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Event:2014/09/10 Omni Seminar : Facilitation

2014-09-06T23:03:56Z

Dzbrazil: Created page with "Sara Larsen will present a seminar on meeting facilitation on Wednesday, September 10, 7pm to 9pm, at the Omni. All are welcome !"

Sara Larsen will present a seminar on meeting facilitation on Wednesday, September 10, 7pm to 9pm, at the Omni. All are welcome !

Event:2014/09/20 Critical Resistance Event !

2014-09-02T23:01:36Z

Dzbrazil: Created page with " Saturday September 20 6pm reception; 7-10pm event at The Omni Oakland Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland (8 blocks from MacArthur BART) Tickets: $15 -$50 sliding scale. O..."

Saturday September 20
6pm reception; 7-10pm event
at The Omni Oakland Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland (8 blocks from MacArthur BART)

Tickets: $15 -$50 sliding scale. On sale here!
$30-50 donations support community tickets for young people and former prisoners; $50 donations come with an autographed poster.

We look forward to an evening of spirited conversation with you! What tools do we have to make abolition common sense? What critical interventions will improve our fight against the prison industrial complex? How are we building for liberation? We hope you join us on September 20 to support CR Oakland and celebrate grassroots organizing to abolish the PIC and build for self-determination!
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CeCe McDonaldCeCe McDonald was imprisoned for defending herself against a racist, transphobic assault in July, 2010. Due to her willingness to fight, supporters and activists in Minneapolis and across the U.S. built up a solidarity campaign to demand her freedom, and were able to win her a reduced sentence. After serving a 17-month term, she was released in January 2014.

After being released CeCe quickly became a leading and outspoken fighter in the movements for LGBTQ liberation, prison abolition, and racial justice. She is currently working on a forthcoming documentary with actress Laverne Cox on her case, “Free CeCe.” She was the Grand Marshall of Seattle Pride this year, she received the Bayard Rustin Civil Rights award, and has spoken on Democracy Now!, MSNBC, and various other media outlets.

RuthieRuthie Wilson Gilmore is Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, and Professor of Geography, at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, she was founding-collective member of California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical Resistance, Californians United for a Responsible Budget,and many other social justice organizations.

Critical Resistance Oakland is currently fighting the construction of a new jail in San Francisco County, stoking the prisoner-led movement to abolish solitary confinement in the wake of the 2011 and 2013 California prisoner hunger strikes, and developing community based alternatives to policing.

For more information, please contact Critical Resistance at (510) 444-0484, visit Facebook, or email Jess-at-criticalresistance.org

Event:2014/09/03 Sara Larsen's Birthday

2014-09-02T22:58:16Z

Dzbrazil: Created page with "Happy birthday Sara !"

Happy birthday Sara !

Event:2014/09/14 Solidarity Brunch // La Commune

2014-08-13T02:32:45Z

Dzbrazil: Created page with "La Commune will host a solidarity brunch."

La Commune will host a solidarity brunch.

Event:2014/08/21 HEARTS DESIRE READING SERIES : Bhanu Kapil, Margaret Ronda, and Stephanie Young

2014-08-13T02:30:09Z

Dzbrazil:

THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE BALLROOM.

Bhanu Kapil, Margaret Ronda, and Stephanie Young
8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21
The Omni @ 4799 Shattuck Ave.

Bhanu Kapil lives in Colorado where she teaches writing and thinking at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, as well as Goddard College’s low-residency MFA. She is the author of a number of full-length works of poetry/prose, including The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works, 2006), humanimal [a project for future children] (Kelsey Street Press, 2009), Schizophrene (Nightboat, 2011), and Ban en Banlieue (Nightboat, 2014).

Margaret Ronda's book of poems, Personification, was published by Saturnalia Books in 2010. Her poems have recently appeared in Aufgabe, Ostrich Review, Gulf Coast, and Pool. She also writes critical essays on ecology, labor, and crisis in American poetry; recent articles have been published in Post45 and the minnesota review. She teaches in the English department at the University of California-Davis.

Stephanie Young lives in Oakland, California. Her collections of poetry include Telling the Future Off (2005), Picture Palace (2008), and Ursula or University (2013). She edited the anthology Bay Poetics (2006) and is a founding editor of the online anthology/“museum” of Oakland, Deep Oakland. Young and poet Juliana Spahr coedited the book A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism (2012), a collection of “enactments” investigating politics, feminism, and collaborative poetry practice that the pair performed between 2005 and 2007.

Event:2014/08/21 HEARTS DESIRE READING SERIES : Bhanu Kapil, Margaret Ronda, and Stephanie Young

2014-08-13T02:27:47Z

Dzbrazil: Created page with " Bhanu Kapil, Margaret Ronda, and Stephanie Young 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21 The Omni @ 4799 Shattuck Ave. Bhanu Kapil lives in Colorado where she teaches writing and thinking ..."

Bhanu Kapil, Margaret Ronda, and Stephanie Young
8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21
The Omni @ 4799 Shattuck Ave.

Bhanu Kapil lives in Colorado where she teaches writing and thinking at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, as well as Goddard College’s low-residency MFA. She is the author of a number of full-length works of poetry/prose, including The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works, 2006), humanimal [a project for future children] (Kelsey Street Press, 2009), Schizophrene (Nightboat, 2011), and Ban en Banlieue (Nightboat, 2014).

Margaret Ronda's book of poems, Personification, was published by Saturnalia Books in 2010. Her poems have recently appeared in Aufgabe, Ostrich Review, Gulf Coast, and Pool. She also writes critical essays on ecology, labor, and crisis in American poetry; recent articles have been published in Post45 and the minnesota review. She teaches in the English department at the University of California-Davis.

Stephanie Young lives in Oakland, California. Her collections of poetry include Telling the Future Off (2005), Picture Palace (2008), and Ursula or University (2013). She edited the anthology Bay Poetics (2006) and is a founding editor of the online anthology/“museum” of Oakland, Deep Oakland. Young and poet Juliana Spahr coedited the book A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism (2012), a collection of “enactments” investigating politics, feminism, and collaborative poetry practice that the pair performed between 2005 and 2007.

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2014-08-13T02:26:49Z

Dzbrazil: Created page with "HEARTS DESIRE READING SERIES Bhanu Kapil, Margaret Ronda, and Stephanie Young 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21 The Omni @ 4799 Shattuck Ave. Bhanu Kapil lives in Colorado where she t..."

HEARTS DESIRE READING SERIES
Bhanu Kapil, Margaret Ronda, and Stephanie Young
8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21
The Omni @ 4799 Shattuck Ave.

Bhanu Kapil lives in Colorado where she teaches writing and thinking at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, as well as Goddard College’s low-residency MFA. She is the author of a number of full-length works of poetry/prose, including The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works, 2006), humanimal [a project for future children] (Kelsey Street Press, 2009), Schizophrene (Nightboat, 2011), and Ban en Banlieue (Nightboat, 2014).

Margaret Ronda's book of poems, Personification, was published by Saturnalia Books in 2010. Her poems have recently appeared in Aufgabe, Ostrich Review, Gulf Coast, and Pool. She also writes critical essays on ecology, labor, and crisis in American poetry; recent articles have been published in Post45 and the minnesota review. She teaches in the English department at the University of California-Davis.

Stephanie Young lives in Oakland, California. Her collections of poetry include Telling the Future Off (2005), Picture Palace (2008), and Ursula or University (2013). She edited the anthology Bay Poetics (2006) and is a founding editor of the online anthology/“museum” of Oakland, Deep Oakland. Young and poet Juliana Spahr coedited the book A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism (2012), a collection of “enactments” investigating politics, feminism, and collaborative poetry practice that the pair performed between 2005 and 2007.

Attached please find an event flyer. Please feel free to circulate it to friends and/or post it at your websites to help us spread the word. We look forward to seeing you on Aug. 21!

Founding Document

2014-04-25T03:33:12Z

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=The Omni Oakland Collective=

==Changelog==

''as put forth by David Brazil (Bay Area Public School) on 11/29/2013''

''Revised proposal for Omni Oakland Collective 4/2/2013''

==Text==

The Omni Oakland Collective is a group established to acquire and administer a collective property. We are presently pursuing a property known as The Omni, at 4799 Shattuck Avenue. We are committed to a radical commoning of space and resources.

The groups presently recognized as our collaborators are the Bay Area Public School, Sudo Room, Timeless Infinite Light, Livespace, Hacker Spa, Oakland Nights Live, an unnamed film-processing collective, La Commune Cafe & Bookstore, and CounterCulture Labs.

Each of these groups, will be asked to select a delegate, according to the decisionmaking processes of each group. These delegates will form the Omni Oakland Collective's Delegate Council, which will be entrusted with making binding decisions on behalf of the groups they represent. Any delegate may bring a proposal to the Delegate Council in order to vote on it. Decisionmaking by this Delegate Council will be by consensus among present delegates.

These delegates will be fully accountable to the groups they represent, and subject to recall by that group, according to the decisionmaking processes of that group.

The Delegate Council will function like a spokescouncil: delegates will attend the meetings of their groups and report back to those groups from the Delegate Council meetings, while retaining the ability to make executive decisions on behalf of their respective group.

The Delegate Council will meet weekly on Thursdays at 7pm at 2141 Broadway (except for the third Thursday), according to a schedule and location upon which it decides.

Each meeting will be preceded by a half-hour informational session, open to everyone, scheduled weekly at 6:30pm Thursdays (except for the third Thursday) at 2141 Broadway, and facilitated by selected delegates from the Omni Oakland Collective.

All collective meetings will be facilitated and will stick to an announced schedule. Each meeting will be chaired by a rotating facilitator, and should require a timekeeper and notetaker selected from among the delegates. Each meeting will begin with a formal recognition of the delegates present. Quorum for these meetings will be 2/3 rounded down. All decisions of this group will be by consensus.

Meetings will begin by laying out an agenda to which any delegate may add. Proposals may be presented at any time in the course of the meeting.

These meetings are open to the members of the groups listed above, who are invited to join the meeting in a non-voting capacity. Delegates may invite anyone, whether a group member or not, to sit in on a meeting. If it is deemed necessary, any delegate may move to close the meeting to delegates only. The meeting will then be closed based on a majority vote of present delegates.

If other organizations propose to become part of the Omni Oakland Collective, a consensus vote of the Delegate Council is required. This vote will be taken on the spot in a closed meeting of OOC delegates only, without the presence of the applicant. If such a vote passes successfully, the new group will be requested to select a delegate for the Delegate Council.

If a vote is called, any delegate may move to table that vote for one week in order to bring the matter in question back to their group, with the understanding that any vote thus tabled will be voted on, without further delay, at the next meeting of the Delegate Council. Admission of new groups to the collective of collectives must always be referred back to the individual collectives, to be voted on without delay at the next meeting of the Delegate Council.

If it is deemed necessary to expel a group, the group will be given the opportunity to present their case at a Delegate Council meeting after which the Delegate Council may decide upon expulsion by a full consensus vote in a closed meeting of OOC delegates that does not include the group in question.

The Delegate Council is empowered to amend the terms of its own existence, as outlined in this proposal, by consensus vote. We further state a continuous process of critical self-reflection is essential to the health of this project, and ask all members and groups to actively engage in this ongoing task.

La Commune Cafe and Bookstore

2014-04-25T03:08:37Z

Dzbrazil: Created page with "La Commune is a collective cafe & bookstore."

La Commune is a collective cafe & bookstore.