Tunabananas: Added first 'collective of collectives' meeting minutes

2013-12-19T02:31:55Z

Added first 'collective of collectives' meeting minutes

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These notes are incomplete - please feel free to add to them!

=Random Notes / Questions=
*How does a collective of collectives operate?
*Music collectives?
**Would need extensive soundproofing
*Smaller office space?
**Definitely possible
*How to mediate conflict?
*Visioning
**Everyone gets a 2-minute slot to speak to the topic at hand

=Representative Groups of the Meeting=
*Oakland Nights Live
*Sudo Room
*Public School
*Counter Culture Labs
*Small Press Traffics

==Other Potential Groups==
*SALTA
*CorpWatch
*Groups along San Leandro & High in E Oakland

=Inspiration=
*[https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association#Section_3.2_Conflict_Resolution Sudo Room's Conflict Resolution Policy]
*BAPS' Financial Policy (link?)
*OccuCopy & 1984 Printing
*The Compound (artist studios) on 65th in Emeryville

=Concerns=
*Distance from BART
**Wheelchair-accessible buses from BART
**Inevitable trade-offs - what are we getting in exchange for distance? Huge space
*Temescal is a very upper-class, white neighborhood that's rapidly gentrified
**This area where we are now is rapidly gentrifying, more so than Temescal
**Space itself is largely ADA compliant
**There are lifts that can be installed in a staircase that are affordable to build
**Think of the long-term: We could sell this for much more, and move somewhere else in 5 years
*The area near MacArthur BART has a good deal of crime

=Action Items=
*Look into any pre-existing inspection records [ask tmrw at mtg] - Jenny
*Reach out to invite other groups to the next mtg or an ad-hoc mtg with some of the core organizers - Everyone
*Begin brainstorming on our values & guidelines
*Homework Assignment: What are 5-10 groups you would like to see share this space? -Everyone
*Make a video to promote
*Make a presentation for other potential groups - David
*Get folks to create User Pages on the Wiki to encourage short bios, visions and values - Jenny

=Visioning=
*"A culture of agency and activation - to really feel that we are actively, bodily, joining together in the work of creating a genuine shift in how we view our abilities to shape the world through our actions."
*"education and architectural (experimental and functional) construction in the space."
*"I would like an emphasis on social justice to guide the ethos and collective of the collective inclusion of standards (?)."
*"I can't yet answer this question."
*"Radical intention and simplified structure, changing structure, simplified logistics, less groups."
*"Non-judgmental, truly open and welcoming. Creative, artistic."
*"space is participatory / ...money doesn't rule the day / ...is in solidarity with groups looking to aquire space without capital, through reclamation and direct action etc; / ...considers the needs of individuals and small groups / ...is welcoming and inviting."
*"Anticapitalist, pro-reimagining the world through creating tangible alternative models [and support when they fail and require iteration]."
*"A sense of joy and excitement in our collective work; dedication to working for the common good."
*"A space that facilitates interconnection and collaboration between a diverse range of creative anti-capitalist collectives."
*"Radical generosity; the ability to exercise it with great abandon; the opportunity to be selfless."
*"A space for radicalized collectives - in all kinds of different ways."
*"EXIST"
*"ANTICAPITALIST"
*"The dedication to such a space be not limited by the physical walls that contain it. The concept of an open society allowing a synergy with and without walls to occur within and without the community."
*"An Autonomous Anomolous Anticapitalist (Non)University made up of a plethora of incredible projects constantly exploring and celebrating our diversity of roots and ideas / and their confluences / with free food / love / & make the gov't scared."
*"Innovative autonomy / wild hybrid liminality / non stop talking / questioning all existing principles / fundamentally, an illusion of fixed ground to commit to perpetual motion in ____ company, and to ____, offer an invitation to the wider world about a laboratory to completely transform what we now know as the unwanted _____ _____ they ______."

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Tunabananas: Added first 'collective of collectives' meeting minutes