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OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #255, NOVEMBER 12, 2025

November 14, 2025 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett.https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-255-november.html Dick Bennett. We Could Be Stronger Nuclear Resisters Now. Gerry Condon. VFP. Reclaim Armistice Day.Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan. “Trump’s Orwellian Militarization of American Cities.”Chris Hedges. “The Death House.” Dick Bennett. WE COULD BE STRONGER RESISTERS NOW. When the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance was inaugurated during the 1960s/70s by our anti-Vietnam War Peace Organizing Committee, we were awake thanks to John Hersey’s book Hiroshima (1946) and Burdick’s and Wheeler’s Fail-Safe (1962) and many other writers and organizations, especially religious. And since the 1980s a rising wave of protest against nuclear weapons has lifted the humanity of the “woke.” […]

ARMISTICE REMEMBRANCE DAY FOR PEACE, NOVEMBER 11, 2025

November 12, 2025 in Current Events

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, Ecology, and Democracy https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/11/omni-armistice-remembrance-day-for.html What’s at Stake: Militarization of USA. David Swanson: “For decades in the United States, as elsewhere, this day was called Armistice Day, and was identified as a holiday of peace, including by the U.S. government. It was a day of sad remembrance and joyful ending of war, and of a commitment to preventing war in the future. The holiday’s name was changed in the United States after the U.S. war on Korea to “Veterans Day,” a largely pro-war holiday on which some U.S. cities forbid Veterans For Peace groups […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #256, November 10, 2025

November 12, 2025 in Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett. Yale Climate Connections. US Rejects COP30, China Leads in Renewable Energy.UNIPCC Report on Climate Change and Land, 2019. Friederike Otto. Climate Injustice. The Living New Deal Yale Climate Connections (11-11-25). Yale Center for Environmental Communication · 195 Prospect St. · New Haven, CT 06511.The world is on track to overshoot the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming target negotiated in the Paris Agreement 10 years ago. “Current commitments put the world on a path of 2.3-2.5°C of warming by the end of the century. We are very likely to overshoot 1.5°C within the next decade – the priority now […]

“A Mystical Ornithology” / Emergence Magazine

November 9, 2025 in Current Events

Share a closer connection to nature with this lyrical video produced by Emergence Magazine. Moving closer to the sources of life and wholeness is our birthright, and the contemplative birder featured in this beautiful video – facing the same struggles we all are – lifts the joy of the birds and their songs into a new place. A Mystical Ornithology” / Emergence Magazine

Last Chance to Save Trees

November 9, 2025 in Current Events

Tues Nov 18, 5:30 pm in City Hall Room 219 Losing the last forest in Fayetteville will be a done deal if we don’t step up. Contact your city councilpersons using the contact info at the bottom of this newsletter. It stays there for your access all year long. If you can, show up in person, or by zoom Tuesday 5:30. Register for zoom attendance here: https://fayettevillear.portal.civicclerk.com/event/506/overview

New York Progressive Mayor Wins!

November 9, 2025 in Current Events

C-Span Mandami Victory Speech What does this mean for Arkansas? HOPE IS ALIVE! November 5, 2025 Heather Cox Richardson Nov 6 2025 New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a member of both the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, began his victory speech last night with a nod to Eugene V. Debs, labor organizer and Socialist candidate for president at the turn of the last century. “The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said: ‘I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.’” The 34-year-old mayor-elect’s speech went […]