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by mattsenate＠gmail.com

Hey all, I received word from George our landlord that Timon is banned from the property. His presence in sudo room jeopardizes our lease, and therefore he is not welcome. This has been communicated to Timon, and some other sudoers who were around this weekend are aware as well. // Matt

12 years, 3 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Fwd: sudo-announce Digest, Vol 13, Issue 2

by Yardena Cohen

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Patrick Schmidt <psbschmidt(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Is the rent really $345 or is it $1345? Those numbers are per-week. To convert monthly to weekly costs, e.g. our $1500 rent, do this: 1500*7*12/365.25 = 344.97

12 years, 3 months

Reminder: "Battle for Oscar Grant Plaza" documentary screening today, 3-5pm!

by Jenny Ryan

Hey sudo! This afternoon starting at 3pm: Short documentary screening: “The Battle for Oscar Grant Plaza” by Jacob Crawford and co-produced by Dave Id, Indybay.org. The documentary shows how the City of Oakland and its Police tried to shut down the budding “Occupy Wall Street” movement, turning downtown Oakland into a teargas filled war zone and injuring numerous people. Police video obtained in discovery in the National Lawyers Guild’s successful lawsuit and interviews with activists and journalists about their experiences, tell the real story of the disastrous Fall 2011 police actions that pushed the troubled OPD to the brink of federal receivership. Documentary (in it’s current state) is 25 minutes and will start around 3:15. Expect light refreshments and intellectual discourse! We’re interested in sparking conversation around police accountability in the Oakland area and beyond. If you have any interest in direct involvement with OPD accountability (especially if you are a coder!), you won’t want to miss this! The producers and some plaintiffs (including Scott Olsen) will be present to answer any questions. Jacob Crawford is a long time Copwatcher based out of the Bay Area in California. He joined Berkeley Copwatch <http://www.berkeleycopwatch.org/>in 2000 and produced the first ever “in the streets” non-dramatized know your rights video “These Streets Are Watching”. He currently is running WeCopwatch.org <http://wecopwatch.org> with other Copwatchers and has been a contributor for CopBlock.org <http://copblock.org> for several years. ---------- Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://thepyre.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

12 years, 3 months

Fwd: Invest in Bay Area Youth This Holiday Season!

by Romy Ilano

I promise I'm not going to forward too many of these newsletters to sudo-discuss... but this is a very worthwhile non-project in Oakland. Mind Body Awareness enables youth (often involved in gangs, violence) to reach a healthier mental state through meditation. Their program sounds very nonjudgemental and takes a different perspective on solving such problems.. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mind Body Awareness Project <info(a)mbaproject.org> Date: Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 9:59 AM Subject: Invest in Bay Area Youth This Holiday Season! To: Romy <romy(a)snowyla.com> *DONATE TO MBA*<http://mbaproject.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed53…> Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser<http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed537b&id=bf637ced92…>. <http://mbaproject.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed5…> Dear Romy, Everyday we get to see how your support offers strength and hope to youth that have been the most left out and marginalized in today’s society: youth adversely affected by extreme poverty, violence, trauma, and the criminal justice system. The Mind Body Awareness (MBA) Project brings practical mindfulness and emotional regulation training to youth in juvenile detention centers and public high schools; approaching transformation from the inside out. We want to share with you one such story of transformation, the kind of story that keeps us in it for the long haul: * Raymond (pseudonym), a 16-year old gang member was introduced to a loving kindness meditation in one of our classes. In this meditation we repeat to ourselves “May I be happy … May I be healthy … May I be safe…” As the meditation was coming to a close Raymond jolted abruptly out of the practice. When we asked Raymond if he was ok, he told us: "I just had a vision. I could see myself right there. When I said to myself 'May I be happy,' I could see myself as a little kid, playing with toys and blocks. Just happy you know? Then, when I said to myself, 'May I be healthy,' I could see myself on my block in my neighborhood. I was holding a joint (marijuana) and I just took it and threw it behind me and left. And then, when I said to myself, 'May I be safe,' I could see myself on my block again. But this time I had my gun in my belt. I just took the gun and threw it in the garbage and walked away. That was deep." Raymond attended our class for over 2 years while incarcerated in the maximum-security unit in the Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center. That experience changed him at a root level. He’s since reported thinking less violent thoughts and continued on as a leader in our program, facilitating group meditations, bringing more friends each time.* As we approach the holidays, we invite you to help us support more youth like Raymond. - $100 supports one youth receiving 3 one-on-one counseling sessions - $250 supports one youth attending a 3-day, 2-night residential meditation retreat - $500 supports one youth to participate in our 10-module programs in the a juvenile hall - $1,000 supports one youth to go through a yearlong MBA high school class - $5,000 supports a yearlong training for one MBA instructor Our goal is to raise $15,000 by December 31st, and we are just getting started. *To help us get there, an anonymous donor has stepped up and offered us a $7,500 challenge grant! *That’s right, the next $7,500 we receive will be matched, dollar for dollar! Please consider contributing to this match fund today! Need a holiday gift idea? Dedicate a contribution in the name of someone special and we will notify him or her by email of your gift. Just specify in the “special instructions” section of PayPal's donation page or send us a note with your check with the person’s name and email and we will notify them immediately. Take advantage of the tax year ending by donating now<http://mbaproject.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed5…> to the Mind Body Awareness Project. Help us Friend-Raise! Post this challenge to your networks by forwarding this email to your friends. We appreciate your commitment to our community and our youth! Kindness, Sam Himelstein, PhD Executive Director, MBA Project You can make an online donation<http://mbaproject.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed53…> or send a check made payable to the Mind Body Awareness Project, 478 Santa Clara Avenue, Suite 200, Oakland, CA 94610. 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12 years, 3 months

Substitute for Timelist Group (Incarceration Support Network Non-Profit)

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, I will be out of town for the next meeting of the Timelist Group at sudo room: https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/2183/?instance_id=75199 Is anyone available to be a point-person, help the organizers with hosting, and ensure everything is cleaned up at the end? Thanks, Matt

12 years, 3 months

This Sat 12/8: Today We Learned: DATA

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, Please join us at Sudo Room <http://sudoroom.org> this Sat. 12/8 for "Today We Learned<https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/today-we-learned-weekly-colearning/?instan…>," weekly co-learning. This week, we'll have the usual free-form learning and exploration along with discussions about DATA. If you have questions about this most mystical of topics, bring them on Saturday and we'll talk figure it out. [image: Inline image 1] - Marina

12 years, 3 months

PLEASE GIVE to sudoroom gittip!

by Yardena Cohen

I dearly implore you to slightly compromise your anonymity by signing up for gittip and donating a few $/week to sudoroom. https://www.gittip.com/sudoroom/ The hardest part is overcoming that psychological barrier by entering your credit/debit card # - after that it will be easy, and you will be making a real difference for all the hard-working folks who volunteer here everyday. Even if you haven't been to sudo lately for whatever reason, I can't emphasize enough how much it means to us on the ground. Every dollar you give translates DIRECTLY into the love-powered energy that helps us keep the space clean, open, safe, accessible and hopping with life. None of us are paid for this, few of us are wealthy, many of us are struggling. Here's what our expenses cost approximately per week: $9 for the server that powers this very mailing list, our homepage, blog, wiki, and dev environments for many other projects! $15 for services such as trash pickup that keeps our hackers from being devoured by mutant flies and keeps our landlord's head from combusting spontaneously on every visit! $25 goes to our sweet, privacy-conscious, locally owned, ISP to bring internets to our public terminals, raspis, radio stream, and about a billion laptops and phones every week! $70-90 for our utilities, including power for our lights, computers, devices, fridge, ac/heat, printers, dishwasher, crock pot, coffee pot! $345 to rent our current space, with some prospective spaces approaching $500+/week. This space has so much value as an open community space which enables so many people and groups to accomplish awesome things! $infinite for the inspiration to learn and create beautiful things, which we have MORE TIME FOR when we are not struggling over the basics!!! That's where we are right now too often, and we ALL would like more time for the fun stuff. That will be a lot easier if you all give to sudoroom, so PLEASE CHIP IN now <3<3<3 https://www.gittip.com/sudoroom/ Right now we make $96.67. If we make over $138.75 we get bumped to the front page as a top receiver. If we make $500 we will finally have our basics covered and be free to dream even bigger. Thanks so much! P.S. Really though, they are pretty good about protecting your identity: "Gittip makes reasonable efforts not to share your personal information with the recipients of your gifts, so that particular gifts are anonymous. We do publicly share aggregated information about your giving and receiving. You may opt out of publicly sharing your aggregate giving." https://www.gittip.com/about/privacy/

12 years, 3 months

big garbage dump run help?

by David Keenan

So there is an old futon and a broken filing cabinet in the alley garbage room that is apparently ours (sudo's) - they will not fit in the garbage can, will anyone help me bring it to the dump tomorrow afternoon? as i'd rather not manhandle it by myself Anything else we can take to the dump? David

12 years, 3 months

Omni Meeting Minutes

by Max Klein

==Intros== David Brazil - BAPS, organizer of meeting Tom - sudo Max - Sudo Room Carrie – budding photo collective interested in a space - doesn't have a name yet Jenny - Sudo Room Margitte - Movement artist and dancer; Chinese energetics (Tai Chi, Xi Gong) looking for a space Mara - SALTA collective dancing Jeremy - monthly show with interviews and performances Marc - Sudo Room / People's Open Network / Counter Culture Labs Niki - Bay Area Public School Pam - BAPS / Bookstore Publishing Collective [currently a dream] Owen - a friend of the Public School Zach - BayBucks / SNAPS [cooperative nonprofit that does after school activities with autism spectrum students] David K - BAPS / sudo Tooth - from blackhole cinemateque So list of interested cooperatives so far *Bay Area Public School *Sudo Room *Counter Culture Labs *Salta Dance *Unnamed Photo Collective *Chinese Energetics *Timeless Infinite Light *Local Flavor *Planting Justice *Film collective *Collective Book store ==Notes== David K presents. *right now the biggest hurdle is parking 1 for every 1000 feet^feet. could get variance if we petitioned to city council "do we want a place were people can sign up for the revolution?" someon else mousily: "yes" Question: What happened to the group headed by Olmstead? Their business plan was not viable. In what ways was it not viable? And have they completely given up? *Seeking radical community organizing groups to share the space with us. *David's been talking to the Perlinger Library (who are running out of space) about having a satellite space there *To some degree, we could build out the second floor (60ft ceilings) *Zoning is great, with the exception of needing to apply for zoning for community assembly (60+ people) ---scrubbed finacial info for privacy *2-3 year lease with someone on the hook (guarantors) - $1x,xxx/month to lease The bottom rung on getting in there: *first, last, deposit, = $yyk, plus garauntors *without garantor ~$zzk ===discussion=== zach - national cooperative bank usually helps david - reads a visioning statement. BAPS has always been about organizing post-occupy. its always been about a commune where members get their needs met without the mediation of money. that's what magrit - i might charge money for classes is that a problem? : david - no, of course we have to have commerical means to pay the rent, clay - what would the decisions be like for the mega collective : david - ive made this draft "collective of collectives" delegates to an exexcutive council that makes binding decision by consensus. Owen - so sudo is not on board? : max - no actually i was the main dissenter, and i've since reversed and am rallying sudo to that end. clay - what's with the time bank? ; zach - that's defunct Carrie - what's your minimum committment for a new group? : niko - tell us what you can afford. its not like we will determine your space by money. bring everybody, if we have enough cash to move in well then figure it out. Magrit - what's hte time horizon? david k - well owner woudl take $2M if someone offered it tomorrow. however owner wants our kind of ideas. even until march would probably be OKAY. magrit are there times when we get into the space? they live there so we could schedule a visit but maybe not more than 8 people? owen? whats the maintenance of the building. davind k - ive had architect friend check it out Nikki - let me reiterate that even if its not the omni we will sitll make the collective of collectives. David b - notify other collectives to join us Tooth - i am involved in an artist run film lab. Mara - i will talk to Salta, can we just have a few months of the year? : David K. we can schedule a common area? zach - bar could subsidize : niko - wouldnt' be fantastic for safe space

12 years, 3 months

artmurmur - saturday stroll + involving noisebridge?

by Romy Ilano

Hi all As you know, Oakland has the oakland art murmur on First Fridays. SudoRoom is in Oakland, and often people end up going to SudoRoom as an afterparty, when art murmur ends (around 9-10pm) There is also a "Saturday Stroll" where we can have SudoRoom open Saturday mornings+afternoons. This is a much more laid back affair. - *Could we involve Noisebridge in the art murmur at SudoRoom?* We would be able to have more art on display, and we could sell some more electronics kits, noisebridge t-shirts, etc? I am at Noisebridge a lot so I will investigate. I think it would be good to pool resources, and create a link between SF and Oakland Anyone interested in manning on a Saturday Stroll?

12 years, 3 months

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