[sudo-discuss] Backspace Space proposal

[Sara Larsen]

Hi Yar,

Thanks so much for your email. I hope my email didn't sound like I think
anyone at the omni is acting in bad faith, because I don't. Everyone is
working hard to pull pieces together in a complex situation.

I agree it's a complicated fog. My email was sent in the spirit of
openness, honesty and I hope, healing. I took a risk in saying a lot of
what I said in the hopes that others will also express the underlying
feelings coming up around this project. Dealing openly with these things is
one of the ways we can keep
the culture of the Omni healthy.

Yar, I appreciate your work as well, which I know is vast and not always
easy!

Re: my email about Scott's suggestion - I really just wanted to point out
that we had already suggested what he suggested, and it was not a new idea.
In my opinion, however, it is a good idea. My take away from that BAPS mtg
was that BAPS members were not ready to commit then or likely later to this
idea. I was encouraged to move forward with backspace on our own, which is
what I brought back to Backspace and is what we did.

BAPS has since changed their idea and relationship to space due to a push
forward from some members who are worried about not having space. This is
in progress. But that change happened AFTER our meeting and after backspace
had taken the advice to move on. Being members of both groups at this time
is challenging for me, for obvious reasons.

Backspace's rush is that we need space to open so that we can make money so
that we can pay rent and utilities to the Omni. If we can't do that, my
guess is that we will have to disband and then the Omni would lose
another member group, which I and I think no one else would like to see
happen.

Xo

On Thursday, October 16, 2014, yar <yardenack at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, October 16, 2014, Scott Nanos <scott.nanos at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >> Crazy idea but I'm also a little worried that BAPS and commons
> >> Wg don't have the labor power to handle all this commoning
> (pragmatically
> >> speaking, in the form of scheduling and organizing)...
> >>
> >> What if Baps, backspace, and commons wg all teamed up on these common
> >> spaces, granting *x* amount of privileged hours in specific areas for
> >> collectives?
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Sara Larsen <saralarsenyoga at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > However, I feel like your suggestion is exactly what I was trying to move
> > forward with the BAPS backspace proposal that BAPS recently voted against
> > moving forward with!
>
> Is that what happened? I didn't go to every single meeting but my
> understanding was that BAPS were still open to it but needed more time
> to talk about it and make up their minds, and Backspace just doesn't
> want to wait any longer. It seemed (from the outside) like this
> urgency and time pressure for Backspace was the biggest reason why
> things didn't work out that way.
>
> It's not that I blame you. I can imagine how frustrating it is to try
> to organize a bunch of skeptical bodyworkers to do their work at Omni,
> this weird building full of construction debris, contentious politics,
> dysfunctional processes and so on. Trying to create a wellness
> collective at Omni at this time is an ambitious goal and I fully
> recognize and respect all the emotional labor that I've seen you and
> other Backspace folks put into it, Sara, and I want it to succeed too.
> I think the new energy and people you guys bring in will be an
> especially valuable thing for all of us and our communities.
>
> I only hope that you can try not to blame the rest of us either for
> the difficult situation. We've all been working very hard with what we
> have. I feel like we're reaching at each other through a fog of fear,
> uncertainty and doubt, trying to make high-stakes decisions that might
> affect us all years into the future, when we only have a few months or
> even weeks of experience being in some of our spaces and learning to
> know and trust all the people.
>
> There are so many rooms with different names. It's been 24 hours since
> your proposal and it's taken us this long just to be sure exactly
> which rooms you're talking about. There's confusion over what
> commoning means (the commons wg only started meeting 2 weeks ago),
> what scheduling will feel like (we're still developing the calendar
> system), what the rooms will look and feel like, whether people will
> clean up their messes like they say they will, and any number of
> hypothetical scarcities and disasters that we have no idea if the
> future might bring.
>
> It's not your fault, it's not anybody else's fault either. I really
> hope the confusion isn't interpreted as bad faith or a lack of
> support. We all need to get better at that, of course, but also get
> better at forgiving each others' mistakes, in the spirit of jubilee.
>
> Sorry for the rant, but thanks for listening. <3
>


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Let us eat together,
Let us be vital together,
Let us be radiating truth,
radiating the light of life,
Never shall we denounce anyone,
never entertain negativity.                                          -- The
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