[sudo-discuss] Incident Saturday

[Marina Kukso]

hi all,

gregg: doocratically, you have the power to initiate this taskforce.

sudoers have already taken the initiative to look for other potential
locations. a few sudoers even looked at a space last week. we discussed it
at last wednesday's meeting. you can see details about the space here:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Space and notes from our discussion of it here:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2013-09-04

- marina


On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Hol Gaskill <hol at gaskill.com> wrote:

> reluctantly ++
>
>
> Sep 9, 2013 02:58:42 PM, greggahorton at gmail.com wrote:
> Can we PLEASE have a sudo taskforce that is on-going that attempts to
> >look for a next space? I would gladly participate, i'm really sick of
> >reading about such abusive behavior. The space is FAR from an ideal
> >space, and having an ongoing search would make incidents like these seem
> >less dire.
> >
> >On 9/9/13 2:52 PM, Yardena Cohen wrote:
> >> Sorry for being slow in documenting this, but the community deserves
> >> to know that this happened.
> >>
> >> Sometime on Friday night, the men's bathroom was vandalized. I feel
> >> confident that it was an art-murmur walk-in, but there is no way to
> >> know for sure. They spread human feces along the walls creating what
> >> appeared to be two swastika shapes - not entirely faithful renditions
> >> but enough to reasonably perceive swastikas in them.
> >>
> >> I learned of this when I came to set up my TIL Saturday around noon.
> >> Our landlord George showed it to me. He was understandably upset, both
> >> about having to clean up the mess and also about the symbolism. His
> >> father is Jewish. He wondered if he had been targeted. I also was not
> >> happy, as a queer Jew with many family members in Yad Vashem.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, this caused him to descend into another tirade in which
> >> nobody was spared. He assumed right away it was done by a Sudoroom
> >> member. There was a clear path of association that went: Sudoroom ->
> >> anarchists -> Nazis. At one point he even suggested that a kid from
> >> Sudo Kids had "come back to finish the job". But mostly he accused
> >> Sudo members. Since I was representing Sudoroom in this conversation,
> >> he ended up addressing me over and over as if I was personally
> >> responsible for this swastika, as if I had done it myself. I actually
> >> found this to be the most traumatic part of the whole event. Not even
> >> offensive, just downright traumatic.
> >>
> >> There was the usual fare of yelling about money and society and his
> >> inability to find good tenants. He twice informed me that he was
> >> evicting both Sudoroom and the Public School and that Laurie would
> >> prepare a 30 days notice. He's said that before. He told me that
> >> Sudoroom and Public School should close their doors for the rest of
> >> the day, because "If I see any of them, I will beat them up!" I told
> >> him I'm sorry, but I have a Linux class scheduled for 2:00, please
> >> don't beat them up. That calmed him down a little. In short, the rant
> >> was a mix of old and new.
> >>
> >> Except this time Laurie was there. Laurie is our other landlord - she
> >> is George's wife and they own the building equally. The way he talked
> >> to her during this rant was very revealing, because she also became a
> >> target. He yelled at her for not having a 30-days notice already
> >> prepared, for having written the craigslist ads that attracted
> >> Sudoroom and Public School (and, incidentally, many of his other
> >> tenants). He said quite hurtful things to her, including that she was
> >> nothing but a drain on his life and that he wanted a divorce from her.
> >>
> >> She just stood there quietly saying nothing, holding their dog on a
> >> leash, looking at me with eyes that said "I'm sorry you have to see
> >> this." After a while, when George left the room, she apologized to me.
> >> She said "please don't listen to anything he said, he just gets that
> >> way when his buttons are pushed."
> >>
> >> They ended up not leaving for a couple hours. Initially George refused
> >> to clean the bathroom or let anybody else clean it because he wanted
> >> to show evidence to the cops, who he believed would show up to
> >> investigate. It took a chorus of Laurie and several of his other
> >> tenants to convince him that OPD doesn't show up for things like this,
> >> the cops aren't coming, the bathroom smells, please let's just clean
> >> it up. Eventually he lost steam and they left.
> >>
> >> I'm not really sure how to wrap up this email. Writing it was
> >> difficult. You will have to draw your own conclusions.
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