Re: [sudo-discuss] new proposal - need input

I've been willing to participate in a mediation process, but only if facilitated by third-party professionals and with a specified cap on how many hours it will take. I also firmly believe in all of those values and that mission, which I've tirelessly supported for years now. We're having the conversation on the thread so those who can't make it to delegates meetings can participate. I don't think locking a room without consent, which is what has actually happened already (and indeed, we'd had the conversation before and delegates were resistant to the idea) upholds access and transparency. I'd like to discuss the real problems of not adhering to agreements, dishonesty in communications, repeated violation of our basic processes - rather than the hypothetical of "omni is broken" and "people" don't come to omni because "racism" - Almaz' go-to whenever anyone disagrees with her or attempts to hold her accountable for a broken agreement. I find that everybody else in our delegates committee and day-to-day in the building *does* collaborate as a community. I don't snub Almaz - I still find things she needs if she's setting something up, and we rushed to clean up our last BYOI event in under an hour because (yet again) she'd booked her event over ours (which Sudo Mesh had discussed at length with Commons openly, paid for at the normal rate, and signed a contract) - but the crew just hustled to clean up while also going the extra mile in helping set up for GCEA. I'm a human being expressing my judgment of what I've seen go down repeatedly for years. I am not an automaton just because I do the books, though I have thought of ways to separate out the basic reporting of a bookkeeper from my position as a community member: Unfortunately, bookkeeping and dealing with bureaucracy are things that never seems to just get picked up by a volunteer in the cheerful spirit of do-ocracy. To continue diminishing this side of the labor is to put the organization and the building at risk of debt, loss of 501c3 status (which directly impacts Sudo Room, Liberated Lens, BAPS, Global Women's Strike, The Village, Safer DIY Spaces, and the new art project by First They Came For The Homeless, and all future requests for fiscal sponsorship), legal risk to members and property forfeiture. See the proposal I just submitted; I'm proposing to do this in a professional capacity so my reporting and due diligence can be separated from my engagement as a community member and volunteer. I for one no longer feel safe coming to delegates meetings after being personally attacked at the last for pointing out abject lies. I would hope the ideological manipulation going on here would be tempered by direct experience of other longtime members of the community. On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 12:13 PM Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote: