Thursday August 7 – 6:30 pm – Omni Center 3274 N. Lee Ave. Here’s a really awesome place to learn what’s happening about homelessness and low income housing in Fayetteville, and other stuff related. This is a critical time to fix this huge problem because there are forces above our pay grade who want to “solve” homelessness by cruelty. Fayetteville needs to do something NOW!
Tuesday July 29 – noon to 1:30 – Center for Nonprofits, McCauley Hall 1200 W. Walnut, Rogers Common Good is the new name for the IAF (Industrial Areas Foundation), that has finally taken hold of its own future and it wants to include you in the Common Good. Great group of diverse people trying to make this region what it really wants to be. Come check them out!
Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemoration scheduled for SUNDAY AUGUST 10, 7:00 pm at Omni. Harmonia and Geoff Oelsner will be performing and Dr. Michael Anthony will tell the story of the Nuclear One explosion in Russellville and how it relates to nuclear war! Put this moving event on your calendar, and stay tuned for more information. Respond of the Facebook event please. More info there! Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemoration 2025
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/07/we-are-winning-three-genres-two-wars.html We watch the ways the wars are reported, trying to understand empire. From the many, I have chosen examples from three genres for comment. First, an Associated Press report of the war in Afghanistan. This cheerleading article describes a US battalion commander in Afghanistan in 2009 considered to be a success against the insurgency by General Petraeus himself, architect of counter-insurgency, who visits with congratulations. Second, in my local newspaper a series of 66 page-one “Salutes to American Valor” of combat medal-winners in the Iraq and Afghan wars. The 66 narratives of fearsome combat anecdotes signify, at […]
Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/07/war-watch-wednesdays-239-july-23-2025.html OMNI HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE 2025Why Did the US Nuclear Annihilate Hiroshima and Nagasaki?FCNL: the RADIATION EXPOSURE COMPENSATION ACT was expanded. OMNI HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE 2025August 10, 7p.m., at OMNI, Lee St.MC Kelly MulhollanKeynote speaker Prof. Michael Anthony, UAF History Dept.Songs by Still on the Hill, Geoff Oelsner, and HarmoniaReading of names.Discussion following with Prof. Art Hobson Why Did the US Nuclear Annihilate Hiroshima and Nagasaki? William Hartung and Ben Freeman. The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America Into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home. 2025. Prior to the fall of Berlin, Allied intelligence […]
Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/07/omni-climate-memo-mondays-240-july-21.html Shrinking Biodiversity.Andreas Malm and Wim Carton. Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown. Peter Sinclair. Why Storms Are Getting Stronger. SHRINKING BIODIVERSITYUN Global Biodiversity Assessment 1,140 pages. Google replied to my query regarding diversity: “The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimates that at least 157,100 species are threatened with extinction, including more than 44,000 that are endangered.” Extinctions are increasing and more rapidly. Two items from Climate and Capitalism 2024.Illusions of Climate TechnologyAndreas Malm and Wim Carton. OVERSHOOT: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown. https://climateandcapitalism.com/2024/12/06/this-years-best-books-for-reds-and-greens/#comment-161780Even before 1.5 degrees, climate disasters are intensifying […]
Climate Moment Jury orders Chevron to pay $745 million for costal damages A jury in Louisiana, in the U.S., has ruled that Chevron, a major oil and gas company, must pay a local government about $745 million to help restore wetlands that the jury said the energy company had harmed for decades. The verdict is likely to influence similar lawsuits filed by other parishes, or counties, in the state against other energy giants and their possible settlement negotiations. A contribution from the Reevaluation Counseling Community
by Louise Mann If collected recyclables are not sold and made into new product, your recycling program is a sham. Tossing collected recycling into the landfill IS legal in Arkansas, if only one fee is charged for both recycling and garbage collection. Might want to check your garbage/recycling bill. Don’t you want your recycling collected in a way that keeps the recyclables marketable? Dirty MRF is a system whereby garbage and recycling are placed in the same can that you set out. And then tossed into the same compartment on the truck. Supposedly the recyclables are separated at a Materials […]
