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Weds Sept 8, 6:00-8:00 pm, Gary Hampton Softball Complex Pavailion, Salem Road   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 a chance to talk to their JPs (Justices of the Peace) in […]

September 19-25Many events scheduled online or planned with safety in mindFayetteville Sept 21 – 7:00 pm – Faulkner Performing Arts Center UAShowing of the classic filmAll Quiet on the Western Front Scheduled in person with safety measures at this time with Live Accompaniment from the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra More details below Full schedule for Arkansas and more information at the Peace Week website Arkansas Peace Week webpage

Sept 21 – International Day of Peace! 7:00 pm – Faulkner Performing Arts Center, UA ADMISSION FREEA Peace Week Event Co-Sponsored by the UA Dept of Communications Film Appreciation Society and Omni Center Live Accompaniment byThe Mont Alto Motion Picture OrchestraFaulkner Performing Arts Center                                                  All Quiet on the Western Front opened to wide acclaim in the United States 1930. Considered a realistic and harrowing account of warfare in World War I, it made the American Film Institute‘s first 100 Years…100 Movies list in 1997. A decade later, after the same organization polled over 1,501 workers in the creative community, All Quiet on the Western Front was ranked […]

“Native Vines of Arkansas” with Dr. Richard Abbott Sat September 4 – 1-2pm (Central Time Zone)   Join Dr. Richard Abbott, Assistant Professor of Biology and curator of the herbarium at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, for a free webinar on the native vines of Arkansas. In this presentation, Dr. Abbott will provide an overview of the most common vine species of Arkansas, as well as provide a phylogenetic overview of these species where he’ll show how they originated in all different kinds of taxonomic groups they’re found in.   Click here to join: https://craftontull.zoom.us/j/97074207020   Just a friendly reminder that […]

Michel Awad, Siraj Center for Peace <siraj-center@lists.riseup.net> Dear Peace Friends ,  We are pleased to announce the launching of the first day of the Virtual Thruhike along the Palestinian Heritage Trail , starting from today and for 20 days, each day we will publish a new virtual video along the Palestinian heritage trail ,we invite you to subscribe to our Youtube channel to receive notifications for each new video posted to enjoy the beauty and diversity along the Palestinian Heritage Trail. https://www.youtube.com/c/PalestinianHeritageTrail/videos     We invite you to watch the first day virtual video on the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSMMrqNLjiM   We have been preparing to […]

One million down, two million to go.   Postcard Writers NEEDED Daily Kos <campaigns@dailykos.com> If Democrats don’t vote, we lose. It’s as simple as that. Starting now we need to get out the vote. We need your help today to keep these states blue by writing “please vote” postcards to Democratic-leaning, low-propensity voters in Virginia and New Jersey. Our goal is to write three million postcards to voters in these two states, and we are a third of the way there. Click here to order a batch of postcards from Postcards to Swing States. You will receive postcards to write handwritten […]

Great video synopsis of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation Summit “Fix the Economy Fix the Climate” Invest an hour into watching this well-done video of the summit and learn how the circular economy may be a major tool to make us and the beautiful planet real partners in rebalancing the problems we’ve created. See how much incredible work is happening in a wide range of economic and agricultural areas to rebalance the out-of-what systems driving climate change. You won’t agree with all this stuff. But it’s happening and represents Watch at your own schedule https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vykZzfogwe5G003ryqwMwT3L4LdpOaCZ/vie

Department of Peacebuilding Past and Future Twenty years ago, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (OH) introduced into Congress a bill to create a cabinet-level Department of Peace (DoP). This was exactly two months before 9-11-2001.  PEACE IS A PART OF AMERICA’S DNA from the days of George Washington, but how do we transition to a culture of peace? That is the question.  A DoP is part of the answer. Going forward, we continue to build support for the Department of Peacebuilding Act of 2021 (DoP 2021) which is sponsored by Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA).   We need your help.On this 20th anniversary of DoP legislation, we commemorate those who have remained steadfast in […]