NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL DAYS, WEEKS AND MONTHS

OMNI’S Newsletters have celebrated the many DAYS that affirm life.   A few Days, marked with an asterisk*, supported aggression, wars, and empire and have been renamed and redefined.   Dick Bennett

*Alternatives to Armed Forces Day:  5-21-11

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR):  11-30-08

*Armistice Day/Veteran’s Day: Unity Day:  11-11-08, 11-11-09, 11-11-11            (see World Unity Day)

Bill of Rights Day:  12-15-8, 12-15-09

Buy Nothing Day #2 11-26-11

*Columbus Day: Indigenous People of the Americas Day  10-10-11

Conscientious Objectors Day:  5-15-11

Constitution Week and Day:  9-17-08; 9-17-9; 9-6-10; 9-17-11

Father’s Day:  6-19-11

*Flag Day: Liberty and Justice for All Day:  6-14-11

Fourth of July:  6-29-10, 7-4-11

Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance: 8-4-11; 8-6-11

Human Rights Day:  12-10-8, 12-10-10

Interdependence Day:  9-12-11

International Day of Nonviolence (Gandhi’s Birthday):  10-2-08, 10-2-10, 10-2-11 (additional nonviolence newsletters: 2-17-11, 5-13-11, 6-7-11, 9-30-11)

International Day of Peace: 9-21-7,  9-21-9, 9-21-10, 9-21-11

International Day to End Violence against Women:  11-25-08; 11-25-11

International Immigrants Day: 10-8-11

International Women’s Day: 3-8-07; 3-8-10, #3 3-8-11

Labor Day:   9-6-08;  9-6-10;   8-30-11

Make a Difference Day:  10-25-8

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day:  1-19-09

May Day-International Workers Day:   4-29-11

*Memorial Day/All Victims of Wars Day:  5-20-09, 5-31-10, 5-30-11,

*Thanksgiving:  National Day of Gratitude, Mourning and Atonement:  11-25-10, 11-24-11

Peace Week:  10-2-10

*Pearl Harbor Day (beginning of WWII Colonial War in Pacific):  12-7-08, 12-7-10, 12-7-11

Refugee Day (see: Refugees)

UN International Day for Tolerance:  11-16-10

UN International Justice Day:  7-17-10

UN Refugees Day: 6-20-08; 12-5-11 (see: Immigrants, Refugees)

UN World Food Day:  10-16-8, 10-10-11

United Nations Day:  10-24-8, 10-15-9, 10-24-10, 10-24-11

Women’s Equality Day:  8-26-11

World Day for International Justice:  7-1-11

World Poverty Day:  10-17-08

World Unity Day:  11-11-10

World Vegetarian Day:  10-2-11