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Homeless Solutions Partners announces new speaker series

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Thurs Feb 1 – 6:30 pm – Omni Center Yes, homelessness in Northwest Arkansas is complicated. But there are ways we can help homeless neighbors who need it badly. Homeless Solutions Partners wants you to join them to get the real story of what’s going on and how to help. On Feb 1 the director of the Continuum of Care — Director Debbie Martin, brings information. CoC is the group who brings HUD dollars to nonprofits and cities to help homelessness. Debbie will talk about CoC’s work. What they do, and how caring people can help. One of CoC’s jobs […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #158, DECEMBER 27, 2023

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 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-158-december.html   Compiled by Dick Bennett Local ISRAEL/PALESTINE PROTESTS:  Donations to our current campaign for justice and peace in Palestine can be made online with Venmo at this link: https://venmo.com/u/Abel-Tomlinson-1.    Or, checks can be mailed to Arkansas Antiwar Alliance, 60 West Smith St.Fayetteville, AR 72701Thank you,Abel TomlinsonPalestine Solidarity NWA, OrganizerArkansas Antiwar Alliance, OrganizerOMNI Peace Action Committee, Chair(479)283-5762 NOTE CHANGE OF NAME FOR ISRAEL/PALESTINE DEMONSTRATIONS:Palestine Solidarity NWA PSNWA Gaza Ceasefire Protests & Meeting The next PSNWA protests will be next weekend in Rogers and Bentonville. The focus of these protests is to call for a Ceasefire and to Save the Children. The U.N. reports that around 40% of the deaths from […]

COP 28, 12-15-2023 December 25, 2023

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Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology OMNI ONGOING REPORTING OF THE 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 28 Thu, Nov 30, 2023 – Tue, Dec 12, 2023https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/11/omni-reporting-2023-united-nations.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology CONTENTS CNN REPORT: COP AND BEYOND What Is COP 28? The Controversy Over Summit Location Big Names Attending Stocktake 8 Years after Paris Biggest Issues: Fossil Fuels and Loss and Damage Fund FURTHER ANALYSISTwo Steps Forward Food and Agriculture Acknowledged Finally Climate Criminals Military Industrial Complex False and Failed Conferences More Deadly Delay SOLUTION: Copy Japan: […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #159, DECEMBER 25, 2023

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-159-december.html Thom Hartmann.  Move to Amend.John J. Berger.  (book) Look Inside Solving the Climate Crisis. MOVE TO AMEND: End Corporate Rule, Legalize DemocracyDick —Hi, I’m Thom Hartmann,  author and progressive political commentator. Many of you know me from my nationally syndicated radio show, the Thom Hartmann Program.  I’m also a long time supporter of Move to Amend!  Please join with me in supporting their work to pass a Constitutional amendment to end corporate personhood and get big money out of politics. (Our civilization and most of our species are imperiled by our nuclear armed wars and by […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #157, DECEMBER 20, 2023

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-157-december.html NUCLEAR MISSILES, NUCLEAR HYBRID WAR, ANOTHER REASON TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS William J. Perry and Tom Z. Collina write in The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump,  Chapter 4, ‘Hacking the Bomb,’” that “Cyber warfare has  become a standard element of the arsenal for what are now called ‘hybrid’ conflicts.”  “The United States’ use of cyberattacks against nuclear and missile programs in Iran and North Korea has changed the nature of warfare.  As the United States sets the example for hybrid conflicts, and as the tools to fight them proliferate, this boomerang […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #157, DECEMBER 18, 2023

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-157-december.html Wen Stephenson.  “’”While this everywhere crying.”  The Nation (12.11-18.2023).As a former literature instructor and faculty member in a College of Arts and Sciences, I think of all A&S colleges as potential centers for resistance to nuclear wars and warming.   Except for the Green New Deal movement, we have been so preoccupied with the deniers and greedy and indifferent or oblivious , the willfully ignorant and cynical, we haven’t begun to pay the urgent, absorbing attention to the quality of the transition needed against the chaos ahead with business as usual, its beginnings already forced upon us.    Our colleges of […]

COP 28 Closes with a few steps forward

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Two big steps were taken at the just-concluded COP: Language was created that gave some of the most impacted nations (island and coastal nations) ability to make claims to a “loss and damage fund” for climate, but they didn’t fund it. And for the first time language acknowledging the need to get off of fossil fuels was included. Without a clear path forward the claims seem shaky. But some climate activists are encouraged that these are potential tools to make demands on an industry with inordinate power over our lives and economies. Check out the UN Interpress Service reports on […]