|
The Omni Commoner
Issue 6, September 2016
omnicommons.org
The Omni Commons currently hosts thirteen collectives committed to the mission of equity and community. We’re actively recruiting new members for existing groups as well as entirely new organizations to collaborate with us. Please visit omnicommons.org/wiki to learn more, or contact info@omnicommons.org with inquiries on how to participate!
|
|
|
Community News
|
Help Us Buy the Building!
Our monthly expenses are on the order of $17,000, and the community is straining to make ends meet while simultaneously working to buy the building.
We have the opportunity, finally, to proceed with the building purchase - but we need your help to raise funds for an appraisal ($4500) and fall rent expenses until we secure a mortgage! Contact us if you can help!
Visit our Donation Portal to give a one-time or recurring donation via Stripe or PayPal, contribute to our Patreon page, book the space for your next meeting or event, join the Fundraising or Commons working groups to help us increase our revenue streams, and / or simply spread the word and share this newsletter!
|
Volunteer of the Month
Marcus recently spearheaded the Omni Re-Use Sale - an exhaustive endeavor that involved clearing, sorting, and cleaning years of our accumulated cruft. He is a member of Art Bison and has been making the above-pictured Omni t-shirts :)
We are so very grateful to be graced with his active, positive presence and generosity!
|
|
|
Join!
Are you connected to an aligned group looking for occasional or permanent space? We have space available and are actively seeking new member collectives to rent it out! Apply to be a member collective at omnicommons.org/join !
|
|
Participate!
We’re always welcoming new volunteers to participate in various working groups - in particular finance, building & maintenance, commons (event management), and fundraising. Check the calendar for the next working group meeting, or visit omnicommons.org/lists to join the relevant mailing list.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Updates From Member Collectives
|
|
|
Volunteer Guides & Mentors Needed!
Global Communication Services/Youth Empowerment Services (YES) provides support for immigrant families in the form of language classes, youth music programs, health consulting, and after-school homework assistance. They are looking for volunteer guides and mentors to work with youth aged 8 to 18 in the areas of academic tutoring, English as a second language, arts & crafts, dance, music and planning entertainment. Contact them at 510.560.5520 or info.gscinc@gmail.com if you're interested in helping out!
|
|
|
|
Film Night
“Heist: Who Stole the American Dream” (2011)
September 20th, 7-10pm in the Ballroom
HEIST: Who Stole the American Dream? is stunning audiences across the globe as it traces the worldwide economic collapse to a 1971 secret memo entitled Attack on American Free Enterprise System. The 6-page memo, a free-market utopian treatise, called for a money fueled big business makeover of government through corporate control of the media, academia, the pulpit, arts and sciences and destruction of organized labor and consumer protection groups.
Co-director & co-producer Donald Goldmacher will be in attendance for Q&A after the film.
Doors at 7pm, film at 7:30. $5 donation yes please? Free popcorn and snacks as usual!
|
|
|
|
New book release by Timeless, Infinite Light!
Face Down by Brian Whitener is an abject, fantastic inquiry into forging new ways of relating, set against the brutal materialist realities of empire. With unflinching wit, Whitener connects "literature's devices, knowledges, and affective relationships ... to the new problematics of experiencing, worlding, and its sensorium of trauma."
Available October, 2016 from the TIL website.
Timeless, Infinite Light is an Oakland-basedsmall press and founding member collective of the Omni Commons. They describe their books as "spells for unravelling capitalism."
|
|
|
|
|
Recurring Events
Monday
Fundraising / Buy the Building / Until the Revolution Working Group, 6pm, Entrance Hall
Synthetic Biology, Biohacking and Cheese, every other Monday at 7pm in Counter Culture Labs
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project Meetup, 1st & 3rd Mondays, 7pm
The Art of Science, the Science of Art, 4th Mondays at 7pm in Counter Culture Labs
Tuesday:
Hardware Hack Night, 7pm in Sudo Room
Biohackers and Mad Scientists Social, 7pm in Counter Culture Labs
Birdhouse Art Collective Bi-Weekly Meetups - every other Tuesday, 7pm, Entrance Hall
Sudo Mesh: Building the Peoples Open Network - Weekly hacknights, 4th Tuesday general meetings - 7pm in the Disco Room
Film Night @ The Omni, every other Tuesday, 7pm in the Ballroom
CCL Members General Meeting, 3rd Tues. in March, June, Sep, & Dec in CCL
Wednesday:
Sudo Room Weekly Social & Potluck, 7pm in Sudo Room, 3rd Wednesday meetings
East Bay Homes Not Jails Meeting, 7pm, Blue Classroom
Land Action General Meeting, 7-9pm in the Basement Hall
Fermentation Station MycoFermentoOmniMondo, 7pm in Counter Culture Labs.
Open Source Insulin, 7pm in Counter Culture Labs
Lab Night, 8pm in CCL
Hegel for Communists, every other Wednesday, 7pm in the Treatment Room
Bay Area Public School Committee Mtg, every other Wednesday, 7pm in the Blue Classroom
Bay Area Community Exchange (BACE) Timebank Monthly Meetups, 1st Wednesdays at 6:30pm in the Treatment Room
Bay Area Trans Writers Workshop, 1st Wednesdays at 7pm in the Ticket Booth Room
Thursday:
Omni Delegates Meeting, 1st and 3rd Thursdays at 7pm in the Ballroom
Commons Working Group, 2nd and 4th Thursdays at 7pm in the Entrance Hall
Bioprinter Project Night, 7pm in Counter Culture Labs
Javascript Study Group, 7pm in Sudo Room
Green Windows Weekly Creative Writing Workshop, 7pm in the Disco Room
Bay Area Applied Mycology (BAAM) Mushroom Lab, 1st & 3rd Thursdays, 6:30pm in CCL
Saturday:
Synthetic Biology project: Engineer an evolved bacterial sunscreen, 10:30am-12pm in Counter Culture Labs
The EAST: A Solo Performance Laboratory, 4:30pm, Disco Room
Sunday
Open Insulin Lab Day, 12-3pm in Counter Culture Labs - Regular meeting to do lab work.
Oakland Jericho: Prisoner Writing & Analysis, 3-5pm in the Basement Hall
Community Democracy Project Weekly Meetup, 6:30pm in the Basement Hall or Disco Room
|
|
|
|
Featured Recent & Upcoming Events
Dance Battle for TURFinc
September 10th, 12 - 9:30pm in the Ballroom
Ladies and Gents! We're so excited to invite you all to TURFinc's 4 year Anniversary Dance Battle!
Turfin - Jookin - Poppin Dance Workshop from 1pm - 3pm
Doors Open at 2:30pm for battles!
1 vs 1 All Style Tournament happening from 3:30pm-4:30pm - Make sure to Sign Up before 3:30pm
All Battles starts at 3:30-9:30pm
This is an All-Ages Family-Friendly event. Bring family and get inspired!
Workshop + Entrance $30
General Battle Entrance fee = $15 before 3:30pm & $20 after
~ Register ~
Abolition of Policing
September 17th, 11am-1:30pm in the Entrance Hall
Want to learn how to work toward eliminating the cops? Want to hear how we challenge the notion that policing keeps us safe? CR Oakland regularly offers this workshop that looks at the role and history of policing in the U.S., the way it has impacted various communities, and how people have resisted and challenged its inherent violence. This workshop also goes over how we can reduce our reliance on policing by highlighting the various ways that building up community strength and practices lead to true safety that does not depend on law enforcement.
Practice Your Paradigm Shifting: A Workshop
September 17th, 12-3:30pm in the Basement
The challenges facing us are so big, and the answers we find will depend on the questions we ask. Here’s a big question: How can we shape a world that isn’t defined and determined by the economy at the expense of all the other aspects of life? Maybe the answer is not the economy, but the whole ball of wax: maybe it’s the paradigm, friend.
Come workshop with us on how to let go of a paradigm of “progress” and brainstorm how we can participate more effectively in the cultural transformations upon which our collective survival and well-being depend.
Community & Youth Cultural Healing Ceremony
September 17th, 4:30pm-1am in the Ballroom
(African Dance Performance by Youth) Love Consciousness Celebration features music, cultural healing practice through music, which collaborate with the goal of creating moments of joy leading to collective healing and community building. The music creates a higher state of consciousness; in this place of divine union as group we can become restored and then the collaboration ideas will begin to flow!
BioHack The Planet Conference
September 23-25th, 10am-11pm in the Ballroom
As the BioHacker community grows, there is a need to disseminate information and facilitate interaction between individuals of different knowledge bases and areas of expertise. BioHTP is run by BioHackers, designed for BioHackers, with talks solicited from BioHackers.
~ Register: $50 Weekend Pass! ~
Angel & Jenny's Birthday Partay
September 30th, 7pm-1am in the Ballroom
Angel and Jenny were born on this, the 30th day of the month of September. Come celebrate these humans’ existence on this planet - and yes, this is absolutely an excuse to party with your friends. All door proceeds go to the Omni.
|
|
Sunday (continued)
Liberated Lens General Meeting, 1st & 3rd Sundays, 7pm in the Basement
Open Circle: Families Fighting for Justice! - Every 4th Sunday from 3::30-5:30pm in the Ballroom
Uniquely Yours - Creative Writing Workshop, 4th Sundays from 7-10pm in the Disco Room
|
|
|
|
Thanks for reading!
With love from:
|
|
|
 Agua Viva Cafe - A cafe dedicated to creating a warm, convivial entrance to the Omnii, aiming to open by fall 2016.
 Art Bison Design Collective - a feminist collective that produces media for political and social events.
 Bay Area Public School - A free, self-organizing, anti-capitalist school with radical and contestatory politics.
 Birdhouse Art Collective - A new collective bringing art and artists to the Omni Commons.
 Chiapas Support Committee - Supporting autonomous health care and education in Zapatista communities.
 Counter Culture Labs - A citizen science and DIYbio space that is open sourcing biology.
 Food Not Bombs - Bringing free food to parks, political events, neighborhood gatherings, & social centers since 1991.
|
|
 Global Communication Services / YES: Supporting immigrant families through consulting, tutoring, and cultural exchange programs.
 Global Womens’ Strike - Omni Collective: International network working toward the return of military spending to the community, starting with women, the main caregivers everywhere.
 Liberated Lens - A radical film & video collective dedicated to social change.
 Phat Beets - A food justice group building farmers markets and gardens in North Oakland.
 Sudo Room - A place to build, learn, reclaim technology for the people, and create alternatives to the tech industry.
 Timeless, Infinite Light - An Oakland small press focused on contemporary poetry and critical theory. |
|
CopyLeft 2016 Omni Oakland Commons, All wrongs reversed.
You are receiving this email because you signed up for Omni's general 'announce' mailing list.
Our mailing address is:
Want to change how you receive these emails?
You can unsubscribe from this list
|
|
|
|
