please make the time to call your two Senators and your Congressional representative, expressing your desire for the American government to help stop the genocide in Darfur. To read more about this human slaughter and how you personally can help stop it, go to http://www.savedarfur.org.
To make your case stronger when speaking to your Congresspeople or their aids, you might want to make these points:
1) The U.S. should help build the African Union Security Force (Congress recently cut out the $50 million dollars from the federal budget that would have been used for this purpose).
2) There needs to be an expanded U.N. security force in Darfur
3) The U.S. should support a no-fly zone to protect civilians
4) The Darfur Peace and Accountability Act has been watered-down. Ask our congresspeople to reinsert the initial wording/requests and then pass the bill in the House of Representatives
5) We want President Bush to talk about this issue whenever and however possible, to awaken the American people to the horror of this situation and to our moral responsibility to address it.
It has been said that if one hundred people in each Congressional district in the U.S. had contacted their representatives about the Rwandan genocide, then that would have generated the political will to stop it. The Rwandan horror is being repeated today in the Sudan, and
the U.S. is not yet doing everything we can to help. Not even close. Dante's famous quote resonates: "There is a special place in hell reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, remain neutral." Genocide in the Sudan is a moral crisis of the first degree. And we
can stop it.
The above statement derived from Prof. Stotten and Marianne Williamson of Peace Alliance. Dick
FOR WOMEN: RECOMMENDED READING from NOW
· Alito's Smoking Gun - Harold Meyerson, The Washington Post
· The Woman Behind Arnold's Defeat - Kathleen Sharp, Alternet
· Army's planned sexual assault database meets with opposition - Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press
· Women Who Suffer Domestic Violence Experience Long-Lasting Health Problems, Report Says - World Health Organization Report
ECOLOGY
--- CLIMATE CHANGE: ATLANTIC OCEAN
The ocean current that gives western Europe its relatively balmy climate is stuttering, raising worries that it might fail entirely and plunge the continent into a mini ice age. The dramatic finding comes from a study of ocean circulation in the North Atlantic, which found a 30% reduction in the warm currents that carry water north from the Gulf Stream. Read the full story here: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8398
Or visit our continually updated Climate Change special report: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change What are our congressional representatives doing about this? Talk to them. See below. And talk to your environmental organizations.
---Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics: www.fseee.org Among other activities, they are working against HR4200, which allows the Service to designate various natural events as catastrophes, allowing all kinds of logging, including clear-cutting. Contact Cong. Boozman (see below).
--- Save the Arctic Refuge and other public lands
The House returns this week (and the Senate next week) from Thanksgiving break, and there's a small chance the House/Senate conference on the budget bill will take place this month. We need to be sure Congress hears loud and clear that no legislation should pass if it has measures to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or mining law changes that would authorize the sale of some of our best western lands. Send that message now from:
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/arcticconference/i6nksbg9z7ktkk8?
Also, it's not too late to sign our citizen's petition to protect roadless areas on our national forests. You can sign the petition at:
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/roadlesspetition/i6nksbg9z7ktkk8?
UNITED NATIONS NEWS
International Criminal Court Head Reports to UN; Gains More Support
by John Washburn
The General Assembly hailed one of its own best achievements, the International Criminal Court (ICC), with speeches of praise and celebration on November 8. The president of the court, Judge Philippe Kirsch, was there to present in person his first report of the court to the Assembly—a report that was circulated in August—and to recount important and significant events and progress that have occurred since that time. Read more...
Tensions Caused by US Place UN Reform Efforts on Steep Hill
by William H. Luers
Disagreements over the budget and the sequencing of the reform agenda have polarized United Nations member states on steps to renew the organization. Only two months after a bruising process of negotiations led to the surprisingly harmonious agreement at the September World Summit known as the "outcome document," the bruising has resumed in earnest. Read More...
KC RADIO ONLINE
KKFI 90.1 FM in Kansas City is now streaming online. You can listen by going to www.kkfi.org and clicking on streaming in the column in the upper left hand side of your screen. If you want to find out what is playing when, you can click on the word schedule.
CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
--Senator Blanche Lincoln: Web Site: www.lincoln.senate.gov
Washington Office:355 Dirksen Senate Office BuildingWashington, D.C. 20510-0404
Phone: (202) 224-4843 Fax: (202) 228-1371. Fayetteville office: 251-1380;.
--Senator Mark Pryor: Web Site: pryor.senate.gov
Washington Office:217 Russell Senate Office BuildingWashington, D.C. 20510-0403
Phone: (202) 224-2353 Fax: (202) 228-0908
Main District Office:700 W. Capitol, Rm. 2527 Little Rock, AR 72201
Phone: (501) 324-6336 Fax: (501) 324-5320
--Congressman John Boozman, District 3, 12 counties from Benton to Washington
Lowell office: 479-725-0400. 213 W. Monroe, Suite K, 72745. Steve Gray, coodinator of office. Heath Hasenbeck, intern (one of them). Boozman's new office in Lowell is in the Puppy Creek Plaza, past the McDonald's on the right. His suite is in the back of the complex to the left.
Ft. Smith office: 479-782-7787; 30 South 6th St. Rm 240, Ft. Smith 72901.
Harrison office: 870-741-6900; 402 N. Walnut, Suite 210, Harrison 72601.
DC address: 1708 Longworth House Office Bldng., Washington, DC 20515; 202-225-4301. Leslie Parker, appointments secretary: 202-225-4301.
OMNI SEEKS A WORLD FREE OF WAR AND THE THREAT OF WAR, A SOCIETY WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL, A COMMUNITY WHERE EVERY PERSON’S POTENTIAL MAY BE FULFILLED, AN EARTH RESTORED. GRASSROOTS NONVIOLENCE, WORLD PEACE, HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIAL and ECONOMIC JUSTICE, ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP PROTECTING SPECIES AND THE EARTH.
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