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UN INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE, SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

 in Dick's Newsletters 2021

UN INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE, SEPTEMBER 21, 2021 All Quiet on the Western Front, accompanied by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, tonight at  the Faulkner Performing Arts Center, UAF, 7 p.m.,  FREE TICKETS: https://uark.universitytickets.com/w/events/Section.aspx?PackageID=0&PackageQty=&event_id=2633&ticket_id=1338&cid=0&class_id=6&SameSeats=false&SameSeatsMultiVenue=false&totalTix=1&pos=0&SelectedASEvents=&SelectedGAEvents=&PackageVenue=&ChangeSeats=False&OrigSection=&vsection=REAR Sponsored by Dept. of CommunIcation Film Appreciation Society, the OMNI Center for Peace, and the Center for Multicultural & Diversity Education. For more information: Becca Martin-Brown, “War and Peace: Silent Film, Live Music Create Unique Experience.”  WHAT’S UP! Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, September 12-18, 2021. https://www.pressreader.com/usa/northwest-arkansas-democrat-gazette/20210912/283802856845267 The film is part of ARKANSAS PEACE WEEK Our Mission:  Arkansas Peace Week is a program of activities with a mission […]

Open Mic is back !

 in Current Events

Sunday Oct 3 – 7:00 pmIn Person at Omni! covid safety in mind!Greeting Open Mic friends,September’s Open Mic was so very sweet, we need to do this again this month! (and every month). Join us on the patio for soulful music from deep creative musicians ! Starting at 7:00. It gets dark at 7:45 so we will bring our photo light box and a light for the music stand. If it is raining we will need to cancel. So excited to see ya’ll. Donna and KellyCovid precautions: Event will be held outdoors on the patio and socially distanced. Please be vaxxed, wear […]

Free Community Cookout

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AR Criminal Justice Reform CoalitionCounty Problems Need Citizen AttentionFree Community Cookout Monday Sept 20, 6:00-8:00 pm, Shiloh Square, Emma Ave in Springdale!Sorry, not Wednesday…. MONDAY   Washington County Quorum Court is making questionable decisions about how to spend the American Rescue Act money.This money is intended for direct housing assistance, small business assistance, job creation, infrastructure and education. Do you want this covid relief fund spent on a jail? Is that the most helpful way they can conceive of spending this resource? Apparently so.The Quorum Court needs to hear from the people!The Arkansas Criminal Justice Reform Coalition wants people to have […]

39. Climate Memo Mondays, September 6, 2021

 in Climate Memo Mondays

39.  Climate Memo Mondays, September 6, 2021 The IPCC/Greta Test  Kate Aronoff.  Overheated      Several decades ago the IPCC scientists began to warn us of the extraordinary changes that were already happening in our climate and therefore weather, as the temperature rose worldwide.    At first populations and governments responded with knowledge and vigor.  But unregulated, subsidized fossil fuels companies’ denial and disinformation succeeded in putting that knowledge in doubt and few governments did anything meaningful.          Then on June 1, 2017 Pres. Trump withdrew the US from the Paris Accords.   Temperature was rising, weather was becoming more extreme, and catastrophe was palpable […]

38. WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, September 8, 2021

 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

38.  WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, September 8, 2021https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/09/omni-climate-memo-mondays-september-6.html September 21, Film All Quiet on the Western FrontArkansas Peace Week, September 19-26Petition v. U.S. Military Air Base Construction in Henoko, Okinawa Faulkner Center August 2021 Newsletter Edition 1 of 2 UN International Day of Peace In observance of The International Day of Peace on September 21, a rare screening of the Academy Award winning 1930 classic All Quiet on the Western Front will be shown at the Faulkner Center, with live musical accompaniment by The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. This is a free event and the film will begin at 7 pm. It […]

COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference

 in Dick's Newsletters 2021

GLASGOW November 2021 OMNI Glasgow Countdown, 9-4-21 OMNI COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference, GLASGOW November 2021 OMNI Glasgow Countdown, 9-4-21 Omnicenter.org/donate/ http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/09/united-nations-climate-change-summit.html This November’s UN climate summit — known as COP26 (Conference of the Parties), will take place in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12.  –Dick CONTENTS COP 26 COUNTDOWN 9-4-21 UN Wire, Guterres:  Code Red Alert Covering Climate Now, What’s at Stake? Climate Hawks, Sign the Glasgow Petition Covering Climate Now, Preparing for COP26, Three   Themes Public Citizen [Popular Resistance], Nicaragua   Proclaims Code Red for COP 26 Rainforest Action Network, Road to COP 26 Buckley and Friedman, […]

Open Mic is back – This Sunday!

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Sunday Sept 5 – 7:00 pmIn Person at Omni! Greeting Open Mic friends, September is already upon us and we would love to host the September open mic on the new Omni patio again. It was delightful and there is only 16% chance of rain this SUNDAY. We were planning on a BIRD theme but we have not put energy into that theme so far so it will be a grab bag of anything goes…Peace, Justice or Ecology…song, poem, performance, dance…whatever you desire. Starting at 7:00. It gets dark at 7:45 so we will bring our photo light box and a light […]