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Quick Links...  Become a Member Information Events Calendar OMNI Newsletters  DICK BENNETT BLOG Dick's Blog Here     DICK BENNETT CURRENT NEWSLETTERS Nuclear Weapons Drones   Newsletter Archives Here     Stay Involved  Join OMNI Shoot the Breeze Come Together Events & ActionPrograms Website FeedbackMeet OMNI's VISTAs 6:30 pm - Walker Park Pavilion Hiroshima Nagasaki Day Genbaku (A Bomb) Dome, Hiroshima, and Predator drone Sunday August 11 Potluck Picnic and Program  Fire From   The Sky: Aeriel Warfare and its Moral Consequences 6:30 pm potluck, 7:00 pm program Walker Park Pavilion Fayetteville This year there's a new format for Hiroshima Nagasaki Day to encourage new participation. We want to make a clear connection between old-thinking where atomic bombs could be dropped on civilians in 1945, and today when unmanned drones can be fired on shadowy enemies that turn out to be civilians, or used to threaten and spy on minority and dissenting voices. Potluck picnic starts at 6:30 at Walker Park Pavilion.  Please bring a picnic dish to share, and your own dishes and flatware if you can.  We'll have some available for those who don't bring theirs.  OMNI will provide beverages Program begins at 7:00 with an annual Proclamation and comments from Mayor Lioneld Jordan, music by Kelly Mulhollan and Warren Dietzel, poetry by Leah Gould and Vela Giri, and local speakers with good thinking about violence in our culture, and how the Hiroshima / Nagasaki bombs are connected to present reality.  OMNI Center Special Movie Showing  Nagasaki Journey: Aftermath of the Bombing  July 18, 2013 6:30 pm @ OMNI Center Three people who saw... one an American soldier.  Their stories are chilling.  Lively discussion will follow. Illustrated Transformation There is a way forward, and we have options Sunday August 25, 7:00 pm @ OMNI Gladys Tiffany presentation about the values shift now going on in America, to open a dialogue among progressives.   We need to have this conversation together. Things are moving fast,  so this is a good time to begin.     Based on work by linguist George Lakoff, and others,  that demonstrates how close we are to shifting this troubled world in a more human- and earth-friendly direction.   More OMNI and Community Activity Add your events to the list by emailing omni@omnicenter.org ----------------------------------------   August 8 - Radio Group General Meeting - 7:00pm @OMNI ----------------------------------------   August 11 - Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemoration - 6:00 pm Walker Park Pavilion - Potluck Picnic  ----------------------------------------     August 14 - 6:30 pm - Vegetarian Potluck - OMNI ----------------------------------------   August 18 - 7:00pm Special movie showing and discussion: "Nagasaki Journey: The Aftermath of the Bomb". 3 people whose lives were never the same. ----------------------------------------   August 23 - Dialogue Training Dinner - 6:00 pm Potluck @ OMNI. Open and caring facilitation methods explored.  ----------------------------------------   August 25 - 3:00pm - WE Connection for Women ----------------------------------------   August 25 - 7:00pm - Illustrated Transformation: we're in the thick of it. Hear about some tools to get through.  Led by Gladys Tiffany @ OMNI  -----------------------------------------    August 27 - Civil Rights Roundtable - 6:00 pm potluck @ OMNI -----------------------------------------   August 28 - "Girls Rising" 7:00 pm. Documentary spotlighting the strength of the human spirit and the power of education to change a girl - and the world. It's coming to the Malco Razorback on Wednesday 28 August at 7. Tickets are $10 (% goes to the charity) and it's rated PG13. To reserve tickets -http://gathr.us/screening/5268  Official trailer - http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BJsvklXhYaE  -----------------------------------------   August 31 - Labor Day Workers Breakfast - 8:30-10:00 am, fundraiser for Workers Justice Center. More info:  Labor Day Breakfast Invitation  -----------------------------------------   Sept 1 - Open Mic for Peace - re-start for fall - 7:00 pm @ OMNI: -----------------------------------------  Every week @ OMNI -   7:00 pm Mondays - Falun Gong meditation group meets in the OMNI library      Quaker Meetings 9:30 am Sundays.  Anyone invited.   First Sundays 1-5 pm - Rooted Vision Healing Drums    The OMNI Center for Peace, Justice & Ecology actively educates, empowers and connects to build a nonviolent, sustainable, and just world.   Login  |  Calendar  |  Donate  |  Join Us  |  About  |  Contact  www.omnicenter.org

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