OMNI NEWSLETTER: EVENTS, ACTIONS, COMMENT

MAY 4, 2006, CREATING A CULTURE OF PEACE

COMING EVENTS

FAYETTEVILLE

NWA

ARKANSAS

USA

WORLD

COMING EVENTS

BOMBING IRAN

OMNI’s Protest Committee recommends we follow the same procedure observed at the invasion of Iraq: 

Meet at 6 pm at the Federal Building on the day of or following the bombing.

Bring your own sign(s).

March to the Town Square for Speakers.

Intensify our efforts to PREVENT the bombings by pressuring our congressional delegation (letters, petitions, visits to their offices), public education, street protests, tabling, and other actions now.

Suggestions invited.  (Barbara J, Chris D, Carl B, Karen T, Bill, Karen I, John R, Gladys T)

MAY 6, SATURDAY, SPRINGFEST  10 to 5

In the Rose Garden of the Walton Arts Center, Celebrating the Tradition of Political and Social Change Through Music

AND2^nd Annual OMNI-Children’s Earth Day Poster Exhibit All Day

AND MUSIC ALL DAY 10 TO 5.

10:00 Toucan Jam Children’s Show

11:00 Marshal Mitchell Children’s Show

12:00 Emily Kaitz

3:00 Strange Heroes

And Join OMNI and receive a FREE Bluebird of Happiness from Terra Studios.

Visit OMNI’s table for shirts, buttons, stickers about war and peace.  (Jamie Ulick)

MAY 6,  SATURDAY, This Saturday the OMNI Center will hold a plant sale at UCM building located at 902 Maple St. in Fayetteville (Presbyterian & Disciples).  The sale will be held from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. If it rains the sale will be held under the Building’s walkway eve.  There will be perennials, annuals, house plants, trees, and yard items.   (Pippin Lowe)

MAY 6, SATURDAY, 11:30, RAPID RESPONSE WRITERS

NOTE: This Saturday at Raddison Hotel Coffee Shop.  (Coralie Koonce, Henry Griffith)

MAY 7, SUNDAY, OPEN MIC PEACE COFFEEHOUSE, 7PM

OMNI AT United Campus Ministry/ Presbyterian-Disciples.

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.  (Kelly M and Donna S)

May 8, 7pm, Jim Bemis on CAT program, “On the Air with Richard Drake” to discuss telecommunications issues in Fayetteville: broadband, Cox Cable and the City of Fay, loss of public access programming in areas outside Fay.  Program will also show on May 9 and May 13.

MAY 10, WEDNESDAY, JOHN SEED ENVIRONMENTALIST

At Giffels Auditorium in Old Main on UA campus, 7pm.

 “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.  The lecture is free, but Seed is raising money for his rainforest projects and would be glad to receive donations:  $5 to $20….or more.   (Kelly M, Dick, Fran F)

MAY 10, CINDY SHEEHAN IN EUREKA SPRINGS

This is to let you know that I've booked Cindy Sheehan to speak here in Eureka Springs, AR, on Wednesday, May 10. It will take place at The Auditorium on 36 S. Main St. Time is from 7:00 to 9:00 pm.   e'll be showing two films prior to Cindy's lecture, and a reading of  poetry from the anthology of Rick Burnley, Camp Casey Poet Laureate. The Films are AFTERSHOCK and CAMPCASEY. There will be a 15 minute break with refreshments. Following the last film I will introduce Cindy Sheehan to the audience.

May 11, Thurs., Botanical Garden fundraiser, 6:30 to 9:00 on site on Crossover Road.

May 13, Saturday, Rogers International Festival 11am to 5pm at Lake Atlanta Park  Omni will have a table there (Gladys and Chris).

May 14, Sunday, Mother’s Day.

See on PBS “Mothers and Sons: Raising Compassionate Men,” 3pm.  Check it out to see if it makes the connection with US imperial aggressions: US men making wars and preparing for wars.  Come to OMNI’s May 20 Mother’s Day for Peace to discuss the film and US media treatment of US militarism.

MAY 14, SUNDAY, OMNI VIDEO UNDERGROUND, 7PM

At United Campus Ministry (on building: Presbyterian and Disciples Student Center), Maple and Storer in Fayetteville.

May 19-20, NOW Women of Color & Allies and Midsouth Regional Conference in Little Rock May 19-20 at Philander Smith College, Academic Center/Titus Bldg.  Senator Irma Hunter Brown, Ark. State Senate; Latifa Lyles, NOW Membership VP; Randi Romo, co-founder and Exec. Dir. of the center for Artistic Revolution.   >From Wanda S   regional_broch.pdf

MAY 20, SATURDAY, OMNI ANNUAL JULIA WARD HOWE MOTHER’S PEACE DAY BRUNCH.  Contact Melanie Dietzel, Marion Orton, Jo Bennett, Jody Miskell  melaniedietzel@cox.net   Instead of flowers and candy and all of the paraphernalia of our commodified Mother’s Day, let’s put the spotlight on peace.  Mother’s Day was originated for peace; let’s keep it that way.  In 1870, Julia Ward Howe, distressed by her experience of the realities of war, called for women to rise up and speak the truth about peace and war, and what it means to give birth and raise children—not to kill and be killed in wars.  She called women to commit to finding peaceful resolutions to conflicts.  “We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”  See:  WAND Bulletin (Spring 2006), Gold Star Families for Peace (www.gsfp.org).

MAY 21, SUNDAY, 7pm, HOWL

OMNI’s Women’s Open Mic at United Campus Ministry.  Come read, play, or sing.  This month's writing challenge will be to work up something about mothers--Mother Earth, Mother Theresa, your own mother, you as mother, being motherless, etc. We'll do a little tribute to Mothers. 

JUNE 3, OMNI PEACE GARDENS TOUR

Contact Nancy Maier, Marie Riley, Leigh Wilkerson, Dick Bennett

June 23, Friday, 7pm, “What the Bleep? Down the Rabbit Hole”

At Unity of Fayetteville, 4880 W. Wedington Dr., 442-0680 

This sequel to “What the Bleep Do We Know” is the deeper film exploration audiences have been asking for.  It features an hour of new interviews and two new scientists, Dean Radin, Ph.D., and Dr. Masaru Emoto, and author of The Field, Lynne McTaggart; and introducing Dr. Quantum in 20 minutes of new animation.  he movie’s power lies in the fact that it really makes us understand how human beings are connected to each other – to the whole universe – and how we all affect reality.

June 25, 3rd Annual Conway Pride Parade and Festival, 12 Noon

Simons Park, Conway, Arkansas

NWA

RIGHT-WING MEDIA

KFTA TV of Fort Smith, Channel 24, is being sold by Nexstar to Mission for $5.6 million, to be the area’s Fox network affiliate. Springdale has another Fox affil., KPBI.

ARKANSAS

ARKANSAS’ REAL NEEDS

--TMN (4-13)  “Advocates: Mental Health System Getting Worn Out.”  Since Northwest Medical Center and Washton Regional closed their psychiatric units, the situation has become urgent.

--TMN 4-23   Need for mental health services for public school children.  In 2000 the U.S. Dept. of Educ. “identified [Ark.] as lacking in mental health services to students in public schools.”  In response, the state implemented the Arkansas School-based Mental Health Network, but so far only “70 out of 251 schools” participate.  The inadequacy of this program is accentuated by knowing that in 2001 “parents placed more than 12,700 children in the child welfare or juvenile justice systems because they could not address their mental health and behavioral needs, so they could receive needed services.”

--“Survey Evaluates Fayetteville Homeless Population,” TAT 4-28: 613 homeless in a “point in time” survey  in the 8-county area in 2005; “1,967 different people came through Seven Hills” in 2005.  Almost 25% vets.  More than 42% were working full time. 

USA, WORLD

FOCUSING

So long as the occupation of Iraq and the threatened bombing of Iran continue, the Newsletter will focus more on them and in longer entries.  Send your suggestions and contributions to the Newsletter in a short paragraph.   Forwardings are welcome, but edit them, cut them to a paragraph, following the format followed in the Newsletter.

OMNI PROTESTS OF THE WAR ON IRAQ AND THREATENED INVASION OF IRAN

OMNI has a new Protest Committee to concentrate on Iraq and Iran.   Please join with us; contact Barbara Jaquish or Dick.  We have decided to cease our Sunday street protests but to focus our energy on our monthly Saturday protest (but not this coming Saturday because of Springfest) and on tabling Saturdays at Farmer’s Market.  Please join us on SATURDAYS AT FARMER'S MARKET and FIRST SATURDAYS AT JOYCE AND MALL AGAINST THE WARS.  Contact Barbara Jaquish for the F's M and Chris Delacruz for Joyce and Mall.  Or call Dick.  Other ideas discussed: picnic rally against U.S. foreign aggressions, delegations to Boozman and Lincoln offices, creating a coalition of like-minded organizations, educational campaign on grassroots militarism, guest speaker(s), forums.  We need volunteers to lead these actions, and others yet to be discussed.

USA

PEACE FELLOWSHIPS

http://www.clw.org/scoville/

BUSH

Stephen Colbert speaking at the White House Correspondents' Dinner (with
George W. Bush attending):  http://www.thankyoustephencolbert.org/
The video is in three parts.  Be sure and watch part 3, Colbert's videotaped audition for the job of White House Press Secretary.   And three cheers for Helen Thomas!!

BUSH: IMPEACHMENT

Subjects: Neil Young song; Chomsky on Bush’s “Failed State”; Bush subversion of law;  IL House Resolution; secrecy; Iran; torture; oil;   (see World below).

--Neil Young wants you to listen to "Living with War" for Free. Be sure to listen to "Let's Impeach the President."   http://www.hyfntrak.com/neilyoung2/AFF23358/  (fr Chris D).

Click on this and hear Neil Youngs gift to us:  http://www.neilyoung.com/ (fr Jim H).

--Noam Chomsky, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy.

Examines the US under the Bush Admin. as a state becoming “failed,” one feature of which is “to regard [itself] as beyond the reach of domestic or international law, and hence free to carry out aggression and violence.”

--Bush Defies Hundreds of Laws

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/043006Y.shtml

President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.

--ILLINOIS HOUSE IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION
Dick,  This resolution is being considered by the Illinois House of Representatives under a provision of Congressional Rules never used before whereby the US House has to give priority consideration to a state’s resolution for impeachment. An interesting move whether it becomes fact or not. At least it would force debate. California is in very early stages of thinking about doing the same.   Best, Rock

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 HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
 WHEREAS, Section 603 of Jefferson's Manual of the Rules of 3 the United States House of Representatives allows federal 4 impeachment proceedings to be initiated by joint resolution of a state legislature;
and  WHEREAS, President Bush has publicly admitted to ordering the National Security Agency to violate provisions of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a felony, specifically authorizing the Agency to spy on American citizens without
warrant;
and  WHEREAS, Evidence suggests that President Bush authorized 12 violation of the Torture Convention of the Geneva Conventions, 1 a treaty regarded a supreme law by the United States Constitution;
and  WHEREAS, The Bush Administration has held American citizens and citizens of other nations as prisoners of war without charge or trial;
and  WHEREAS, Evidence suggests that the Bush Administration has manipulated Intelligence for the purpose of initiating a war against the sovereign nation of Iraq, resulting in the deaths of large numbers of Iraqi civilians and causing the United States to incur loss of life, diminished security and billions of dollars in unnecessary expenses;
and WHEREAS, The Bush Administration leaked classified national secrets to further a political agenda, exposing an unknown number of covert U. S. intelligence agents to potential  harm and retribution while simultaneously refusing to investigate the matter;
and WHEREAS, The Republican-controlled Congress has declined to fully investigate these charges to date;
therefore, be it RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that the General Assembly of the State of Illinois has good cause to submit charges to the U. S.
House of Representatives under Section 603 that the President of the United States has willfully violated his Oath of Office to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States; and be it further RESOLVED, That George W. Bush, if found guilty of the
11 charges contained herein, should be removed from office and disqualified to hold any other office in the United States.
--BUSH WRONGDOINGS
For a brief summary of Pres. Bush’s misdeeds you probably can’t find anything better than Lawrence Wilkerson’s “America Must End Its Radical Revolution,”  TMN (4-29).
--And see Abel Tomlinson’s Letter to Editor of The Arkansas Traveler (4-28) describing Bush Admin. as “fascist.”

SECRECY

Bush Team Imposes Thick Veil of Secrecy http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050106Z.shtml

As the Bush administration has dramatically accelerated the classification of information as "top secret" or "confidential," one office is refusing to report on its annual activity in classifying documents: the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.

IRAN
--In addition to creating a Culture of Peace in NWA, OMNI’s purpose, every peace organization should be ready to oppose national aggression, as with the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and oppose planned aggressions, to try to stop them, as with U.S. plans to bomb Iran.  All of us should be acquainted with the article by Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker (4-17), which gives ample evidence of the White House-Congressional-Millitary-Industrial Warmongering Complex plans to bomb Iran (simulated nuclear-weapons delivery missions started summer 2005, special forces personnel in Iran identifying targets, etc. it’s a stunning piece of Investig. Reporting).  Here is the opening paragraph:  “The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has increased clandestine activites inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack.  Current and former American military and intelligence officials said that Air Force planning groups are drawing up lists of targets, and teams of American combat troops have been ordered into Iran, under cover, to collect targeting data and to establish contact with anti-goveernment ethnic-minority groups.  The officials say that President bush is determined to deny the Iranian regime the opportunity to begin a pilot program…to enrich uranium.”   But some US officials believe “Bush’s ultimate goal…is regime change,” and one diplomat said the “’real issue is who is going to control the Middle East and its oil in the next ten years.”
---See Gene Lyons’ comment on the catastrophic consequences of Bush’s plan to bomb Iran in ADG 4-19.
--- Noam Chomsky in Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy has much to say about the history of the U.S. and Iran.  For example on pp. 252-3:  The EU failed to honor their bargain with Iran—“that Iran would suspend uranium enrighment, and the EU would undertake security guarantees, meaning protection from U.S. and/or Israeli bombing of Iran.  Iran is threatening to acquire enriched uranium (for energy, but could be used for nuclear weapons) because the U.S. is threatening them with nuclear weapons.  The larger issue is “the failure of the nuclear states to live up to their NPT obligation ’to phase out their own nuclear weapons’—and, in Washington’s case, formal rejection of the obligation.”
---The publisher of The Progressive wrote a strong essay in the May no., “Beware the Bombing of Iran.”  The opening sentence:  “Just because a course of action is foolish, irrational, costly, and bloody doesn’t mean the Bush Administration won’t pursue it.”

--Al Franken, The Truth, Chap. 3 on Bush’s 9-11 failures, esp. p. 40.

ENERGY: OIL AND ALTERNATIVES

--FSTV recently presented a brilliant, comprehensive documentary on oil (with Israel) as the center of US Middle Eastern foreign policy.  Both Iraqi wars fought for oil.  Alas I missed the title, but here are some other ideas  regarding the consequences of this energy policy:

The 10,000 tanker ship wrecks in the last 30 years have been catastrophic for marine life and livelihood of fishermen.    The U.S. has been deeply involved in maintaining the Saudi royal family since the 1930s.    Terrorist dissidents come from Saudi Arabia because of dislike of the royal family’s rule  and its alliance with the U.S.

--“Power Play: The Golden Opportunity” (FSTV): alternatives to fossil fuel.

--C-SPAN interviewed Rachel Bronson, author of Thicker Than Oil, a history of U.S./Saudi relations.  Some of her points:  SA has bought “billions and billions of dollars of arms” from the U.S.; anti-American feelings intensified during the 1990s; Saudi (Osama bin Ladin) and other Muslims were trained and armed by the U.S. in Afghanistan as part of the U.S./CIA Cold War crusade against the Soviet Union, and these fighters spread throughout the world to attack the U.S.    The 9-11 bombings are best understood as part of this history, specifically to punish the U.S. for supporting the royal family and the U.S.

--“The Oil Factor” on FSTV, prod. Free-Will Productions, narr. Ed Asner, on the background and consequences of the invasion of Iraq for oil.

--Exxon Mobil "reported Thursday [4-27] the fifth-highest quarterly profit for any public company in history" (TMN 4-28.

--Bush Tells Americans that It's Good for Oil Companies to Rip You Off, Rejects Tax on Oil Company Windfall Profiteering
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060428/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush  (fr Chris D)

--Contrary To Administration Predictions, Iraq War Contributing To High Oil Prices 4/29
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/28/iraq-high-gas-prices/

-- Michael A. Fox, “Bodies for Barrels: Betrayal and Energy Dependence,” http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042906Y.shtml
Ohio Republican and longtime conservative Michael A. Fox has come to the realization that America's energy problems are not, as President Bush recently declared, because Americans have an "addiction to oil." Our energy problems stem from the failed leadership of two political parties - Democrats and Republicans—in not funding alternatives to fossil fuels.

CORPORATE MEDIA

---WARMONGERING U.S. MAINSTREAM MEDIA

The Discovery Channel presented “Future Weapons,” a sustained cheerleading for new and more destructive weapons to support the U. S. empire against “the bad guys,” narrated with breathless excitement.  One weapons inventor at the Redstone Arasenal, Dan Rice, was interviewed as a great hero.

--ECOLOGY: BOTTLED WATER

“Bottled Water Is A Big Threat” by Patricia Lynn, NAT(4-1):  several arguments:  “bottled water is less regulated than tap water”;  “corporations like Coke, Nestle, and Pepsi have spent tens of millions of dollars convincing us that bottled water is cleaner”; the bottled water companies are draining massive amounts of water from already threatened aquifers; corporations are driving hard to privatize and control water; but “resistance around the world is building.”  See: Corporate Accountability International.

--CONTROL OF INTERNET

Save the Internet from Big Business takeover.  The same type of corporate raptors that have engorged mainstream media are now about to englut the Internet through a bill passed out of a House Committee last week. The last bastion of the pro-democracy movement will become just another version of cable television.   Go to http://www.savetheinternet.com to find out what you can do to keep the Internet the Tom Paine of modern America.  The corporations are once again pulling the strings of Democrats and Republicans alike.   They don't like the Internet belonging to the people of America. It's about to become just another commodity.  From Buzzflash (via Chris D)

--PBS functions under strong pressures from the Corporate/White House/Pentagon/Congressional Complex.  A present example:  “Washington Week in Review” is sponsored by Boeing (with an ad glorifying its arms production) and the National Mining Assoc., the mine owners.  Tell our congressional delegation we want a public television uninfluenced by warmakers and negligent corporations.

--This anti-war article, "The Real First Casualty of War" is about journalism and the media. It starts:

“During the 1970s, I filmed secretly in Czechoslovakia, then a Stalinist dictatorship. The dissident novelist Zdenek Urbánek told me, "In one respect, we are more fortunate than you in the west. We believe nothing of what we read in the newspapers and watch on television, nothing of the official truth. Unlike you, we have learned to read between the lines, because real truth is always subversive."  This acute skepticism, this skill of reading between the lines, is urgently needed in supposedly free societies today. Take the reporting of state-sponsored war. The oldest cliché is that truth is the first casualty of war. I disagree. Journalism is the first casualty. Not only that: it has become a weapon of war, a virulent censorship that goes unrecognized in the United States, Britain and other democracies; censorship by omission. (fr Bill O)

http://www.lewrockwell.com/pilger/pilger40.html

ALTERNATIVE MEDIA

FSTV: phone 1-877-378-8669 to become a member and to donate.  One of its regular programs:  “SourceCode”: Pushing the edges of to TV and political activism, this lively, weekly current affairs program offers bold critiques of U.S. empire-building and its impact upon people around the globe and here at home.   In addition to its programs, FSTV offers:  The Free Speech Network Online Community, a gathering place to share information, organize activities, and collaborate on Projects.  Members have access to an array of tools including weblogs, calendars, forums, and mailing lists.

ECOLOGY

Competing Forest-certification Systems: The Sustainable Forestry Initiative represents the bib forest and paper companies.  The Forest Stewardship Council, based in Bonn, was established by loggers, foresters, environmentalists, and sociologists after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio.  ForestEthics, the Dogwood Alliance, and other enviro. groups support the Council.  ADG (4-16, 1G).

WORLD

OMNI’S PEACEWRITING AWARDS

Since 1997, OMNI has given awards for outstanding unpublished books about peace, justice, and ecology.   The purpose is to encourage writers to write on these themes.  It is time to turn this editorial job over to someone who likes reading books and can devote more attention to the project than I can at present.   It must be a commitment of several years.   Contact Dick.

IRAQ: GETTING OUT

--350,000 in New York March Against the War in Iraq http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/043006X.shtml

350,000 anti-war protesters marched Sat. 4-29 through Manhattan to demand an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, just hours after an American soldier died in a roadside explosion in Baghdad - the 70th US soldier killed in Iraq this month.

-- “The War Affects Us All”

A Report by Geoffrey Millard and Scott Galindez http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm

On Saturday, April 29th, hundreds of thousands of people marched for "Peace, Justice and Democracy." Geoffrey Millard interviews the organizers behind the scenes. The recurring theme was that the war affects all of us.

-- US War Costs "Could Hit $811 Billion"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042906X.shtml

The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has soared and may now reach $811 billion, says a report by the Congressional Research Service.

--Lynn Woosley: Ending the War in Iraq http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042806Z.shtml

US Representatives Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.), Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) convened a forum on "Ending the War in Iraq" April 27 on Capitol Hill. The forum included testimony from Iraqis, a US veteran who shared his personal experiences, and Members of Congress who presented their plans for ending the war in Iraq.

-- Help our delegation develop clarity and backbone against the Iraqi war and threatened invasion of Iran. “Running for Senate, and Against the War,” By Robert Barnes.    To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/27/AR2006042702302.html?referrer=emailarticle

 Make It a Priority to Visit Israel/Palestine in 2006

ANNOUNCING THE NEXT ETT/ICAHD STUDY TOUR

The next months will be crucial in determining the fate of Israel and Palestine. The peoples of Israel/Palestine working for justice, peace and reconciliation need the help of us, the international civil society, people of good will who will not let occupation, conflict and injustice prevail.

In order to strengthen the voice of the international community, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), one of the leading Israeli peace organizations, encourages people to visit Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories to see the situation for themselves. Our study tours, developed in conjunction with Experience Travel Tours, our partners in the UK, bring visitors into interaction with local individuals and organizations representing a broad set of opinions - yet focused on the forces of peace in both Palestinian and Israeli societies - while providing a wide range of experiences in both the Occupied Territories and in Israel. Our tours provide a maximum of personal security.   Details about the autumn study tour are ready. To find out more about it, please email studytours80@hotmail.com  

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
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 (see contact link):   www.pryor.senate.gov ;  http://pryor.senate.gov/contact/
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.  Web site (with contact link):  http://www.boozman.house.gov/     Heath Hasenbeck, intern (one of them).  Boozman's new office in Lowell is located at 213 West Monroe in Lowell between I 540 and Business 71.  To reach that office take Exit 78 off I - 540 and go  east. You will be on Hwy 264 which is also West Monroe. The office 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 6^th 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.