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What’s the Buzz About? A Wild Bee Workshop

 in Current Events

Saturday Dec 18 – 2:00 pm – Omni CenterEntomology PhD student and wild bee researcher Olivia Kline will give a presentation on the importance of native bees to the local ecology and agriculture. Olivia will give an overview of the results of her research into the surprising variety of wild bees and their critical role as pollinators. She will discuss ways to promote bee populations through native plants and habitat. We will also look at simple ways to build a wild bee house for your yard.   We might also say that we’re limiting the in-person participants to 20 people (masked and […]

Human Rights Day weekend Dec 10-12

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View “The Boys Who Said No” and Roundtable DiscussionView the movie Dec 10-12Gather for the discussion on Dec 12 As Congress debates the future of the draft right now, please join us on Human Rights Day weekend for an online screening of the film and a discussion about how we can take lessons from the past to support today’s resisters. “The Boys Who Said “No” – Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Judith Ehrlich, The Boys Who Said NO! tells for the first time the inspiring story and impact of the draft resistance movement. REGISTER HERE   When you register, you will receive a link to […]

Open Mic Night!

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Sunday Dec 5 – 7:00 pmIn Person at Omni!Covid safety in mind! Stay tuned!Greetings Omni folks,Dec. Open Mic is right around the corner. My how time flies! We will be hosting at the Omni Center Sunday, Dec. 5th at 7:00 as usual…at least for as long as everyone feels safe. The numbers of covid cases are climbing here in Arkansas…we hope everyone that comes is vaxxed, for the safety of all. I wish we had the where-with-all to do both LIVE an ZOOM of open mic but we are not that savvy.Maybe sharing songs about winter, solstice, holidays???? (Not specifically Christmas Carols…but along the line […]

Arkansas Agriculture: Water, and Dicamba

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Climate Change Forum: Arkansas in the Time of Climate ChangeArkansas Agriculture: Water, and DicambaDec 5 – 1:30 pm – zoom link belowReal issues facing Arkansas today. Continuing the series on environmental issues here in Arkansas. Our choices also impact climate change and environmental damage. This session comes out of the 2021 Audubon EnviroPolicy Summit;AgriPanel held just a couple weeks ago.Two Hot Issues in Arkansas Agriculture: Water & Dicamba  14.5 million acres of Arkansas’s land resources are considered active farmland. One of the state’s most important economic drivers, agriculture, is also directly connected to Arkansas’s natural environment. In this session, the panel will […]

UN INTERNATIONAL DAY IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE NOVEMBER 29, 2021

 in Dick's Newsletters 2021

OMNI UN INTERNATIONAL DAY IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE NOVEMBER 29, 2021. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/un-international-day-in-solidarity-with.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology. https://omnicenter.org/donate/   CONTENTS UN International Day in Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Nov. 29, 2021 AFSC, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2021. Weekend Reading.“Detained Bodies”   Friends of Sabeel North       America friends@fosna.org.    9-1-21. George Paulson: Abby Martin, BDS, Miko Peled, doc. film “Gaza      Fights for Freedom”“Our Effort, or Our Apathy?”  Noura Erakat for Eyewitness     Palestine info@eyewitnesspalestine.org  5-9-19. Free Palestine Movement?     TEXTS UN International Day in Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Nov. 29, 2021 AFSC.    U.N. Day […]

THANKSGIVING DAY NEWSLETTER #9, NOVEMBER 25, 2021, NATIONAL DAY OF GRATITUDE, MOURNING, AND ATONEMENT. And BLACK FRIDAY/BUY NOTHING DAY NOV. 26.

 in Dick's Newsletters 2021

–THANKSGIVING DAY NEWSLETTER #9, NOVEMBER 25, 2021, NATIONAL DAY OF GRATITUDE, MOURNING, AND ATONEMENT.  And BLACK FRIDAY/BUY NOTHING DAY NOV. 26. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/omni-national-day-of-mourning-9.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING #9, 2021 James W. Loewen, Truth about First Thanksgiving Cole’s Hill, Frank James, Massasoit Matt Taibbi, the Pilgrims and the Taliban 4 essays from Popular Resistance.org   UAINE, Kisha James, 52nd Day of Mourning in Plymouth   Thanksgiving March to Free Indigenous Kids   Racism and Human Rights   Protest of Arresting Journalists of Wet’suwet’en Day of Mourning #8, 2020 […]

BUY NOTHING DAY NEWSLETTER #3, November 24, 2021

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BUY NOTHING DAY NEWSLETTER #3, November 24, 2021. Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and the Environment. Omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS #3 Nov. 24, 2021 2021 Fridays for Future Google Search 2021 BND Google Search 2019 Strikes, Calls for National Emergencies, PLANET EMERGENCY In the wealthy north, instead of Black Friday, shopping, consuming, commodifying, flying, driving, growing, developing, heating up the atmosphere, destroying the planet, do the opposite: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Stop Population Growth, Join Fridays for Future, BUY NOTHING, STRIKE!  TEXTS 2021 FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE GOOGLE SEARCH NOVEMBER 24, 2021 Fridays For Future is an international climate […]

BIDEN’S FOREIGN POLICY SAME OLD IMPERIAL MILITARISM, NEWSLETTER #1, NOVEMBER 23, 2021

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BIDEN’S FOREIGN POLICY SAME OLD  IMPERIAL MILITARISM, NEWSLETTER #1 NOVEMBER 23, 2021 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/omni-under-biden-imperial-foreign.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS 2020-2021Kuzmarov, Hawk Biden’s Foreign PolicyPrashad, Biden Will Keep the Cold War RollingRich War Hawks in Biden’s Foreign Policy TeamTom Introduces Alfred McCoy on Biden’s Continuation of Obama’s Pivot toward ChinaAmy Frame, “Biden Oks $1 Billion in Weapons Sales to Saudis”Erica Fine, “Apocalyptically Dangerous” Nuclear Weapons DevelopmentBiden’s Secretary of State Sees No Change in Foreign Policy TEXTS 2020-2021  “Beware of the Hawk: What to Expect from the Biden Administration on Foreign Policy” By Jeremy […]