1 Dec
2020
1 Dec
'20
3:53 p.m.
Forwarding just in case for Sudo Room and/or Sudo Mesh members not on Omni
email lists ?
Dane
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From: Omni Commons <info(a)omnicommons.org>
Date: Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 9:14 AM
Subject: Save the Omni Commons
To: <Wanderingsearch1(a)gmail.com>
Help support the Commons in these difficult times
Save the Omni
Dear Friends and supporters of the Omni Commons.
All of us at the Omni Commons wish you, our friends and supporters, a safe
and healthy holiday season. This has been a difficult and challenging year
for so many people because of the pandemic and resulting economic crisis.
It has been and continues to be difficult and challenging for those of us
at the Omni Commons. That’s why we’re asking you to make a generous
donation to our GoFundMe or Facebook Campaigns to save the Omni Commons,
which continues to face a financial challenge. Donations to our Facebook
campaign on #GivingTuesday, Dec. 1, are matched,
GoFundMe Campaign
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Four years ago, the collectives that make up the Omni Commons obtained a
loan to purchase the building at 4799 Shattuck Avenue in North Oakland.
Since then, we have offered event space to the wider community and
workspace to collectives on a sliding-scale basis. The Shelter-in-Place
order issued in mid-March in response to the pandemic, as well as
subsequent restrictions, have prohibited the gatherings that rent our event
space and provide half of the income to make our monthly loan payments and
keep the Omni Commons open.
We have been able to keep the building open for the essential services that
some of our collectives provide to the community. Additionally, we
collaborated in forming the North Oakland Mutual Aid Drive together with
other community organizations. The Omni has become a local distribution
site for the curbside and low-income communities, disproportionately people
of color, in North Oakland. We’re using our ballroom and entrance hall to
gather canned food, water, masks, hand sanitizer and other items, and then
distribute these items to those who need them.
While the Omni Commons continues to keep the building open for our
collectives to offer essential services, we now face a big challenge. In
the midst of pandemic restrictions limiting our income, we must refinance
the original five-year loan on the building by May 1, 2021. We’re working
hard to save enough money to show lenders that we are able to make loan
payments until restrictions are lifted and it’s safe to open up event
rentals again. So, we’re asking you, our friends and supporters, to make a
generous contribution to our GoFundMe campaign to Save the Omni Commons. If
you can make a contribution to help us through this crisis, we will thank
you from the bottom of our hearts.
Donate to Our GoFundMe Campaign
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Love and solidarity,
The Omni Commons Collectives
Counter Culture Labs
Chiapas Support Committee
Food not Bombs
FYE Collective
Global Women’s Strike
Liberated Lens
Acta Non Verba
Sudo Mesh
Sudo Room
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