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Supporting Omni through the coming year

 in Current Events

ou may have gotten our letter in the mail. It’s the only fundraiser that keeps Omni Center itself running all year. It’s important to Fayetteville that there’s an Omni Center here. There aren’t many towns with a place where progressive values that support peace, justice and a thriving Earth exist. Right now, more than ever before, Omni Center is needed. Your support will keep the doors open and the coffee pot on, waiting for you. The people you love, and the issues you care for most are supported here, no matter what else is thrashing about in the winds of […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #210, JANUARY 1, 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025 / WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-210-january-1.html HOPE FOR NEW YEAR TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Noam Chomsky and Nathan Robinson, The Myth of American Idealism: How US Foreign Policy Endangers the World.  2024.   Pp. 207-9. The US Began the Nuclear Threatening and Race for Nuclear Superiority.“The United States began developing plans for potential nuclear attacks against the Soviet Union years before the Soviets had nuclear weapons of their own. . . .The Truman administration did not hesitate to use nuclear weapons as a means of diplomatic coercion.”  Chomsky and Robinson, pp. 208-9 (I have quoted C&R verbatim but have arranged their text […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #211, DECEMBER 30, 2024

 in Dick's Newsletter 2024

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-211-december.html The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell.  2023. ·        Heat Will Kill You First bing.com/news    ·       ‘The heat will kill you first’: Author tracks climate crisis in real time Climate reporter Jeff Goodell says, to reverse the rapid rise in global temperatures, “the most … ·        Grist on MSN · ‘The Heat Will Kill You First’ is a chilling book — and a warning ·        ·Extreme heat will smother the South from Arizona to Florida ·        WBUR · ‘The Heat Will Kill You First’: How extreme heat […]

STUDENT PROTESTS AGAINST ISRAELI COLONIAL SETTLEMENTS, ATROCITIES, AND GENOCIDE AGAINST PALESTINIANS, #2

 in Dick's Newsletter 2024

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology, 2024 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-student-protests-against-israeli.html What’s at Stake:  Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University,argues that universities should protect campus-wide free, non-violent exchange of ideas.  “It’s almost the end of the school year, and more than once I’ve been asked, “Don’t I wish we had just made it through a couple of more weeks without incident?” Mostly … no. How can I not respect students for paying attention to things that matter so much? I respect that they’re concerned about Gaza; I admire that they’re not entirely taken up with grades or […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #209, DECEMBER 25, 2024

 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Christmas 2024.  Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-209-december.html Preventing Wars, Stopping WarsEmpathy:  Jesus, Scott RitterInternational LawInternational Children’s Peace Prize PREVENTING WARS, STOPPING WARS COMPASSION Jesus often spoke and acted for compassion; e.g., The Beatitudes.  Washing the feet of his disciples after a long, dusty day of travel.  The parable of the good Samaritan.  The parable of the lost son.  Jesus identified with suffering people and desired to bring them relief.   I grew up with the King James Bible, but today I read Thomas Jefferson’s Bible (i.e. Gospels), especially on Christmas Day. “In Search of Empathy” BY Scott Ritter (Dec 25, 2024).  […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #210, DECEMBER 23, 2024

 in Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-210-december.html THESE ORGANIZATIONS FOR THE CLIMATE ARE USInside Climate NewsUnitarian Universalists for Social Justice Yale Climate Connections Climate Mobilization Project Some other climate organizations reported on in CMM:  Planet Over Profit, Climate and Capitalism, UN Annual COP, Living on Earth (NPR), OMNI Anthologies (Temperature, Refugees, etc.), Greenpeace. Inside Climate News Weekly, December 21, 2024.  Here’s a selection : A Florida Commission Keeps Approving Utility Plans With Lots of Fossil Fuels. Now Young Adults Are Suing. BY AMY GREEN.The plaintiffs claim the Public Service Commission’s practice of approving utility plans based on fossil fuels violates their constitutional […]

Update on the Tiffany property after the first hearing

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Gladys Tiffany, Director Omni Center for Peace Justice & Ecology Dec 20 2024 The first real hearing on the first lawsuit – the SZ Apartments against us – about the fate of the old white house and the people living in it, happened Tuesday before last. We worked very hard to prepare for it and felt like we had solid evidence to support our claims that the house is not the source of crime and mess it may have seemed to be before the homeless camp closed. But at the hearing, the charges had shifted to it being a potential fire […]