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OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #227, April 21, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/04/omni-climate-memo-mondays-227-april.html Warheads to WindmillsGreen Eco-Socialist Network  –> See more ways you can take action to pressure the industries driving these damages to the planet here.     Read in browser » A new Climate organization:  Green Eco-Socialist Network  https://eco-socialism.org/We are an informal, ad hoc network of Green Party members who self-identify as revolutionaries. We want to build the Green Party into a functional, revolutionary eco-socialist political party that is serious about taking and exercising state power, and using it to help facilitate the end of capitalism and creation of an eco-socialist society.  By “eco-socialism,” we refer to a […]

EARTH DAY, APRIL 22, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/04/omni-earth-day-april-22-2025.html What’s at Stake:   This April 22, the 55th Earth Day, reminds us of our struggle to create a livable planet for all, and how much is still at stake. Yet Arkansas’ members of Congress want to turn back the clock.   Futile as it might seem, let them know how you feel, to add to your protests.    Arkansas Senators, Representatives, and Congressional … CONTENTS EARTH DAY APRIL 22, 2025 OR Books AFSC, American Friends Service Committee FCNL, Friends Committee for National Legislation UUSJ, Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #225, APRIL 16, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.    https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/04/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-225-april-16_39.html Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. US Peace Organizations. Herman and Chomsky.  Manufacturing Consent. International Peace Organizations, ex. WILPF. Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (Geneva). Women’s International League … About us Founded in 1915, the Women’s International League for Peace … History Together, they decided to create the International Women’s … Our Offices    Events …Take cheer that OMNI Is Part of an International Struggle FOR Peace, Justice, Ecology. Give more cheers for PEACEMAKERS, PEACE ORGANIZATIONS USA 2024 Entries with an asterisk are focused entirely or primarily on nuclear war. About Face, ACLU, […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #226, April 14, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/04/omni-climate-memo-mondays-226-april-14.html   Save PBS.AUTOs v. CLIMATE: 3 Articles.John J. Mearsheimer.  Why Leaders Lie. Demand Progress:  Save PBSA top Trump ally in Congress just introduced legislation to strip all federal funding from PBS and public radio, following a slanderous congressional hearing attacking public broadcasting as “anti-American.”1,2   Trump himself piled on by attacking PBS as “horrible and completely biased” and demanded that Republicans “rid our Country of this giant SCAM.”3   It’s all part of a coordinated attack on PBS and public radio.    Demand Progress has mobilized tens of thousands of people to contact Congress and defend PBS, and with […]

OMNI SUPPORTING THE NEVADA DESERT EXPERIENCE AND ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS RESISTANCE ORGANIZATIONS

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Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/04/omni-supporting-nevada-desert.html Nevada Desert Experience  “The Fierce Urgency of Now!” – Sacred Peace Walk in Nevada April 12-18, 2025. You don’t often get email from info@nevadadesertexperience.org. Learn why this is important Web version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward TABLE OF CONTENTS • Sacred Peace Walk. April 12-18 • Why We Walk • TO USE A MOUNTAIN – yucca mountain documentary • “The Only Sane Solution” Resisting Nuclear Weapons in Europe Sacred Peace Walk. April 12-18 When Martin Luther King Jr. referenced “The fierce urgency of now” in his speech delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, he was […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #224, APRIL 9, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/04/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-224-april-9.html Making Distinctions for Peace, Justice, and Ecology Roy Eidelson.  “The American Psychological Association and the Weaponization of Antisemitism.”  Alterman, Eric.   When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences.  Roy Eidelson.  “The American Psychological Association and the Weaponization of Antisemitism.”   https://royeidelson.com/the-american-psychological-association-and-the-weaponization-of-antisemitism/ Thank you for this opportunity. I want to use my 15 minutes to describe how the weaponization of antisemitism has impacted the American Psychological Association (APA) — and our profession more broadly — since the Hamas-led attacks inside Israel on October 7th, 2023. To be clear, these are my views alone, and I am not […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #225, April 7, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/04/omni-climate-memo-mondays-225-april-7.html Wetlands Day?  To Wetlands!  The UN World Wetlands Day. Stephanie Elam, CNN.  Sea Lions Suffering from Domoic Poisoning.Greenpeace Trial.Lydia Wylie-Kellerman.  This Sweet Earth for the Children. INTERNATIONAL WETLANDS DAY is Today? According to Google with a splendid photo of a beaver.“How Beavers Are Preventing Wildfires and Fighting Drought in North America”   ©A family of beavers. Image by EBFoto via Depositphotos.   Imagine a creature that works tirelessly, shaping the landscape in ways that protect entire ecosystems. Enter the beaver, nature’s industrious engineer. These remarkable rodents are doing more than just building dams; they are playing a […]