[sudo-discuss] [BAPS-Organizing] Re: [omni-discuss] Urgentish - has anyone spoken w/ Matthew Artz / Oak Trib re: Omni?

[David Keenan]

Hey all. Many thanks to everyone for following up. Matt Artz saw my email
to him and responded, and hopefully I will speak with him on Saturday.

According to him btw, permits and stuff were not the actually main gist of
his forthcoming article; he said he mostly wants to know all about Omni, so
that's good. Still, city folk have been ruffled and Ben and I have a big
task ahead of us and will need someone to go downtown to 250 with some
paperwork on Friday or Monday.

So far both Laura Turiano and Karissa McKelvey have reached out to me
saying they could print stuff out and go downtown if need be on Friday, so
I hope between the two of these folks we can figure it out. I'll be
emailing both of you (and anyone else who may want to help) privately with
links to various documents.

One thing we'll need for sure is John Givens to sign a few forms, so we may
need someone to meet up with him and get those.

More soon & love y'all

Best,
David



On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Tony Barreca <tony.barreca at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In my opinion, this is an enormous learning experience for all members of
> Omni including people who are, at most, interested outsiders like me.  The
> lesson: Anything said to, or even in front of, a professional journalist is
> fair game for further scrutiny.  Anything!
>
> It's not surprising to me that this professional journalist, working for
> an old-school publication, would focus on the permit issue as the one
> likely to generate the most heat, if not the most light.  It was
> predictable.
>
> Omni people tend to be pretty open, generally a good thing.  But here we
> can see some potential downside.  I think the respective Omni leaders would
> be well-advised to discuss this event in depth, and develop a set of
> guidelines for dealing with the press, whether of the old or new school
> variety.
>
> Just my $0.02.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Laura Turiano <scylla at riseup.net> wrote:
>
>> I should be clearer - we mentioned permits in passing, like "we are
>> raising money to bring the kitchen up to code, and doing x to meet the fire
>> code" but he didn't express any particular interest in that aspect.
>> L
>>
>>
>> > On Dec 25, 2014, at 8:34 AM, Laura Turiano <scylla at riseup.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > Matt came to Omni and Jenny and I gave him a tour. He also come to part
>> of the delegates meeting. He never said anything about permits or the city.
>> Jenny prob has his contact info. You give him much more credit than I am
>> right now. If he was going to delve into the permits he should have let us
>> know and talked to someone here first.
>> >
>> > I can take the docs to the city if you explain exactly where they need
>> to go.
>> >
>> > Love,
>> > Laura
>> >
>> >> On Dec 25, 2014, at 1:48 AM, David Keenan <dkeenan44 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> If anyone has spoken with Matt Artz or anyone at the Oakland Trib,
>> could you let me know?
>> >>
>> >> As part of his due diligence as a reporter, he is contacting all sorts
>> of bureaucrats downtown at the City about our permit situation and as a
>> result I am getting avalanches of emails from the City, there is confusions
>> all around generally and so I would like to speak with him if at all
>> possible.
>> >>
>> >> It's not his fault - I know he's just doing his reporter thing - but
>> because of inquiries I will now need someone totally reliable I can email
>> who can and printout a very large stack of paperwork and bring it downtown
>> to 250 on Friday 12/26 (tomorrow). If there are any volunteers who are in
>> town?
>> >>
>> >> Happy Xmas!
>> >>
>> >> David
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