The Blue Chair Project
Come and help make chains for the Blue Chair Project.Nov 1st, 7pm at OMNI Center. Email for direction or more info: still@stillonthehill.com
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Shelter for homeless folks in Fayetteville
A cool local company – Natural State Treehouse Builders – is partnering with Gateway Project and hopefully lots of others on an amazing idea. The community houses its homeless neighbors! OMNI Pod Cottages materials needs What we’re up to and how you can help:Natural State Treehouses and OMNI/Gateway Project are partnering to build a prototype of an 8’x12′ small one person house. Our hope is that this prototype will demonstrate how affordable a comfortable, well-built but small home can be. We believe that the simplicity, durability and low cost of this model will open up new options for providing shelter […]
Why is dedication to anti-racism a powerful peace issue?
Donald Trump and his MAGA acolytes are vividly demonstrating precisely how race is the primary tool entrenching the power of authoritarianism. A tool of fear that endorses violence, race hatred, militarism and war to retain power. It’s a tool instilled in Americans with our mother’s milk. But we don’t have to remain trapped in that frame.
Dear friends of Harmonia
On Sunday, July 19th we are presenting a Healing Song Circle, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, around the Labyrinth in the Parish Hall. Our 1st event in that format since March 2020 ! It’s a time to listen, contemplate, and be soothed by healing music. We’ll be including some new songs! (There will be no applause until the end). Where: 224 N. East Ave, Fayetteville When: Sunday 7/19 Doors open 6:45, music starts at 7pm. Admission is free, and there will also be a basket for donations to support St. Paul’s assistance to homeless folks in Fayetteville.
ISRAEL AND US Attack on IRAN ANTHOLOGY #10, June 18, 2026
Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2026/06/omni-israel-and-us-attack-on-iran.html What’s at Stake: Preventing a war, and then if that fails, stopping it, are the paramount values of the UN Charter and the foundation of all of OMNI’s anthologies on the Culture of War. See the opening two articles. CONTENTS CONTEXTS OF IRAN WAR What’s at Stake:Historians for Peace and Democracy Art Hobson. Trump’s 2018 Action: “Will Iran Build a Nuclear Bomb? History:RICK STEVES’ TRAVEL DOCUMENTARIES: IRAN Walt Zlotow. “Tortured US history with Iran goes back 73 years, not 47.”Scott Anderson. King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution, A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation. Ludis. […]
US LAWLESSNESS ANTHOLOGY #3, June 15, 2026
COMPILED BY DICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, ECOLOGY and DEMOCRACY (#1, 4-24-17; #2, 9-11-22) https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2026/06/omni-us-lawlessness-anthology-3-june-15.html http://omnicenter.org/donate/ #1 http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2017/04/us-lawlessness.html#2 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/09/omni-us-lawlessness-anthology-2.html What’s at Stake: See Caitlin Johnstone’s list in “If you think our rulers do bad things in secret, wait ‘til you see what they do out in the open.” [These three anthologies offer merely an introduction to the outpouring scholarship opposing US imperial overreach that taints all aspects of international relations. See my anthologies on each of the major US wars, on US continental and Pacific expansion, on the Israel-US Gaza genocide, on Soviet/Russophobiae and the Ukraine […]
Flag Day Protest
New Iteration of No Kings Flag Day Protest Sunday June 14 – 11:00 am-12:30 pm – It’s a birthday party against Donald Trump. Sunday is his 80th birthday, and while he fritters away watching wrestlers as the world burns, people all over the country will be joining Indivisible in the streets celebrating the 250th anniversary of the democratic republic and protesting his brutal and corrupt reign. You’re invited!
Help AJRC change lives and systems
11:30-3:00 pm TODAY June 13 – at AJRC Community HUB Arkansas Justice Reform Coalition is hard at work changing a mass incarceration system that destroys lives and fails to keep communities safe. Meet some of these good folks today, rain or shine!
Resistance is only half the equation
When movements are at their most powerful, they not only withdraw cooperation from unjust systems, but build the capacity to live without them. Barbara Peterson June 1, 2026 This moment demands more than opposition. What is needed is not just resistance against corrupt centralized systems, but to create new, local systems that restructure power so it is dispersed throughout society. Because the problem is not only that those in power abuse it. The problem is that power is concentrated in the first place. https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/06/resistance-is-only-half-the-equation
Every Spring Tastes of its Own Ground
Every Spring Tastes of its Own Ground Scott Nakagawa – the spring and river metaphor. It could be a tale of Arkansas This is something too beautiful not to share. Scott Nakagawa has a great Substack for posting very wise assessments of dealing with the authoritarian dilemma we face. This post in particular is critical for peacemakers and change advocates everywhere because he’s sharing a metaphor that illustrates how we get past an individualist trap many Americans are caught up in — distrust of working together. That fear of people we may disagree with. Thank you #ScottNakagawa for this image […]