[sudo-discuss] Fwd: [omni-consensus] Candidates Statements

Thu Apr 16 18:48:18 PDT 2020

Loomio seems like a good idea to me.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 6:44 PM Jenny Ryan <jenny at jennyryan.net> wrote:

> Apologies that my own statement is lackluster at best >_<
> but, i think y'all know me by now.
> should we use our loomio account to poll the membership? anyone wanna
> create a way for members to weigh in on this proposal?
>
> Jenny Ryan
> 315.292.4656 | jennyryan.net
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: MaryAnn Tenuto-Sanchez <enapoyo at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 11:09 AM
> Subject: [omni-consensus] Candidates Statements
> To: <consensus at lists.omnicommons.org>
>
>
>
> Dear Omni Comrades,
>
> Roberto Martinez has withdrawn as a candidate for President of the Omni
> Commons. The remaining candidates and their statements are below. Delegates
> should forward these statements to your collective’s internal mailing list
> and seek your collective’s counsel on how to vote. The vote will take place
> at the Thursday, April 23, 2020 Omni Commons Delegates Assembly/Executive
> Board meeting.
>
> Thanks to everyone for your cooperation,
>
> Mary Ann Tenuto-Sánchez
>
>
>
> CANDIDATES
>
> *PRESIDENT *
>
>
> *John Torok - *Candidate Statement of John Hayakawa Torok for Presidency
> of the Board of Directors, Omni Commons
>
> Hi! My name is John and I am a Wage Slave and a Debt Peon. (Hi John!)
>
> I participate in the Omni member collective, the Global Women’s Strike. I
> am also a recovering Catholic, a recovering lawyer, and a recovering
> academic. While I am an expensively educated and highly indebted activist,
> I identify as a worker and a member of the working class.
>
> I have been active in the community including helping start up the Asian
> American Bar Association of New York over thirty years ago. While a
> graduate student at Columbia Law School I became severely emotionally
> depressed and following expulsion transferred into Berkeley’s Ethnic
> Studies Ph.D. program where I completed a dissertation on immigration
> policy enforcement during the Cold War. During the last financial
> depression I was hired by the California Employment Development Department
> and right away became a union shop steward with a strong focus on
> grievances by fellow workers living with disabilities who sought reasonable
> accommodations. California Unemployment Insurance is thus my state day job.
> I now serve on the EDD Director’s Statewide Disability Advisory Committee.
>
> I agree that state worker and anarchist is a contradiction in terms.
> However I participated in Occupy Oakland and identify increasingly with
> anarchist philosophy. There I became familiar with and known to many
> Oakland activists and organizations. Previously, I was involved in
> communes, collectives and cooperatives on and off over thirty five years. I
> lived in housing collectives in Santa Cruz and Brooklyn, NY over a dozen
> years. I participated in both a Santa Cruz and the Park Slope food coops.
> My short organizing jobs have been in small self-governing collectives.
> Lastly, while still in New York I served 10 years on the board of directors
> of the Asian and Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Inc. as it
> transformed from a grass-roots ACT-UP-like formation to something akin to
> an Asian American Gay Men’s Health Crisis.
>
> In Occupy Oakland from 2011 I was active in the Queer People of
> Color/People of Color and Labor Solidarity Committees. Informed and
> inspired by the Occupy moment, I have helped start up and run three social
> justice grass roots Bay Area organizations since 2012, the Oakland Privacy
> (Working Group), the Oakland Livable Wage Assembly, and most recently the
> Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Steering Committee. I am and have always
> been very excited about the utopian experiment that is the Omni Commons.
>
> I am thrilled for the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with all
> the Omni Commons collectives and their members to build a sound basis for a
> long-term sustainable future for this critical Oakland cultural and
> revolutionary community.  I am eager, willing and able to use my organizing
> and union leadership and legal trainings, and with your help, to make our
> Omni Commons a domestic and international model for what we utopians can
> both imagine and make happen in the real world.
>
> Thank you for your support.
> John Torok, Union Shop Steward, EDD San Francisco Building
> SEIU Local 1000 District Labor Council 743 (San Francisco)
> SEIU 1000 Delegate to Alameda and San Francisco County Labor Councils,
> AFL-CIO
> Member and Labor Representative, Alameda County Workforce Development Board
>
> 510-480-6153
>
> *TREASURER *
>
> *Jenny Ryan - *Hi, I'm Jenny, and I've been both the Omni Secretary and
> Omni Treasurer since.. actually, I don't remember. Since ~2015. Last year,
> I petitioned to be paid for this gig (which often encompasses dozens of
> hours per fiscal quarter - keep in mind we are also the fiscal sponsor of 6
> other groups), and for transparency can report I received $1,945 from Omni
> in 2019.
>
> I very much want other officers to take on these roles - but to be honest,
> we've never taken these 'official' positions very seriously. At most, they
> are needed for signatures. All decision are still made by the delegates.
> Very little responsibility is required, other than reflecting the decisions
> of the board - aka, the delegates.
>
> Officer roles and responsibilities were expounded upon in Laura's
> proposal, passed in 2019, to facilitate more responsibilities in these
> roles. But no greater power in comparison to the spokescouncil.
>
> I am totally fine with continuing to be Omni's treasurer and upholding
> those responsibilities - but I seriously urge others to consider working
> with me and other board members to step up right now and support the board
> if you're able! I am happy to train _anyone_ interested in joining the
> finance team, for instance.
>
> You can find my work here: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Finances
> and my credentials at https://jennyryan.net
>
> Much love, and I look forward to building the new world with you all,
> Jenny Ryan
> *Nonprofit Bookkeeping and Technology Consulting*
> 315.292.4656 | jennyryan.net
>
> *SECRETARY*
>
> *Robb Benson - *If elected Secretary of Omni Commons, I intend to begin
> creating summarized minutes of the delegates meeting notes for approval at
> the following delegates meeting and transparently report, to the best of my
> ability, the substantive decisions and actions of the working groups.
>
> Additionally, I’ll commit myself to furthering my understanding of our
> reporting  duties to external entities, in particular, with regards to
> activities and events of the commons working group
>
> *Mai Sutton - **My motto when it comes to collective decision-making is
> "Easy things should be easy, hard things should be doable." I'm involved in
> several non-hierarchical organizations, have facilitated hundreds of
> meetings, and have been a community organizer for nearly a decade. I
> previously worked at the **Electronic Frontier Foundation*
> <https://www.eff.org/>* (EFF) and **Shareable*
> <https://www.shareable.net/>* as a policy analyst and writer, and have
> since been a self-employed doing this work. I'm also the Digital Commons
> Fellow with the **Commons Network* <https://www.commonsnetwork.org/>*, an
> EU-based advocacy organization for the commons. *
>
> *I've been involved with Sudo Mesh since October 2017 as a contributor and
> steward of the project. Sudo Mesh has also long been a pillar organization
> of Omni. Several of its members contribute their time and expertise to
> maintain the building and its wireless network. We are currently applying
> to become an official Omni member collective. *
>
> *I'm running for Secretary because I want to ensure that Omni complies
> with its legal obligations as a 501c(3) corporation and its internal
> governance process. I only started to attend the Omni delegates meetings in
> early March and the collective I'm a part of isn't even an Omni member yet.
> Despite that, I decided to run for Secretary. I deeply care about Omni as a
> community resource and space for art and radical organizing. I recognized
> that there were several core Omni delegates that have been involved for a
> long time and seemed to be burning out. I thought it would be helpful for
> others like myself to step up. *
>
> *I plan on attending the Omni delegates meeting regularly anyway. If I can
> help Omni out by putting my name on the official filings, and be there to
> organize board meeting agendas and elections then I would be happy to do
> so. *
>
> Thanks for facilitating this process!
>
> Mai
>
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