[sudo-discuss] why we should not consider donating the building to Peoples Programs

A lot of people are not aware that Peoples Programs are comrades/collaborators with CLP, the authoritarian group that tried to take over Omni, blocked TANC from joining us (which would have very likely helped us achieve a new mortgage lender by now), and then spread a campaign of misinformation and an entire boycott against us in order to destroy our events income. Peoples Programs still have their tweet up from October 5th calling on boycotting Omni Commons: [image: image.png] CLP actually suggested that we allow Peoples Programs to be our new lender - in exchange for a controlling interest in the Board of Directors (now made up of our delegates) of course, and they suggested this BEFORE we came to the conclusion to separate from CLP (remove them by unanimous vote). In this light it seems clear that CLP and PP are collaborating to disrupt our ability to keep the building so they can take it over. The founder of PP was at the "callout meeting" that Omni hosted after the CLP attack, and when an Iranian woman was speaking about how she was afraid that she would be killed if she returned to Iran, The PP founder stood up and said "Inshallah" meaning "it is the will of god" and TOOK HER PICTURE NONCONSENSUALLY to identify her. Is this the kind of group we want to donate our building to? Because make no mistake, allowing PP to "bail us out" means signing over complete control of the building to them. It's a sale. We only get to stay if they feel like letting us stay. In contrast, the Mulberry Trust, which is our present lender, is a charitable organization that DONATED $1 MILLION toward our purchase of the building, as well as giving us the loan in the first place which nobody else would do. If we fail to find a new lender in the time remaining (which is more than the rest of the month but don't get too comfortable), the building goes back to their ownership and they will put it toward a charitable purpose, such as low-income housing. They are our best option if we are unable to find new financing. For anyone who doubts that CLP and PP are partners, here's a link to that article by Rafiq (leader of CLP) posted on PP's Medium page, praising the Iranian Regime (aka the Morality Police who kill women for not wearing a headscarf): https://medium.com/@PeoplesPrograms/the-legacy-of-the-iranian-revolution-2c… As recently as four days ago, Rafiq or Billy of CLP is apparently emailing people who try to book events with us, trying to discourage them from doing so: [image: image.png] and in case anyone needs a reminder, here's the doxxing attack that's still the first link of CLP's linktree. <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y5fr9X74MkaNuebZXI1orvpIkYMVufdQY1DBrc5B6dw/edit> "WO" is TANC, aka Tenants and Neighborhood Councils, a diverse oakland organization that protests evictions which CLP was vehemently opposed to for some reason. and here's Peoples Programs linktree: https://linktr.ee/PBO and CLP's linktree: https://linktr.ee/clp_ On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 8:59 AM Sven Pedersen via sudo-discuss < sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org&gt; wrote: