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by Omni Commons

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Bathroom renovation [was Re: omni bathroom wall tagged]

by patrikd＠gmail.com

I've invited you to fill out the following form: Bathroom straw poll To fill it out, visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0wK4vc3TzgWf5i-9VV4JPsDia14cA_ca… Google Forms: Create and analyze surveys.

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Fwd: Solar panels meeting tonight 7pm

by Yardena Cohen

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 1:50 PM Subject: Solar panels meeting tonight 7pm To: <building(a)lists.omnicommons.org>, discuss <discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org> A few of us will be meeting at Omni 7pm tonight to talk about putting solar panels on the roof. We'll probably be in the entrance hall mezzanine.

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Free Flat Screen

by danarauz＠gmail.com

A friend reached out to me asking if Omni may be interested on a display. Pasting below part of the message with the details: “Daniel. I am wanting to get rid of my 2008 55" Vizo 1080p flat screen. Was thinking this could find use at The Omni. If you know someone with a truck they can pick it up at my place this coming weekend. Works fine except for every now and then a couple of lines appear mostly on the left side, but they dont appear all of the time.” Thank you, and please let me know. Daniel

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Laser cutter info/help?

by Joy Ding

Hi sudodiscuss! I was hoping to come by to use the laser cutter and was having trouble finding any information about it on the sudoroom wiki. I'd heard there was a new laser cutter set up there now too so just was wondering about the status/information of both machines? I've used a few different laser cutters pretty extensively in the past but each one can be finicky in its own way so was wondering if anyone could point me towards any resources, or would be able to help me out in the next few days? Was hoping to finish up a project in time for camp next week :) Thanks! joybot

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Laser cutter pickup

by Adam Munich

Ok Rich said he will be "outside at 7", I believe this means sudo room but I've written back to confirm. His email address is rich.gporter(a)gmail.com if you need to get in contact. I need to pick some one up before sudo room and will try to be there around then. Don't hold up for me if I don't make it in time though. On Tue, Aug 13, 2019, 5:19 PM Adam Munich <me(a)adammunich.com> wrote: > You two are the only ones who responded, I will text Richard and see if he > still wants to do this today. > > - - - - > Weblog: http://adammunich.com > With great power comes great responsibility. > > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 11:57 AM <cel(a)celehner.com> wrote: > >> I can help >> >> On August 10, 2019 12:13:08 PM PDT, Adam Munich <me(a)adammunich.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> I'm told by Rayc that on this coming Tuesday at 7, we're going to need >>> at least 3 hackers to coordinate moving a laser cutter into Sudo Room. >>> Reach out to me (off list) if you'd like to help. >>> >>> - - - - >>> Weblog: http://adammunich.com >>> With great power comes great responsibility. >>> >>

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Laser cutter pickup

by Adam Munich

I'm told by Rayc that on this coming Tuesday at 7, we're going to need at least 3 hackers to coordinate moving a laser cutter into Sudo Room. Reach out to me (off list) if you'd like to help. - - - - Weblog: http://adammunich.com With great power comes great responsibility.

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Fwd: Operations Manager

by Marc Juul

This job posting came in via CCL info@ The current Operations Manager at the largest of UC Berkeley's makerspaces, Jacob's Hall, is leaving his position. To see the posting go to: https://jobs.universityofcalifornia.edu/ and search for job # 27360 -- marc/juul

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Fwd: Operations Manager for Jacobs Hall makerspace at UC Berkeley

by Patrik D'haeseleer

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Roland Saekow <saekow(a)berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 5:39 PM Subject: Operations Manager To: <info(a)counterculturelabs.org> Greetings from UC Berkeley! I am the current operations manager at UC Berkeley's largest makerspace, Jacobs Hall <http://jacobsinstitute.berkeley.edu/our-space/labs-and-equipment/>. We serve 1,200 students every semester from all majors across campus. I will be leaving my position and would like to share the job listing in case any of your members past or present would be interested. Founded just four years ago, it has been an honor helping to build the design community at Berkeley. Makerspace Operations Manager https://jobs.universityofcalifornia.edu/ Search for job # 27360 -- Roland Saekow Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation <http://jacobsinstitute.berkeley.edu/> College of Engineering | UC Berkeley

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Help me; I'm a new tech teacher - donations doubled

by Christine Hodges

Hello! This is Christine Hodges. You may or may not know me from the circles I move in: I'm a former tech worker, hackerspace user, meetup.com participant, effective altruism/rationality community adjacent, member of First Church Berkeley UCC. So I got a new job teaching technology at an elementary school in Oakland. I'd like to give my 230+ Transitional Kindergarten through 5th grade students great, hands-on learning opportunities with electronics and coding: a STEAM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math). I have a plan to introduce electronics concepts, bring in physical computing, then tie that to software coding later in the school year. But I want students to have hands-on experiences first. This requires stuff like LEDs, batteries, electronic building blocks, etc. Thus I started a series of DonorsChoose.org projects to fundraise for these class materials. And guess what: some anonymous donors will match every donation so it cuts the cost in half! Yay! I think this matching will be available all this week, maybe longer, but I don't know. And now I'm asking you if you could please chip in while I have this matching offer. A $10 donation becomes $20. $100 becomes $200! 3 projects posted, many minds educated... 1) The #1 priority project is the basic electronics components and only needs $339 to be fully funded: https://www.donorschoose.org/project/intro-to-circuits/4347772/ 2) Electronic building blocks gets students creating at a higher level of abstraction - needs $221 https://www.donorschoose.org/project/electronic-building-blocks/4348639/ 3) Makey Makey devices bridge hardware to software - needs $385 https://www.donorschoose.org/project/from-circuits-to-coding-with-makey-mak… Thanks so much for your participation! Feel free to pass this along to potentially interested people. Christine

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[sudo room] wassuppp

by Adam Munich

huumooop xxxx - - - - Weblog: http://adammunich.com With great power comes great responsibility.

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Scuttle Party

by cel＠celehner.com

Dear Sudoers, Please join me and noffle this Sunday afternoon at the space to learn about and use Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB). SSB is a peer-to-peer network and protocol for decentralized social media sharing and other applications. We will: - Answer questions about SSB - Show what the network has to offer - Help you install SSB software on your computer and get connected to the network - Troubleshoot any problems. @ Sudo Room 12pm-6pm, Sunday, August 11, 2019. SSB Gathering ID: %8kwkn1hB75LP9Pr67HjU03KwzTDChJju7oCbpVUgfFM=.sha256 Sincerely, ~cel (Charles E. Lehner)

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PyBay 2019 Maker Event

by Chris Matthews

Hi Sudoroom, I'm Chris, and I'm helping out with Pybay 2019. We're having a maker event the night of August 17 and I thought of SudoRoom. Pybay is a community-driven python conference in San Francisco, August 17 - 18. This year keynote speakers include Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, and Raymond Hettinger, cPython core dev. Other notable speakers include Bryan Siepert from Adafruit and Rachel Thomas, cofounder of fast.ai. The maker event will let people showcase their homemade hardware/IOT projects. I'm interested in talking with any members who would like a table. The robot arm and sudo mesh projects both looked really interesting. Also, I do have some free tickets for nonprofits. So if either People's Open Network or Sudoroom are interested in having a table as a group, I would have a few free tickets available. Sincerely, Chris Matthews makers(a)pybay.com Pybay 2019: https://pybay.com/ Maker Event: https://pybay.com/events/ [https://pybay.com/site_media/static/new/img/twitter-card.90e166f09eac.jpg]<https://pybay.com/events/> PyBay2019<https://pybay.com/events/> One of the things that makes PyBay such a fun conference is the hallway track, where casual sharing with another amazing developer inspires novelty solutions to problems, useful open-source contributions, or a new friendship. pybay.com

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Last Month's Income & Expenses

by Omni Commons

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Mopped Sudoroom Last night

by Robert Chu

Hey guys,. I did a basic mopping of Sudoroom last night (without moving furniture), and was able to remove a lot of silt dust that was everywhere. I also only used water, as my objective was to capture dust. There is still big particles the mopping could not pick up; yet sweeping will resolve. I also had to circulate five mop buckets because it was so dusty. It also had taken about an hour and a half. It would be good in the near future to have a Sudo Mop party day, with volunteers, to help move furniture back and forth, and have at least 2-3 people mopping. This would be a very effective way to bring all of the dust to an optimal minimum. The time would be shortened with another mopped as well :-). I'll spear head a near future day when I less busy. Cheers.

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weekly soldering workshops at sudoroom

by Jake

Thanks to a huge recent donation, sudoroom now has a TON of materials for hosting electronics soldering workshops for newbies wanting to build arduinos, mignonette games http://www.mignonette-game.com and TV-B-Gones http://www.mignonette-game.com and many other cool kits! The donation included a ton of snips (we were almost out of them!) and soldering irons and probably a lot of other important things. I already nominally host "Hardware Hacking Tuesdays" and I am totally down to support people wanting to build these kits on those tuesdays, but I think we should consider scheduling weekly events just focused on building kits, if people have the time to dedicate to hosting such events. Either way, anyone who is interested should participate in sorting and labeling the donations and ideally trying to get the parts for the above-described kits in order so that people can grab them, buy them from sudoroom, and then build them. thanks again for the donation!!!!!!!!

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anybody have a plasma cutter?

by Yardena Cohen

We're dismantling the old stove in the Omni kitchen. Does anybody have a handheld plasma cutter we can borrow?

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Laser system overhaul success.

by Robert Chu

Hello Sudo room I went through the laser cutter system and environment thoroughly, and we are now able to use it at 24/7. there are a couple of loose connections inside that I solded alligator clips to to clip onto the laser itself. I replaced the 4-ft water pump hoses with 6'1 so that there's slack with the laser system and water canister. I cleaned out the water canister a bit and replaced the water. Ripped out all the old tape that partially covered some of the gaps in the ventilation system. I'd redone it thoroughly with new foil tape. I have truncated all excess hosing on the short ventilation run for better air flow. I also compressed all of the excess hosing on the larger run for better airflow as well. All of the slack has been removed from both sides. I ventilation leak test by engaging the laser into a thick piece of wood for about 30 seconds, which has also cause flames to be admitted from it while firing. The test has passed as their husband no smell of of smoke inside Sudo To with it on for that period of time. I am full of excitement, ambition, joy, and hackery, to let everybody know that our MLE-40 laser system is back online. it hasn't been too long because it hasn't been done again until now. 🤗😆🙃❤️

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Sudoroom: materials area has a new shop table

by Robert Chu

The first email I sent was two large two send (with the three photos I attached), so I'm hacking around it by adding a screenshot of the original email with the three photos. I was working on a project with it yesterday and it's really efficient. Improvements are a Space big enough to work on 4x8 flats, a table that's easy to clamp to. Overall study as well.

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in case anyone is interested

by a female faust

i saw this. https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/zip/d/moraga-scrap-metal-large-satellite-d…

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Invoice 1861 from Omni Commons

by Omni Commons

Dear Sudo Room, Here's your invoice! We appreciate your prompt payment. Thank you for stewarding the commons. Love and solidarity, Omni Commons ------------------------ Pledge Summary -------------------------- Invoice # : 1861 Invoice Date: 08/01/2019 Due Date: 08/25/2019 Terms: Net 25 Amount Due: $4,000.00 The complete version has been provided as an attachment to this email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Dump run this afternoon

by Patrik D'haeseleer

We have a flatbed truck to do a dump run for CCL this afternoon. Got anything to add from Sudo? Could use a hand loading/unloading. Patrik

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Fwd: Letting members vouch for others to have key cards

by Yardena Cohen

I've proposed a change in how we give people access to Omni. Thoughts? ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 7:12 PM Subject: Letting members vouch for others to have key cards To: <consensus(a)omnicommons.org> Right now our policy is to only give key cards to members of collectives or working groups. People typically get a card by asking in person from somebody who knows how to add them (usually me, Jake or Anthony Di Franco) but I always encourage people to use this form: https://omnicommons.org/keys/ The form goes to a mailing list and I'm usually the one who follows up on those. I feel that the current rules are not flexible enough. There's a lot of cases where it's easier for everybody if non-members have keys: * people putting on events with significant set-up periods. More than one commons working group member has asked me to give them extra keys so they can hand out temporaries to the event runners they work with. * People doing volunteer work which is only ambiguously affiliated with a working group, or for a working group without a formal membership process (which is almost all of them...) Recently I declared two new people to be members of the building wg (Ian C & Matt L) because they were doing so much work, but it was hard to know what the right move was, and I got pushback * People who have been long-standing guests of members for so long that we all see and trust, but they either can't or won't apply officially * Probably a lot more cases also Those of us with the power to approve keys are often caught between allowing the rules to be stretched in order to make life easier for other volunteers, or being accused of abusing our power. I don't like it. An even more difficult burden is put on people who answer the doorbell and have to decide on the spot whether to accept and vouch for the person in front of them who wants access, who they may not even know. This problem has led to significant conflicts. Wouldn't it be better if that decision was made asynchronously so everybody has time to contemplate the question and talk to each other before things become urgent and heated? I propose that we enable more people to have access to Omni by letting active members vouch for other people. This way we can give people a key card even if they're not directly a member of a collective or working group. When they apply, we can ask "which members will vouch for you" and then confirm with those people. We'd keep track of who's vouching for who, and if there's ever a problem, we know who to talk to. Thoughts?

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Fwd: [omni-discuss] Phat Beets Joining Member Collective

by Yardena Cohen

Hey Sudoers, this proposal will be up for discussion at Omni's delegate assembly this Thursday (7/18) and hopefully ready for consensus on 8/1. As Sudoroom's acting delegate, please let me know of any questions or concerns you all have. Everyone is welcome at delegate assemblies. I think this is a great thing for Omni. I love Phat Beets and I've been hoping they'd join officially for a long time. Sudoroom's monthly meetings are supposed to happen on 2nd Wednesdays, but it looks like we missed July's already. Would anybody be up for a meeting this Wednesday 7/17 instead? As usual, it would be great if any new members want to become an Omni delegate. It's a relatively easy way to get involved! ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Mylan Gerbeyesus <mylan(a)phatbeetsproduce.org> Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 1:21 PM Subject: [omni-discuss] Phat Beets Joining Member Collective To: <consensus(a)omnicommons.org>, <discuss(a)omnicommons.org> Hello All, Attached is a letter proposal to join Omni as an active Member. I will be attending the next meeting this Thursday and I am more than happy to answer any questions and present the proposal. Best, Mylan Mylan Gerbeyesus Program Director Phat Beets Produce (510) 775-2182 ...connecting small farmers of color to urban communities Support Prescription Veggies! Order a Beet Box CSA today! 11AM-5PM, Tuesday - Saturday _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/discuss

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Re: [sudo-discuss] a very racist encounter with Rob

by adsaunde＠protonmail.com

(v2) To everyone on this email thread, Before you jump to read my experience below I would like to first say a few things. I ask that you read my full response and if you have something to say about it that you talk to me in person. I did not behave 'out of the norm' for Omni standards. In fact, on most days with less traffic and no regular meetings I am usually the person to answer the doorbell after 5 minutes of annoying ringing yet my behavior was never hostile to any guest of Omni. There is no reason or rational for racist behavior and that includes ringing a doorbell. I have had the time to read the evolution of email thread which has only made me nauseated. I would also like to point out that racism isn't a card non Europeans pull out to feel better about themselves. In fact, when one makes the decision to call out racism behavior we always have to evaluate the risk we take which more often than not leads society to call us: sensitive, crazy, unwarranted, narcissistic, attention hungry, claiming a false handicap, or ______ (a number of other things). Reading your responses and to see them go from "Is this real? (because this is Omni - a safe space!)" - to - {Insert joke here} has been honestly not surprising given the current state of things in the world. Anger doesn't describe my current feelings about the situation just disappointment and confirmation that some people in this world will never treat black folks with respect. I thought Omni was a safe space for me for a long time but I now realize Omni is just another space in the Bay Area that isn't a real safe people to ask other people to be accountable for their behavior. I asked my friend to try and start a mediation process so I could come back into the space without being treated like a violent male and also give the other person to room to be accountable and grow from this experience. Yet, after seeing the chain of emails I realized that Omni is just a space to give white folks the freedom to wash there hands of any guilt they may have without actually doing the work to remove themselves of behaviors we all are conditioned with growing up here on captive Native American soil. With that said I was looking for some process to be but in place so this does happen again to someone else but I have only seen this going from the original call for mediation to an inside joke. At this point I really don't care what Omni does because if post Occupy toxic men run Omni then that is all it will ever be and as a black person I don't have the energy to teach white people how not to be racist. That's not my job - I don't do that. TLDR; a toxic person is rude to someone and instead of coming to there senses about their actions after being given the benefit of the doubt they decide to be even more toxic. Response: I rang the doorbell a couple times thinking someone would get to get pretty quickly. After a few minutes of waiting I decided to ring it again. I figured either no one could hear me and was in the back so after about 5 minutes or so of waiting I decided to ring the bell continuously instead of in discrete intervals and waiting for a response. Rob opens the door slightly without inviting me to enter (which has never happened in the past - normally people are friendly and inviting into the space). Having see him around the space 3 days week for the past 2 years in passing I said "Hey, my names Deon I see you around the space often I was just coming in to work on stuff." He says in a extremely hostile tone "I've never seen you before I don't know who you are. Who are you?" Weird flex but ok. I say "I'm Deon and I helped start the village (FTP) - do you know Needa B?" He goes "No, I don't know who that is or who you are. Why the fuck are you ringing the doorbell like that." It was obvious that Rob did not trust me from jump because of ______? Also, how are you 'apart' or Omni and don't know Needa B? OK! At that point I explain the obvious - I was trying to get in the space. He continues to speak in a hostile tone and curse saying random things about me not behaving like a normal human and how annoying I was for ringing the doorbell of a couple minutes. Instead or fighting fire with fire like a brute I decided to give him space to be accountable for his behavior and demanded that he speak to me with respect or that he respect my boundaries and stop talking to me. I waited until he finished to explain to him that it is not ok to speak to me in that way because it's extremely rude and unless I disrespected him there is NO reason for him to talk to me in a disrespectful manner - in particular cursing me out. He then says "I didn't curse at you - I don't like that accusation." At this point I realize that he either: A. Has mental health related issues. - or - B. Does not have ability clam down and use communication skills to be accountable for his behavior and start a fresh respectful conversation. I immediately told him "If you cannot be an adult and take responsibility for the way you are coming at me right now then I can't be talking to you. And just so you know this is no way to build friendships in a space like this by talking to people like that. Have a good day, peace." I walk upstairs to the room where people do yoga and stuff to mind my own business. Right behind me is pissed off 'BBQ Bob' he storms in and yells "What is your name?" He then claims he is responsible for me being in the space and that if I were to hurt someone that falls him! If he didn't remember my name from the last time I told him I'm not telling him while he's profiling me as dangerous to the space. I refused to tell him my name and I told him to stop harassing me. If you are 'white' reading this thinking this behavior isn't racist you are the problem. If you are a man and think there is nothing wrong with following people around profiling them for no reason you are the problem. When a non European person tells you that your behavior is discriminating chances are they aren't waving a magic wand in the air to get rid of you. They are under verbal or physical attack. If this behavior of policing isn't rooted in racism I don't know what is! At this point I realize that he believes I am a threat to the space and he won't stop shouting things like "I need to know who you are and who you are with or you cannot be here. Needa B isn't apart of Omni! If you were a normal human being I wouldn't be doing this!" I am not going to explain why this specific language is rooted in racism. If you do not understand why hire a POC to teach you or do the work to educate yourself. If you are white and think it is ok to follow a black man around referring to them as potentially hostile after reading this you are the problem. At this point I'm using all of my energy not to explode because this is the EXACT behavior that causes black people to be murdered by police. And for the record just because someone participates in Occupy and cleans the closet at Omni does not absolve you of racist behavior. So then I said find lets go find people who know me so you can see I'm not dangerous. So then I walk over to the hacker space where two people who I interact with on occasion were sitting. [I originally began the first cleanup efforts in that space and have spent at least 20 hours of my time organizing that space by myself.] They attempted to mediate the altercation yet Rob justified profiling me as a person who would do harm members of Omni by relaying this entire incident to me not being fully human because I was a little impatient with a doorbell(??). He also states that Needa B is not a member of the Omni and that she our rents office space and keeps her 'shit' in the basement that she needs to come get. Wait..... what? Needa B may not be a member of Omni but to reduce the work she as done in the City of Oakland fighting for rights on the front-line is past disrespectful. Had I known Omni didn't like or respect Needa I would have stopped going there all together. At some point one of the two who were trying to mediate says "Rob is the number two person at Omni so whatever he says goes." Huh? Omni has a hierarchy in which labor can be a means to gain political power of the space? A space which is advertised as a 'safe' space for all? At this point I have given him multiple chances to communicate with me like an adult and be accountable for his behavior. I realized that not only do I have no support in the space but that if he continues to harass me his hall space at Omni won't prevent me from treating him the way I treat all white men who behave towards me in this manor. He then decides to reference me not being a human - again. So, I said "Oh yeah because I forgot black people aren't human we don't give birth we hatch our kids." I then stormed out in anger and said "if you follow me outside I'm kicking yo ass!" Usually when white men behave like Nazi I don't give them the space for growth I treat them like Antifa treats Nazi. So if you think for a second I was hostile toward this cis-white male you have no idea what self defense is. I have the right to defend myself against any and all attackers no matter who they are and his continuous petty hostile behavior told me that he did not have the tools to communicate with another person and that he does not understand the magnitude of what he was doing which puts me as a human in no other position except to defend myself from any further hostile behavior. If you do not agree with this it is because you have no idea what it means to be black in America. The amount of courage it took to walk away time and time again instead of escalating the situation to the point of dragging this 60 kg [soaking wet] cis-white male outside to teach him about his racism. So before any of you call me hostile I ask you to think about how I could have reacted to this situation from jump street. Instead, I choose to treat this individual like a human and understand where he was coming from. Sad to say I did receive the same common courtesy. Wish you all the best. Peace, D Sent from ProtonMail Mobile On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 4:30 PM, D. Scott Nanos <scott.nanos(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings Sudo et al, I'm so sorry but I have to bring to your attention a recent, very unfortunate, inappropriate, and violent encounter a friend of mine, Deon Saunders, had with a guy named "Rob", who I don't think I know personally, although I'm sure he's well known around Omni in general. I don't believe he's a sudo member specifically, but I believe this incident sort of came into Sudo territory when Marc became involved; I also really respect and love what Sudo room provides to the community, and I know that Sudo is a powerful force within the Omni; as such, I'm writing to you all now because I believe this issue definitely needs to be dealt with, and not ignored or brushed aside. > > Basically, Deon is friends with Phat Beets and Food First, and has been frequenting the Omni in order to do work and access the community resources that are available. To my understanding, he often works in the Sudo room space. Although this should not need to be said, I can personally vouch for Deon as an upstanding and generous member of the Oakland community. > > Deon was having trouble accessing the space the other day and rung the Omni doorbell several times, at which point guy named Rob opened the door and started cursing at him and being very aggressive. After Deon was able to enter Omni, Rob then started following him around and harassing him, acting like a cop. Although this is egregious in and of itself, and a terrible counter-representation of the Omni's values, this all came to a head when Rob accused Deon of not being "an actual, normal, human being". Whether or not this was intentional, it evoked longstanding racist attitudes that black folks have been subjected to, suggesting that Deon was less-than, or sub-human. Deon was so offended that he promptly left the Omni and has not been back since. > > Besides this very loaded and hateful comment, this general kind of treatment and attitude, overall, is the EXACT opposite of the way black folks should be treated when interfacing with the Omni. Rob's actions are not okay, at all, and I strongly feel that a serious accountability process should be implemented for this incident. This is not a small matter. I've spoken with Deon, and he has agreed to participate. > > I've also heard that this type of incident has happened before at the Omni, specifically involving Rob. Correct me if I'm wrong, but apparently, the attitude that was expressed to Deon was that Rob is one of the main people that operates (i.e. helps to reproduce and sustain,) the Omni, and as such, people basically go along with what he says and does. If this is in fact the case, then an accountability process is even more imperative. In no way should labor, and by proxy, "power" derived from labor, enable a person to act with racism against members of the Oakland community. I think it's in the best interest of the Omni to address this issue immediately, for Deon, for the Omni, and for the Omni's relationship with the greater community of Oakland. > > I believe Marc was present for part of this incident as well, and although I know, Marc is so busy doing vital work for Sudo and Omni, it might behoove him to also participate in this process, as a witness. > > I am writing this email not because I am trying to "cancel" or ruin anyone, but because I care about Deon, The Omni, Sudo, and the Oakland community at large. This issue seems indicative of larger problems, and if addressed with love and respect and accountability, could seriously benefit all parties listed above, and improve the Omni and it's relationship with Oakland. > > I'm not sure where to take it from here, as I am personally extremely busy with other community-based activities in Oakland right now, but a mediator/facilitator should be sought out, ideally a black person, but at the very least, a non-black poc, and probably someone that isn't personally involved in the day-to-day operations at Omni, sudo etc. If i am able, I could possibly be this mediator, but I hope other options are sought out first, because a.) I'm a non-black, mixed race poc, and b.) I have very little capacity at the moment. > > But please keep me in the loop regarding an accountability process for Rob, and I'll do whatever I can to help move this along and reach a fair and just conclusion. > > Sorry to bring such difficult news to you all, but I could not stay silent. > > With love and Solidarity, > > Scott

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