I know it's difficult, but thanks for sticking together. Jenny and other
SudoRoom members have been doing a lot of sh!twork like writing grants,
cleaning and getting stuff done -- it's hard work!
I haven't been able to be part of any financial committees, but I know it's
important even if it's not always fun.
I'm passing along a notice from RPS Collective. After 10 years they are
being forced to leave their space on Telegraph and 23rd
It's very cool that the Omni is trying to buy the building. I can only see
the rent going up steeply in Oakland in the near foreseeable future. Not
only due to gentrification but also to many other macroeconomic factors.
If anyone has time to help reps collective with their move you can email
community(a)rpscollective.org
After more than a decade in the same location, we are being forced out of
our space on Telegraph and 23rd to make way for a new vision of the
transforming neighborhood. The Collective's long time landlord plans to
charge market value for the space, well beyond what we can afford as an
all-volunteer run nonprofit. Eleven years ago we could afford market value
for the space, but thanks to our success in building a vibrant community in
downtown, market rate is now far out of reach. The increase will more than
triple our current rate.
Eleven years ago, downtown Oakland was home to mom and pop shops,
socio-economically diverse, occasionally dangerous; a sometimes eccentric,
sometimes wonderful, and always dynamic community. A group of artists,
crafters, organizers and makers found a vacant little storefront among a
sea of vacancies. With a little volunteer elbow-grease and fundraising
effort, the Rock Paper Scissors Collective (RPSC) was born — a destination
where the community could come together, organize, share skills, knowledge
and create. ALL were welcome in the space.
In the following years, a group of underground and outsider galleries,
including Rock Paper Scissors, created the First Friday Oakland Art Murmur.
Artists could showcase their work to an organized audience and share
promotional materials, local crafters could sell their work, experimental
performers could establish and gain recognition for work with little
bureaucracy. Payment was on a sliding scale so no one was left behind
because they were unable to pay. These types of intentional and inclusive
actions drew international attention as First Friday grew to be one of the
best-attended arts events in the country, drawing upwards of 20,000
visitors to the area every month who spend tens of thousands of dollars on
art, music, and food supporting Oakland businesses and artists.
Oakland became a city known to foster creativity thanks to the work of so
many collaborating individuals and groups. The Downtown, Uptown, and KONO
districts became more attractive for tourists, restaurants, and independent
shops. While the original spaces that created the artistic explosion in
Oakland have closed down, Rock Paper Scissors Collective continues to
foster the spirit of building community through the celebration of art,
skillshare and performance.
Building an exciting, creative, and challenging neighborhood has been a
long term project. Telegraph Avenue is rapidly transforming, and enjoys its
current attractiveness due in large part to the events started by Rock
Paper Scissors Collective. We are the only founding gallery that remains in
business despite First Friday’s massive success, and we receive no money
from the event beyond what sales we make. First Friday is a locus of Do It
Yourself (DIY) and Do It Together (DIT) art, but we are one of the few
galleries in the area that fully embraces emerging and outsider artists. We
provide a space for everyone to feel comfortable and invited.
This space has become attractive to wealthier tenants BECAUSE of the years
of hard work we have put in building a community of engaged artists,
musicians, and performers, and as a reward we are being kicked out to make
way for a wealthier class of renters. Will they share RPSC's dedication to
making art accessible for everyone? Will they be as community focused? Will
they stand in solidarity with the people of Oakland, as we have?
We have been a reliable, consistent tenant for over ten tumultuous years,
as businesses opened and closed, as the country went through war and
recession, as Oakland and the Bay Area went from boom to bust and back
again. We have hosted thousands of shows, concerts, and classes, on
everything from Street Art to programming, from activism to zines,
featuring artists and musicians from around the East Bay. We are being
priced out of our space not because of anything we have done, but simply
due to the cold calculus of gentrification. There is more money to be made
in this space from something other than community-driven art, and that is
enough and more than enough to push us out the door.
Rock Paper Scissors Collective will continue, despite this. We remain
committed to fostering an inclusive artistic community accessible to
everyone regardless of their income level, perceived ability, or
socio-economic status. We will find a new space here in Oakland, and
continue to build and support a diverse community of artists, crafters,
performers and makers. We will continue to provide space, materials and
time to all residents of Oakland, and to forge connections and solidarity
between movements, people, and organizations. The only way to push back
against the rising tide of inequality and injustice is TOGETHER.
Please contact us with any suggestions or ideas about our current
circumstances. Only with the help and support of the community can we
continue to ensure a safe and open space for everyone.
—Rock Paper Scissors Collective
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Hi all, I just added three older TV tuner cards on the "free stuff" page on
the wiki. (Does anybody else use this page?
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Free_stuff )
They're not useful for broadcast TV any more, but I think they could be
used with certain kinds of cable TV, to set up a MythTV server. Let me know
if you want to mess with 'em -- I'd like to get them off my hands.
Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]] on the wiki
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From: yar <yardenack(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 1:20 PM
Subject: Next steps for buying the Omni: 3 proposals from the
fundraising working group
To: "consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org" <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
Hello Omni Commoners! Did you know that we could seriously buy the
Omni in the next few months? There are people with a lot of money who
want to give and/or lend it to us. All we have to do is create the
legal structures to make this happen. The fundraising working group
has been meeting for the past month to talk about the details, and
we're informally calling ourselves the "Buy the Building" working
group (aka the "Until the Revolution" working group). We meet on
Mondays at 6:30 PM. There are still many details to figure out, but
we're ready to make some initial proposals to the Omni delegates, to
be decided at the next scheduled delegates meeting, which is Thursday
August 6th:
PROPOSAL #1: The Omni community should decide if we actually want to
buy the building
PROPOSAL #2: The Omni should apply for federal 501c3 status
PROPOSAL #3: The Omni delegates should go back to meeting weekly.
There is a lot to do, and decisions will need to be made quickly.
We are going to have more proposals soon. In particular, we think the
land beneath the building should be given to a Community Land Trust.
But we don't have all the details ready for a formal proposal yet.
There's no delegates meeting scheduled tonight, but we will be meeting
at 7pm anyway to provide information and answer questions. Please
come. This is very important!
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This is awesome Marketing ! I know it's sort of cheesy but if we can make getting radicalized non scary lets do it
Sent from my iPhone
Computers upstairs status:
Get got some donated LCD flat displays and three old Dell Optiplex 320 (1GB
and 2GB RAM, I know RAM is low but they seem ok for Internet browsing and
light stuff).
Anyhow, here is how we are at the second floor computers area:
4 Machines running
2 Machine that need mouse + keyboard
So, if someone...could donate two USB mice and two USB keyboards that would
be super!
Oh yes... thanks Hassan fro helping carrying the stuff and Ed Biow for
installing Linux on these new (used) boxes.
Daniel
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Hi Patrik and Bill,
The pictures look to contain some good stuff, although i'm sure the
shelves are pretty useful and are not pictured. I am busy right now but
maybe someone else with sudoroom can drive a truck up there to get stuff
here are the pictures:
http://spaz.org/~jake/pix/hayhackers/
-jake
On Tue, 21 Jul 2015, Patrik D'haeseleer wrote:
> Hi Jake,
> There was lots of interesting stuff in the storage room that you might want to have a look at yourself, including lots and lots of electronics components, a spot
> welder, boxes full of old IR security sensors, and three giant Summagraphics graphics tablets (18"x12" work area, 1000 lines/inch resolution).
>
> They also have several heavy duty 7ft tall metal shelving units. I think we'd love to have a number of those for CCL, but I couldn't fit the uprights into my car.
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote:
> Hi Patrik and Bill,
>
> I am not available this tuesday afternoon, but Patrik can use the truck, and that way he will be able to pick up whatever we need to get.
>
> Patrik, you drive stickshift i'm sure. Please call me to
coordinate.
>
> -jake
>
> On Mon, 20 Jul 2015, Patrik D'haeseleer wrote:
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> I may be able to drop by myself tomorrow afternoon, but I won't have much space to transport stuff in my small car. Do you think we'll be
> able to just tag things
> for pickup later?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Patrik
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 5:01 PM, William Nye <nye2(a)email.com> wrote:
> Hello Jake, this is Bill, who was telling you about all the “stuff”
> in HayHacker-Carolyn's Hayward storage unit.
> Rather suddenly, John, Carolyn’s husband, just texted me that
> he can open it up at 2:30pm tomorrow (Tue), and I would be
> able to assist also.
> Can you and/or anyone make it then (or later Tuesday)?
> Can you tell some CCL members too? Thanks. -Bill
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From: niki <niki.shelley(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 9:09 AM
Subject: [omni-consensus] Global Women's Strike
To: "discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org" <discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org>, "
consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org" <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
Hi all,
I've been in communication with members of the Global Women's Strike for
the past several months regarding potential Omni membership.
*Please read and distribute among your collectives the potential member
proposal that they sent out!*
I have asked them to attend one of the delegates' meetings in August in
order to discuss / answer any questions but *PLEASE* let me know if you, or
any member of your collective, has a question, concern, etc, that I can
attempt to get answered before that time.
Since our next regular delegates' meeting is not until August 6th, this
should be plenty of time for people to review and respond to the proposal.
This is an incredible group of activists who have done a tremendous amount
of important work over the past 40 years. They are being evicted from the
space they've worked out of for many decades in SF and I would love it if
we were able to provide them with a home.
<3
N
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