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OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #216, FEBRUARY 12, 2025

 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-216-february.html Dick Bennett.  Annie Jacobsen’s new book Nuclear War: A Scenario. NUCLEAR WEAPONS ABOLITION     The best introduction to Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario (2024) is probably a book published 39 years ago–Dr. Helen Caldicott’s Missile Envy: The Arms Race and Nuclear War (rev. 1986).  Here is a key passage from Missile Envy:  “The logical consequence of the preparation for nuclear war is nuclear war.  The behavior that perpetuates this race to oblivion can be changed only when people actually allow themselves to contemplate the true medical and ecological implications of such an event.  Only […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #217, February 10, 2025

 in Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-climate-memo-mondays-217-february.html Trump’s Environmental Record Inside Climate News WeeklyProtecting the CommonsA History of the Struggle A Glimpse of TRUMP’S ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD“During his first term in office, Donald Trump worked to weaken the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act.  He fast-tracked the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines.  He rolled back 85% of protected land in the Bears Ears Monument for drilling; and he destroyed Indigenous sacred sites and burial grounds, including Monument Hill in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument to construct his Mexico border wall. “(NOAAF)  2-10-25 This number of ICNW is packed with information regarding the Trump administration’s onslaught against the climate […]

Connecting Health and Nature: Building a Sustainable Future

 in Ecology / Education

Environmental & Outdoor Education Conference Arkansas Tech University, RussellvilleMarch 7 & Saturday March 8, 2025 Registration is open for Arkansas Environmental Education Association’s Environmental and Outdoor Education Conference. The conference is a professional learning event that brings together classroom teachers, non-formal educators, higher education students, Master Naturalists, and conservation professionals from around the state. This year’s theme,Connecting Health and Nature: Building a Sustainable Future, features hands-on workshops, field tours, concurrent presentations, and exhibitors. The 2025 conference keynote speaker is Dr. Crystal Green-Braswell. As the Coordinator of Staff Wellness and Culture for Little Rock School District she champions well-being and resilience-centered […]

For Gaza, With Love

 in Gaza

From Susanna Brinnon Dear Friends, I’ve been wanting to find a way to help the people in Gaza, and I just met Fayettevillian Marriah Berquist who is doing that. One year ago she posted an editing job on an international site and was surprised to get a response from a 24-year-old woman, who was looking for work to feed her family – from Gaza. Majd Yousif’s brother had been shot and run over by a tank; 2 other brothers had hepatitis; and her mother was gravely ill — so she became the family member in charge. They were living under […]

Housing Crisis Task Force

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Meets Weds Feb 19 – 5:30 pm City Hall Room 326 People on this Task Force care about Fayetteville people who are losing their housing, but they need to hear from YOU friends! To come and silently observe can move mountains. For more information email Gladys at omni@omnicenter.org.

Arkansas Renters United Meets

 in housing

Saturday Feb 15 – 1:00 pm – Omni Center, 3274 N. Lee Ave. Renters in Northwest Arkansas are next meeting Saturday February 15 – to talk about their concerns – which are many. Any Omni folks who are renting will find the discussions very relevant to their experience. Discussions are ALWAYS lively learning experiences. If you don’t rent but support rights and well-being for renters of course you’ll find it interesting too.

The Peace of Wild Things

 in Current Events

To hold in the heart When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #216, February 3, 2025

 in Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-climate-memo-mondays-216-february.html John Clarke.   “A Voice from Canada.” Yale Climate Connections, Climate Crisis and Mental Health(and more) “A VOICE FROM CANADA:  John Clarke, “Truth takes a side.”“The Climate Charade Continues.” Originally published: Counterfire  on January 12, 2024 (more by Counterfire) and Canadian Dimension  on November 7, 2024 (more by Canadian Dimension) . Understanding and truth are our best weapons against an exploitative society based on lies.  With fossil-fuel interests now openly and repeatedly in charge of Cop summits, their failure of legitimacy must be confronted, argues John Clarke.“On the Edge of the ‘Climate Abyss’.”   Originally published: Counterfire  on May 15, 2024 (more by Counterfire).  With scientists warning of imminent catastrophe, it is time […]