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Gratitude for Omni People

 in Current Events

It’s the season of gratitude, and with all the things eroding into crazy across the globe we can send out thoughts of peace and comfort to all those suffering ones, and hold the gifts of good lives we’re so fortunate to be enjoying right now.  Special gratitude to all the Omni folks who have supported Omni over the years. Sending out some extra blessings aimed at you.  Here’s a gift of gratitude. A short video on gratitude that features the voice of Brother David Stiendl-Rast speaking quiet words of his own sense of this season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLkmw7RBqYg

RUN-OFF ELECTIONS!

 in Elections

Remember Tuesday Dec 3 is the date for RUN-OFF ELECTIONS! If you live in Fayetteville or Prairie Grove, the election isn’t over yet! Early Voting starts Tuesday Nov 28 (next Tuesday) Here are the candidates waiting with baited breath to see who takes their office: Fayetteville Mayor – Molly Rawn or Mayor Lioneld Jordan Fay City Council Ward 4 – Monique Jones or Todd Hertzberg Prairie Grove Ward 2 City Council Brian Hawkins or Audrey Wetzel For complete information on the run off election go to the Washington County Election Commission. Washington County Election Commission – run off election site

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #205, NOVEMBER 27, 2024

 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-205-november.html Thomas Ricento.   Can the US Survive White Christian Nationalism?Robert F. Keeler.   Can the US Survive Militarism?Raymond Barglow.  Can the US Survive Authoritarianism?  US White Christian Nationalism Thomas Ricento.   “Can America Survive as a Secular Democracy? Free Inquiry (Dec. 2024 – Jan. 2025).  The question can be understood only via a truthful history of the US that recognizes the secondary role of immigrants seeking religious freedom and the primacy of colonialism and imperialism.  Ricento recommends Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s excellent book: Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion (2021).  […]

THANKSGIVING DAY ANTHOLOGY #10, NOVEMBER 28, 2024, NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING AND ATONEMENT

 in Dick's Newsletter 2024

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecologyhttps://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/11/thanksgiving-day-anthology-10-november.html http://omnicenter.org/donate/ What’s at Stake:   “In less than three generations the settlers would turn all of New England into a charnel house for Native Americans, and fire the economic engines of slavery throughout English-speaking America. Plymouth Rock is the place where the nightmare truly began. “  Glen Ford Contents National Day of Mourning  #10 James Loewen.  “The Truth About the First Thanksgiving.”Ruth Hopkins.    “The First Thanksgiving: Separating Myth From Fact.”  Arlo Guthrie.  Alice’s Restaurant. (Rabbi Arthur Waskow, The Shalom Center).Matt Taibbi and Jared Moore.    “Thanksgiving is Awesome.”Glen Ford.  The Black Agenda. Kisha […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #206, NOVEMBER 25, 2024

 in Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett   Yale Program on Climate ChangeInside Climate News WeeklyRachel Myslivy.   “Create Climate Justice.”   UUA.    [I’m thankful for Yale Program on Climate Change and Inside Climate News, now my main regular climate news sources.   Tell me of others.  Here are selections from each.  These two reforming sources mainly nibble around the margins.  If we need to change the economic system, to cope with the climate emergency, we must look elsewhere.   ,–D] “Climate Change’s Four Irelands and the 2023 Irish Climate Opinion Maps.”   Yale Program on Climate Change Communication  <climatechange@yale.edu>  Dear Friends, The Irish Environmental Protection Agency commissioned the Yale […]

COP 29, 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference

 in Dick's Newsletter 2024

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/11/omni-cop-29-2024-united-nations-climate.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly known as COP29, is the 29th United Nations Climate Change conference. COP29 was  held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 11 to 22 November 2024. Wikipedia ContentsCOP 29, BAKU, AZERBAIJAN“Books to help you keep your head after the election and COP29” by Michael Svoboda, November 21, 2024. Code PinkInside Climate NewsUAF Student Chosen for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). TEXTS COP29 Azerbaijan – United Nations Climate Change … cop29.az   https://cop29.az › …   This […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #204, NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-204-november.html RootsAction Teach-In: Defuse Nuclear War, and documentary: A Common Insanity with Daniel Ellsberg. Books reviewed in Washington Report on Middle East Affair,  Nov.-Dec. 2024.   ROOTSACTION EDUCATION:  Teach-In Network, Defuse Nuclear War Coalition, and film documentary –A Common Insanity Dear Dick,  10-22-24[Two of these three RAE missions directly oppose nuclear war; the third, v. Israel, because it is a nuclear-armed nation threatening several nations in the ME, esp. Iran.  –D] To push back against college crackdowns on student activism to end Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, the RootsAction Education Fund just launched the national Teach-In Network. […]

Urgent: Cloud Forest buy

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Stop Deforestation Now! ONLY PROTECTED LAND IN THIS EQUADOR PROVINCE! www.eko.org us@eko.org Thu, Oct 24 at 7:26 AM Over 90% of a majestic cloud forest in Southwestern Ecuador was wiped out to make way for cattle farms and agriculture. Desperate to stop the destruction and protect what’s left, an amazing group of conservationists got to work and created the Buenaventura Reserve, which is now the only protected land in the province. After 25 years of hard work alongside local communities to reforest the area, the reserve is now teeming with life. The forest has regrown, bringing more than 330 species […]