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What Biden Did …. and Democracy

 in Current Events

Heather Cox Richardson “Letters from an American”What Biden Did …. and DemocracyJust one more reminder friends. The threat to our democracy is so very real, and present in our own state. Progressives must be aware of the alternatives to authoritarianism and share out what we know to be true in the face of all these threats. Historian Heather CR has been posting insightful accounts that frequently compare historic episodes of our dark history with current events in ways that shed amazing light on what’s going on in the world right now. These are not just rants. They’re informed and insightful […]

55. WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #55. JANUARY 5, 2022

 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-55-january-5.html End Nuclear War Preparation, Abolish Nuclear WeaponsContentsAbolish Nuclear Weapons, UN Nuclear Treaty BanBack from the Brink:  The Call to Prevent Nuclear War US and Iran Need for Leakers and Whistleblowers THIS THURSDAY! Jan 6 Nuclear Ban Treaty Planning Zoom — REGISTER NOW! Nukewatch <nukewatch1=lakeland.ws@vrmailer3.com> Unsubscribe 8:01 AM (7 hours ago) Dear Nuclear Abolitionists, The Nuclear Ban Treaty Collaborative is planning another day of action this January 22, 2022 to celebrate the day one year ago that nuclear weapons were banned! Just as a year ago, when over 100 actions across the US celebrated the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of […]

INSURRECTION ANTHOLOGY

 in Dick's Newsletters 2022

January 2, 2021 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/01/omni-insurrection-anthology-january-2.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/ This anthology gathers articles, books, and films that indict Trump for attempting to foment an insurrection and in many other ways to replace our democracy with autocracy.  The collection begins with the PBS Frontline/ProPublica documentary, American Insurrection, includes special attention to Costa and Woodward’s book Peril, and ends with American Nero: The History of the Destruction of the Rule of Law, and Why Trump Is the Worst Offender by Richard Painter and Peter Golenbock. CONTENTSPBS Frontline, American Insurrection NYT, “The Politics of Menace.” […]

Update on the NWA Time Bank!

 in Current Events

Omni Fundraiser page here! Let’s talk about the time bank project. That’s what the NWA Time Exchange we’re designing is. “Time Banking is a community-led innovation that uses time as currency. An hour of time provided to a Time Bank ‘earns’ a one-hour time credit that ‘buys’ an hour of another Time Bank participant’s time which may also be used to ‘buy’ other services.” (from a report from the Broadway Skills Exchange) Fayetteville is a perfect place for this to happen. We deeply value our sense of community, and the pandemic that’s isolated us is a painful reminder of what […]

Climate Change Forum on Sunday Jan 9

 in Current Events

1:30 pm on zoomChange in schedule for the holidays The January Climate Change Forum, will be on the second Sunday this month, Jan. 9th, at 1:30 on zoom.We’ll be sharing the video of a panel examining the global, policy and community aspects of a just transition, from the global climate refugee crisis, through strategies to implement energy democracy in the US. and how we can develop community solar projects here in Arkansas. Shelley Buonaiuto, Dr. Joanna Person-Michenor and Dr. Paulette Meikle presenting. Zoom link here:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88399823627

HOW COULD WE HAVE KNOWN?  A Timeline 1926-2000.

 in Dick's Newsletters 2021

HOW COULD WE HAVE KNOWN?  A Timeline 1926-2000. Compiled by Dick Bennett, revised New Year’s Eve 2021. https://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/2151229136087998997 A CHRONOLOGICAL SAMPLE OF BOOKS, ARTICLES, FILMS, EVENTS REVEALING THE LONG, OBSTRUCTED LEARNING CURVE OF GLOBAL WARMING ANTICIPATING THE PRESENT URGENCY OF GLOBAL CHANGE BECOMING CLIMATE CATASTROPHE/EMERGENCY/CHAOS:  FROM 1926 TO 2000.   The expanded Timeline years 2000 to present will appear soon.  (Years in 18 point type; texts in 12.  Roughly, Green indicates advancing knowledge of the reality of climate change, of ensuing climate calamity, emergency, and chaos, and of resisters.  Red indicates villains and villainy defending the status quo by corporations, denial, […]

Climate Memo Mondays, #55, December 27, 2021

 in Climate Memo Mondays

Climate Memo Mondays, #55, December 27, 2021: Planetary Catastrophe, Resistance in BostonContentsAlfred McCoy, Global Warming, and Twenty-First Century Catastrophe.Militaries are huge contributors to climate collapse.But Boston’s Green New Deal: mitigation, adaptation, resilience. Fifty CCMs Linkhttp://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/climate-memo-mondays-first-50.html https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/12/twenty-first-century-catastrophe-or.html Alfred McCoy.  To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change.  Haymarket, 2021.  Comment by Dick Bennett, 12-26-21.       This is probably the first geopolitical history of the world oriented beginning and ending by the climate catastrophe, written to answer the question, where is the US now in this history of conquest and ruin?      The history begins with a Chronology of World Orders, […]