Re: [sudo-discuss] Incident Saturday

stars in search of a new homeworld? Sep 9, 2013 04:12:40 PM, andrew(a)roshambomedia.com wrote: In complete agreement that Sudo cannot survive 2141 broadway. I would also like to bring to the table the idea that we have two issues: 2141 and finding a new space. I don't think leaving 2141 needs to be contingent on finding somthing new. Events can be spread across different venues while sudo members focus on finding a perminent space. We could even rent a smaller room in 2141 while this happends. Just putting it out there... On Sep 9, 2013 2:52 PM, "Yardena Cohen" yardenack(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > > Sorry for being slow in documenting this, but the community deserves > > to know that this happened. > > > Sometime on Friday night, the men's bathroom was vandalized. I feel > > confident that it was an art-murmur walk-in, but there is no way to > > know for sure. They spread human feces along the walls creating what > > appeared to be two swastika shapes - not entirely faithful renditions > > but enough to reasonably perceive swastikas in them. > > > I learned of this when I came to set up my TIL Saturday around noon. > > Our landlord George showed it to me. He was understandably upset, both > > about having to clean up the mess and also about the symbolism. His > > father is Jewish. He wondered if he had been targeted. I also was not > > happy, as a queer Jew with many family members in Yad Vashem. > > > Unfortunately, this caused him to descend into another tirade in which > > nobody was spared. He assumed right away it was done by a Sudoroom > > member. There was a clear path of association that went: Sudoroom -> > > anarchists -> Nazis. At one point he even suggested that a kid from > > Sudo Kids had "come back to finish the job". But mostly he accused > > Sudo members. Since I was representing Sudoroom in this conversation, > > he ended up addressing me over and over as if I was personally > > responsible for this swastika, as if I had done it myself. I actually > > found this to be the most traumatic part of the whole event. Not even > > offensive, just downright traumatic. > > > There was the usual fare of yelling about money and society and his > > inability to find good tenants. He twice informed me that he was > > evicting both Sudoroom and the Public School and that Laurie would > > prepare a 30 days notice. He's said that before. He told me that > > Sudoroom and Public School should close their doors for the rest of > > the day, because "If I see any of them, I will beat them up!" I told > > him I'm sorry, but I have a Linux class scheduled for 2:00, please > > don't beat them up. That calmed him down a little. In short, the rant > > was a mix of old and new. > > > Except this time Laurie was there. Laurie is our other landlord - she > > is George's wife and they own the building equally. The way he talked > > to her during this rant was very revealing, because she also became a > > target. He yelled at her for not having a 30-days notice already > > prepared, for having written the craigslist ads that attracted > > Sudoroom and Public School (and, incidentally, many of his other > > tenants). He said quite hurtful things to her, including that she was > > nothing but a drain on his life and that he wanted a divorce from her. > > > She just stood there quietly saying nothing, holding their dog on a > > leash, looking at me with eyes that said "I'm sorry you have to see > > this." After a while, when George left the room, she apologized to me. > > She said "please don't listen to anything he said, he just gets that > > way when his buttons are pushed." > > > They ended up not leaving for a couple hours. Initially George refused > > to clean the bathroom or let anybody else clean it because he wanted > > to show evidence to the cops, who he believed would show up to > > investigate. It took a chorus of Laurie and several of his other > > tenants to convince him that OPD doesn't show up for things like this, > > the cops aren't coming, the bathroom smells, please let's just clean > > it up. Eventually he lost steam and they left. > > > I'm not really sure how to wrap up this email. Writing it was > > difficult. You will have to draw your own conclusions. > > ______________________________**_________________ > > sudo-discuss mailing list > > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.**org &lt;sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org&gt; > > http://lists.sudoroom.org/**listinfo/sudo-discuss<http://lists.sudoroom.… > > > ______________________________**_________________ > sudo-discuss mailing list > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.**org &lt;sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org&gt; > http://lists.sudoroom.org/**listinfo/sudo-discuss<http://lists.sudoroom.… > > ______________________________**_________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.**org &lt;sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org&gt; http://lists.sudoroom.org/**listinfo/sudo-discuss<http://lists.sudoroom.…