[sudo-discuss] Incident Saturday

[Andrew]

In complete agreement that Sudo cannot survive 2141 broadway. I would also
like to bring to the table the idea that we have two issues: 2141 and
finding a new space. I don't think leaving 2141 needs to be contingent on
finding somthing new. Events can be spread across different venues while
sudo members focus on finding a perminent space. We could even rent a
smaller room in 2141 while this happends.

Just putting it out there...
On Sep 9, 2013 2:52 PM, "Yardena Cohen" <yardenack at gmail.com> 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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