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Safer Together Postering Vigil

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Sunday March 30 – 5:00 pm – Washington County Courthouse The crisis for immigrants in Arkansas has started. Really bad bills targeting them – and many who are here legally – are being pushed through the legislature. A rundown of those is further down in the newsletter. It’s scary, but there is good hope. At this point many, many people in NWA have developed friendships and family ties with people from other parts of the world, and the idea that they’re being targeted like this is repugnant. If you are one of those people lucky enough to care, and ready […]

TRUMP AUTHORITARIAN, TOTALITARIAN, AUTOCRACY, FASCISM, NAZISM ANTHOLOGY #2, March 27, 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, Ecology, and the Idea of Democracy https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-trump-authoritarian-totalitarian.html What’s at Stake:  Observers were studying currents of US authoritarianism in the 1930s as Sinclair Lewis’ novel It Can’t Happen Here illustrates, long before Trump appeared in his first term Jan. 20, 2017.    Defenders of the US idea of democracy have had a long time to build its structure, yet it seems fragile under Trump’s onslaught.               CONTENTS 2008 Myerson and Roberto.  “Fascism and the Crisis of Pax American.” 2016 John Broich.  We Asked Sixteen Historians. Noam Chomsky     Heather Saul.  Noam Chomsky’s […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #222, MARCH 26, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-222-march-26.html Ralph Nader.  Resisting “Trump’s Tyranny.”Maria Ressa.  How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future. “Stay Silent and Stay Powerless Against Trump’s Tyranny” by Ralph Nader.  Facebook,  March 14, 2025.    (forwarded by Joanie Connors to OMNI Open Forum) There are reasons why influential or knowledgeable Americans are staying silent as the worsening fascist dictatorship of the Trumpsters and Musketeers gets more entrenched by the day. Most of these reasons are simple cover for cowardice. . . . Don’t self-censoring people know that they are helping the Trumpian dread, threat and fear machine get […]

CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #223, March 24, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett    https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-climate-memo-mondays-223-march-24.html Yale Climate Connections February 28 – March 6, 2025. As the politics of climate change shift, how can ordinary people respond?  Goodbye, Paris Agreement; hello, National Energy Dominance Council, the body tasked with carrying out the Trump administration’s fossil-fuel-forward agenda.   [Here’s another organization fighting back.  –D]Nathaniel Stinnett founded the Environmental Voter Project in 2015, aiming to convince more people who care about climate change to engage with the electoral process. Keep reading. More articles published this weekNOAA Hurricane Hunter layoffs threaten to degrade hurricane forecasts‘We know what it’s like’: How Appalachian towns are learning to help each other after […]

HERE TO STAY

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March for the Dignity of Immigrant Workers MARCH 31st Gather at 1:30 PM in Murphy Park Springdale Live Music, Art, Theater Play by Workers 3:00 PM Peaceful March 1.7 miles to Luther George Park. Venceremos, an NWA worker’s rights group, is organizing this event. Vencermos’ mission is to “ensure human rights for the state’s poultry workers.” A lot of the poultry community is very vulnerable and they’re undocumented. They have concerns about what will happen now that Trump is the elected president. “This threat of deportations, this threat of discriminating more towards these communities, is something that is really concerning […]

Death may be more interesting than you realize

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Fenix Gallery Hosts a Death Cafe with Greta Allendorf Death may be more interesting than you realize March 28 – 6:00-7:00 pm Fenix Gallery, Mount Sequoyah Meet Greta Allendorf, Death Doula and very interesting speaker. This presentation is part of and closes out Fenix Gallery’s recent show “Let’s Talk About Death Baby” that explores that most uncomfortable topic. But some of us would like to understand better. If you’re in that club, find out more here: https://www.fenixarts.org/event-details-registration/lets-talk-about-death-baby-with-greta-allendorf?mc_cid=7adf678298

Indivisible Empty Chair Town Hall

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Saturday March 22- 1:30 – Good Shepherd Lutheran, 2925 Old Missouri Road. Where are they? Cotton – Boozman – Womack? Senators Tom Cotton, John Boozman, and Representative Steve Womack are supposed to hold town hall meetings with their constituents. They’ve also been invited to attend and speak to the concerns of their constituents on March 22. They have not replied, so Indivisibles will have empty chairs for them to show the world their true colors on everything we care about. There will also be local experts present to talk about REAL issues, like climate change, education, immigration, homelessness and other […]