Challenging Dominant Culture Working Group
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Mission
Exploring bias and issues of diversity and inclusion in the space. Challenging dominant cultural influences and developing projects and relationships more in line with values of social justice, safe space, radical commoning, and anticapitalism.
- Bottom-liners: Kazoo and Margit
Goals
- Find ways to share leadership and direction
- Make our public meetings more accessible and welcoming to newcomers
- Reach out to Omni's neighbors for input
- Develop a process of integrating cultures
- Develop a method to assess and integrate language styles and archetypes validity
- Creating safe space within the Omni and a Conflict Resolution Policy including alternatives to police intervention
- Making invitations to diverse stakeholders
- Challenging our current representative democracy
Action Items
- Translate 1-sheet into plain, accessible language – building on from communications group
- Draft conflict resolution policy
- Reach out to the surrounding neighborhood to elicit feedback on what they'd like the space to become
- Create ongoing ToDos list to better distribute tasks/responsibilities
Meeting Minutes
- Event:2014/04/28_Inclusion_Task_Force_Meeting
- Event:2014/05/12_Challenging_Dominant_Culture_Meeting
- Event:2014/05/15_Challenging_Dominant_Culture_Meeting
- Event:2014/05/19_Challenging_Dominant_Culture_Meeting
- Event:2014/05/26_Challenging_Dominant_Culture_Meeting
- Event:2014/06/09_Challenging_Dominant_Cultures_Working_Group_Meeting
- Event:2014/06/25_Challenging_Dominant_Culture_Meeting
- Event:2014/07/08_Challenging_Dominant_Cultures
- Event:2014/07/19_Challenging_Dominant_Culture_Mtg