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

Fri Apr 17 18:15:50 PDT 2020

Update on this: Last night, I brought up the possibility of Robb switching
to the Treasurer nominee and myself withdrawing (I'm still the bookkeeper,
currently working at no charge to Omni for the time being) and all seemed
pretty good on that.

I'll send out a Loomio link shortly.

<3
Jenny Ryan
*Nonprofit Bookkeeping and Technology Consulting*
315.292.4656 | jennyryan.net

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 6:48 PM Sierk <sierk.beij at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 Roberto Martinez has withdrawn as a candidate for President of the Omni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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