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HOMELESS SOLUTIONS TOMORROW CONFRONTS A CRISIS
Thursday June 5 – 6:30 pm – Omni Center One of the biggest homeless encampments in town is facing a sweep from the University next Monday. Where can 150 people go for safety? It’s a conundrum we’ve been ignoring for way too long. There needs to be real solutions offered now. Join Homeless Solutions members tomorrow at Omni to learn more and grapple with the very real crisis faced by so many people.
Tibetan Healing Ceremonies coming up
Healing and Longevity Ceremony Sat June 7 – 2:00 pm – Omni Center Tibetan Healing and Longevity Ceremony Saturday June 7 at Omni Center 2:00 pm. The ceremony is for individual, collective and global healing on all levels. Our world is full of regrets, loss, sorrows, fear, and global horrors. This expansive level of healing is needed right now more than ever. If there is any illness, sorrow or negativity in your world – of course there is – bring some small item that represents it, or that belonged to someone who has passed on. This should be something you can discard or destroy […]
OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #233, JUNE 2, 2025
Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/06/omni-climate-memo-mondays-233-june-2.html GreenPeace Debunks FF Industry Lies. 2025.Debra J. Rosenthal, editor. Teaching the Literature of Climate Change. 2024.Karen G. Lloyd and Martin Crook. CAPITALISM, COLONISATION AND THE ECOCIDE-GENOCIDE NEXUS. 2023. GREENPEACE DEBUNKS LIES BY THE FF INDUSTRY. 5-26-25. https://engage.us.greenpeace.org/a/250507_mwemailCLM_makepolluterspay_ext_inc?contactdata=&am=100&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ea&utm_campaign=inc__250526_mw_clm07appl_lpd8zzzzzzzzzcz&sourceid=1021686&emci=5977586f-1938-f011-a5f1-6045bda9d96b&emdi=a453cef8-4b3a-f011-a5f1-6045bda9d96b&ceid=4201130 Debra J. Rosenthal, editor. Teaching the Literature of Climate Change. MLA, 2024. 344. Publisher’s description:Options for Teaching. “[A]n indispensable sourcebook for instructors and a valuable companion for anyone seeking to comprehend the climate emergency. . . . It is an excellent reference for instructors who want to engage their students with climate literature and the climate change […]
Ukraine War ANTHOLOGIES #35, June 1, 2025
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/06/omni-ukraine-war-anthologies-35-june-1.html What’s at stake in all of OMNI’s anthologies? “It is the fundamental duty of the citizen to resist and restrain the violence of the state. It is cheap and easy to deplore the crimes of others, while dismissing or justifying our own. An honest person will choose a different course.” Noam ChomskyBeginning in 2014, with the intention to follow the Motto of the University of Arkansas—To advance the truth–, I began gathering into anthologies (at first labeled newsletters) correctives to the official justifications for the Ukraine War. OMNI […]
OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #232, MAY 26, 2025
Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/05/omni-climate-memo-mondays-232-may-26.html Chris Hedges. Climate Crisis.Gene Ray. Commoning. The Chris Hedges Report: Facing The Climate Crisis And Human Mortality By Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Popular Resistance.org (5-23-25). In a world gripped by daily catastrophes, there is one that affects all but lacks the attention it deserves. The climate crisis — pervaded by ecological collapse, war, endless resource accu mulation fueled by capitalism — is the issue of our time. The warning signs are there but as author Eiren Caffall tells host Chris Hedges, people are not able to handle the facts regarding the “fragility of our […]
UKRAINE WAR ANTHOLOGY #34
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology May 25, 2025 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/05/omni-ukraine-war-anthology-34-may-25.html What’s at Stake: A true—a complete and accurate– martial history of the USA. Walter Hixson: “From Columbus to the “forever wars” of the modern Middle East, Americans have sought imperial domination over other peoples, invariably deemed inferior, and have regularly chosen to go to war with them.” These 34 anthologies (approx. 500 articles and books) provide that history for the US, Russia, and Ukraine, giving citizens the foundation for resistance; indeed, the foundation, available since 2014, had it been taught instead of the false […]
Last Vegan Potluck of the season Sunday
Sunday May 25 – 5:30 pm – Omni Center Monthly Vegan :Potluck closes down for the summer while organizer Chip Ballew works his summer gigs and travels. What a lifestyle! But there’s one final potluck night for you to come by and meet some great people and try out some great food. Vegan doesn’t mean complicated. If you don’t have time to cook Sunday, bring a loaf of bread from the store, or grab a bag of tasty chips or something. Vegans don’t have to be picky. Just dedicated to healthy eating and taking care of the Earth the way […]