Hi friends & comrades: Writing here to inform folks that the Temescal Business Improvement District is currently conducting a campaign to transform the parcel where the former Kasper's Hot Dogs stand is located into a public plaza, cutting off the connection from Shattuck through to 47th St and Telegraph. They are having open meetings re: the proposal on April 3rd, April 18th, and a third date still TBD. I think it's important that longstanding and potentially-impacted communities show up and represent! Here's a link to their event page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/160773017972043/ let's organize... <3 Jenny Help open a professional kitchen at the Omni Commons in Oakland! https://omnicommons.org/kitchen `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé "Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon." --Dave Sim, "Cerebus the Aardvark" ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`