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Peace Day in Fayetteville with Pinwheels for Peace –

 in Current Events

Someday you’ll get to meet Helen Kwiatkowski, an artist and teacher new to town, who has a life-long passion for peace. While she was teaching art in Texas she started organizing Pinwheels for Peace with her own art students and from schools all around the area. When she moved here last year she started looking for people and places to replicate this project in peace-loving Fayetteville.The Pinwheels for Peace Project is installed at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on East Street. Stroll through the grounds and listen to the gentle whirl like they’re prayer wheels sending out our longing for a […]

Pondering conversations with Trump voters

 in Current Events

The only possible way to understand Trump voters – author Jack LunaThis isn’t what I want to be thinking about this week. I’d rather think about transformational networks. But this article came up that – to me – answers a question lots of us have been wrangling over. How to understand the Trump voters in our lives and our communities. This blog writer has a perspective I was longing for. He called it a “White coming ….”

Where’s Gandalf?

 in Current Events

Or, are progressives in NWA nervous about their neighbors?This week I got an email from an Omni friend who lives on Beaver Lake. Boaters for Trump have taken over the quiet cove where she lives, and since her yard has one of the few “Biden-Harris” signs in the neighborhood, they focus a lot of angst in her direction. Read more,

Black Lives Matter In Northwest Arkansas

 in BLM

Join Bridge The Gap in Harrison, Omni folks Sunday Sept 6 – 1:00 pm – Harrison Town Square!Local Black Lives Matter protesters have been holding actions all across Arkansas strategically and with care. They want to connect even in the most rural parts of the state where Southern culture might struggle to understand that Black Lives Matter.Join us for a community cookout with Bridge the Gap NWA and the residents of Harrison and greater Boone County on Sunday, September 6th at the Square. Family-friendly, Covid-cautious, gun-free, and open to the public with FREE food courtesy of Fayetteville’s MayDay Community Kitchen. […]

Weaving a Community to Endure It All

 in Community

The times they keep achanging, and covid and climate change and who knows what else ensure they’re gonna keep achanging. It’s increasing the pressure on all our networks and making things more uncomfortable all the time. Progressives need to start honing-in on ways to build real bonds of care and understanding among each other that get our herds of cats moving in the same powerful direction in confidence and mutual trust. It’s a tall order but we need it now more than ever.Here’s why I think we can do it: (read more here)

Postcards to Swing States

 in Current Events

A really effective way to shift the balance in NovemberThere’s still time to get yours!Handwritten postcards got tested during the mid-term elections in several swing states, and the results were that progressive candidates who were featured with handwritten cards like this had a much higher win rate than could be expected from other promotions they received.Arkansas is not a swing state, unfortunately. But we can do this! If you’d be willing to write and mail a stack of postcards, email your contact info to omni@omnicenter.org, and we’ll get some cards to you. Request any number, but many folks are doing […]

OPEN MIC CANNOT BE STOPPED

 in Open Mic

Sunday Sept 6 – 7:00 pm — onlineThe music will not die just because of covid! Link to the Zoom event will be coming soon. Thank you to Walter Schmidt and Kelly & Donna Mulhollan for their perseverance in keeping this event – one that”s continued since 2001 – alive.A venue to present lively and inspiring Ozark culture that keeps the foundation of our lives certain and fun. Put Open Mic on your calendar.If you want help accessing a zoom event for the first time, just email to omni@omnicenter.org to ask for it. There’s help out there!