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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.

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–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 […]

50. Climate Memo Mondays, 50TH CMM, November 22, 2021

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50.   Climate Memo Mondays,  50TH CMM, November 22, 2021 http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/climate-memo-mondays-50.html CLIMATE:  ADAPTATION and RESILIENCE, a note by Dick Bennett These books offer new constructive ways of living with the reality of diminishing possibility of reversing the damage humans have done to Earth.  They seek ways of holding onto hope in the face of devastating loss. Contents Jem Bendell and  Rupert Read, Eds.  Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos.  Polity Press, 2021.William deBuys. The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss.  Penguin Random House (7 Stories), 2021.  Johnson and Wilkinson, eds.  All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, […]

Changes in a Good Direction

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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.” […]

Open Mic Night!

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Sunday Dec 5- 7:00 pmIn Person at Omni!Covid safety in mind! Stay tuned!Greetings Open Mic folks, Dec 5th…first Sunday Open Mic. It’s getting a bit too cold to host out on the OMNI deck so we will be moving it indoors.We know that most of our regulars have been vaxxed and boosted. If there are any of ya’ll who are unable to be vaxxed for whatever reason…it is probably safer for you not to attend. If you decide to attend please take care of your safety needs by social distancing and masking. We don’t want to be the Covid police…Folks can mask or […]