OMNI NEWSLETTER: EVENTS, ACTIONS, COMMENT
OMNI NEWSLETTER: EVENTS,
ACTIONS, COMMENT
APRIL 12, 2006, CREATING A CULTURE OF PEACE
UPCOMING EVENTS
APRIL IS SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH
STAR Central and the RESPECT program at UA will sponsor and lead a
number of educational and awareness events during the month of April to address
and speak out against sexual assault and violence, particularly violence
against women. STAR Central, an office in the
APRIL 12, Wednesday
The Fayetteville Natural Heritage Association hosts
Nature Guy (Michael Warriner) and Karen Smith, director of the ANHC, as
speakers for our April information meeting. Michael and Karen will talk about
the ANHC approach to ecosystem management and highlight natural areas in
APRIL 13, Thursday, The Untold Story of Emmett Till. At
11 and 6 in theUunion Theater. OMNI UA.
APRIL
13-14 BILL CHAMEIDES ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Thursday evening April 13 at 7:30 Center for Poultry Research Uof A
(Razorback & Maple). Reception after talk. "Why an Academic Left the
Hallowed Halls to Advocate Action on Climate Change"
Friday Afternoon April 14 at 4:00 Sharrah Lecture Hall Rm 133 U of A Physics
(Dickson & Duncan) Physics Colloquim Refreshments at 3:30. "Why
Scientists Agree: Now is the Critical Time For Action on Climate
Change"
Bill Chameides, Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense Chameides received his
Ph.D. from
Chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Chameides joined Environmental
Defense in 2005. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, a
Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, a recipient of the American
Geophysical Union's Macelwane Award, and, "in recognition of extraordinary
service," was named a National Associate of the National Academies.
Chameides' research focuses on global biogeochemical cycles, global
change, and urban and regional-scale air pollution. He has authored or
co-authored more than 130 scientific
publications, and 5 books.
APRIL 14-30, “A Few Good Men” at Rogers
Little Theater (a beautiful new theater out of the old movie house): a Navy
lawyer struggles to expose a deadly Marine officer.
APRIL 16, SUNDAY, 11AM TO 1:30 PM,
PROTEST THE WAR, COLLEGE AND DICKSON
APRIL 16, SUNDAY, 7pm, HOWL,
Women’s reading group (but men are welcome to attend), at OMNI. Every
third Sunday. The room has been packed the past Sundays.
APRIL 18, TUESDAY, OMNI MONTHLY FORUM
ON CAT
The NWA Workers'
April 19, Wednesday, Monthly Member Meeting, League of Women Voters of
Washington County, FPL, 11:30 a.m., bring sack lunch. Contact: Betty Solis.
(pron. Soleece)
APRIL 20, THURSDAY, OMNI MONTHLY STEERING
COMMITTEE
5:30 POTLUCK, BUSINESS AT 6
APRIL 21, FRIDAY, Pray for our
Planet: Earth Day Eve, 7-8PM,
APRIL 22, SATURDAY, EARTH DAY, OMNI
AND SIERRA HAVE 2 BIG EVENTS
11-2 WORLD PEACE WETLAND PRAIRIE
RESTORATION Work and Celebration. Music, information, brown bag lunch/picnic.
Contact Jennifer Creel, Fran Free, Kelly Mulhollan, Donna Stjerna.
Co-sponsored by Audubon
LECTURE WITH FILMS BY LINCOLN AND
ALICE DAY from
APRIL 23, SUNDAY, PROTEST THE WAR,
11AM – 1:30 PM, COLLEGE AND DICKSON
APRIL 23, VIDEO UNDERGROUND, AT OMNI
Contact Pippin Lowe. piplo@sbcglobal.net
APRIL 26th, 27th, and 28th 6-9pm
CAT TV's annual SPRING FLING
FUNDRAISER. Jori Costello MC.
Community Talent Show in 3 CATegories:
WED. – DRAMA THURS. – COMEDY FRI. - ACOUSTIC MUSIC
LIVE at the CAT TV studio! $10 entry form for 10 minutes to perform and the
WINNERS are based on pledges received so have your friends, family, and friends
(oh my!) to call in their donation for your act. Also studio audience members
are highly recommended, so c'mon down to the CAT and have some fun while
supporting freedom of speech and being involved in your community!
APRIL 27,
In the very center of these issues has been this attorney and United Church
of Christ minister, Barry Lynn. Call 747-7777 to make a reservation.
**Reservations must be made by April 20th.
Fellowship Congregational Church is located at 29th and South Harvard, west
side of the street, immediately South of Braums. From Barbara M
APRIL 28, FRIDAY, FOURTH ANNUAL NWA “TAKE BACK THE NIGHT
MARCH”
6:30
APRIL 28, Grant Writing Workshop, contact Kate
Guendling, kguendling@yahoo.com
April 29, Saturday, CAT’s FREEDOM
VIDEO FESTIVAL
SATURDAY, APRIL 29th – free all day long on the big screen at the
Radisson.
And THE FAT CAT AWARDS! recognizing local producers who have aired shows on CAT
in 2005. Also on April 29th at the Radisson 6-8pm. Tickets are $10 with food
served.
MAY 3, Wednesday, 7P.M. Jordanian pianist
& songwriter Aziz Maraka to perform "Bonds Across Borders"
featuring razz music, a unique blend of American jazz, rock, and traditional
Arabian music in the Arkansas Union Ballroom on the U of A campus. The concert
is free. Titled "Bonds Across Borders," the performance is
dedicated to the idea that music can, and must, transcend the differences among
nations.
MAY 4, THURSDAY, MARTIN
LUTHER KING JR. ESSAY AWARDS
Fayetteville
May 6, Saturday
SPRINGFEST, OMNI all day in
WAC’s Rose Garden on
OMNI ANNUAL PLANT
Ready to start your
garden? Develop it? Give to others?
9a.m. to 1:00 p.m., at OMNI
at United Campus Ministry, 9 02 W. Maple in
PROTEST THE WAR, Mall and
Joyce at McDonald’s, 10:30- noon. Contact Chris
RAPID RESPONSE WRITERS,
11:30,
MAY 7, SUNDAY, 7PM, OMNI
OPEN MIC
At OMNI. Contact Kelly
Mulhollan and
MAY 10, WEDNESDAY, 7pm,
JOHN SEED ON “Global Warming, Endless Warfare, Pollution, and Mass
Extinction.” Australian Rainforest Activist, John Seed explores deep
ecology and how to be engaged and effective at such a time. At Giffels
Auditorium in Old
May 11, Botanical Garden Society, 11th
Annual Greening of the Garden
6:30, $30. 443-6638.
MAY 13, OMNI ANNUAL JULIA
WARD HOWE MOTHER’S DAY BRUNCH
Contact Melanie Dietzel melaniedietzel@cox.net
MAY 14, OMNI VIDEO
UNDERGROUND
CATHOLIC WORKER REPRESENTATIVE VISITING ST. JOSEPH’S (watch for
info.)
Many CW chapters publish newsletters. From
JUNE 2-4, CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT, ,
“The Environmental Wars: The Science Behind the Politics,”
The Skeptics Society
JULY 23-27, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NONVIOLENCE
“Globalising Nonviolence,” War Resisters League Conference
in
MAY 24, BOOK FORUM
Panelists will discuss the new book The Human Potential for Peace by Douglas
Fry (
June 26 - June 30, 2006. A Nuclear Workshop: "
Workshop details at http://titan.iwu.edu/~physics/Hiroshima.html
SEPTEMBER 29,
The 6th Global Fusion
Conference will take place in downtown
OMNI’S
LENDING LIBRARY
We offer a shelf of books on peacemakers—e.g., Disarmed and Dangerous: The Radical Lives and Times
of Daniel and Philip Berrigan, by Polner and O’Grady.
FREE
SPEECH TV on CAT Ch. 18 (FSTV, funded by OMNI)
Online network: www.freespeech.org,
303-542-4820, Tools to Create a Better World
DEMOCRACY
NOW
You can get Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now” every
weekday morning at 7 and weekends at 5, or on your computer: www.democracynow.org, both audio and
video..
OMNI UA’S FIRST FUNDED PROGRAM
UA OMNI had the notable film-maker Robbie Leppzer here to show his films
on
PARTY COOPERATION
Mary Matalin and James Carville spoke in
NWA
Ozarks at Large is currently accepting commentary
submissions discussing thoughts, feelings, opinions, and personal stories
concerning the war in Iraq--most importantly, how
you arrived at these feelings and how your life has been affected by the war.
Commentaries need to be approximately one and half pages double-spaced. If your
commentary is chosen to air on Ozarks at Large, you will be contacted and asked
to record your commentary at a time most convenient for you. Send submissions
to ozarksatlarge@yahoo.com
and for more information about the show visit Ozarks at Large .
ECOLOGY:
AIR AND WATER POLLUTION
Airport traffic is expanding. “Experts Say Air Traffic to
Increase” (TMN, 3-24). Nothing
is ever said in the newspapers about how the airports affect our air and water,
but I suppose it’s small compared to auto exhausts. Both together
produce what and how many pollutants?
NWA PRIORITIES: HIGHWAYS?
--See Art Hobson’s excellent articles on NWA’s highway
addiction, Part I NAT (3-18),
“A Dead End.” Between now and 2030 $2 billion will be needed for
the projected big bypasses, widenings, and beltway. But that won’t at
all suffice, because more highways generate more development.
--TMN 4-5 reported on the
draft of the 2030 long-range transportation plan for NWA. Not a word in it
about our other urgent needs or how we might reduce the need for more highways
and highway “improvements.”
GRASSROOTS MILITARISM
Here’s a comment by a 15 year old boy from
ARKANSAS
--Good news: The Antenatal and Neonatal Guidelines, Education, and
Learning System (ANGELS) was included among the top 50 “Government
Innovations for 2006.” It reduces the number of babies born with severe
medical problems.
--More good news: Arkansas Preschools. “
--“Fire Units Face Crisis,” TMN (3-27), volunteer depts. Short of money. One dept.
“has already burned through its money for fuel and maintenance this
year.”
OUTER SPACE PRIORITIES
Billions are spent on putting Man on the Moon; investigating Mars,
Pluto and other planets. Now research labs are to be set up on the moon.
Trillions are spent on armaments and wars. Yet on this planet millions
are starving and all we do is kill them with man-exaggerated climatic condition
and the ability to destroy any starving, homeless labourer with megatons of
high explosive in less than thirty minutes from the other side of the world.
HISPANICS
Hispanictips.com is a good place to find news articles about
REGIONAL
PEACE ORGANIZATIONS
Mid-Missouri Peaceworks,
FSTV: Send your own video to www.freespeechtv.org
MORE INDEPENDENT MEDIA
Independent World Television - The Real News. <http://www.iwtnews.com/home>
Energy, bite and wit. Independent World Television delivers news, current
affairs, debate, and reports on world culture and political satire –
without bowing to corporate or government pressure.
INTERNSHIPS
The Green Party of the
PROTECTING ANIMALS
ASPCA: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, www.aspca.org
Come hear Lincoln and Alice Day talk about the devastations to the
environment and species on Earth Day at Terra Studios, dinner at 6:30. Contact
Dick for ticket.
TELLING TRUTH ABOUT NUCLEAR DANGER
From 23-25
February, 2006, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation held its 2006 International
Law Symposium entitled At the Nuclear Precipice: Nuclear Weapons
and the Abandonment of International Law,
in
Papers authored by
the participants are available below as 
PDF documents. Videos of the 2006 International
LawSymposium will be available soon. Please contact the Nuclear Age Peace
Foundation for more information.NuclearAge Peace Foundation | www.wagingpeace.org
| www.nuclearfiles.org
BUSH
---MAINSTREAM
TV AT LAST
CNN’s The Cafferty File lists a dozen or more of Bush’s
violations of laws. (Reported on
---“Knuckles” (FSTV) on Bush admin. secrecy and
spying—wiretapping of thousands of citizens without court approval, and
the Pentagon spying on U.S. citizens engaged in being citizens—anti-war
protesting and protesting recruiters.
ILLEGAL SPYING ON CITIZENS BY US GOVERNMENT
The Catholic Peace Fellowship (Stephen Spiro) puts this at the
beginning of its correspondence:
“Due to Presidential
Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without
warning, warrant, or notice, and certainly without probable cause. They may do
this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You have no recourse nor protection
save to call for the impeachment of the current President.”
TERROR WAR
“Terror”: Series of
videos on the diversity of fear in the war on terror by Termite TV (www.termite.org). “Torture for Dummies” (deceit of Bush
Admin. language and arguments justifying torture), etc. FSTV.
IMPEACHMENT
--Laurie Kellerman,
“Dean: Bush Spying Worse Than Nixon’s: Former White House Counsel
Suggests Impeachment Not Too Harsh a Response,” TMN (4-1, 3B).
--Good
News on Impeachment Progress! C-SPAN & Washington
Post
From: "Bill Goodman, the Center for Constitutional Rights"
<ccr@democracyinaction.org>
<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=101588372&url_num=1&url=
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/home.asp>
The Washington Post just ran a
front-page story about impeaching President Bush, quoting two attorneys from
the Center for Constitutional Rights. Click here to read this important
story. http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=101588372&url_num=2&url=
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/newsroom/headlines/headline.asp?ObjID=t7zEPRceKj&Content=750
>
-- “A madness for war,” The Boston Globe, March 29, 2006, By Derrick Z.
Jackson - Globe Columnist. President Bush said he invaded
-- By David Gram, Associated Press Writer
Tue Mar 28, 10:51 PM ET
For the complete article see: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060329/ap_on_go_pr_wh/democrats_impeac
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it
will be in the guise of
fighting a foreign enemy." -James
Madison, fourth
(1751-1836) from Karen K
ENERGY, ECOLOGY: COAL
--Dear Karen Kimrey,
I am writing to urge you to act now to stop
the construction of even MORE coal power plants.
If you care about the environment and promoting justice, we must address
climate change. Because if climate change continues its destructive path, it
will be impossible to save the environment, end poverty and hunger, or see
peace in our time.
In order to put the brakes on climate change, together, we must stop expanding
the use of coal. Together, it is time to stop power companies like
ENERGY: NUCLEAR--“
NUCLEAR
WEAPONS
“The New Nuclear Danger,” Helen
Caldicott’s indictment of the immense harms done to the
environment and to all species by the building, testing, and use of nuclear
weapons and the refusal to abolish them by white males. Conclusion: the
innocent children and wildlife of the planet didn’t deserve the iodine
131 in the milk, the cesium 137 in their bones, the strontium 90 from the 210
atmospheric tests, and the underwater and underground tests, a total of 1,030
tests by the
NUCLEAR POWER DANGER:
April 26th marks 20 years since the
ECOLOGY: FOOD
Slow Food Movement: return to traditional local farming. FSTV, Enviro
Close-up by Karl Grossman interview of Brian Halwell, author of Eat Here (Norton, 2006).
CRIMINAL
INJUSTICE
”’Book ‘em’: Undereducated and
Overimprisoned.” On the “school to prison pipeline” of
suspensions and incarceration. FSTV, www.freespeechtv.org
RIGHT-WING RELIGION AND POLITICS
FSTV,
79 MILLION ELIGIBLE VOTERS DIDN’T VOTE IN 2004.
SOUTHERN CIVIL RIGHTS AFFIRMED
“Return to Mississippi,” FSTV, retrospective on KKK murder
of 3 civil rights workers, Goodman, Schwerner, and Cheney, during the
Mississippi Summer Project 1964. One of the white supremacist murderers,
Killen, was at last convicted.
JUSTICE:
--JAPANESE-AMERICANS IN WWII CONCENTRATION CAMPS
“After Silence,” an excellent film (FSTV).
--
The murders of 39 prisoners by
Imperial overreach is accelerating the
global decline of
The disastrous foreign policies of the
Tuesday March 28, 2006, The Guardian
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/>
WORLD
WOMEN FOR PEACE
--
--Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom: www.peacewomen.org (founded 1915, Nobel
Peace Prize winner Jane Addams its first president)
--Women for International Peace and Arbitration: www.wipa.org : peaceful settlement of international
disputs
--Code Pink: www.codepink4peace.org:
against war in
--www.womensaynotowar.org:
affil. With Code Pink, has a petition against the war in
--Women Peacemakers Program: www.ifor.org/wpp
, encourages women to be active for peace
--Gold Star Families for Peace: www.gsfp.org
: families of soldiers who have died in wars.
IRAQ
www.bringhometroops.org
by Chris Delacruz.
OMNI Newsletter’s reports on
OMNI’S WEB SITE: www.omnicenter.org,
ONGOING DATA ON THE WAR
Gives days since
OPEN
The
More on
HJ Res 55 (House Joint Resolution 55): The bill calls on President Bush to set
a plan for beginning the phase-out of
KILLING IRAQI CIVILIANS
”How Massacres Become the Norm” By Dahr Jamail t r u t h o u t |
Perspective
iraq_dispatches-bounces@dahrjamailiraq.com
[mailto:iraq_dispatches-bounces@dahrjamailiraq.com]
On Behalf Of iraq_dispatches@dahrjamailiraq.com,
Sent: April 4, 2006 10:22 AM Visit the Dahr Jamail
14,000 detained in
Reviewed by David Abbott US and
PRIVATIZATION OF
IMF measures lead to
economic collapse in Iraq
Reviewed by Bailey Malone Large scale
rioting broke out in Iraq in December as a result of IMF insistence on lifting
fuel subsidies and privatizing state-owned companies in exchange for loans. The
immediate impact of IMF measures was a 500 percent rise in the cost of petrol,
diesel, cooking gas and kerosene. The broader impact is souring inflation on
all consumer goods. The main cause of
http://gnn.tv/headlines/7750/IMF_Measures_Wreak_Havoc_On_Iraqi_People_http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/bwi-wto/imf/2006/0103riots.htm
>From Project Censored
For the entire article go to: http://www.bu.edu/globalbeat/index.html#iraq
As Shibley Telhami notes, what is most palpable in
“
--“DEPLETED” URANIUM
FSTV/Sourcecode: program on terrible consequences of DU in Iraq on children—birth defects,
etc.—because every shell causes radioactive
dust. See: www.aicenter.org; www.poisondust.com Attend our Earth Day
lecture with films by Lincoln and Alice Day, April 22 at Terra Studios, 6:30.
--Tigris-Euphrates Marshes
www.edenagain.org on restoring
the great marshes in southern
ECOLOGY: EFFECTS OF WARS ON ENVIRONMENT
FSTV (Sourcecode), 303-542-4820, www.freespeech.org
Come hear Lincoln and Alice Day talk about the destruction of earth and species
by wars, Earth Day, April 22, at Terra Restaurant, dinner at 6:30 (contact for
tickets: Joyce Hale, Kelly Mulhollan, Anne Prichard, Kim Kimrey, Nancy Goliff,
Marion Orton, Melanie Dietzel, Gladys Tiffany, Lyle Thompson, Steven Skattebo,
---HISTORY: 1979
PBS program on
---BUSH 2006
For the full article go to: http://www.bu.edu/globalbeat/index.html#iran
The United Nations Security Council last week finally adopted a Presidential
Statement on
ENERGY: OIL:
“Chávez seeks to peg oil at $50 a barrel”
·
Price could see
Mark
Milner, Monday April 3, 2006, The Guardian
Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez is poised to launch a bid to transform
the global politics of oil by seeking a deal with consumer countries which
would lock in a price of $50 a barrel.
The Chávez government has helped a number of countries, including
buying Argentinian and Ecuadorean bonds, with Mr Chávez arguing that he would
like to see the IMF replaced by an International Humanitarian Fund. To read
entire article click on:
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1745467,00.html
>From Larry W
Program on art and life in
“On the Edge,” Alternate Voices, social contexts of murders
of some 400 women in Jaurez.
To: NSARCHIVE@HERMES.GWU.EDU
Subject: On 30th Anniversary of Argentine Coup: New Declassified Details
on Repression and U.S.
ON 30th ANNIVERSARY OF ARGENTINE COUP: NEW DECLASSIFIED DETAILS ON
REPRESSION AND U.S.
Kissinger sought immediate support for the new military regime in spite
of staff warnings on bloodshed: 22,000 people murdered or disappeared by
military between 1975 and 1978according to secret Chilean intelligence
report. Secret Argentine documents record Operation Condor kidnappings and
disappearances carried out by military intelligence Battalion 601. For more
information:
Carlos Osorio - 202/994-7000 http://www.nsarchive.org
CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
--Senator Blanche Lincoln: Web Site (they have contact links): www.lincoln.senate.gov; http://www.lincoln.senate.gov/index.cfm;
http://www.lincoln.senate.gov/webform.html
Phone: (202) 224-4843 Fax: (202) 228-1371.
--Senator Mark Pryor: Web Site (see contact link): www.pryor.senate.gov ; http://pryor.senate.gov/contact/
Phone: (202) 224-2353 Fax: (202) 228-0908
Main District Office:700 W. Capitol, Rm. 2527
Phone: (501) 324-6336 Fax: (501) 324-5320
--Congressman John Boozman, District 3, 12 counties from
Harrison office: 870-741-6900; 402 N. Walnut,
DC address: 1708 Longworth House Office Bldng.,
Dick Bennett
(479) 442-4600