[sudo-discuss] [omni-consensus] Fwd: urgent call to action from The Village!!!! please share with your networks!

[Jenny Ryan]

cc'ing needa bee, who sez:

>
> yes cal trans land that the city's dept of transporation manages


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On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 8:37 AM, <hol at gaskill.com> wrote:

> Is this a Caltrans retrofit?  Displacing already displaced people should
> blow up the environmental review.  IMO they need to delay the retrofit
> contract until there is a 'mitigation site' picked out either by CT or
> Oakland.
>
> http://www.dot.ca.gov/ser/vol4/downloads/chap_appdx/Ch2_
> Assessing_community_impacts_21102011.pdf
>
> On 2018-03-15 00:08, Jenny Ryan wrote:
>
> Sudo Room also formally endorsed this tonight.
> Thus far we have:
> * Art Bison Design Coop
> * Kazoo Studios
> * Sudo Room
> * possibly BAPS & Defend Aunti Frances
>
> cc'ing to the Liberated Lens and Food Not Bombs mailing lists and to Phat
> Beets, in the event those most invested in these issues aren't on discuss
> nor consensus omni lists.
>
> <3
>
> Jenny
>
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> "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"
> ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 11:49 PM, Kazoo <lovekazoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ABDC and Kazoo Studios endorse this.
>>
>>
>> + + + + + + + + + +
>> Kazoo Studios East
>> (415) 295-2966
>> www.KazooStudios.net
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 3:06 PM, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The Village has been informed that their first site is slated for
>>> seismic retrofit of the overpass their camp is under, requiring the area to
>>> be cleared by November. They are demanding the city find 4 new parcels for
>>> Villages. They're having a press conference on Friday and requesting
>>> endorsements from organizations - please check with your collectives and
>>> reply to this thread if you choose to support. Will discuss at Delegates
>>> Meeting tmrw.
>>>
>>> <3
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: "anita de asis" <maowunyo at gmail.com>
>>> Date: Mar 8, 2018 23:54
>>> Subject: urgent call to action from The Village!!!! please share with
>>> your networks!
>>> To: "anita de asis" <maowunyo at gmail.com>
>>> Cc:
>>>
>>> greeting friends, family, allies, and supporters.
>>>
>>> as you may know, The Village in Oakland was granted the land at e 12th
>>> and 23rd ave on oct 5, 2017 to manage an autonomous, community led program
>>> of temporary emergency housing and services for the duration of the shelter
>>> crisis declaration - which  we estimate will be at least 6 years if not
>>> more.
>>>
>>> but in usual undermining form, the city is now forcing us to move off
>>> the land by this november 2018 because cal trans and dept of transportation
>>> will be demolishing the overpass that spans across the western side of the
>>> parcel. according to the dept of transporation, this plan has been on the
>>> books for the past 10 years
>>>
>>> due to their total incompetence, we are negotiating for four new parcels
>>> of land with the CIty Administration. And we will continue to build homes
>>> and fill this current parcel up because  1. people needs homes and 2. all
>>> our homes are designed to be forklifted. so once the city offers us new
>>> parcels of lands that we can keep for the span of the shelter crisis
>>> declaration, we will forklift them to those lands
>>>
>>> also -  two of our village leaders and residents were arrested for
>>> assault and battery two weeks ago when they were defending themselves and
>>> the encampment from a known predator. please read the attached statement
>>> from the village and our legal team lead by attorney Walter Riley.
>>>
>>> we are asking that those of you with an organization, faith based
>>> institution or coalition etc please sign on to this statement as endorsers.
>>> please contact me to let me know if your group will endorse us.
>>>
>>> also, we be having a press conference and rally on the day the trial
>>> starts Friday, March 16th 8:00 am in front of wiley manuel courthouse on
>>> washington and 7th
>>>
>>> its unbelieveable how much ill will, obstruction and attempted
>>> destruction the city administration engages in to keep us from simply
>>> helping our most vulnerable neighbors.
>>>
>>> lets get homes for all,
>>> - needa
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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