APRIL
23, SUNDAY, 7PM, VIDEO UNDERGROUND, DOCUMENTARY “THE
TAKE”
In suburban
April 25,
Tuesday, FHS students will read their work at 7p.m. at
April 25,
“Invisible Children,” doc. film on child soldiers in
APRIL 25,
6PM,
Scott Ritter, the UN inspector who reported the truth of no wmd in
Reminder: April 26-28 CAT’s Fund Raiser.
APRIL 26, “Reflections on Changes in the
Political & Social
Climate That Have Implications for the Environment” will be the topic
of
discussion at the monthly meeting of the Ozark Headwaters Group of the Sierra Club, which will be held
from 7-8:30
p.m. Wednesday, April 26, at Powerhouse Seafood,
April 28-30, A Few Good
Man playing at
Reminder: April 29,
CAT’s Video Festival and Fat Cat
Awards, Radisson Hotel..
APRIL 30, SUNDAY, PROTEST
THE WAR
11:00 TO 1:30
May 1-2, Monday 5:00 and
Tues. noon, Short (5-minute or
less) Takes at CAT. Speak up against the
MAY 1, ACLU NWA Chapter
Board meets, 4:30. Ann Heffernan.
MAY 3 The
MAY
6
ANOTHER OMNI BIG SATURDAY!
May
6,
SPRINGFEST, OMNI ALL DAY IN THE WAC ROSE GARDEN ON DICKSON, 10 to
5. Hear
excellent music: Toucan Jam, Marshall Mitchell, Emily Kaitz, Wildwood,
and
Strange Heroes, see student environmental posters, discuss peace,
social and
economic justice, human rights, and ecology and the WAR.
MAY 6,
OMNI FIRST 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, 902 W. Maple in
MAY
6, PROTEST THE WAR,
1:30 to 12:00.
Joyce
and Mall, park across
street from McDonald’s. The invasion and occupation of
MAY
6, Rapid Response
Writers
MAY
7,
OPEN MIC FOR PEACE, OMNI 7PM
Special
Coffee House for Peace, last until the fall. Host: Carl
Barnwell. Young
musicians from high school, come support them. Also: Martin
Luther King, Jr.,
Essay Awards presented to students of Linda Brothers, FHS.
MAY
10, WEDNESDAY,
UA
Giffels Aud. in Old Main, 7p.m. “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. Seed is raising money for his rainforest
projects; suggested
donation $5 to $20….or more.
May 11, 6:30-, Botanical Garden Auction
fundraiser, $30 includes food,
drinks, live music. 443-6638
MAY
13, SATURDAY, OMNI
ANNUAL JULIA WARD HOWE MOTHER’S DAY BRUNCH. Contact Melanie
Dietzel melaniedietzel@cox.net
May 18, LWV
Annual Meeting, 6p.m., First
Presbyerian Church, potluck.
May 20,
Saturday, Dogwood Walk for the
Humane Society of the Ozarks.
May 23, Tuesday,
Primary Election.
JUNE
3,
NEW BOOK FOR PEACE
Cliff Mikkelson’s Gospel
of
One/Letters of Aul (Trafford) is available
from the
author. From the opening paragraph: “The gospel of the
oneness of all
life….means to follow the golden rule….to feel your kinship with
all life.” A great, ancient teaching for peace.
CONNECTING THOMAS PAINE
TO PEACE
AND JUSTICE
Only with Peace and
Justice will we
have a future - "We shall require a substantially
new
manner of thinking if mankind is to survive." ...Einstein. Science,
in spite of all the
technological devices that have improved our lives, is taking a back
seat to
mysticism. There is a reciprocal connection between science and
societal
structuring. It is documented in the textbook “WORLD HISTORY- Patterns
of
Interaction” 1999. And there is a connection between the
monumental
change in societal structuring that Paine had a major influence upon
and
his interest and use of science. This recognition can be given a
jump
start by having a State of
http://www.nwanews.com/nwat/Editorial/39689
It's one of the best I've ever seen.There's a link at the bottom where
we can
submit letters to the editor about the editorial. From Jake
Lamkins
WPWP:
See aubunique.com for
Lauren’s new material on our World Peace Wetland Prairie: http://www.aubunique.com The
maps, concept
plan and photos bring the project to life. Clicking on any item
on WPWP will
put a reader on the trail to several pieces of information.
“
NWA
OMNI’S PEACE GARDENS
NETWORK
Will
you join OMNI’s
TELL YOUR PEACE STORIES
TMN week
after week calls for heroizing warriors. Let us share
stories of peace and
justice-makers. 500 words, photos encouraged, include your email
or phone, and
send to Dick.
GAME SIMULATION FOR POLITICAL ACTIVISTS
“A Force More Powerful”: simulating
nonviolent ways to
gain political power, you create strategies to overthrow
dictators, illegal
elections, or influence political leaders. Rev. ADG by the Schwabachs
(4-10).
WOODROW ANDERSON, CONG. BOOZMAN OPPONENT
See TMN
article on
CORPORATE CRIME: TYSON FOODS fined $ 4
million damages in a S.D. court
because it “knowingly used [gov’t.] pricing errors to pay less
for…cuts of beef, resulting in lost revenue for the cattlemen.”
TMN (4-13). Tyson will appeal. If you want to commit a
crime and not go to
jail, join a corporation.
NWA NEEDS: HIGHWAYS $$$?
A plan to provide a blueprint for NWA trans.
Spending through 2030,
est. to cost $1.9 billion, will be voted on Thurs. 4-20 by reps. of
NWA GRASSROOTS MILITARISM
“Veterans Wall Needs Help” (TMN 4-23). Soliciting
money for the “Veterans Wall of
Honor” in Bella Vista, which celebrates all
--“Hungry in
--“Advocates: Mental Health system Getting
Worn Out” (ADG4-13). “Panel
troubled by
area’s lack of beds.”
--“Faculty Size Decreasing at University” (TMN 4-21): the number of UA
faculty
decreased “while the university continues setting student enrollment
records.”
--“Energy Factors Indicate
--“Technology Education Now a ‘A Quiet
Crisis’”
(TMN 4-23).
The good news: we know how to create a
peaceful world. “Conflict
resolution, a social art highly developed in humans, offers alternative
paths
to justice that make unnecessary the violence of self-redress, feud,
and
war.”
The challenge: “A central challenge of
the 21st
century is to extend to the international level—among nation-states—the types
of
conflict resolution and judicial procedures that effectively provide
justice
and keep the peace within democratic
nation-states today.”
The obstacle: “…the seeking of justice
through self-redress
among the equestrian Comanche is ‘exactly comparable to that observed
among nations which recongnize certain practices of international law,
but
which reserve to themselves the sovereign right to resort to force if
things
don’t suit them.’” From The
Human Potential for Peace by
BUSH
Friends:
Pink
(born Alecia Moore) is a 26-year-old pop singer. This is a
link to a site
which plays the new Pink video of "Dr. Mr. President."
I think
that it is worth viewing and listening. –Carl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FF0cS9s6Aw
STOP THE INVASION OF
The peace movement must try to
prevent
wars and not be merely reactive. Evidence is growing that
the Bush Admin.
plans to bomb
---Pentagon Planned
British officers
took part
in a
--
“Brazil Pursues Own
Nuclear Future (TMN
4-21): While
“Iran faces international pressure over developing the raw material for
nuiclear weapons, Brazil is quietly preparing to open its own
uranium-enrichment center, capable of producing exactly the same
fuel.”
That is, both countries might be able to produce more fuel than needed
for
nuclear power, the excess available for weapons, but the
---IRANIANS HUMAN BEINGS
“Author Compiles
Iranian Culture Reading List” TMN
4-23: To know Iranians you must walk in their shoes, Azar Nafisi (Lolita in Teheran) says, and
these books,
articles, web sites, music, and films offer “the ways through which the
Iranian people articulate and shape their experiences.”
Citizens of the
---
Here's some links to news about
conflict
between
http://tinyurl.com/kk6aw wikipedia summary/timeline of 2005-2006
US-Israeli
threats to attack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Iranian_media page for links to
Iranian
media
http://tinyurl.com/ede3m - article about report from Iran in which the
Iranian
government claims to have "shot down an unmanned surveillance plane in
the
south amid reports that the United States is planning military strikes
on
Iranian nuclear facilities".
http://tinyurl.com/m2u48 Seymour Hersh interview video in which he
describes
Bush's determination to go to war with
http://tinyurl.com/pbyn6 Iranian state radio - English programming.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/
http://tinyurl.com/kk6aw wikipedia summary/timeline of 2005-2006
US-Israeli
threats to attack
1. a Fear of
2. b
3. c
4. d
5. e http://www.un.org/events/npt2005/
6. f Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the
Islamic
Republic of Iran: Resolution adopted on 24 September 2005, IAEA
7. g Wag the Dog: Crisis Scenarios for Deflecting Attention from
the
President's Woes, November 16, 2005, Michael T. Klare
8. h i j
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050124fa_fact
9. q Our Bomb, Your Bomb: On India,
10. k The
11. l Political Islam vs. Democracy: The Bush Administration's
Deadly
Waltz with Shiite Theocrats in
12. m Let's rewrite Iranian history: The past 50 years, blog,
February 5,
2006, Persian Majeed, iranian.com
13. n Blair's Next War, May 04, 2005, Dave Wearing
14. o Sleepwalking To Disaster In
15. p af The US war with
16. s Deep Background, August 1, 2005, Philip Giraldi, The
American
Conservative
17. r A Preemptive Attack on
18. t Nuclear War Against
19. u A 'Legal' US Nuclear Attack Against
20. v
21. w
22. x Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention on
23. y Iran Body Count:
24. z Petrodollars and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation:
Understanding the
Planned Assault on
25. aa Government in secret talks about strike against
26. ab MoD denies
27. ac The
28. ad A frenzied Persian new year, March 22, 2006,
29. ae On Cheney, Rumsfeld order, US outsourcing special ops,
intelligence to Iraq terror group, intelligence officials say], by
Larisa
Alexandrovna, April 13, 2006, The Raw Story
Here's some more links
about current story about a secret war with
Click http://tinyurl.com/j99wt to listen to the Democracy Now interview
Retired
Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner who says a
Click http://tinyurl.com/jm28f to run a google search with key words
GARDINER
and
Ther's an online petition demanding that Bush not attack
Kucinich Demands Answers From Administration About US Troops In
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/10148
Summary: Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), Ranking Democrat on the
House
Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats
and
International Relations, sent the following letter to President George
W. Bush
today about the presence of US troops in
Democratic Congressmen ask Bush about reports of US military operations
in
Summary: Two Democratic Congressmen have written letters to President
Bush on
the heels of a growing number of news reports that American forces may
have
already begun military operations in
There's a very good Washington Post
article By Jonathan Weisman posted April 20, 2006 that has the stunning
statement: "The U.S. government is now spending nearly $10
billion a
month in Iraq and Afghanistan, up from $8.2 billion a year ago, a new
Congressional Research Service report found. http://tinyurl.com
Just click on http://tinyurl.com/oypmq and your browser will go to the
article
on the Washington Post
as long as
the post keeps it at that exact address.
2 very good page documenting the economic cost of war at The National
Priorities Project (NPP)
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/auxiliary/maps_files/IraqFeb06/AR.pdf
or go to http://tinyurl.com/knjfl
2 page report on the rise of COST OF IRAQ WAR - posted February 2006
NPP INCOME TAX CHART with Pie chart
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/auxiliary/interactivetaxchart/taxchart.html
or go to http://tinyurl.com/pdso2
Enter the amount of federal income tax you paid during 2005 and see how
the
government spent the money. Upon getting your results, place your
cursor over
the pie slices for more details. (thanks to Chris D)
Please check out the website for the peace march and rally on March 11,
2006 at
http://bringhometroops.org/
and send
me feedback for it since I am its webmaster. Chris D
--VIDEO | Military Families: From the Heart,
A Film
by Scott Galindez http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm
Mona Parsons and
Tamara
Rosenleaf share the pain that those of us without family and friends in
the
military will never know. Sometimes we forget that the numbers are real
people.
Mona and Tamara don't forget; their loved ones are in
--VIDEO |
Fourteen Arrested
at
A Film by Scott
Galindez
http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm
Determined to get
their day
in court, fourteen peace activists were arrested outside of George
Bush's ranch
in
--Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now”
devoted an
entire hour to exposing the Blackwater USA war profiteering contractor
in
WAR ON TERROR
-- FOCUS |
Report: Rumsfeld
Directed Sexual Degradation of Detainee http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041506Z.shtml
“Salon” reports
new evidence that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was intimately
involved
in prisoner abuse at the
TOXIC ROCKET fuel in bodies of most Americans
Reviewed by Nick
Ramirez The Bush
Administration is delaying the release of a study showing that most
Americans
carry toxic rocket fuel in their bodies. Perchlorate, the explosive
compound in
solid rocket fuel, is a thyroid toxin that can disrupt normal growth
and
development in fetuses, infants and children. Perchlorate has
contaminated
drinking water, soil and food sources across the country, with most of
the
contamination coming from military bases and defense
contractors. http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0303-08.htm
>From Project Censored
NUCLEAR
WEAPONS: HELEN CALDICOTT
“Helen”s
War: Portrait of a
Dissident,” very well-made documentary of Caldicott’s campaign to abolish
nuclear weapons. She is
the author of The New Nuclear
Danger,
about
MILITARISM/PATRIOTISM
WORLD
-- Work
to avert the global climate crisis. Visit the
Climate Crisis Coalition
to
learn more about what actions are needed.
--Last days
of the
Ocean? Reviewed
by Charlene Jones
Oceanic problems once found on
a local
scale are now pandemic. Data from physical oceanography, marine
biology,
meteorology, fisheries science, and glaciology assert the seas are
changing in
every way. The world ocean is growing warmer and atmospheric litter has
altered
its chemistry radically. Thousands of toxic compounds poison marine
creatures
and devastate propagation, creating dead zones and laying waste to
coastal
nurseries, coral reefs and kelp forests. Reckless fishing practices
have ramped
up, dredged ocean bottoms, and driven species toward extinction. Human
failure
in governance of the world's largest public domain threatens critical
elements
of the global life-support system. http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2006/03/oceans_index.html
>From Project Censored
MILITARIZATION OF SPACE
The article below summarises a new report called "
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