<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Speaking from my own experience here:<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I
left a career in academia 7 years ago, shedding the arrogance and
inertia inherent in that life to instead actively serve the people and
projects that inspired and educated me. For years I have voluntarily and
without (much) complaint done a great deal of the administrative crap
work Omni needed doing so that these incredible people and projects
could have the needed space and resources to do their work, by and large
sacrificing my own desire to work directly on the more enjoyable
aspects of activism (such as leisurely sitting around reading and
writing manifestos and poetry - and I genuinely love those activities!
Steve, Julian and I have much in common, tbh - we're all hypereducated
and love writing. i wish i had time to do more of it). That's hardly
'elitism' - it's essentially janitorial work in paper form. Steve, is this merely a term you use for
those who do Actual Work in the building so as to paint yourself
superior? <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Steve does not
understand, nor has he even attempted to grasp, the amount of labor this
has involved over the years, and I have lost patience for his
misogynistic devaluing of the difficult work that Laura and I do, in
particular, wrangling all the excruciatingly boring bureaucracy needed
to be done to ensure Omni doesn't end up like virtually every other
collective space in the Bay Area. And for the record, I'm a bureaucracy
_hacker_, and believe that the more we understand the innards of the
system, the more we can shape it to serve our mission. Would you like to
take a class taught by me? <br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I've
no desire to attend any more "classes" in my lifetime that are merely
pulpits for old white men to tell me what to think, having already spent
nearly two decades of my life doing that (with an extensive focus on
Marxian critical theory, for that matter, and I've zero appetite for
more such lectures). Do you really think offering yourself as an
'instructor' of Omninoms' "low level of political awareness" is the
solution? Because across the board I see decades of experience in direct
action, coalition-building, grassroots activism and international
organizing that I'm constantly learning about from this "elite" and am grateful
to and humbled by all who contribute to this project's survival in a spirit of
good faith. Anyone can participate in the Finance WG, for the record - it's just that only 2-3 people ever consistently do.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>From what I know of
the unfortunate situation with Jericho, Ed (a longtime sudoroom member)
answered the door and asked the person (a FNB volunteer I believe) why
he was there, which is standard protocol when answering the door to
someone you've not seen around the building before. I wish more people
did this consistently - some do, some don't, and if anyone has ideas on how to ensure every single person who happens to be in the building at any given point answers the door in the same way, please share them! When I answer the door to
someone I don't know, I am usually already in a meeting and simply say hello, ask
them why they're there and point them in the direction of the
event/space they're there for if they seem disoriented (which is usually
the case for firsttimers). For a long time, we tried to fill volunteer
front door shifts to make this process more welcoming - Laura and I,
evidently both members of Steve's racist "Omni elite" - were two of the
most consistent volunteers. I never once saw Steve's name on the signup
spreadsheet, which was circulated with a call for more volunteers many
times.</div><div><br></div><div>Good faith collective action is:
identifying an issue (eg; front door etiquette and equity); coming up
with solutions (eg; re-forming a welcoming committee with front door
shifts and protocol); communicating to the larger community (eg; calls
for volunteers); and participating in the execution of those solutions.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Not
communicating an issue to the collective when it occurred, harboring
resentment for ~2 years, and then using said incident as ammunition is the
opposite of good faith collective action, imho.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I
fully support Laura's proposal, principally because the reality of BAPS
is such that two white male intellectuals have equal blocking power
over our otherwise collective-of-collectives structure, in direct
contradiction to our shared values. <br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Let's
make healthy decisions, people, and stop letting two individuals (whose
very "collective" is emblematic of white supremacy) dominate Omni's
culture. </div><br>Thanks for reading,<div dir="auto">Jenny</div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 5:20 PM Steve Martinot <<a href="mailto:martinot4@gmail.com">martinot4@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">Laura notices the
paucity of classes held over the last year by BAPS in the Omni. But I would
ask, why should I organize classes in the Omni when I can’t guarantee to black
or brown members of such a class that they will not be profiled, nor treated
with disrespect? This became a serious concern after the Jericho group left. I
raised it with those I could identify as having been involved in a case of
profiling at that time, and never got any response. I have raised it here
during the present discussion, and have gotten no response on the issue of
racial profiling. Well, I guess Laura’s exclusionist proposal can be seen as
the essential response. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">I
have been trying to get a good clear approach to the racial problem in this
establishment (and I use that term advisedly) for a while now, in order to deal
with it. For me, that has become a precondition for organizing more classes in it.
(I have continued to teach, but not here.) With respect to the Omni elite, I
chose to move slowly, so that I would not end up making statements that would
effectively turn people against simply looking in the direction of a racial
problem, knowing that people already didn’t want to do so. When you suggest to
white people that their white racialized identity might be a problem, and that
they should perhaps look in the mirror, or that their implicit bias might be a
problem, a fairly usual reaction is that they turn around and walk away. The
difference between the white left wing response and the right wing response is
that the rightwinger will often come at you swinging. That has happened to me.
(I won a few, and lost a few.) But essentially, the response is the same, a
refusal (aka chickening out) from dialogue on the issue. So I felt I had to be
careful. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">Well,
Laura has called the question on that, so there is no point in going slow any
more. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">I
have taught many classes here in the Omni. They have ranged from race, and the
structures of racialization, to the corporate structure, and questions of
fascism in the US. No one of the elite of the Omni have seen fit to attend any.
They were apparently not interested in that. But after all, why should they be?
They had a business to run. I assumed they were simply more interested in the
operation of the establishment, with no inkling that perhaps the topics I taught
related to any internal problems they may have inherited from the surrounding
corporate environment, with its insistence (going back to the Jamestown colony)
on racialization (aka white supremacy). But I think they have now shown me that
I was wrong. To raise these topics as issues invokes a reaction and response
whose essential character is extreme exclusionism. Like any sect, their
response is to root out the heresy. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">What
we face here in the Omni is a structure that has immersed itself in the corporate
form, and has become seriously property-oriented. The labels that are used in
Omni organization are cute, but the hierarchy, the sense of control, the need
for control, the exclusionism, the property ethic, the hiding behind
administrative rules, the hiding behind administrative issues, and the refusal
to take responsibility for what has become an obvious product of the
establishment’s operations, are the same as the corporate. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">The
corporate structure is necessary for an organization to handle property. That
is why city governments and trade unions are organized on the coroporate model.
And most people simply ignore the fact that, for cities, the corporate
structure prevents them from being democratic; and for unions, it prevents them
from being truly fighting organizations. Here at the Omni, we have an
establishment that is more interested in money than in the ideals and topics of
its humble beginnings – some of which are listed at the beginning of Laura’s desire
to fire us – that is to say, her “pink slip.” Well, lets take a look at the
first line. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">In
the first line of her pink slip, it says (quoting from a BAPS mission
statement), “enlarge movement and collective understanding of the structures we
face.” Precisely what I was teaching in my classes. And it was precisely what I
attempted to bring into the Omni by giving space to Oakland Jericho. </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">But
all that is outside and extraneous to the corporate structure, and what it sets
at the center for itself. Insofar as that structure has taken over the thinking
of the elite in the Omni, it makes it clear why none of the elite were
interested in regarding, or critiquing, or rising above the corporate structure
they had chosen. Cultural critique would
have distracted them from their innermost desire, to become the rulers of a
corporate establishment. Which is what has happened. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">The
corporate structure will make hypocrites of the damnedest people. I remember
when the dream of the Omni was to be a center for left wing and popular
resistance to the colonialist culture and the corporate state. At that time,
the place was always full, and the activities were often earthshaking. Well,
money put an end to that, and it did it by making it look as if money was the essential
way to accomplish it all -- that is, to shake the world. And there were those
who fell for it, and followed the temptation of becoming an elite. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">For
myself, I have my own ideas about the beauty and virtue of free education, that
education for which we, like Mr. Twain, should not let school get in the way. But
it became a problem when I could not longer guarantee the safety of the
sentiments of any of the students who I might bring to this establishment. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">Of
course, the above critique only scratches the surface. But it points to a clear
axiomatic foundation for Laura’s pink slip. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">Actually,
when our critique began, more than a year ago, it was simply the question of
how to deal with a really low level of political consciousness in the Omni. It emerged
when the issue of whether the CCL should or could bring in FBI agents who were
working on mushrooms arose. We saw that as representing something missing in political
awareness, and started a group to begin to deal with it. That group got
sidetracked into the issue of banning, which was then transformed into the
issue of policing conduct in the Omni. And that’s when we knew we had a much
bigger problem than we thought. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">Banning
is the essential operation of an exclusionist perspective. And it has gotten to
the point where the issue has its own guaranteed place in DA agendas. Well, the
corporate structure is nothing if not exclusionist. So lets call the Laura Pink
Slip form of that exclusionism what it really is, and go from there. It is
repression. And like all repression, it is essentially cowardly. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">Steve
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 6:08 PM Laura Turiano <<a href="mailto:scylla@riseup.net" target="_blank">scylla@riseup.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p><b id="gmail-m_4143797760984497172gmail-m_-3260569746195344604docs-internal-guid-5cfe60e9-7fff-5c0e-8742-4c208f5b1aff" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"><b id="gmail-m_4143797760984497172gmail-m_-3260569746195344604docs-internal-guid-06a8a512-7fff-f847-a52f-16f0df7ee75a" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Proposal to Immediately Terminate Bay Area Public School Fiscal Sponsorship Contract and Member Collective Status </span></b></b><b id="gmail-m_4143797760984497172gmail-m_-3260569746195344604docs-internal-guid-5cfe60e9-7fff-5c0e-8742-4c208f5b1aff" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"><b id="gmail-m_4143797760984497172gmail-m_-3260569746195344604docs-internal-guid-06a8a512-7fff-f847-a52f-16f0df7ee75a" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">
</b></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b id="gmail-m_4143797760984497172gmail-m_-3260569746195344604docs-internal-guid-5cfe60e9-7fff-5c0e-8742-4c208f5b1aff" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"><b id="gmail-m_4143797760984497172gmail-m_-3260569746195344604docs-internal-guid-06a8a512-7fff-f847-a52f-16f0df7ee75a" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bay Area Public School was fiscally sponsored by OC to:</span></b></b></p><b id="gmail-m_4143797760984497172gmail-m_-3260569746195344604docs-internal-guid-5cfe60e9-7fff-5c0e-8742-4c208f5b1aff" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"><b id="gmail-m_4143797760984497172gmail-m_-3260569746195344604docs-internal-guid-06a8a512-7fff-f847-a52f-16f0df7ee75a" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">● enlarge movement and collective understanding of the structures we face;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">● place our present activities in their relevant history;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">● understand the forces of evolution acting on our actions and organizations;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">● study the extant literature addressing political forms and structures, varieties of party and organization forms, the archive of movement politics and principles, and strategies of organizing;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">● organize classes, seminars, workshops and educational events on the above topics;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">● coordinate space for these activities in the Omni and elsewhere;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">● develop syllabi, outlines, focus topics, lists of references, etc.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Since January 2018, BAPS has only held the following 4 classes:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Marx was Right Reading Group - 2-6/2018</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Poets’ House - Intermittent events 2-11/2018</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The East: Solo Performance Laboratory - 5-10/2018</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Writing with World Stuff - 10/2018 to the present.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BAPS has made little to no effort to recruit new classes, research what kind of classes would be of interest and benefit to OC or the neighborhood community, or otherwise use OC fiscal sponsorship to develop the activities for which it was sponsored.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BAPS has made no effort to ask for donations from class participants or do any other fundraising and has made no material contributions to OC in over a year.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BAPS has had only between 1-5 active members for at least 2 years. Only 2 people have consistently attended BAPS meetings. With usually only 2 members from similar backgrounds discussing and deciding upon any proposal or issue, they only hear a very limited range of opinions. Most collectives have to reach some level of agreement between many more people from more diverse perspectives. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Currently, BAPS and its delegate are blocking the proposal to hire Jenny Ryan as bookkeeper on a temporary contract. This proposal is urgent and supported by everyone else in the organization. This block shows that BAPS does not take seriously the main duty of a Delegate to support </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">sound, ethical, and legal governance and financial management</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> of Omni Commons as an organization. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Given BAPS minimal activities at OC, it’s lack of any unified organizing effort, its lack of support by participating members, it’s failure to fulfill its responsibility to support the continued healthy functioning of the organization, and its lack of need for fiscal sponsorship (since they collect no donations), BAPS’ fiscal sponsorship agreement should be discontinued. Per the agreement: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin:0pt 67.5pt 0pt 36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">8. The board retains the right to terminate collection of funds for the Project at any time upon giving written notice to the Committee. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Taking into account the large workload of the Treasurer, bookkeeper, and Finance Working Group over the next several months, and the length of time the proposal to hire Jenny has been stalled, this decision should be made and enacted immediately.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Since member collectives are required to be either fiscally sponsored projects of OC or tenants of OC, termination of the fiscal sponsorship contract also ends BAPS status as a member collective.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Current or future classes that members of BAPS would like to hold can be scheduled at OC through event contracts via the Commons working group.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Should an actual collective come together to undertake similar activities to BAPS in the future, it is welcome to apply to be a member collective or for fiscal sponsorship. </span></p>
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