[sudo-discuss] [omni-consensus] Omni Newsletter Call for submissions

[Vicky Cassis]

Thank you Roberto! I'll make sure something from NOMA gets in there :) and
I'll send a message over to the group to see if anyone has anything else
they'd like to share.

On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 5:50 PM Roberto Martinez <rcm00189 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Dane. Yea please forward this to the correct emails. I couldn’t
> find the sudomesh email so I’m glad you got it.
>
> In terms of collectives I think we’ve covered them. But if there is anyone
> in particular that may be interested we can forward them.
>
> The next step is to format and structure the newsletter. Are there things
> we want to include beyond the collective updates, like articles, or art,
> poems, etc? For sure we need to write an opening letter or article writing
> about the most important updates. I think we can include the town fridge
> here. I can start a draft and we can work on it together then.
>
> We can discuss the further tomorrow at our next meeting.
>
> Thanks,
> RM
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 1, 2021, at 11:26 AM, Dane <wanderingsearch1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Thank you for your work on this, Roberto !
>
> I can forward this to East Bay Food Not Bombs current email list (the
> previous angrylists EBFNB listserv is no longer active) :
> ebfnb at lists.omnicommons.org
>
> Also, Sudo Mesh:
> mesh at lists.sudoroom.org
>
> Any other groups or collectives needing to be added ?
>
> Also, we can write up something about the OC Town Fridge in the
> introduction later as its own autonomous collective project.
>
> Dane
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 1:50 PM Roberto Martinez <rcm00189 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Omni folks,
>>
>> How are ya’ll doing? We hope everyone is doing ok.
>>
>> It’s been a while since we’ve put out an Omni newsletter, almost a year
>> has gone by since our last one! A lot has happened between then and now, so
>> it would be nice to catch up. We’re thinking of putting out the next
>> newsletter by the end of March, so we want to invite Omni collectives and
>> Omni folks to share updates, thoughts, art, feelings, ideas with us, so we
>> can include them in the Omni Commoner.
>>
>> There is a lot to talk about. We are still in the grips of a deadly
>> pandemic which has undeniably exacerbated the ills of capitalism and its
>> deadly effects on our community. But Omni folks and Omni Collectives have
>> organized and actively continued to support the community during this
>> crisis. We are stewarding a town fridge, the North Oakland Mutual Aid
>> Project is going strong, Acta Non Verba has adopted Phat Beets’ CSA, and
>> the rest of Omni collectives continue to do empowering work out in the
>> community. The working groups are meeting, some regularly and other
>> sometime, the finance/fundraising working group though has been at the
>> forefront doing the important work of keeping the Omni alive, critical
>> work, which we are all grateful for! There is much more going on for sure,
>> this is not even mentioning the different individual projects Omni folks
>> are working on!
>>
>> It has been a rough year, but with the spirit of collectivity, the Omni
>> continues to be a hub for community collective action during this pandemic.
>> It is this we would like to share in this newsletter =].
>>
>>
>> So if you want to share anything with the Omni community please do! Art,
>> thoughts, visions, desires, anything!
>>
>> We are asking from each collective to submit 1-4 paragraphs providing an
>> update of the work ya’ll have been doing. Below are some suggestions of
>> questions or topics you can touch on:
>>
>>
>>    -
>>
>>    Updates from your collective. New visions and goals.
>>    -
>>
>>    How your collective has been responding to the covid-19 pandemic.
>>    -
>>
>>    What kind of world do ya’ll imagine post covid-19?
>>    -
>>
>>    Anything you want to share….poetry, paintings, photographs, recipes,
>>    anything.
>>    -
>>
>>    Upcoming Events
>>
>>
>> Please send your content to the communications working group email at
>> comms at lists.omnicommons.org, by March 21st.
>>
>> Like all the other working groups at the Omni, the communications working
>> group needs more participation. If you are interested in joining please
>> sign up to the communication working group email list at
>> https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/comms.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> With love and solidarity,
>>
>> The Communications Working Group
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