Hey all,
In an effort to throw together a promo for the collective-of-collectives,
Joel from Timeless Infinite Light was hoping to film Sudo and BAPS at work
in the space tomorrow.
Matt S. has sent him the opt-in policy on filming at Sudo room, so he's up
on that.
He's hoping to film / photograph a bit basically everywhere - in the common
room, in sudo, in baps, and the back (east) room along broadway that George
is opening for the BAPS class that will be held in there.
FYI Joel doesn't want to 'interview' anyone or have anything overtly
expository, more like just show brief clips of people in action / quitely
doing their thing. Close ups of computer screens? putting radios together?
who knows but, I wanted to give everyone a head's up - let me know if you
have any questions et al - I will also be there.
David
Reposting.
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From: David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:02 PM
Subject: [omnicollective] Federici AT THE OMNI 3/22 this Sat. aft/eve! &
open house!
To: omnicollective(a)lists.riseup.net
Hi everyone!
If you haven't yet heard, Bay Area Public School and the Omni Oakland
Collective are hosting our first-ever event at the Omni this Saturday!
5-7pm - Open House: We will be cold-chillin and showing the space to small
groups, as well as hanging about for a bit afterwards.
7-9pm: Talks by SILVIA FEDERICI, GEORGE CAFFENTZIS AND PETER
LINEBAUGH<https://www.facebook.com/events/1398000470462548/?ref_dashboard_filter=upco…>
If you haven't yet seen the space, please come - and please do pass on and
forward widely..? Especially for those who might consider donating or
investing in our project, this would be an excellent time to check out the
space.
*Saturday, we will also be soft-launching a simple website around the
collective of collectives. *If you are a member collective who would like
to have a presence on the website (and we very much want you to!), and has
not yet been in communication with us about this, do get in touch with me (
dkeenan44(a)gmail.com) or Joel (otispig(a)gmail.com) with some photos, text,
video, articles, pretty much any media we might be able to put up there
that looks good. (We'll send another email out about this, too.)
Awesome. Let's do this!
David
If anybody would like help configuring their email clients to send in
plain text, I'm sure plenty of folks would be willing to help you at
Sudoroom. :)
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:16 PM, Andrew <andrew(a)roshambomedia.com> wrote:
> Come check out this even at The (soon to be) Omni Collective space this
> weekend!
> Saturday March 22nd 6pm:
> https://www.facebook.com/events/1398000470462548/
Yes! Please go to this. The event will serve two purposes:
EXCITING SPEAKERS! In particular, Silvia Federici is a world-famous
anarcha-feminist who literally wrote the book on large chunks of
medieval european womens' history. Her revolutionary consciousness
spans millennia. I'm pretty sure she exists outside of linear time.
SUDOROOM'S FUTURE! We could move into a giant building with a bunch
of other groups and own it. We could really do it. Really! Come see
the building. There will be tours starting at 6pm (talks at 7). Also
meet people from the many other groups and talk to them about how
great it would be to move in together and how we're going to do it.
I really hope to see you all there.
Hey Sudoers,
Come check out this even at The (soon to be) Omni Collective space this
weekend!
Saturday March 22nd 6pm:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1398000470462548/
Join Silvia Federici, Peter Linebaugh, and George Caffentzis for a
discussion on Reproduction, Labor, and Capital at the Omni (4799 Shattuck
Ave) in Oakland on Saturday, March 22nd. Please click the link below for
details.
George is author of In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the
Crisis of Capitalism.
Silvia is author of Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and
Feminist Struggle.
Peter is author of Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance.
George will present his latest work, In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work,
Machines, and Value (PM Press, 2013) a collection of essays that draw upon
a careful reading of Marx's thought to elucidate political concerns
encompassing twenty-first-century capitalism, information technology,
immaterial production, financialization, and globalization. Emphasizing
class struggles that have proliferated across the social body of global
capitalism, Caffentzis shows how a wide range of conflicts and antagonisms
in the labor-capital relation express themselves within and against the
work process. He will also discuss his recent PM release, The Debt
Resisters' Operations Manual.
Sylvia Federici's Revolution at Point Zero (PM Press, 2012) collects forty
years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social
reproduction, and women's struggles on this terrain--to escape it, to better
its conditions, to reconstruct it in ways that provide an alternative to
capitalist relations. Indeed, as Federici reveals, behind the capitalist
organization of work and the contradictions inherent in "alienated labor"
is an explosive ground zero for revolutionary practice upon which are
decided the daily realities of our collective reproduction. Beginning with
Federici's organizational work in the Wages for Housework movement, the
essays collected here unravel the power and politics of wide but related
issues including the international restructuring of reproductive work and
its effects on the sexual division of labor, the globalization of care work
and sex work, the crisis of elder care, the development of affective labor,
and the politics of the commons.
Peter's Stop, Thief! is a majestic tour de force that akes aim at the
thieves of land, the polluters of the seas, the ravagers of the forests,
the despoilers of rivers, and the removers of mountaintops. Scarcely a
society has existed on the face of the earth that has not had commoning at
its heart. "Neither the state nor the market," say the planetary commoners.
These essays kindle the embers of memory to ignite our future commons.
The Bay Area Public School is a school with no curriculum. It is not
accredited, it does not give out degrees, and it has no affiliation with
the public school system. It is a framework that supports autodidactic
activities, operating under the assumption that everything is in everything.
--
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Andrew Lowe
Cell: 831-332-2507
http://roshambomedia.com
FYI: I know a lot of the people running the hacker schools and who have
graduated from them. I think most of these schools are legit, but I'm
wondering if that is because it is due to the location (SF Bay Area) and
the very high talent pool here.
None of these bootcamps claims to replace a university education, they are
offering a very different thing.
I'm spooked by people who would advocate replacing an education with
vocational bootcamps. I don't see these bootcamps competing with computer
science departments at universities.
I can see a lot of potential abuse occurring as well:
- 1997 New Yorker article on the University of Phoneix, a for-profit
institution:
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1997/10/20/1997_10_20_114_TNY_CARDS_000379…
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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 18:22:50 -0800
From: Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com>
To: GtwoG PublicOhOne <g2g-public01(a)att.net>
Cc: Sudo room <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org>
Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] "learn to code" events subject to full-WTF
scale crackdown...any ideas?
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I think Sudo Room has a stake in the existence of effective hacker-training
programs, regardless of whether they are offered *by* Sudo Room. So, thanks
Hol for posting the link.
I agree with GtwoG that there is some possibility for abuse; but neither
the article nor the agency's web site offer a concise presentation of what
it means to "be in compliance". Is the agency throwing up regulations that
will deter good work? It's hard to tell!
I posted this to a couple email lists in the Wikipedia space, so check out
these discussions too if interested:
* http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2014-January/thread.html
* http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-sf/2014-January/thread.html
-Pete
peteforsyth.com
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
