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Fwd: [spaghettinight] Shared Space for Artists, Crafters & Eco-Hackers @ PLACE in Oakland

by Marina Kukso

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jonathan Youtt <jyoutt(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:15 PM Subject: [spaghettinight] Shared Space for Artists, Crafters & Eco-Hackers @ PLACE in Oakland To: The Spaghetti Night mailing list <spaghettinight(a)tentacle.net> Shared Space for Artists, Crafters & eco-Hackers $100-$300/month depending on use and space requirements http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/ats/4478625101.html http://aplaceforsustainableliving.org/get-involved/makers-place/ PLACE for Sustainable Living 1121 64th St, Oakland, CA 94608 at Marshall St. (near Alcatraz & San Pablo Ave Email: sharedspaceatplace(a)gmail.com Maker’s PLACE: We’re looking for more makers and shakers who wish to create in our artist coworking environment. Are you a sewer, painter, jeweler, or other type of crafter or artist with eco consciousness in your approach, materials, and methods? PLACE has a new maker’s space with communal creation stations as well as some private tables for folks who wish to store more stuff and leave out their work. The room has some shared tools, supplies and an industrial sewing machine. FAB LAB: Another space onsite known as the Fab Lab, which is dedicated to folks working in the realm of environmentally friendly sustainable design and appropriate technology. From bike builder to rocket stove makers, gasifier to methane digester, the Fab Lab is an incubator for new ideas in a solutionary future. The space is better suited for metal and wood working, soldering, custom bike frame & trailer fabrication. We have shared equipment including a welder, chop saw, band saw, drill press and several hand tools. We are looking for others to bring their own equipment to share with other makers, so we can create a more robust and versatile working environment. Daytime use 10am to 6pm is consistently available. Most evenings til 10pm is also available, although there are occasional activities in the adjoining Art Barn that may require quiet due to the nature of the event (film screenings, classes, discussions, meetings). Some storage space may be available for an additional monthly fee. ALSO, COMING SOON: Open Hearth: A shared space for food artisans, fermenters, herbalists & the like. If this is something you’ll want to know about when it goes live, please contact us so we can gather interest for this space as well. PLACE (People Linking Art, Community, & Ecology) We are a public-serving, experiential learning center that showcases and fosters sustainable living practices, urban homesteading, community resiliency & preparedness, social justice and artistic expression. www.aplaceforsustainableliving.org. The non-profit DIY bike repair shop, Spokeland is also based at PLACE. The Neighborhood We are located on 64th Street and Marshall, half a block from San Pablo Ave and a block south of Alcatraz Ave. We are a 20 min walk from Ashby BART and equidistant from Ashby and Powell exits off the I-80. We are a block away from the Actual Cafe, Victory Burger, A Verb for Keeping Warm(yarn, fabric, and fiber shop) and James and the Giant Cupcake. The Donut Farm, Tribu, Ruby’s and Farley’s are the other cafes within walking distance as is Urban Ore salvage yard, Ashby Lumber, Ashby Plumbing, MacBeath Hardwoods, Discount Fabrics, and Berkeley Bowl WEST. _______________________________________________ spaghettinight mailing list spaghettinight(a)tentacle.net Rabbit administers this list; email them at rabbitface(a)gmail.com if you have questions To subscribe new people, have them send an email to spaghettinight-join(a)tentacle.net To unsubscribe send an email to spaghettinight-leave(a)tentacle.net https://tentacle.net/mailman/listinfo/spaghettinight This list is dolphin safe

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The Flight Deck opening, panel on co-working - sudo representative?

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, See this opening festival schedule: http://www.theflightdeck.org/blog/the-flight-deck-opening-festival-schedule This week I spoke with Trevor runs the co-working space Oakstop down on 18th and Broadway. He was invited to join a panel about co-working on Tuesday June 10th for the opening festival of http://theflightdeck.org/. He mentioned the organizers wanted to get in touch with other co-working spaces in the area for that panel. I put Trevor in touch with Anca from Tech Liminal. However, I wanted to reach out to the sudo room community since Trevor offered that he'd connect us with the organizers of this event about having a sudo room representative on the panel. Hub Oakland is also going to be on the panel, and the panel itself seems to be advertised at an attendance fee. I presume the fee contribute to proceeds for The Flight Deck, which /is/ a non-profit. What do ya'll think? I was offered to join the panel, but I think we could send any one of us once we're put in touch with the panel organizers and if we'd like to. I thought it could be good to show that balance of the types of spaces that folks /do/ creative work at in Oakland, and especially downtown. // Matt

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IF IT RAINS THE NEXT FEW DAYS KEEP KIDS OUT OF IT

by johanna faust

there was a rather disturbingly large fire at the crippled Fukushima plant on the evening of the 20th. so if it rains in the next few days, it would be wise to keep kids, especially very young ones, out of it. at least so my conscience bids me inform you all. video proof below. have a nice day. video here<http://femalefaust.blogspot.com/2014/05/looks-like-somethings-on-fire-again…> and more info on request -- *Be seeing you.*

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FYI: Oakland Council voting tonight on new California TRANSPARENCY law

by Phil Wolff

Should Oakland endorse Prop 42? CMs Kalb and Kaplan are putting a resolution to the Council tonight to support this new law; final vote. They're inviting the public to speak on tonight, agenda item #16. I'll be stepping out for a minute this evening to speak in favor. - Phil Text: Resolution in SUPPORT of California Proposition 42 - Constitutional Amendment to protect the public's right to know by requiring compliance by local agencies with the Public Records Act and the Brown Act for open meetings WHEREAS, public transparency and freedom of information safeguards are of significant importance to and benefit for the citizens of Oakland and California and the integrity of government; and WHEREAS, the California Public Records Act, passed in 1968, is a critical tool for the public and the press and facilitates obtaining government records, awareness of the activities of government, and effective advocacy in the interests of the community; and WHEREAS, the Ralph M. Brown Act, passed in 1953, guarantees the public's right to attend and participate in legislative bodies of local agencies, including boards, commissions, and councils; and WHEREAS, state and local governments have been in disagreement regarding the amount of state financial support that is required address the costs to local governments with complying with these transparency laws and, at times, local agencies have used the failure of the state to reimburse their costs as an excuse for not complying with the transparency laws; and WHEREAS, requiring the state to reimburse local governments for compliance costs with these laws does not encourage local governments to take steps to reduce their compliance costs, such as through proactive transparency procedures; and WHEREAS, California Proposition 42 on the June 2014 ballot would secure the California Public Records Act and the Ralph M. Brown Act in the State Constitution and relieve the State from paying for local governments' costs of compliance with these open government laws; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED: That the Oakland City Council hereby endorses Proposition 42. https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=1739719&GUID=98A2B36… More on the law... - League of Women Voters: http://www.smartvoter.org/2014/06/03/ca/state/prop/42/ - EFF (Vote Yes): https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/california-voters-check-yes-42 - Pando Daily's analysis (insightful on the implications): http://pando.com/2014/05/02/oh-the-things-prop-42-could-do-for-the-open-gov… - California Legislative Analyst's Office (cities have to pay for their own compliance, a few $10s of millions statewide): http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2014/prop-42-062014.aspx

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Meeting Notes 5/21

by Jenny Ryan

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey sudoers! Meeting notes from tonight archived at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2014-05-21 - -jnny -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTfZXeAAoJEHTWWpBUSeDhiQQH/jAPd3BxD2Mp6cNgBBFTucBb i2LBFrPYVvEn42zUDJwGMG/D6fTZ3sq5RIHdZIaHCR7+VUn8ofHZq5zpJnEgN6Od Hqe0pTo0HMkCwDT4amh27X+8C4gSCRHJ7t8FBlJgxmAU3mGeCmVU/y6D3flZaekS oC8RHztSsav6bToK/2ZdwZOM19tRyy14YXwZ9U5xCCS+FivCSHKNAyDMeQPdRTkB 56WoE9TZFTjHA7ahSOjEa1t4oh4UHlz1Uj71sWwIVg46rTRFkU/0Imyx/mRUUx2H k9RnfdyzaCu8kJNRrqdkx1xg9wfP+C2s+h62Kv2z259iZ5Rvh7adtZ6h53ba+LQ= =slLs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Fwd: [sfchalkboard] looking for open-web enthusiasts and programmers

by Vicky Knox

I don't know who these people are (do you?), but the project seems interesting. If you'd like to learn more, please email me privately for their contact info. If you'd like, please share with the list what you find out. :] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: [redacted] Date: 2014-05-21 21:08 GMT-07:00 Subject: [sfchalkboard] looking for open-web enthusiasts and programmers To: sfchalkboard at lists.riseup.net Hi All We are looking for some skilled freelance programmers to help out on a project for the next couple of months, with the possibility of extension. We received a grant to create a collaborative web platform to support open/participatory data, and digital story-telling centered around water crisis. The idea is to develop a web resource, combining government and activist-science datasets that both publicizes issues of water contamination and serves to build resilience and political change on these issues. The content of the website will be generated through our community organizing and community-based participatory research. We are looking for self-driven folks who have worked in some of following - jekyll, angular.js, html5, node.js, python, - or are generally experienced at web development and data visualization. There are currently two people working on the tech development side of the project and we are expecting whoever joins to work collaboratively and divide tasks with them. Because we are a new organization and working on a starting budget we are looking for people who are interested in the project because they support open data and the community nature of the project. We are able to pay stipends and compensation is negotiable depending on experience. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the job or project. If interested, please send a resume and some examples of projects you have completed to [ask Vicky for contact info]

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The Omni

by batkid＠gmx.com

Where will Timon live if Sudoroom moves to Temescal?

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The Omni

by batkid＠gmx.com

Where will Timon live if Sudoroom moves to Temescal?

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New sudoroom site

by Romy Snowyla

It kicks ass! It's awesome Sent from my iPhone

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Almost at $500 on Gittip!

by Somebody

I checked about 40mins ago when showing a friend how people can help. :) Also, yesterday afternoon I mentioned to a Sudo member and he also got excited and said will put 20 weekly. I am wondering if he did. Makes me happy too! :) Yar <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote: >You guys, if you haven't noticed by now, the Gittip is at $485.77 > >That means we are making more money than we spend, and we are very >close to covering the costs of our newer bigger future space as well. > >This makes me so happy. > >https://www.gittip.com/sudoroom/ >https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Gittip >_______________________________________________ >sudo-discuss mailing list >sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

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WOSP – City of Oakland’s Plan for Gentrification: A Target For Anti-Displacement Activity : Indybay

by Romy Snowyla

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/18/18754399.php WOSP – City of Oakland’s Plan for Gentrification: A Target For Anti-Displacement Activity : Indybay Advertisement for Public Release of WOSP in Feb. 2014 March 29, 2014 Snapshot of the State and Capital in the Bay Area If the Bay Area’s economy was compared to every other national economy in the world, it would be the 19th largest. The Bay has the highest GDP per capita in the entire United States, and even outpaces London and Singapore. It captures 40% of the entire flow of venture capital in the US (p11), which constitutes a higher amount of capital than that captured during the dot.com boom. While the Bay accounts for only 2.4% of the total jobs in the US, it has 12% of the computer & electronics manufacturing, 10.3% of software development, and 8.3% of internet related jobs (p13.) Seven of the top 10 social media companies are here – Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, Linkedin, Zynga, and Yelp. In short, the Bay is home to one of the highest concentrations of capital in the world and mapping out the composition of capital is key for us to situate ourselves as we continue to engage in class combat. (Footnote #1) The regional state is well aware of its place within the world economy. Over the past years, city politicians from the greater Bay Area have come together to generate a 30 year strategy about how to restructure the region’s housing, employment, and transportation structures. Plan Bay Area (PBA) was developed by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) to carry out the tasks of determining how the state can support and facilitate the accumulation of capital throughout the region. In order to grease the wheels of the local capitalist economy, the PBA aims to redevelop housing and transit throughout the Bay; New units are set to be built, new transportation “hubs” developed, and both of these projects are to be coordinated across single cities and the bay area as a whole. PBA aims to align the various metropolitan areas of the Bay in their development of housing to match projected increases in employment. Internet, computer and electronics manufacturing, along with professional, scientific and technical services are accounting for some of the largest contributors to job creation here. PBA states that between early 2011 and late 2013 the Bay Area added more than 200,000 jobs, an increase of 7.5 percent that is well above the state’s average of 4.5%. PBA is projecting that this area will continue to outpace the rest of California and the US in its share of job growth due to the heavy concentration of tech related industries which forms part of the economic base of Bay Area political economy. (Footnote#2) West Oakland Specific Plan – One Part of Capital/State’s Total Plan “Opportunity Sites” We find ourselves in a city that’s clearly at the crosshairs of the system’s plans for intentional development and displacement: highly concentrated capital in the Bay Area and projections of millions of jobs being created in the next 10 years; a strategic plan by city politicians across the Bay to house these new high wage workers within its multiple cities; and the ongoing displacement of low wage workers and unemployed people. This is the situation Oakland Mayor Jean Quan references when she states that she’s seeking to bring in 10,000 new residents to Oakland while saying nothing about keeping long term residents and working class people in Oakland. The city of Oakland has developed a number of “Specific Plans” for the Coliseum, Lake Merritt and West Oakland in order to smoothly facilitate and attract investment by retail and tech companies, develop new housing units, and restructure the local transportation systems. The West Oakland Specific Plan, WOSP (really Jean Quan?!), is one local example of the city’s plan for carrying out this program of urban capitalist development (footnote #3). Emeryville part 2? The West Oakland Specific Plan is the City of Oakland’s plan to help developers and incoming high wage populations (both different types of gentrifiers – see footnote #4) speed up the accumulation of capital in Oakland. It essentially acts as a one stop shop for financial and retail capitalists to invest in West Oakland without having to go through the “nuisance” of making Environmental Impact Reports – EIRs – or dealing with zoning regulations. Instead of having new developments require zoning, and environmental impact regulations, the WOSP does it all for them and therefore saves money for the developers, retail chains, and financial interests seeking to build in and make massive profits in West Oakland. It is the state facilitating the accumulation of capital and dispossessing long term, and historically black, residents in the process by bringing in new investment that will increase property values while doing nothing to keep rents for existing residents from going up. The WOSP highlights four “Opportunity Sites” as the specific areas of West Oakland to be developed. The Four areas are the Mandela/West Grand area, the San Pablo corridor, the area around the BART station on 7th Street and the area next to the Port of Oakland around 3rd Street. These “Opportunity Sites” are determined to be the specific places where transit, new housing, light industrial and retail outlets will be developed. In order to “revitalize” these areas, the architects of WOSP have identified various barriers to development such as “graffiti,” “homeless encampments,” “crime of all types,” and “blight.” In the eyes of the architects of WOSP, once the barriers to development are gone there will be a flourishing of “new growth.” Right . . . What does this growth look like? A glance at the video accompanying the presentation of the WOSP to the Oakland Planning Commission featured the familiar architecture and spatial layout of Emeryville mixed in with your typical Whole Foods store. The development that’s presented is about attracting an influx of capital investment – retail, industrial, and high wage residents – and transforming West Oakland into a center of commerce for a new set of residents. New growth is about raising property values and attracting new residents and businesses, not improving the situations of those who already live there. But the planners who put WOSP together would disagree. They are quick to point out that they have “Chapter 9,” a section of the report that addresses equity and social justice issues. This is where they explicitly state that they hope to mitigate the “impact of neighborhood change and displacement on longstanding residents and businesses” (WOSP 9-1.) However, what one finds in Chapter 9 is little more than an inventory of existing city agencies and non-profit organizations that provide services to working class people. Rather than focusing on the needs of long-term and working class residents, WOSP is re-writing the rules for developers and financial capital to ease their access the city by re-writing the zoning regulations and providing them with a pre-packaged Environmental Impact Report. All that’s provided to working class people and renters in West Oakland is a list of the declining base of social service programs that already exist. Strategic Orientations for Fighting WOSP We seek the defeat of the WOSP in all its forms. Given the multiple challenges facing West Oakland, the burgeoning national and international debates around the hyper-gentrification of the Bay Area, and the ways in which the West Oakland Specific Plan is being promoted, we recognize the urgent need for a radical critique and effective action against gentrification and displacement. However, given these circumstances, we also recognize that simply being “anti-development” is not the most effective strategy, nor is it adequate to addressing the structural and conjunctural problems in West Oakland that have both shaped adverse conditions for local residents and made it a ripe ground for gentrification. Our orientation towards this struggle is built around the following core strategic goals: Reframing the Discussion About Development: We want to re-frame the discussion about gentrification and improvements to neighborhoods. The city and investors want to convince us that they know what’s best for West Oakland, and that they can make the type of improvements that residents really want. The truth is that West Oakland has been devastated by decades of economic and racial exclusion – for instance, the creation of the West Oakland BART station destroyed 7th Street as a center of culture, black owned businesses, and centralized location for community interaction; the 980 freeway cut off West Oakland from downtown so that white city officials could distance themselves from black “blighted” neighborhoods in the 1970s; the creation of the Post Office on 7th street bulldozed three blocks of residential housing with no relocation support for residents. Residents have real desires and needs for their community to be better served, and “no improvement” is not a viable option as an alternative to gentrification. However, though we do want improvements, we don’t want the type of “improvements” that the city and its developer allies seek to impose on us. The development plans of the city and capitalist real estate developers are NOT the way to create safer, more vibrant, and economically dynamic neighborhoods. (Footnote #5) Gentrification as a Question of Power: Many people in West Oakland want development, so the question isn’t so much do we want improvements or not. The question should be: who gets to benefit and make use of the developments? Is it going to be long term black, latino residents and working class people, or middle class, often white, newcomers who landlords and developers cater to in order to accumulate high rents. Long term residents want development like well serviced and fully funded schools and parks, fixed roads, improved plumbing, clean air, and access to affordable healthy foods, while developers want development that looks like biotech campuses, an increased police presence, and cafes that sell expensive coffee. Some of the questions we seek to put out there are: On whose terms will urban development proceed? Who decides what is implemented and where? Who benefits from urban development? Community Control over Community Development: If gentrification and urban development is an issue of power, therefore, we argue that the only way towards a positive outcome in West Oakland is for the people themselves to take control of the redevelopment process. ‘Community input’ in an otherwise top-down, technocratic planning process has proven to be a useless endeavor – mere lip service to inclusivity and equity. The real needs of the poor, black and brown and working-class communities in West Oakland have either been ignored, or worse, twisted and used to justify the aggressive neoliberal development strategies put forward by WOSP. By invoking the classic Black Panther slogan of ‘community control,’ we are also recognizing the need for a strategy that is locally rooted in Oakland’s Black proletarian constituency and its historical memory of struggle; one that emphasizes and prioritizes the material needs and political empowerment of the most oppressed sectors of urban society. (Footnote #6) Our on-the-ground strategy is to mobilize activists and community members on two fronts: Kill the WOSP: We seek to build a strong, vocal force of opposition to the West Oakland Specific Plan by staging interventions at all city planning meetings, developing and presenting a clear and coherent critique of the Plan at every point in the approval process. The mass displacement and “hyper-gentrification” of San Francisco has given us the opportunity to show what this new mode of urban development looks like, and why it must be stopped: “West Oakland Will NOT Be the Next San Francisco!” The immediate goal is to defeat or delay the final vote on WOSP’s Draft Plan and EIR. We’ve approached this goal thus far by organizing small, but vocal, interventions at the presentation of the WOSP to the city Planning Commission and the Parks and Recreation Commission. A People’s Plan for West Oakland: As an alternative to capitalist visions of urban development, we plan to deeply engage communities in organization and dialogue towards articulating their own vision of the kind of city they want to live and work in. Inspired by urban struggles across the world, we are attempting to facilitate the organization and empowerment of residents to create urban space themselves; to foster the imagination and social power capable of asserting the power to shape the city according to the needs, wants, and rhythms of their everyday lives. This is a longer-term community planning process that will hopefully be realized in a radical, innovative, and concrete strategy for West Oakland’s redevelopment. (Footnote #6) ————— Footnotes: #1: All statistics and information in this paragraph drawn from the “Bay Area Job Growth to 2040” document prepared for the Association of Bay Area Governments – http://www.onebayarea.org/pdf/3-9-12/CCSCE_Bay_Area_Job_Growth_to_2040.pdf #2: All information about Plan Bay Area taken from their “Draft Forecast of Jobs, Population, and Housing” document – http://onebayarea.org/pdf/Draft_Plan_Bay_Area/Draft_PBA_Forecast_of_Jobs_Po… #3: By “urban capitalist development” we refer to the ways in which city policies and programs are directed toward the benefit of businesses that engage in retail, financial, and real-estate growth. Cities in the Bay Area are strategic sites for businesses to invest in because higher wage workers are moving here in order to work at tech companies in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. This facilitates the creation of a base of consumers who buy expensive commodities (coffee, clothes, condos, cupcakes, etc) and pay higher rents. All of this helps businesses in the city generate flows of money, which then provides the city with a higher sales tax and residential tax base, hence the “urban” in capitalist development. The city deals with its declining budget from the state by welcoming wealthier residents, rather than fighting banks, ports, developers and corporations for higher tax rates that could fund services for working class people. #4: By “gentrifiers” we refer to three groups: a.) the capitalist developers who flip houses, redevelop properties, build condos, and rent/sell their properties to high waged workers and wealthy people; b.) the state bureaucrats such as city planners and other planning agents who produce documents such as WOSP in order to attract capital to the city, as well as passing racist laws and zoning regulations; and c.) the individuals whose high wages allow them to pay higher rents and in an overall sense benefit from redevelopment projects such as these. This third group, the individual gentrifiers, is controversial because it is argued that these people do not accumulate capital in the same way that private developers do. While this is true, we still refer to them as gentrifiers because of the problematic role that they play once they move into a neighborhood. Some issues associated with high wage workers moving into neighborhoods such as West Oakland involve calling and collaborating with the police on a more frequent basis than long-term residents and organizing private security firms to patrol neighborhoods. Additionally, many of these “individual” gentrifiers also are/become petty-bourgeois business owners of high priced organic food shops, cafes, and clothing boutiques. We recognize the challenge of using gentrifier as a term because it encompasses such a wide range of people and lacks specificity, while also seeing the value of its accessibility. Throughout this essay we’ve attempted to refer to specific groups, but we still retain use of gentrifier term because of its wide use. #5: We completely acknowledge that there are many different sets of people who compose any community. Our understanding of the needs and desires of residents comes from our experiences working alongside long-term residents, organizing around housing issues, working with young people in the community, and researching the WOSP and its background alongside people whose lives are directly affected by the plan. Putting forward the “needs” of West Oakland as a whole is an ongoing project that many are already engaged in and that we seek to support. #6: When we say “community control” and “people’s plan” we refer to processes where working class and black/brown residents, unemployed people, and youth put out their visions of how the community should be changed. Historically, terms like “community” and “the people” have been used in ways that obscure and diminish class differences within a given set of people, and have also been used in ways that facilitate capitalist divisions. This has meant that proletarian goals and objectives have been subsumed into middle class and capitalist projects – aka, populism. However, we choose to use these terms because they also signify bottom-up, working class and unemployed people’s power and agency as opposed to top-down state, developer plans for reorganizing the city. Sent from my iPhone

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hard reboot

by Marc Juul

The power to all of sudo room was turned off and on again at the circuit breaker tonight between 4 and 5 am. This was done by am obviously drunk Timon. I don't know why he was flicking switches in the circuit breaker box. He apologized and claimed to not know that any of the circuit breakers were related to sudo room. I told him that he'd just caused all of our infrastructure to hard reset. He became agitated and started complaining that I was staying on the topic after he had already explained himself. I then asked him to leave the common space. He refused, became very agitated, claimed a legal right to be in the common space and among other things requested that I leave his vicinity. I felt threatened by his behavior. Most of the sudo room infrastructure seemed to recover gracefully from the hard reboot. The internet connection did not come back up automatically, but after a couple of reboots of the DSL modem the connection was back. -- marc/juul

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You, Online

by Just a traveler..

Hey Sudoers, Come check out my talk about online identity, privacy, and the future! It’s tomorrow, Tuesday the 20th, at 7:30 pm, at yours truly, Sudo Room. https://sudoroom.org/events/you-online-identity-privacy-and-the-future/ From the description: The current landscape of online services all seem to have similar forms and purposes. Technologies all seem to be ‘going social’ or collecting ‘big data’, and the companies running them are magically making billions of dollars. In addition, the NSA has been caught red handed stealing and reading all our personal data. This talk intends to elucidate some of the economic and philosophical underpinnings of current internet technology and asks the question: what does online identity truly mean? What does it mean to myself, to tech companies, to the state, and to the future of our society? Some of the topics discussed will be: Online surveillance, or why deleting your Facebook isn’t enough Big data analytics: what it is and why its worth so much money Closing the loop: the tech industry’s attempt to track everything Notions of a hyper-connected future: theories and paradoxes Prominent alternatives to the internet, and how they work. About me: I’m creating two tools: one for anonymous communities, and another for local exploration. Over the summer, i’ll be giving this talk to hackerspaces all around Europe. This talk at sudo room is in preparation for that trip, so any feedback or contacts would be appreciated.

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Almost at $500 on Gittip!

by Yar

You guys, if you haven't noticed by now, the Gittip is at $485.77 That means we are making more money than we spend, and we are very close to covering the costs of our newer bigger future space as well. This makes me so happy. https://www.gittip.com/sudoroom/ https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Gittip

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Protonmail encrypted mail

by Julio Rios

anyone have any opinions or experience with this new end-to-end encryption email system? https://protonmail.ch/ it seems good based on the very little I know about the project.

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Re: [sudo-discuss] current omni timeline?

by Somebody

It sounds good to me. Thank you for taking care of that //Matt. Matthew Senate <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >sudo-discuss mailing list >sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

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Re: [sudo-discuss] current omni timeline?

by Yar

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Matthew Senate <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I did get an update about our inquiry with Laurie about whether we can stay > in June. She said yes, we can stay in June, under the terms of our current > lease, by simply paying for this month. > > However, George requested we pay rent by Monday if that's the case. He said > he'd pay us back if we ended up leaving for June 1 after all. Thanks Matt! We should probably pay him today in that case. Are you able to take care of that? Anything we can help with?

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Taylorism on Digital Steroids | The Frailest Thing

by Romy Snowyla

http://thefrailestthing.com/2014/03/14/taylorism-on-digital-steroids/ Taylorism on Digital Steroids Here are reminders, if we needed them, that the role of technology in our world transcends artifacts, tools, and devices. It also entails, as Jacques Ellul well understood, a particular way of looking at the world and its problems (and, as Morozov has suggested, it constitutes certain conditions and phenomenon as problems). From Salon: “Amazon equals Walmart in the use of monitoring technologies to track the minute-by-minute movements and performance of employees and in settings that go beyond the assembly line to include their movement between loading and unloading docks, between packing and unpacking stations, and to and from the miles of shelving at what Amazon calls its “fulfillment centers”―gigantic warehouses where goods ordered by Amazon’s online customers are sent by manufacturers and wholesalers, there to be shelved, packaged, and sent out again to the Amazon customer. Amazon’s shop-floor processes are an extreme variant of Taylorism that Frederick Winslow Taylor himself, a near century after his death, would have no trouble recognizing. With this twenty-first-century Taylorism, management experts, scientific managers, take the basic workplace tasks at Amazon, such as the movement, shelving, and packaging of goods, and break down these tasks into their subtasks, usually measured in seconds; then rely on time and motion studies to find the fastest way to perform each subtask; and then reassemble the subtasks and make this “one best way” the process that employees must follow.” From Business Insider: “There’s a fine line between micromanaging and house arrest, and British grocery store chain Tesco [...] seems determined to cross it. According to the Irish Independent, employees at the company’s Dublin distribution center are forced to wear armbands that measure their productivity so closely that the company even knows when they take a bathroom break. The armbands, officially known as Motorola arm-mounted terminals, look like something between a Game Boy and Garmin GPS device. The terminals keep track of how quickly and competently employees unload and scan goods in the warehouse and gives them a grade. It also sets benchmarks for loading and unloading speed, which workers are expected to meet. The monitors can be turned off during workers’ lunch breaks, but anything else―bathroom trips, visits to a water fountain―reportedly lowers their productivity score.” These folks would’ve been in trouble. They might also have had the good sense to revolt, being peasants and all. Pieter Brueghel, The Harvesters (1565) About these ads Sent from my iPhone

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Fwd: [Sudo-kids] sudo-kids "Code Docent" idea

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, Posted to the sudo-kids list, wanted to cross-post to make sure it's on your radar! // Matt ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeffrey Gordon <jgordon.oakland(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, May 17, 2014 at 6:35 PM Subject: [Sudo-kids] sudo-kids "Code Docent" idea To: sudo-kids(a)lists.sudoroom.org Hi everyone. My name is Jeffrey Gordon. I'm a 4th grade teacher at Ruby Bridges Elementary School in Alameda, where I've taught for seven years. My school's population is 80% free/reduced lunch (high poverty) and 10% of our students are homeless, as our population zone includes The Alameda Point Collaborative. I've been developing a curriculum in Scratch, that I use to reinforce my math lessons. Each week, my students build a little modeler that reinforces that week's work in math. My students use their free time throughout the week to add to and change the projects. Here's a studio that my students have organized of some of those projects. We also use it to share resources for projects.: http://scratch.mit.edu/studios/373147/projects/ My goal this year was to create a portable and modular curriculum to share with other teachers to use in their own classrooms. What I've come to understand, is that this is a basically unfeasible goal; while nearly every educator I show them to sees the value of the modelers instantly, none of them has felt comfortable leading their students to build them. Here's a Google Doc of the curriculum in progress. I'm doing the page layouts this summer, but most of the actual projects have been coded and tested by kids at this point, and just need to be commented and laid out. I'm hoping to get about 25 lessons done over the next month or so: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WXwnMZTeIcZYLMyB_seGqaZ8R9JOhFQTh-wXP17… I spoke to Matt about the issues you've had with liability and insurance concerns. It sounds like a new space might solve some of those problems, but I think I have an idea that may compliment the existing sudo-kids project. Many elementary schools have art docent programs, which bring in community volunteers to lead students in art lessons while a teacher attends to the business of running the classroom. The liability and legal concerns in running one of these programs are relatively simple: volunteers will need to undergo a federal background check and Livescan fingerprinting. Districts have existing procedures in place for these sorts of things, which means the principal of the school will make the choice, rather than a committee of administrators (which is how most good things die in education.) I could arrange matchmaking for docents and teachers, facilitate background checks, model the lessons for docents with actual students, and assist with teachers with integrating the curriculum into their everyday math instruction. What I would need is one or two (to start) volunteers to work with a couple of known excellent educators and their 4th-grade students next year on a weekly basis. Those volunteers would need to be competent with Scratch and able to read and understand the code linked to above. That would mean about 60 kids would benefit. If you have the time and inclination, please, look closely at the modelers and the curriculum. If anyone is interested in working with me, there are a couple of weeks left in the school year, and I'd be happy to demo a lesson with my students. Thanks, Jeffrey Gordon 4th Grade Teacher Ruby Bridges Elementary School Alameda, CA _______________________________________________ sudo-kids mailing list sudo-kids(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-kids

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Re: [sudo-discuss] current omni timeline?

by Yar

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com> wrote: > what's the current timeline for the move? It's one of many questions in the ongoing lease negotiation. We prefer June 1, the owners prefer July 1. We are going to reach a compromise that benefits as many people as possible. In the past week since I wrote that "Omni update", my personal sense has now become that July 1 is more likely to happen. George & Laurie have already been given notice, and they are ok with the ambiguous timeline, i.e. they won't be an issue one way or the other. We're very sorry about the ambiguous, opaque and last-minute nature of this process. We realize how this impacts our community's ability to plan and hold events, and how it strains our trust and faith. We will be able to talk in MUCH greater detail as soon as we have a lease. The lease will almost definitely be signed in less than two weeks, most likely sooner than that. We continue to encourage interested people to come to meetings and join working groups to help with this process. A few of us are getting burned out and would VERY MUCH welcome additional hands, brains, hearts, perspectives! Thanks everybody!

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Defcon 22

by Andrew

Hey Sudoers, Anyone going to FEDCON... I mean Defcon, this year? Want to go in on a hotel room? Anyone interested in driving/caravaning there? Anyone have any interested in spending the entire time there with me solving the badge crypto/puzzle challenge, like I did last year? --Andrew -- ------- Andrew Lowe Cell: 831-332-2507 http://roshambomedia.com

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hey! look at the Medicine to the People thread!!!

by johanna faust

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Medicine to the People: Stories from Community Health Projects (Sun May 25)

by Yar

In 8 days, Sudoroom will host these amazing people! https://www.facebook.com/events/1430569700530791/ -- The Bay Area is blessed to have some amazing and inspiring community health projects that bring healing and medicine to the people. These projects save lives, increase access and sustain communities in struggle. Come for an evening celebrating healers building projects to reclaim medicine in different communities and hear their stories! Donations will be accepted for Sharena of People's Community Medics in a effort to get her a van so she can continue her work Speakers: Sharena Thomas- People’s Community Medics http://www.peoplescommunitymedics.org/ Sharena is a long-time organizer, warrior and single mother of 4 who has co-founded People's Community Medics. She is the daughter of parents who she frequently stopped with as a child to respond to community emergencies. She has worked within her community of various projects including community cleanups and anti-police brutality efforts fighting for justice for families of victims in her community as well as family members. The People’s Community Medics (PCM) was founded in the summer of 2011 by Sharena Thomas and Lesley Phillips. As members of the Oscar Grant Committee we learned that the BART police refused to call an ambulance for 20 minutes for fatally wounded Oscar Grant, despite the passionate pleas for medical help from his friends who were detained at the Fruitvale station by the police. That experience as well as our knowledge that 911 calls often do not result in an ambulance arriving in a timely manner to Black, Brown and poor neighborhoods largely inspired us to teach our people basic emergency first aid so that we can help one another until an ambulance arrives. Michelle Steinberg- Consultas Naturistas Program at Street Level Health Project http://www.streetlevelhealth.org/ Michelle started Consultas Naturistas, the nutrition and herbal medicine clinic at Street Level Health Project, in 2009 to provide free, Spanish/English bilingual, integrative health care to low-income individuals in East Oakland. Hundreds of clients have received holistic care and medicine through the program. Visits last approximately 30-60 minutes per person and involve a client-centered discussion of health history and lifestyle, focused on nutrition, exercise, and sleep habits. Clients receive free custom blended tinctures and teas, as well as vitamins and supplements. Street Level Health Project, which houses the program, is a multi-purpose organization focused on both health care navigation and worker empowerment. In addition to Consultas Naturistas, there is a doctor on-site three days/week to provide basic medical treatment, while health navigators direct clients to outside service providers for on-going or specialized care. Other core programs include mental health services, exercise/yoga classes, free lunches and food bags, and a workers’ collective. Orlando- HEPPAC, Berkeley Free Clinic, Oasis http://www.casasegura.org/ http://www.berkeleyfreeclinic.org/ Orlando a community advocate at HEPPAC and BFC and a senior peer educator at Oasis Clinic. He will talk about his experiences in approaching hep c, hiv and other health related concerns, primarily among former and current consumers of substance. It's all in the approach. Laura--Berkeley Free Clinic Laura works with the Berkeley Free Clinic and will speak on her experience as well as the pitfalls of liberal healthcare.

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Re: [sudo-discuss] WOSP – City of Oakland’s Plan for Gentrification: A Target For Anti-Displacement Activity : Indybay

by Yar

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Romy Snowyla <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote: > The omni is cool but it's interesting how cleanly it dovetails with the MacArthur Bart transit village. It'll certainly make Temescal call again .. That neighborhoods gone downhill lately .. How do you think the Omni will dovetail with the "MacArthur BART Transit Village"?

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current omni timeline?

by Marina Kukso

hi all, what's the current timeline for the move? - marina

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