3/10/2015

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Announcements

• New mailing list!

OpAl Proposal

• Becoming a member collective.
• Cost: Insurance But they're probably not expecting us to pay the 500$ insurance thing
• The 100$ utility stands
• We just need people to come to the working groups.
• Jenny suggests that we offer for a certain price we can film the event and we can give you the footage. Good idea. Money goes to Omni.
• So we all agree to

• Why it was asked.
• Roundtable of how people feel about it.
• Consequences:
  • Figuring out our membership : What makes a member? What allows people access to the equipment and what are the accountability measures.
  • A log in system for the equipment.
  • Insurance.
  • Organizing space.
  • Mailing lists.
  • Doing outreach.
  • Accepting donations: Gratipay, GoFundMe, other options? Requires a collective bank account (look into credit unions?)

• Need to advise the omni consensus list and delegates that our proposal is now a proposal for tenancy.
• Need to organize a day of arranging the new room.

Anti-gentrification project

• Deutsche Bank, contact + Charles Mouton
• Write a voice over
• Auction Friday at noon. + Afrika Town.
• Action
• Culinary school + Woman in the neighborhood swooping houses.
• Portrait of West Oakland ( Afrika Town)
• Annette follow up.
• Meet to work on the project and talk about the narrative: friday could be dedicated to that, for instance. What are the next steps, etc.: the print shop at 27th and San Pablo. Show old footage to show old Oakland compared to now.
• Can we set a day during the week: Monday.
• Also talk to a gentrifier.
• Filmography: Inside Job, Shelter, a squatumentary, and Flag Wars
• Film Night! Next Tuesday! April 7th.

OGC video

• Tonight we'll be editing footage we got from Gerald one case that will be the red thread of the movie.
• Sit down and talk about the OGC documentary: next steps.
• Marcus recorded stuff on his phone.

Action items

• Noemie will write to consensus and say we're down to be a member collective.
• Noemie, Sean and Jabari will go.
• Afrika Town + Auction shoot on Friday morning. Jabari Sean and Noemie.
• Monday morning: shoot around Oakland.
• Noemie to make a doc about the project.
• Jabari and Noemie to do research of images of older Oakland. Ask Gerald.
• Jabari suggests we look into a GoFundMe page