CURRENT EVENTS

OCTOBER 26, THURSDAY, OMNI’S STEERING COMMITTEE

CREATING A CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGICAL CARING.  Potluck 5:30.  Business 6:00. 

October 27, Friday, 6-9 pm, CAT FUNDRAISER. What time is it? It’s time again for you dancin’ ghouls to pull out those Frankenstein boots and twitch like a disco dynamite St. Vitus! The 3rd annual Monster Twist Party will take place at Community Access Television located at 101 W. Rock in Fayetteville as part of CAT’s fall fundraiser.  (Because mainstream tv excludes the peace, justice, ecology movement, CAT and all community media are crucial to communicating our views and actions.  OMNI financially supports FSTV/Democracy Now; produces a monthly forum; provides OMNI News via Short Takes; and has a new Book Sampler on Short Takes.  But they only scratch the surface of tv possibilities.  Give peace, justice, and the environment your ideas, your assistance, your leadership.)

October 27, Panel on Impeachment of President Bush and V-P Cheney at Drury College, Springfield.  Dick Bennett panelist.

October 27, UN DAY at UCA.  All who believe in international cooperation, multilaterialism, international law, step forward for the UN.   [OMNI missed celebrating the UN and international law and cooperation this year.  If you believe in the goals of the UN, contact me about 2007.)

OCTOBER 22 – 28  RAY MCGOVERN ON CAT CHANNEL 18

Tues. 10-24: 6pm, Thurs. 10-26: 6pm, Sat. 10-28: 2pm.

OCTOBER 28, Saturday, 2pm, Fayetteville Freethinkers meeting

   Three of us went on a road trip to Lawrence Kansas to see Richard Dawkins give a presentation on his new book "The God Delusion" (currently #2 on Amazon.com). We'll play a video of at least some of his presention.    The latest funny video clips, a presentation on your fourth amendment rights and more!

Where: The Fayetteville Public Library. 401 W. Mountain St. (two blocks west of the town square). Library phone: 571-2222.  Room: The Boardroom. Walk in the front door, through the lobby and go to your LEFT. Just to the left of the audio/video section is the Board Room. You can bring snacks and drinks from Arsaga's coffee shop in the lobby.

WEEK OF OCTOBER 30: OMNI NEWS WITH LIVIA PHILLIPS

On CAT 3 times a day, 11, 5, 11.

 OCTOBER 31 Tom Kennedy will film the third in our new Short Takes series, OMNI’s Book Sampler, in which individuals read from or about a book on peace, or justice, or ecology.   Jon Zimmer read Oct. 24; watch for him the week of Oct. 30 also.  Watch for Tom the following week.

NOVEMBER   2, THURSDAY, BOOK FORUM SERIES, at the home of David Edwards and Caroline Lennox, 7p.m.   The book is House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power  by James Carroll.  Panelists are David Edwards, Claire Detels, Carl Barnwell, and Dick Bennett. This extraordinary book traces the militarization of the US from the building of the Pentagon during WWII to the present.   Buy and read the book and come to discuss, or just come to enjoy the discussion. 

November 2, On Thursday, 5-6:30 pm sponsored by the U of A's Al-Islam Students Association titled "Word or Sword-Rise of Islam and the Law of Muhammad." Al-Islam Students Association is proud to bring Imam Azhar Haneef, an expert on Islam, from St. Loius, to deliver a lecture on Word or Sword-Rise of Islam and the Law of Muhammad. There are a lot of questions in the minds of people about how Islam has influenced the thought and culture of Muslims throughout ages and whether Islam grants freedom of expression and thought to its adherents and others or not.   Venue:     Arkansas Union Theater at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville  Telephone:     479-200-2836   Contact Email Address:     hanaseem@gmail.com    Name:     Al-Islam Student Association, 479-200-2836
Email Address:     al-islam@uark.edu

November 2-4, The 2006 Arkansas Watershed Advisory Group’s Biennial Conference will be held Nov. 2-4 at the University of Arkansas Continuing Education Center and the Radisson Hotel in Fayetteville. The registration fee is only $50 per person if you register by Oct. 15.   The fee covers two days of training, one day of field experience or an intensive workshop, a watershed symposium, continental breakfasts and refreshment breaks, lunch on two days, and a poster reception on Friday evening. For registration information, visit www.awag.org. Or call 501-682-0022.

Breaking through Communication Barriers: A Basic Training in Compassionate/Non Violent Communication

 Friday, November 3, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 pm, Saturday, November 4, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 pm, Cost $50.00   This workshop is interactive and innovative, introducing participants to this simple yet powerful process. In a time when we are dealing with shocking violence in our schools, our families and our world, Nonviolent Communication (NVC) offers a radically different approach for connection, cooperation and peace.  at Unity of Fayetteville, 4880 W Wedington Dr. Fayetteville, AR.  For more information www.unityfay.org or email unityfay@sbcglobal.net,479-442-0680.

NOVEMBER 4, 11:30 a.m. OMNI’s RAPID RESPONSE WRITERS LUNCHEON

At Fire Mt. Buffet (south of The Mall, adjacent to Home Depot).

NOVEMBER 5, SUNDAY, 2PM, OMNI’S Coalition ELECTION MARCH AND RALLY FOR CHANGE AND AGAINST THE WAR.   The march begins at the WAC parking lot and travels up Dickson, then on Block St. to the Square.  There speakers and music will express our opposition to the illegal, immoral, atrocious, failed war and occupation of Iraq.   Contact Abel Tomlinson atomlin@uark.edu

NOVEMBER 5, FOLLOWING THE RALLY, COME ON TO OMNI’S OPEN MIC, 7pm   For singers and readers, and nice refreshments.  Contact Donna Stjerna and Kelly Mulhollan. 

November 10, “Holocaust Denial: An Assault on Truth” Conference.

At Jones Center in Springdale, contact Grace Donoho, 479-756-8090 ext. 210.

NOVEMBER 11, OMNI FUNDRAISER

"Raising the Green" Silent Auction & Potluck

mark your calendar and make plans to attend!  this is gonna' be fun....

also, we are now accepting donations of items or services for our

            upcoming 2nd annual silent auction

it was great last year and promises to be even better this time....please donate now as

  it's your support that makes this event a success!

almost everyone has a item or service that someone else would love to have...if you are a business owner this is a perfect way to help OMNI and promote your business at the same time !
"Raising the Green" Silent Auction & Potluck
when:  Saturday, November 11 at 5 p.m.
where:  St. Paul's Episcopal Church
what: "fun" raiser and potluck and music
what to bring:  a potluck dish to share and $ for shopping

enter our drawing for a $250 shopping spree at Ozark Natural Foods

for more info or to make a donation to the silent auction call or write

       karen kimrey at 200-0361 karenkimrey@cox.net

 more details available soon on our website www.omnicenter.org
please pass this message on to interested others..thanks!

 NOVEMBER 12, VIDEO UNDERGROUND  – “Class Dismissed” - Based on the forthcoming book by Pepi Leistyna, Class Dismissed navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representations from American television's beginnings to today's sitcoms, reality shows, police dramas, and daytime talk shows. Featuring interviews with media analysts and cultural historians, this documentary examines the patterns inherent in TV's disturbing depictions of working class people as either clowns or social deviants -- stereotypical portrayals that reinforce the myth of meritocracy. Class Dismissed breaks important new ground in exploring the ways in which race, gender, and sexuality intersect with class, offering a more complex reading of television's often one-dimensional representations. The video also links television portrayals to negative cultural attitudes and public policies that directly affect the lives of working class people. 

November 20, 6pm, Changes are being proposed public hearings held affecting Arkansas' extrordinary resource waters. These are our highest quality free flowing streams.  The proposed changes would significantly weaken the protections these streams presently have. Please take time to  attend the meeting in your area and/or provide written comment opposing  the proposed changes.  Contact Shawn Porter NCWA board.

• November 20, 2006, Terrace Room, Clarion Inn, 1255 S. Shiloh, Fayetteville • • December 4, 2006, Northridge Middle School Cafeteria, 120 Northridge Drive, Van Buren.

• December 11, 2006, Harrison High School Commons Area, 925 Goblin Drive, Harrison.

NOVEMBER 26, 6:30, VIDEO UNDERGROUND

 “Control Room” - A portrait of Al-Jazeera, the independent news channel Donald Rumsfeld calls "Osama Bin-Laden's mouthpiece." Broadcasting throughout the Middle East, Al-Jazeera's Baghdad headquarters were attacked by American forces in 2003. The film examines the power of independent media and the resistance to it and the problem of whether any news can be truly bias-free.

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.