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CENTER FOR PEACE, JUSTICE, ECOLOGY, AND DEMOCRACY. ANTHOLOGY ON UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS. December 10, 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/omni-center-for-peace-justice-ecology.html What’s at Stake:  “We are experiencing a world where commitments to protect and promote human rights have reached alarming new lows. While we have long fought against the degradation of rights by insisting on accountability of state and private actors for harm and centering the demands of those most impacted by systems of oppression in the U.S. and around the world, we mark this moment while in a profound human rights crisis. This Human Rights Day invites a reckoning: How did a global system built in the name of “universal rights” become structurally incapable of constraining […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #258, December 1, 12, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-258-december.html NONVIOLENCE ORGANIZATIONS v. CATASTROPHIC SYSTEM OF CLIMATE and WARS:  BREAKING THE REGIME OF FOSSIL FUELS WAR FASCISM. [‘Flu” visited me Thanksgiving, the perfect day for an irony-minded host, and remains my guest today, giving my doctor an opportunity to tell me about real flu victims.  I had gathered several items for the next Memo, then fell behind, and then the following essay appeared in my inbox, perfect for a blog named “War and Warming” (recently amended to include population growth and fascism). –D] “SIGN NOW: Fossil fuels cause war.” Drew and the crew at 198 Methods <drew@198methods.org> Dec […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #259, December 10, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/war-watch-wednesdays-259-december-10.html NONVIOLENCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS, REASON, NEGOTIATION:  GLUES FOR CIVILIZATiON. DECEMBER 10 IS UN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY.1948: UN General Assembly led by Eleanor Roosevelt passes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). “On this international human rights day, join us in working to eliminate nuclear weapons.” Alicia Sanders-Zakre, ICAN <admin@icanw.org> 12-10-25 .  2017 Nobel Peace Prize.  ICAN is the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.     Place de Cornavin 2, Geneve 1201, Switzerland. PBS Documentary of Christian Nonviolent Peacemaker Dorothy Day.  Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story.  DD and history of The Catholic Worker organization, […]

“PEARL HARBOR DAY,” IMPERIAL COLONIAL PACIFIC WORLD WAR II ANTHOLOGY #10, December 7, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology.https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/pearl-harbor-day-imperial-colonial.htmlhttps://omnicenter.org/donate   What’s at Stake:  The origins of WWII in the Pacific.   Ultimately the conflict of American and Japanese imperial interests in China led to war. Strictly speaking the USA got together with Britain and the Netherlands to freeze Japanese financial assets so that Japan would not be able to buy petroleum. The Japanese were thus forced to choose war or surrender. They chose to attack and thus the shooting war began December 1941.  From WikiAnswers. [Note: I reported my research on the Pearl Harbor attack 2006–2011 in a […]

Wealth of the global 1% keeps growing

 in Current Events

Climate Moments Provided by the Reevaluation Counseling Community in Northwest ArkansasWealth of the global 1% keeps growing The richest 1 percent of the world’s population have accumulated an additional $33.9 trillion since the Paris Climate agreements in 2015. Some are noting that even a small portion of this would be sufficient to pay the fair share climate finance needed by the Global South.Taxing fossil fuel companies could also generate the large amounts needed to meet people’s needs.A resource from the RC Community As Diane Shisk wrote: “The next few years are a critical time for action on the climate emergency. We all want to stay […]

Stand for the Trees! And stay for Open Mic

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Sunday, Dec 7 – 4:00 pm – Omni Center Postcards for the trees! We are going to gather between 4:00 and 6:00 (before Open Mic) to write post cards to our council members concerning the plan to build a new Junior High School on what is now 27 acres of unobstructed forest. Our last chance to influence this decision.  And we sure need you to make it happen! Postcards, stamps, pens, and prompts for the postcards will be supplied by Andrea. A very special Open Mic will follow! Kelly and Donna   Open Mic for Peace Sunday Dec 7 – 7:00 pm – Omni […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #258, December 3, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/war-watch-wednesdays-258-december-3-2025.html Ted Snider   “Ukraine Peace Talks:” Scott Ritter.   “Highway to Hell”  in a trilogy devoted to necessity of arms control.Help PM Press and OR Books Build the Future. Ted Snider   “Ukraine Peace Talks: Concessions or Done Deals?”  ACURA (Dec. 03, 2025).  The latest attempt at U.S. mediated peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are in disarray with the chance of success rapidly shrinking. Trump originally offered Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a plan that “He’ll have to like… and if he doesn’t like it, then you know, they should just keep fighting.” And he demanded an answer […] […]