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From: Laura Turiano <scylla(a)riseup.net>
Date: Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 8:12 PM
Subject: [omni-commons] Thursday 7pm Emergency Omni Meeting
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Everyone,
As you may have heard, there shooting on 48th and Shattuck this past
Saturday. I was the point person for the party at the end of which it
occurred. Several Omni organizers who were present afterwards have
invited neighbors to a meeting on Sunday at 7 to discuss what
happened. We hope many of you will also attend, and to prepare for
that we want to have an internal Omni meeting on Thursday at 7pm. We
want to be sure that everyone is as clear about what happened as we
can be, based upon talking to the people who were there, and to
develop a shared approach to communicating about it.
Thanks everyone and hope to see you on Thursday and Sunday.
Laura
Dear beloved Sudo,
This is PAT XU here,
TLDR – Myself and 3 other organizers are facing some serious political
repression for our activism! Come support us in court, 9 am, April 1st:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1515732032065377/
The District Attorney (DA) is aggressively prosecuting four Land Action
organizers, Kelly Jewett, Steven DeCaprio, Wren Hyde, and myself, for our
involvement in a recent adverse possession project. There are seven
criminal charges, including three felony counts and four misdemeanors.
Contrary to established precedent from similar cases in Oakland in recent
years, the DA has deliberately, and in violation of the law, pushed this
civil dispute into criminal court.
Why?
The case was brought to the DA’s attention because the property’s owner of
record was personally connected to the DA’s office. By taking advantage of
this backdoor connection, the owner persuaded the DA to drastically
overreach its jurisdiction and use public funding to intervene on the
owner’s behalf; a clear case of nepotism.
But the DA has its own political motives for attacking Land Action. In
recent years, Land Action has achieved significant victories around squat
law and adverse possession. By dragging Land Action through the mud, the DA
intends to put the entire history of squatting and adverse possession in
Oakland on trial – with the aim of criminalizing these activities.
These tactics are time-honored forms of direct action that have played a
significant role in social movements worldwide. In the past decade, squats
have housed thousands of people in the Bay Area. Adverse possession,
enshrined in the legal code of all 50 States, is as old as property law
itself. It allows people to acquire full ownership of real property with
very little capital investment, which makes it antithetical to the
ruling-class agenda of keeping working people enmeshed in the cycle of
rent-wage-exploitation.
In short, the DA is defending the commonly held belief that home ownership
should be very, extremely, prohibitively expensive—a perception that plays
right into the interests of capital.
The DA’s aggressive prosecution of Land Action’s organizers is occurring at
a time when local government has developed exceedingly cozy relations with
gentrifying forces. Last year, Oakland City Council came under fire for
offering a luxury housing developer the acre-sized 12th Street Remainder
Parcel for much less than its market value. In a confidential memo, the
City Attorney informed the Council that state law requires them to first
offer surplus land to low-income housing agencies, park agencies, school
districts, and other entities that serve the public interest. But against
the advice of their own attorney, the Council proceeded with their illegal
plan, which was already underway when the City Attorney’s memo was leaked
to the East Bay Express. Only then did public scrutiny force the Council
to bring their actions into compliance with state law.
Local government is all too willing to disregard the law in the service of
Capital and at the expense of the poor. The DA has aligned itself with
this agenda, using public funding to defend the property interests of the
land-holding class. The DA has chosen to flout the very laws it is charged
with upholding, for the sake of consolidating property rights and
maintaining access barriers to home ownership. IT IS TIME TO HOLD THEM
ACCOUNTABLE!!!
Please come pack the courthouse with us for our initial hearing! And
please forward this message to interested friends!
Time: April 1st, 9 a.m. (no foolin!)
Place:
Department 115
Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse
661 Washington St (at the intersection with 7th St.)
Oakland 94607
Free parking:
There is plenty of 4-hour parking available, south of the 880 freeway on 4th,
3rd, and 2nd Streets, within walking distance of the Courthouse.
the crypto parties starting up again are pretty cool.
they remind me of the earlier direction and spirit of sudoRoom
it was cool that people were trying different interesting experiments with
social innovation this summer, but somehow some things drifted away from
the original spirit of
SudoRoom
thank you for making this a place of joy and creation again! <3
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
No idea, check the other one they're probably the same
On 22 Feb 2016 7:57 pm, <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote:
> normally open or normally closed?
>
> On 2016-02-22 17:10, Adam wrote:
>
> There might be a limit switch kicking around, but I haven't been to sudo
> in a long while so I'm not sure where.
>
> Jake probably has one
> On 22 Feb 2016 5:09 pm, <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hey Adam,
>>
>> I was about to cut a stencil on the laser when I noticed the cut head was bumping up against the left side and stalling the motor. I looked and sure enough the steel leaf of the switch was twisted downward. I was able to jog the head left while holding the limit switch down so I assume the unit needs to be replaced. Do you know if there are any spares at sudo? I have some from open source hardware that look similar but didn't want to attempt taking off the rail to get at it and making it worse.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Hol
>>
>>
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 2:34 PM, niki <niki.shelley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> It's my understanding that this process could potentially result in a more
> top-down restructuring of the management of the Omni with little to no
> required buy-in from the individual collectives.
What makes you say that? I would be very surprised if that happened.
Session 1 went well today! Hope to see you at the next session.
Super simple "no deep stuff" ;)
*Session 1 done today!*
https://github.com/romyilano/SudoRoom_Python_DomesticViolence#session-1---i…
Session 1 - Preparations
- Get set up on your computer - Railsbridge is excellent, great people,
great installation advice (Railsbridge Installation Guide)[
http://docs.railsbridge.org/installfest/choose_your_operating_system]
- Be comfortable with the command line - Learn Command line the hard way
<http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book/> *IMHO the more comfortable
you get with the command line the better off you'll be in the short and
long run*
- Understand how to use git
- Complete Learn Python the Hard Way
<http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/> up until Lesson 20
<http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ex20.html> -
<https://github.com/romyilano/SudoRoom_Python_DomesticViolence#session-1---t…>Session
1 - the Doing part
Open up the terminal on your computer.
- *Don't know the terminal and command line? Go here
<http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book/>*
mkdir SudoLesson
cd SudoLesson
Now use git to clone the github repo
<https://github.com/romyilano/SudoRoom_Python_DomesticViolence> for this
workshop
git clone https://github.com/romyilano/SudoRoom_Python_DomesticViolence
- *Don't know how to use git from the command line?* review cloning and
the basics the simple guide <http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/>
cd SudoRoom_Python_DomesticViolence
write your first script in the python folder, name it intro_python.py
from sys import argv
script, filename = argv
in_file = open(filename)
indata = in_file.read()
print("Here's your file %r:" % filename)
print("The sample csv is %d bytes long" % len(indata))
input(" Return to continue >")
print("Now I'm going to print out all the data - it's very long!")
input(" Return to continue >")
print(indata)
input(" Return to continue >")
print("Closing the file")
in_file.close()
Run the script, we'll be using the sample.csv which is the spreadsheet of
crimes in the Oakland area in the past 90 days
python python/intro_python.py csv/sample.csv
Self-directed Learning Steps
- Make 2 or 3 variations of this script
- Redo the Learn to Code the hard way lessons
- Download other csv files and read them
-
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
here's a link to the noisebridge library organization project, for when we
get the Mezzanine book collection shelved up. We could start this for the
sudoroom book collection, which is considerable on its own, if someone has
the skills and energy to set up the software.
-jake
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 14:46:15 -0800
From: Trent Robbins
Subject: Re: library organizing at noisebridge and Omni/sudoroom
Hey Jake, sure thing.
Here's a description I wrote up for my 5 minutes of fame presentation.
https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Library
There's a link in there to the library-org app. If you guys host this you can reskin it for sudo room. It's also pretty quick to delete all the books and make a new one but
you have to do it from the code.
Best,
Trent Robbins
Tau Informatics LLC
@trentrobbins
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote:
Hi Trent,
I think we met during the hackathon a few weeks ago. I wonder if there is a wiki page or other site with info about what you're doing with the noisebridge book
collection? Sudoroom and The Omni have a lot of books and we need to catalogue them.
thank you
-jake
Hi I just swiped my card three times tonight yeah I'd like to be validated because I'm going to come here for a late afternoon python class on Monday
❤️❤️❤️
https://sudoroom.org/events/sudoroom-late-afternoon-study/
Hi I have it in the calendar now!
We're going to take this tutorial that we did in Node.js and create a
python version.
Looking at domestic violence incidences in Oakland
https://github.com/romyilano/oakland-data-with-node-js
Basic newbie tutorial of node.js with the command line. This tutorial will
parse through Open Data available in Oakland. Benefits: basic javascript
and node.js, avoiding painful macros in Excel spreadsheets, and learning
how to code! http://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-East-Bay/ — Edit
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
