Dear Sudo Room supporter,

As many of you know, Sudo Room recently moved to a new home in the Omni Commons. We've been gaining new members every week, and are excited to have the space and opportunity to work on all kinds of new projects and build anything we can imagine. Our doors are open to members and guests, but we have a lot of work left to do until we're able to officially open our doors to the public!

Occupy Oakland recognized the need for common public space collectively stewarded for the benefit of the community. The Omni is one of the manifestations of this dream now emerging. To make sure it can happen, we, the Omni collectives, have launched an IndieGoGo campaign. In order to reach our ultimate goal of buying the Omni building as a community land trust, and making it sustainable, we have to take this first step of raising enough money to make the building accessible, bring it up to fire codes, equip it with a legal commercial kitchen, and implement other upgrades needed to officially open to the public. More details are available on the IndieGogo page. 

Please share far and wide!

We are asking you to contribute any way you can. There are 3 main ways to support.

1. Come visit the Omni and see how you might want to get involved. You should see the amazing building and meet the people. Or you can just hang out :-)

Here's a link to our video-tour: https://youtu.be/9Zccga90hcY

Our community is composed of an ever-growing ensemble of collectives and projects:

* Food Not Bombs: Reclaiming food to ensure all are fed - since the 1980s,

* Counter Culture Labs: A biotech laboratory that makes science accessible outside of academia,

* The Bay Area Public School: A horizontally-organized all-volunteer university,

* Omni Media Project: Providing education and resources for making independent media to those without access,

* Material Print Machine: A community print shop for self-publishing,
* La Commune: A worker-owned cafe and bookstore that serves as the entrance to Omni Commons, currently crowdfunding`to open in full!
* Optik Allusions: A radical film collective dedicated to social change, and directors of our one-shot walkthrough video tour,

* Our commons: We're renting out our large ballroom, stage, dance studio and small rooms on a sliding-scale basis, encouraging aligned groups and projects to join us in creating a model for equitably sharing space and resources.

2. Spread the word about the Omni on social media and in person.

Share the Campaign page on Facebook.

Retweet the following:

• @omnicommons is creating a people-powered commons in Oakland, California. 

Update your email signature for a month to:    

• "Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California: omnicommons.org/donate"

3. Donate whatever you can afford. Every little bit counts!

Help crowdfund the revolution at omnicommons.org/donate

You can donate to Sudo Room directly as well here. Thank you for making Omni Commons and Sudo Room real.

If you have more ways you’d like to help, please let us know!

Love and solidarity,

Sudo Room