Banned

The Omni Commons is dedicated to creating and maintaining a safe space for all. Unfortunately, this means that we must occasionally require certain individuals to leave and stay away from the Omni's physical or virtual space. Individuals who have been banned or asked to leave may appeal to the Challenging Dominant Culture working group to arrange for conflict mediation. Email: cdc [at] lists [dot] omnicommons [dot] org

If the Omni Oakland Collective (or any of its member collectives) consenses to ban or suspend a person, that person is immediately and automatically banned from the entire premises of the Omni Oakland Collective, including all on-premise areas of its member collectives, groups, tenants, subtenants, common areas, and external parts of the building such as the smoking area. If any member of a collective asks a person to leave for safe space reasons, that person is immediately and automatically banned from the premises, until mediation can come to a resolution. All people who have been asked to vacate the space may seek mediation, conflict resolution, and to have their voice heard by the delegates. For additional information about this, please also refer to the Safer Space Policy and our Conflict Resolution Policy.

In a perfect world, the Omni would never have to ask anyone to leave nor ban anyone. Unfortunately, the reality is that due to our open and welcoming nature, many people who have been pushed out of other spaces for inappropriate behavior move on to the Omni. Most of the individuals on this page have been found to have caused problems in other spaces. As a response to this phenomenon, sudo room has forged a safe space reciprocal ban agreement with Noisebridge. As such, all individuals on Noisebridge's 86 page who were banned for safe space reasons are not welcome at the Omni. If you feel that you or the Omni might benefit from a reciprocal ban agreement, please contact the Challenging Dominant Culture working group, or the member collective most similar to you.

Banned

These individuals have expressed such damaging behavior that they have been permanently banned from the Omni Commons. They may request mediation, however, it does not have to be granted to them.

• Zachary Running Wolf
  • Discussion of banning was initiated at the Delegates' meeting on 2017-7-6 after many months of ZRW ignoring Omni community agreements to not sleep or store personal belongings at the Omni, and after outbursts when ZRW yelled statements like "F--- immigrants" and used the N word. Over those months, when people reminded him about the agreements or raised concerns about his behavior, and when caught sleeping, ZRW usually responded loudly and aggressively, refusing to take responsibility, and sometimes threatening the person or the Omni. In addition, he rarely cleaned up after himself in his workspace or the kitchen, despite being asked to do so.
  • During the discussion, Food Not Bombs clarified that ZRW is not a member. It was decided that the rules about admission to the building for non-members be applied to ZRW.
  • Before the next meeting on 2017-7-20, ZRW warned a member who is regularly in the space to stay away from the entrance hall Shattuck side windows the following night.
  • 2 people representing ZRW attended the meeting that night to inform us that ZRW demanded an apology from the Omni and a key. The issues with ZRW's behavior, his threats, how people feel unsafe in the building with him due to safer space policy violations, and his history of vandalizing the building or equipment of organizations that banned him, were discussed. The final proposal passed was to continue enforcing the usual access rules for non-members with ZRW, to go ahead with mediation if he requested it, and to automatically ban him if vandalism to the building occurred. His friends agreed to communicate this to him, and to discourage him from vandalizing the building.
  • At 2:30am on 2017-7-25, a beer bottle was thrown through the Shattuck side window adjacent to the main door, resulting in the final ban.
  • UPDATE: On Feb 22, Running Wolf was given a keycard as a member of BAPS after mediation with SEEDS.

• Mark aka Xer0Dynamite aka Dreaming Forward aka Lone Ranger - 2016-8-19
  • asked to leave due to discriminatory social media comments and offensive in-person behavior in the space. Also banned from Noisebridge for safe space reasons, and thus is reciprocally banned from the Omni.

• Arif - 2016-08-03
  • The collective/community they were identified with: Counter Culture Labs
  • Ban initiated by: Counter Culture Labs
  • Several CCL members stated that he made them uncomfortable, and that they would not feel safe having him work in the lab.
  • Banned from BioCurious for repeated highly unsafe behavior in the lab, antisocial behavior, and verbal aggression.
  • Banned on grounds of reciprocity with BioCurious. He would first have to resolve his ban from BioCurious to be able to lift his ban at CCL.

• Anthony Repetto - 2016-04-06
  • The collective/community they were identified with: Sudo Room
  • Ban initiated by: Sudo Room
  • Violated safe space policy and put the Omni in danger
  • Multiple incidents of aggressive behavior and disruption of paid events
  • Threatened to kill himself at the Omni causing ~20 cops to show up and enter the Omni
  • Has caused the cops to show up at Omni twice.

• Matthew Stephenson - 2014-09-25
  • The collective/community they were identified with: Sudo Room
  • Ban initiated by: Sudo Room
  • Violated safe space policy
  • Repeatedly slept in the basement, claimed to be a hitman, creeped on a member
  • Seeks attention through claiming access to power, money and resources

• Timon - also goes by 'Ayer' on 2014-05-28
  • The collective/community they were identified with: Sudo Room
  • Ban initiated by: Sudo Room
  • From the meeting notes: "Regardless of Timon's current membership status, we find him in "bad standing" with regard to sudo room's values, specifically with regard to "safe space". We ban Timon from the sudo room, for an indefinite period."

Need Permission Prior to Visiting

The following residents/tenants of 2141 Broadway (Bay Area Public School and Sudo Room's old location) are not allowed in the sudo room physical space and anywhere in the Omni, unless they are explicitly granted permission by consensus at two consecutive sudo room meetings and at least one Omni Delegates meeting:

• Johannes
• Billy

Previously Asked to Leave

These people are no longer unwelcome at the Omni. This data to be removed one year after expiration.