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Changes in a Good Direction

November 21, 2021 in Current Events

Changes in a Good DirectionIntroducing Alex and Rachel Alex Tripodi has been a member of Omni Board of Directors for over two years now. Maybe you remember the story of how his workplace closed down when covid started and he founded MayDay Community Kitchen for his own sanity and to feed others who were struggling. At the time, Alex told us “Peace will look different in the world my generation is facing. We need to think about how we do our work differently because if my generation is going to be part of this, they’ll want to see practical results.” […]

Birthing Omni 20 Years Ago – some of the people who did it

May 7, 2021 in Current Events

The story’s been told before about how Dick Bennett and his friend Dana Copp retired in 1999 and wondered what they should do next with their passion for peace. Around somebody’s kitchen table they pondered the idea of a peace center like the old Peace Center on Dickson Street that organized protests about the Vietnam War and subsequent social issues. Dick started an email newsletter and scheduled public talks and Dana went to visit the United Campus Ministries chaplain on Maple street and convinced him to allow them office space in their big basement. He also scrounged office furniture and an already-ancient […]

CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #223, March 24, 2025

March 25, 2025 in Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-climate-memo-mondays-223-march-24.html Yale Climate Connections February 28 – March 6, 2025. As the politics of climate change shift, how can ordinary people respond? Goodbye, Paris Agreement; hello, National Energy Dominance Council, the body tasked with carrying out the Trump administration’s fossil-fuel-forward agenda. [Here’s another organization fighting back. –D]Nathaniel Stinnett founded the Environmental Voter Project in 2015, aiming to convince more people who care about climate change to engage with the electoral process. Keep reading. More articles published this weekNOAA Hurricane Hunter layoffs threaten to degrade hurricane forecasts‘We know what it’s like’: How Appalachian towns are learning to help each other after […]

HERE TO STAY

March 21, 2025 in Current Events

March for the Dignity of Immigrant Workers MARCH 31st Gather at 1:30 PM in Murphy Park Springdale Live Music, Art, Theater Play by Workers 3:00 PM Peaceful March 1.7 miles to Luther George Park. Venceremos, an NWA worker’s rights group, is organizing this event. Vencermos’ mission is to “ensure human rights for the state’s poultry workers.” A lot of the poultry community is very vulnerable and they’re undocumented. They have concerns about what will happen now that Trump is the elected president. “This threat of deportations, this threat of discriminating more towards these communities, is something that is really concerning […]

Death may be more interesting than you realize

March 21, 2025 in Current Events

Fenix Gallery Hosts a Death Cafe with Greta Allendorf Death may be more interesting than you realize March 28 – 6:00-7:00 pm Fenix Gallery, Mount Sequoyah Meet Greta Allendorf, Death Doula and very interesting speaker. This presentation is part of and closes out Fenix Gallery’s recent show “Let’s Talk About Death Baby” that explores that most uncomfortable topic. But some of us would like to understand better. If you’re in that club, find out more here: https://www.fenixarts.org/event-details-registration/lets-talk-about-death-baby-with-greta-allendorf?mc_cid=7adf678298

Overdose Prevention and Response Training

March 21, 2025 in Current Events

Indivisible Empty Chair Town Hall

March 21, 2025 in Current Events

Saturday March 22- 1:30 – Good Shepherd Lutheran, 2925 Old Missouri Road. Where are they? Cotton – Boozman – Womack? Senators Tom Cotton, John Boozman, and Representative Steve Womack are supposed to hold town hall meetings with their constituents. They’ve also been invited to attend and speak to the concerns of their constituents on March 22. They have not replied, so Indivisibles will have empty chairs for them to show the world their true colors on everything we care about. There will also be local experts present to talk about REAL issues, like climate change, education, immigration, homelessness and other […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #221, MARCH 19, 2025

March 19, 2025 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-221-march-19.html Bayard Rustin, Opponent of War.Origins of US Wars. Everyone a Historian.The Mother of US Wars: Westward Conquest. March 17 was the birthday of Bayard Rustin, civil rights organizer (1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom), pacifist, socialist, and gay advocate. UAF’s Black Studies Program is partly supported by an endowment from OMNI. THE ORIGINS OF US WARS? Become a scholar historian. Despite being the most wealthy and heavily armed empire in the history of the world, the agencies and think tanks whose task it is to justify that empire have produced no more numerous publications […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #222, March 17, 2025

March 18, 2025 in Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennetthttps://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-climate-memo-mondays-222-march-17.html A Nation Divided? How much? Over basics? Lertzman. “The US Has Never Been More Divided On Climate.” Mazza. “Building Solidarity Around Survival: A Seattle Example.” New Articles and Reviews of Books in Climate and Capitalism. “The US Has Never Been More Divided On Climate” By Dr. Renée Lertzman, DeSmog. Popular Resistance.org (3-10-25). In the autumn of 2014, I was sitting in a tiny shed at a writing residency in Point Reyes, Northern California. I was there to write my book about the psychology of facing planetary crises. One particularly warm afternoon, I was looking out at Tomales […]