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Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Subject: Plz come to public school mtg Thurs 11/21@7pm // to discuss collectivizing to share space
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Hi there,
Timeless, Infinite Light, Sudo Room, and Counter Culture Labs have been invited to the next Bay Area Public School general meeting at 7pm at 2141 broadway this Thursday November 21st to talk about forming a collective of collectives and how we could
collectivize our resources to buy/lease a larger shared space. I think I just said collective too many times in one sentence. Oh well! We're
going to go & we hope you can come too!
If you could come by for even just a bit it would be really great, because it would be good for folks from all the groups to feel more interconnected and foster communication between the different collectives- just showing up would be great.
As this is an open meeting of collectives, this
would be a great time to invite other groups who might be interested in
sharing space with us and who have similar vision and principles.
Currently, the groups involved are:
Timeless, Infinite Light & Manifest
Public School
SUDO Room
Counter Culture Labs (CCL)
Contemporary Art Museum of Oakland (CAMO)
& Some of the groups that we had talked about reaching out to are:Â
SPT
SPD
Salta / PPP
Book Zoo
Homestead Apothecary
Spokeland (needs a new space, 501c3)
Alchemy Collective
ZIJI (open source buddhists looking for a space mystic archives, meditation room)
Just Cause
Phat Beets (needs a cafe)
MOCO
Black Hole Cinema
& We also talked about possibly wanting to invite
a radical kitchen group,
a radio station (KEXP? KPFA? Rev Cafe's pirate radio station?)
a co-working space
So if you know anyone who's involved in any of these groups, or any groups you want to share space with, please fill them in on the vision we've
been discussing and invite them to the Public School meeting!
∞
Emji Spero
Timeless, Infinite Light
Dear Friends :
At last week's general meeting, the Bay Area
Public School collectively decided to pursue the possibility of a new
permanent physical location, in league with Sudo Room, Counter Culture
Labs, and Timeless Infinite Light. This space is presently known as THE
OMNI.
We also decided to have a special meeting this week to
further discuss this space. This meeting will take place this Thursday,
November 21, 7PM at 2141 Broadway. All are welcome, so please join us
to discuss this exciting prospect !
See you Thursday --
Love -- David
sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org
First
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came
In November 1945 German Pastor Martin Niemöller visited the former Dachau concentration camp, where he had been imprisoned from 1941 to April 1945. His diary entry about that visit and some subsequent speeches he gave imply that that visit triggered the thought that became this famous quotation.
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/niem.htm
Was würde Jesus sagen? -- What would Jesus say?
http://www.martin-niemoeller-stiftung.de/4/daszitat/a46
Mayor Jean Quan says she's transparent, yet has not posted a schedule since June 2013
http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/Mayor/i/TransparentGovernment/index…http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/Mayor/Connect/MayorsSchedule/index.…
However I'm sure many people are busy getting govt. city paychecks to make sure she's kept quite busy:
http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/Mayor/a/ContactUs/index.htm
Shall we request a proclamation?
"To request a proclamation from the Mayor's Office: mayors-proclamation(a)oaklandnet.com"
Meanwhile DAC (DOMAIN AWARENESS ) is moving torward an orwellian state for Oakland citizens, normals, average tax payers and travelers who pass through the great City of Oakland:
Martin Niemoller Poem
They came for the Communists,
and I didn't object -
For I wasn't a Communist;
They came for the Socialists,
and I didn't object -
For I wasn't a Socialist;
They came for the labor leaders,
and I didn't object -
For I wasn't a labor leader;
They came for the Jews,
and I didn't object -
For I wasn't a Jew;
Then they came for me -
And there was no one left to object.
updated to 2013:
A city dweller of oakland's Poem
They came for the homeless
and I didn't object -
For I wasn't a Homeless
(houseless, golf courses (a future tent city) and un occupied mansions aside)
They came for the Anarchists, Rabble rousers, Occupy folks,
and I didn't object -
For I wasn't a Anarchists;
They came for the labor leaders,
and I didn't object -
For I wasn't a labor leader;
(still valid today)
They came for the Jews, and I didn't object -
For I wasn't a Jew;
They came for the christians, catholics, conservative patriots,, and I didn't object -
For I wasn't a religious zealot;
They came for the immigrants, nomads, pagans and foreigners, and I didn't object -
For I was born here
[take your pick:
(They came for the Queer, and I didn't object -
For I wasn't a homosexual, transexual, bisexual, lesbian / gender challenged,) OR (They came for the heterosexuals, straight men and women, breeders, and I didn't object - I was Gay)
]
They came for the criminals and Thieves, pimps and prostitutes, and I didn't object -
For I was a "law abiding citizen".
They came for the Drug Dealers, drug addicts, and I didn't object -
For I followed all laws and bought my meds from Walmart or from my Rite Aid/Walgreens
They came for the wierdos, agnostics, atheists,
and I didn't object -
For I was a normal.
Then they came for me -
And there was no one left to object.
-Anonymous
Circa November 2013
based on Martin Niemoller Poem
links of interest:
http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/Mayor/a/ContactUs/index.htmhttp://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/niem.htm
NYSE: CBG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB_Richard_Ellishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Blumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinsteinhttp://www.corpwatch.org/section.php?id=17
"Founded in 1969, Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) is a major intelligence, military, aerospace, engineering and systems contractor. It is involved in defense/military (DoD), intelligence community, and homeland security contracting, as well as selected commercial markets."
http://www.corpwatch.org/section.php?id=17http://www.crocodyl.org/spies_for_hire/saic_science_applications_internatio…http://rady.ucsd.edu/beyster/about/
"The work of the Beyster Institute began in 1986 when, as part of the Foundation for Enterprise Development, it took on the commission to spread the visionary ideas of Dr. J. Robert Beyster, the founder of SAIC. These ideas have led to the development of many highly successful enterprises based on the potent combination of employee ownership and entrepreneurial spirit."
http://publicintelligence.net/oakland-dac-saic/
Oakland Domain Awareness Center SAIC Contract Documents
October 12, 2013 in California, Corporate, Intelligence Fusion Centers
The following files contain the majority of the contract documents between the City of Oakland and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for construction of the City of Oakland/Port of Oakland Joint Domain Awareness Center. The documents were obtained via a public records request made by members of Occupy Oakland.
http://littlesis.org/org/290/SAIC
"SAIC
Science Applications International Corporation"
"A project of the Public Accountability Initiative.
Basic Info edit Types Organization, Business, Public Company
Website http://www.saic.com
Revenue $9.0 billion
Industries Defense electronic contractors"
At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator.
Spouse(s) Jack Berman (1956–1959; div.)
Bertram Feinstein (1962–1978; deceased)
Richard C. Blum (1980–)
http://www.projectcensored.org/social-media-new-medium-terrorism/http://www.projectcensored.org/u-s-senator-dianne-feinsteins-husband-sellin…
I'm forwarding this message from Phuckin' Phylean (cc'd), who's having
trouble signing up to sudo-discuss. Please reply-all or get in touch with
her personally:
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Greetings Programs,
The last party went pretty swimmingly for only being thrown together at
the last moment. Just a week to plan ain't much in the nightclub industry
but stranger things have happened that were successful but usually only on
dumb luck! So, lets do the next one a little bigger, which means a little
better planning and promoting equals a lot better partying and probably
paying off for all involved in the long run.
So, we need a small staff to run this smoothly, safely, and successfully
without any risk of the typical trials and tribulations that could possibly
become trouble for the venue.
Positions (some paid, some volunteer):
*Door-person (Outdoor greeter/bouncer)
*Door-person (Indoor suggested donation "enforcer")
*Bartender (Tips only basis)
*Moderator (Communicating to the people/members translating to the event
staff)
*Promoters (Facebooking/posting/advertising/notifying/informing/flyering)
*Security (Walking through casually and occasionally checking in with the
front door and bar or bars to keep a general but casual eye on the happy
but drinking patrons)
*Host/Hostess (Not necessary but nice to have if they enjoy the position)
*DJs (Must have their own music, music knowledge, gear, experience, and
some following)
Please text me back if interested or have any suggestions or commentary
because I have no reliable internet access at the moment.
(415) 794-7789
Phuckin' Phylean 15 years of promotion and DJing at your service
--
The best way to contact me reliably is texting my
Cell phone (415) 794-7789
or if it's before 9 pm call the
Studio phone (510) 534-7068
Thanks and take care,
Phuckin' Phylean
Double "P" that is me with "F" that you hear but don't see
"The only thing that brings me peace is the same phuckin' thing that won't
let me rest, music." says I,
Phuckin' Phylean is DJ Jezzebella!
djjezzebella(a)yahoo.com
djjezzebella(a)gmail.com
phuckinphylean(a)gmail.com
http://www.myspace.com/phuckinphyleanhttp://www.myspace.com/phuckinphyleanlivehttp://www.myspace.com/dopesicktighthttp://www.sfgoth.com/djs/jezzebella/index.html
I'm giving another "Arduino For Total Newbies" workshop at San Francisco's newest hackerspace -- RockIT CoLabs, in Chinatown.
Thursday, 5-Decemeber, 7:00pm - 10:30pm
Learn Arduino. It's fun, it's easy. All welcome!
Limited to 25 people.
Registration now open!
Details:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arduino-for-total-newbies-workshop-tickets-935…
Mitch.
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 7:50 PM, David Barthwell
<david(a)vergegraphics.com> wrote:
> To all the people sharing fun stories and uplifting anecdotes about
> encountering black people in Oakland: Let's not forget that there are
> actually some on this list. In fact, I'm one of them!
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Sonja Trauss <sonja.trauss(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> what are you saying David - all black people are robbers?
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Sonja Trauss <sonja.trauss(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> David - you're black, do you have any info on the relative safety from
> mugging of black women and men?
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Sonja Trauss <sonja.trauss(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I still want to know whether David has any info/ insights on the relative
> vulnerability to mugging of white v black men.
Are you serious? Is this for real?
I too love a good email thread, but I'm not sure what's the point of all this is, besides
humble bragging about how more miserable our respective origins are from
some other entity on the Internet.
By the time it gets to message 100 in this thread, there will be no sudoroom members left.
Greetings, sudo!
It has been a long time since i have visited! I hope you have all been
doing well. I am taking the time right now as the year draws to a close
to reflect on the current state of things in my world. Perhaps you will
indulge me in reading everything below. perhaps you are seeking a tl;dr
in which case i will ask you,
have you seen my folding plastic table?
have you seen my aluminum ladder?
have you seen my dreams for a shared space and a common future?
I believe I left them laying around here someplace, possibly with my
name scrawled across in marker.
The table is about 3'x6', blown plastic, folds in half. The ladder is
aluminum, 12' high or so, and quite nice. The dreams are like hair or
cuticles, forever growing back even as i try to ignore them and focus on
something tangible or 'important'.
At the beginning of this year I closed Coyote, a shared art studio and
retail space I had been managing in North Oakland. We closed in part
because of the loss of one of our founding members, who moved back east
to live closer to his family. We closed also because of a mismatch with
the neighborhood, admitting reluctantly that where we wanted to have our
art studio was not compatible with where we needed to do our retail work
- to seek customers, and build paying business. We struggled to
integrate into our neighborhood, making friends while seeking to
understand the impact of gentrification. We struggled with an
unscrupulous landlord, mounting costs and flatlining incomes, and we had
to admit that the project wasn't working in its current guise.
The upscale restaurant down the block sought our support, as we were
closing, for a 'neighborhood meeting' about crime. When I pressed the
owner (who had never before visited, in our year and a half in business)
about what their concerns were, he told me that some of their patrons
were being mugged on their way from the tony restaurant to the train
station.
I can't say that I was surprised.
I wasn't surprised that the patrons of this restaurant had been mugged.
The food is not cheap and the place is an oasis of genteel laughter in
a neighborhood more attuned to sirens, car stereos, and the stacatto
passage of these same folks in their cars on their way home to the hills.
I also wasn't surprised that the restaurant owners, after completely
ignoring the existence of their scrappy neighbors, after failing to
welcome their new peers to the block, after ignoring that small business
baksheesh of customer-trading, were still willing to hit us up to come
to their 'community' meeting and talk about how to 'stop crime'.
I ache for folks who suffer through being robbed with the threat of
violence, or with actual violence. It sucks to have something like that
happen to you.
But.
In the time that I bottomlined our business in North Oakland, we lost
about 5% of our sales income in shoplifting. This is in comparison to
basically nil in shoplifting losses in a similar store that I previously
ran in San Francisco, near haight/fillmore. What's different? Income
inequality. Sure, in a diverse place, folks of all different sorts
encounter each other, and there is a lot that is healthy about that.
In this region there do seem to be some entrenched group identities in
the culture war, and I sometimes wonder which side I am on.
I have watched friends and neighbors struggle as their food stamps are
cut. I have listened to the pained conflict that grows up in their
loving homes around money, when there is none. I wondered most
especially which side I was on after George Zimmerman was let free, and
marches passed my West Oakland house every day. I saw the notoriously
violent OPD standing between me and these marches, as if to protect me.
This more than anything else drove me to walk out my front gate and join
those marches, to show with my body where my loyalties lay.
I have watched the region that has nurtured me for the last decade sink
into an inequality that I am led to believe is as deep and deeply
entrenched (meaning the unlikelihood of people to transcend the
circumstances into which they were born) as the period that preceded the
French Revolution.
Only whose head will roll?
In the midst of these questions I was forced to confront the inadequacy
of Sudo's best and most shining efforts. It is a place where I have
made friends, many of whom stay in my orbit & community now as I
re-orient. Sudo is also the only place where my hair was ever grabbed
without my consent. It is a place where I have been accosted in a dark
hallway by someone who repeatedly demanded my attention despite my
demurrals, despite walking away. It is a place I have been yelled at in
anger, as have many others. It is a place I have feared to bring
friends. I watched a community struggle to set boundaries to protect
its members, only to founder as it seeks to define what a 'member' is
that deserves protection.
I say these things not as a condemnation of sudo, and i hope they are
not read as such. I say them as an honest person sharing some difficult
thoughts, and i remind you dear reader that we reside within a culture
that is structurally predisposed against this. It trains us to see
critique as attack, to see critical thought as a threat, instead of what
we hackers know as the fundamental strength we bring to any situation.
We can think. we can assess. we can learn and grow and change, and we
can evolve.
We are meta. We are legion, and we cannot be contained.
I read recently about this space starting in SF, and while i was
gladdened to hear about Double Union, I am extra excited to imagine
another space with such a strong commitment to inclusion.
https://github.com/wallacemax/sfhackerspace
I hope the east bay hackerspace scene continues to grow, evolve, and
flourish.
I understand sudo is changing right now as well. It is well for all
things to change, and I hope that in this case the changes lead towards
the causes of transparency in governance and inclusion for all, which i
always understood to be some of the most fundamental tenets of sudo.
be well, good luck to all, and always,
R.
Hello everyone
On Dec 5 at the Port WorkSpaces at 101 Broadway (at Embarcadero) 2.Oakland celebrates Oakland based tech and innovation. Please join us for community building, fun, music and food at our end of year gathering.
To learn more and register visit http://twopointoakland.com/dec-5-2013-2-oaklands-tech-innovation-celebratio…
Cordially,
Neil
In community,
Neil Planchon CPCC
Life and Productivity Coach, Website Design and Technology Solutions - www.neilplanchon.com
Founding Resident and Webmaster - Swan's Market Cohousing - Oakland CA - www.swansway.com
Board member, Treasurer and Technology Team - Old Oakland Neighbors - www.oldoaklandneighbors.org
Co-Chair and Technology Team - 2.Oakland - www.twopointoakland.com
Steering Committee and Technology - OakX - www.OakXnow.com
OnBoarding, CRM administrator, etc. - OpenOakland - www.openoakland.org (A Code for America Brigade)
Steering Committee and Technology Team - Cohousing Research Network - www.cohousingresearchnetwork.org
Former Board Member, National Tours Director and Fundraiser - Cohousing Association - www.cohousing.org