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End Nuclear Weapons Design at the University of Arkansas!

Join the campaign Facebook group for Omni partner Arkansas Nonviolence Alliance to learn more and see how you can help. This is a Campaign Celebrating the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty (TPNW), and Calling for the University of Arkansas to Terminate its Nuclear Weapons Program with the Honeywell Corporation, and for Global Nuclear Weapons Abolition. It also highlights the complicity of the University of Arkansas Dept of Engineering in designing components for nuclear weapons in collaboration with Honeywell International. It’s also interning UA students with Honeywell. Do those students know they are designing weapons of mass destruction?   Nuclear Weapons of […]


What’s the Buzz About?

What’s the Buzz About?A Wild Bee WorkshopSaturday Dec 18 – 2:00 pm – Omni Center Entomology 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 […]


Picking Your Role in the World We Want

Picking Your Role in the World We Want ” …what will you do with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver asked that in her poem The Summer Day.You may have noticed that the world is getting serious now. At least it is for lots of people. If you don’t need to feel that way yet you’re among the very fortunate. At this point though, it’s only possible to ignore the problems we face with serious effort, so escaping “serious” is not a reality for anybody.. This is the moment when it’s time to decide whose job it is […]


OMNI UN COP26 Glasgow Followup, #1, 11-14/ 11-17, 2021

OMNI UN COP26 Glasgow Followup, #1, 11-14/ 11-17, 2021 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/omni-un-cop26-glasgow-followup-1-11-14.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS NOV. 14-2014 Corporate Accountability 11-14 2015 Morning Star Online  11-15 2016Earth Overshoot 11-16 Extinction Rebellion 11-16 Avaaz 11-16 Alexandria Octavia-Cortez  11-16 2017 Insider, Sierra Magazine, 11-17 Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, 11-17 TEXTS NOV. 14- NOVEMBER 14, 2021 As we run out of time to save the planet, COP26 ends in ‘utter betrayal’Originally published: The Canary by Peadar O’Cearnaigh (November 14, 2021 )  |  – Posted Nov 16, 2021 Climate Change, Environment, Movements, StrategyGlobalNewswireExtinction Rebellion, Glasgow Climate Pact, Greta Thunberg, United Nations Climate Change […]


WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #48, November 17, 2021

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #48, November 17, 2021   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-48-november.htmlContents OF #48Schools of Mass Destruction: UAFICAN’s University Pledge vs.Weapons of Mass Destruction(WMD)Arms Control Association  UN Disarmament Week  Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Conference  Chemical Weapons International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons ICANvs. SCHOOLS OF MASS DESTRUCTION:  UAF Sign and promote the UNIVERSITY PLEDGE https://universities.icanw.org/university_pledge University pledge live!  9-6-21 Alicia Sanders-Zakre alicia@icanw.org via googlegroups.com        Hi everyone!Wanted to let you know our university pledge is now live and we are promoting it on social media!   We will also be running social media ads once we clear the last logistical hurdle hopefully this month. I’ve attached some images we created […]


OMNI UN COP26 Glasgow Countdown, #7, 11-12/ 11-14, 2021

OMNI UN COP26 Glasgow Countdown, #7, 11-12/  11-14, 2021 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/omni-un-cop-26-glasgow-countdown-7-11.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/ Contents OMNI UN COP26 Glasgow Countdown, #7, 11-12/11-14, 2021 Early Background Review, October 26, NRDCWill COP26 Move Us Closer to Solving the Climate Crisis? Leaders from across the globe will meet soon to accelerate actions to confront climate change. Here’s what to expect. October 26, 2021 A mural next to the Clydeside Expressway near the Scottish Events Centre, which will be hosting the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference from October 31–November 12, 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland […]


OMNI UN COP26 Glasgow Countdown, #6, 11-10/ 11-11, 2021

OMNI UN COP26 Glasgow Countdown, #6, 11-10/  11-11, 2021 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/omni-un-cop26-glasgow-countdown-6-11-10.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS Nov. 10 An update from the 26th UN climate talksCongress must hold Big Oil accountableOfficial notes baby steps, not leapsCOP26 participants urged to prioritize gender equityFossil fuel goals set; COP26 draft sounds climate alarmTell Biden to keep his promise and cancel this Fossil Fuel sale!COP26 Update Nov. 11UN-Backed Banker Alliance Announces ‘Green’ PlanCOP26 Can Learn From West Papua’s Green ResistanceCop26: Surging Wood Pellet Industry Threatens ClimateCOP26: How The World’s Militaries Hide Their Huge Carbon EmissionsCOP26: Military […]


ARMISTICE DAY NEWSLETTER (Replacing “Veterans Day”)

 NOVEMBER  11, 2021, 103rd Anniversary OMNI ARMISTICE DAY NEWSLETTER (Replacing “Veterans Day”)  NOVEMBER  11, 2021, 103nd Anniversary WE, THE PEOPLE BUILDING A CULTURE OF PEACE AND JUSTICE FOR THE PLANET. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/armistice-day-newsletter-november-11.html Compiled by Dick Bennett www.omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS ARMISTICE DAY 2021 NEWSLETTER Syracuse, NY Remembers Armistice Day for Peace Veterans for Peace, Reclaim Armistice Day “Armistice Is for Everyone” by Garett Reppenhagen, VFP Exec. Dir.World Beyond War Kellogg Briand Pact TEXTS Thursday, November 11, 2021 at 10:30 am at Billings Park (S Salina St & E Adams St, Syracuse, NY 13202) There will be a short program, and Mayor Ben Walsh […]