sudo-discuss January 2024

sudo-discuss@sudoroom.org

38 participants
56 discussions

Re: [omni-consensus] 1/5/24 Accountability Meeting

by Angela Miller

here's a potentially useful resource: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1t5VA9aPBnh_Za0hrRS2rQ6buvOEewPiKJnq… https://www.alternativejustices.com/ On Tue, Jan 2, 2024, 1:00 PM Z Silver Zahn <natashazahn27(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Reminder this upcoming Friday all members of collectives are invited to a > facilitated accountability meeting. January 5th, Friday 6pm to 9pm at Omni > Commons. > > YOU’RE INVITED : We are hosting a huge meeting again for all members and > collectives to talk about what is not working and how we can move forward > with making our decision of how we will move forward with our upcoming > foreclosure. We can also move forward talking about our status of boycott > and talking about the harm we have caused and received at Omni Commons. > > > [image: Omni Commons (1).jpg] > > > _______________________________________________ > consensus mailing list > consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org > https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/consensus >

4 months, 1 week

Did you guys know we have a SudoRoom T shirt????

by Romy Ilano

https://www.zazzle.com/sudoroom_love_cube_t_shirt-235073000373775635 it's 20% off today. I'm inbetween jobs but I would usually just print a bunch up and give them as gifts! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

4 months, 1 week

January 2 - hey are folks coming to the hardware hacking tonight? I have a meetup event up

by Romy Ilano

https://www.meetup.com/sudoroom/events/297937833/ I have a meetup event up for 8pm. Is anyone going tonight? I can take it down... I'd like to go but am on the fence not sure if people are going to show up. I realized that the sewing room has an event up so I'm leaning towards going. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

4 months, 1 week

Racism at last night's meeting

by Yardena Cohen

At last night's sudoroom meeting, we were joined by omni's development director. We spent the first 45 minutes arguing over whether to kick her out of the meeting, because some anonymous person raised an anonymous concern. What was the concern? Because her family members had worked with People's Programs. And because last time she raised a point about racial equity and someone felt that she was accusing people of racism. It's incredible to me that people don't see how racist this is. How are you going to move to a community and then treat someone with SUSPICION for having personal ties to other people who grew up here??? No matter what you think of PP's politics on their blog and twitter, you have to accept that this group mostly grew up in Oakland, and people are going to know each other. Local ties and allegiances and face to face interactions are always going to be a counter force against Internet abstractions. That's one of the beautiful things about having a local community. Someone literally offered this heuristic: we should only have people in the meeting who are "more connected to sudoroom than people programs". Really think about what this means. A decision making process needs to prioritize the voices of people whose allegiance is predetermined because they didn't grow up here?? And exclude everyone else? I must beg this community to stop falling into these kinds of patterns of fear and insularity which DIRECTLY perpetuate white supremacy. At this point I don't care what anybody's intention was. It was an incredibly damaging path for sudoroom to be taken down.

4 months, 1 week

[omni-consensus] Decision Making & Accountability (fwd)

by Jake

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 00:43:24 -0800 From: We Are The Ones <wevebeenwaitingforus(a)gmail.com> To: consensus <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org> Subject: [omni-consensus] Decision Making & Accountability I have a few thought sto share on decision making and accountability *Decision Making* *“A do-ocracy is an organizational structure in which individuals choose roles and tasks for themselves and execute them. In do-ocracy, everyone does jobs that they think need to be done, without everyone’s input. In a do-ocracy, whoever does the job gets it, regardless of their qualifications or skill level.”* While this decision-making model may have been effective in the past, it is not a suitable model for Omni's current challenges.* Horizontal Leadership requires Horizontal Accountability*, and the latter part does not really seem to be happening. Rotating delegates pass the buck onto the next person with little to no investment other than being physically (or digitally) present. Too many things have fallen thru the cracks and piled up over time and now were scrambling to create high-stakes solutions using a very casual low-stakes decision making model. These next couple of months are too crucial to leave high level items up in the air or completely swept under the rug. My suggestion is to create an interim-committee of super delegates dedicated to participating in every stage of the foreclosure & accountability processes. The committee should be open to any members or volunteers who have a vested interest in Omni's well being. This approach will provide a sense of focused structure, attention and organization that we urgently need right now. *Accountability * Accountability and foreclosure discussions must be prioritized together as they are interrelated. The boycott will continue to impact Omni’s ability to generate income even if a solution to the foreclosure is immediately found. There is a lot of energy behind foreclosure proposals, and not nearly enough energy toward accountability and call-outs of racism. Omni needs to develop a comprehensive roadmap demonstrating a commitment to becoming actively anti-racist. The addition of hired BIPOC support, and the 3-hour Accountability Training this Friday are great steps in the right direction, but these alone will not be enough to repair past harm or prevent it moving forward. Please think of the historical implications of relying solely on BIPOC people to do the labor that feels unsettling or uncomfortable? The amount of emotional and mental labor it requires to engage in this space as a BIPOC person is incredibly exhausting. Compounded with the lack of collective action to change, it’s honestly no surprise to me why BIPOC people are in and out like a revolving door and quick to co-sign CLP's Boycott Campaign. I do see that a lot of individual people do care, and organizing that care into concrete collective action needs to happen next, and fast. The integrated version of John / Page / Silver’s 10/17 Boycott statement <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EvFSEvPpY1cCKHKLK1Pqh7f0_hs1NxNlp1_sNPl…> includes a comprehensive set of action items that should be considered. If youre wondering, a statement has not been put out yet because… do-ocracy. Any of these statements as-is would leave us open to more scrutiny and heat that we absolutely do not need. An impactful statement will: 1. Acknowledge our harm and wrong doings (some of these do) *without excuses * 2. Debunk any lies and misinformation with evidence and hard proof (Silver and Pivalli are already on this) 3. Show a commitment to changed behavior with a solid plan. (Decision Making) Hopefully after this weeks retreats we can walk away with a better idea of what is needed to move forward and take control of the narrative. I created an #anti-racist-work channel in slack <https://join.slack.com/share/enQtNjQxNDE5MzcwNTQ0NC1mNjM5NzE5NDQwZWVlZjA2M2…> so we can have a dedicated space for this on-going discussion. Please utilize this channel to discuss anti-racism, and share resources and literature for education, organize and make plans. There is no perfect way to do this work. Its important to understand that we are all at different levels of understanding and mistakes are bound to happen. Failure is the best teacher and it’s important to lean in with humility, compassion, and a willingness to learn and do better. I really hope that folks will heed these suggestions, take personal initiative and be proactive in engaging others in this critical work XO, G -- DJ Guardian Guerrilla Pump (G) ⁣ call/text: 619.962.4731 ⁣ wevebeenwaitingforUS@gmail.com⁣ Tune In: https://linktr.ee/guerrillapump Marketing & Outreach at @currents.fm <http://instagram.com/currents.fm> guerrilla@currents.fm⁣ www.currents.fm⁣ ⁣ Marketing Support at @omni.commons⁣ <http://instagram.com/omni.commons> www.omnicommons.org⁣ Resident DJ & Events at @hella_pinay <http://instagram.com/hella_pinay> www.hellapinay.com/radio ⁣ West Coast Regional Director @ STARR NYC (est. 1969⁣) www.strategictransalliance.org⁣ ⁣ Co-Founder @ We Are The Ones⁣ @wearetheonesweevebeenwaitingfor⁣ <http://instagram.com/wearetheoneswevebeenwaitingfor> Artists creating from the margins for cultural r/evolution. We make art that builds power and safety with communities targeted by state sanctioned violence sociocultural marginalization. ⁣#ARMTHEGIRLS Check us out on: KQED <https://www.kqed.org/arts/13902915/photos-lgbtq-oakland-shows-out-at-the-op…> | VICE <https://www.vice.com/en/article/epde8w/meet-the-activists-arming-trans-peop…> | MIC <https://www.mic.com/p/arm-the-girls-is-empowering-bipoc-queer-trans-femmes-…> | BANDCAMP DAILY <https://daily.bandcamp.com/scene-report/oakland-underground-scene-report> | THREADS RADIO <https://threadsradio.com/introducing-we-are-the-ones/> | SFGATE <https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/Designer-bags-and-stun-guns-Bay-A…>

4 months, 1 week

nonviolent communication resource

by Angela Miller

hi all, just want to share this amazing resource. it's a pdf version of nonviolent communication by marshall rosenberg. please download, read, and spread the compassion. download directly from my google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k6y362kz2DH6oasCmIolYFUeEGnWY26M/view?usp=… first few chapters available online on google books: https://books.google.com/books?id=A3qACgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=g… love, angela

4 months, 1 week

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

sudo-discuss January 2024