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Invitation to Stand up for homeless people on Monday

 in Current Events

Monday July 10 – 5:30 pm – City Hall Room 219 In order to ao allow a small group of homeless people to stay on their personal property so they won’t be constantly driven from pillar to post, Richard and Gladys Tiffany are applying for a conditional use permit now required by the city for civic service like this. We can tell you that they’re a pain. The Department of Planning and Zoning has recommended that the conditional use permit be denied, even though there is nowhere else for the people to go. They really don’t like homeless people cluttering […]

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF INTERDEPENDENCE, July 4, 2023 ANTHOLOGY #5

 in Dick's Newsletter 2023

FROM 4TH OF JULY INDEPENDENCE DAY TO 4TH OF JULY INTERDEPENDENCE DAY, INTERNATIONAL DAY OF INTERDEPENDENCE, ANTHOLOGY #5,  July 4, 2023. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/07/omni-interdependence-day-5-july-4-2023.html COMPILED BY Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology #4  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/07/omni-interdependence-day-july-4-2021.html CONTENTS INTERDEPENDENCE DAY JULY 4, 2023 #5 Frederick Douglass.  “What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?” Rabbi Arthur Waskow.  “New 4th of July.” Mark Charles. “The Dilemma Of The Fourth Of July.”Margaret Kimberley. “The Terrible Origins Of July 4th.”ACLU of Arkansas.  “How many are not free?” Google.  8 items on Interdependence Day TEXTS INTERDEPENDENCE DAY JULY 4, 2023 FREDERICK DOUGLASS, “WHAT, TO THE […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #134, JULY 3, 2023

 in Climate Memo Mondays

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/07/omni-climate-memo-mondays-134-july-3.html Help Awaken Arkansas’ Congressmen’s Climate Somnolence  Recently, Dina Nash (chair of UUFF’s Justice Committee) was in Washington, DC for an afternoon of lobbying with others from Citizens’ Climate Lobby. . . . I got to meet with Rep. Crawford’s and Rep. Womack’s staff, as well as Sen. Boozman’s and him for about 40 minutes each. There are 3 proposed climate measures we talked with them about, but responses were interested, but non-committal. We assume they are still waiting for the groundswell of panic at which time they might do something: please be that groundswell! They are not leading; it’s business as usual, […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #132, JUNE 28, 2023

 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/06/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-132-june-28.html US THREATENING WAR AGAINST ANOTHER NUCLEAR POWER OMNI at FARMER’S MARKET this Saturday, June 30, 2023. Our Table is at the NW corner of Fayetteville Square beginning 8 a.m.   We have free copies of Nukewatch Quarterly, Sachs’ article on US/NATO provoking the Ukraine War, an urgent petition, and more to explain why we should take action against the Ukraine War. Three NUCLEAR articles from Consortium News (6-21-23).Scott Ritter.  “On Horseradish & Nuclear War.”“When Vladimir Putin was recently asked about the potential use of nuclear weapons in the context of Ukraine, an understanding of back-alley Russian slang was needed to understand […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #133, JUNE 26, 2023

 in Climate Memo Mondays

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/06/omni-climate-memo-mondays-133-june-26.html Michael Mann.  “The Fragility of Truth in the Existential Climate Crisis.”Dick.   Detective Dramas, US Aggression, US Passivity. Denial of climate danger continues.Michael Mann.  “The Fragility of Truth in the Existential Climate Crisis.”   The Humanist (Summer 2023).   “…as I argued in my book The New Climate War, we appear now to be moving past outright denial of the basic science as the evidence becomes plain to the person on the street in the form of the unprecedented heat waves, droughts, wildfires, floods, and superstorms we are now witnessing. We still, however, face a multi-pronged strategy by polluters and their enablers in […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #131, JUNE 21,  2023

 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/06/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-131-june-21.html ·       Arkansas Resistance to Nuclear War and Global Warming.OMNI has a table at Farmer’s Market for the next six Saturdays, through July 29, to join our voice with others around the world opposing wars, WWIII, nuclear holocaust, and seeking to contain fossil fuels and rising temperature causing climate change.   ·       Art Hobson, UAF professor, on the danger of nuclear holocaust in the Ukraine War. ·       Wikipedia.  Arkansas’ Betty Bumpers’ Nuclear Peacemaking. “Russia’s attack was not ‘unprovoked’ Where will the stalemate end?”  Art Hobson, ahobson@uark.edu   NWADG, 20 June 2023      . . . In order to prevent having yet another NATO-armed […]

US COLD WAR AGAINST CHINA ANTHOLOGY #5

 in Dick's Newsletter 2023

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/06/omni-us-cold-war-against-china.html COMPILED BY DICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGY (#4, May 4, 2021) http://omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS: CHINA NEWSLETTER #5 Threatened War, NEW COLD WAR Political Conflict Economic Technological Psychological Media Peaceful Alternatives TEXTS NEW COLD WAR THREATENED ARMED FORCE On the Brink in 2026 – Michael Klare in TomDispatch Gerry Condon projectsafehaven@hotmail.com via uark.onmicrosoft.com  1:33 AM (9 hours ago) Michael Klare’s serious warning of a U.S. war on China, with a compelling introduction by Tom Engelgardt (as he is wont to do). TOMGRAM Michael Klare, An All-American Path to War?  POSTED ON JULY 13, 2021 The single scariest night of my […]