[sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] Fwd: Pleas send out over your networks TODAY? ???!!

Wed Jan 14 20:28:49 PST 2015

It's being recorded. I'll make sure to get the contact info of the videographer :)

On 01/14/2015 04:53 PM, Amgo Go wrote:
> Rad. Where is this happening? Will it be recorded? Can it be put on omni
> website?
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Matthew Senate <mattsenate at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Filling in on this panel by last-minute request. Promoting the Omni
> > Commons fund-raising campaign and seeking connections to others who can
> > contribute.
> >
> > The Grange represents a very intriguing parallel organizing history to our
> > initiative with Omni Commons, I would enjoy engaging others in comparisons,
> > etc. What does the struggle over the commons look like in rural vs urban
> > contexts?
> >
> > // Matt
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Severine von Tscharner Fleming <smithereen at me.com>
> > Date: Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:48 PM
> > Subject: Pleas send out over your networks TODAY? ???!!
> > To: Matthew Senate <mattsenate at gmail.com>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *Tonight from 7-9 PM Grange Future will be inhabiting the community space
> > that is Shaping SF <http://www.shapingsf.org/>. We will have presentations
> > by Matt Senate, Brewster Kahle and Severine Fleming along with our
> > traveling Grange Future pop-up exhibit on display.  The event is free and
> > open to the public. *
> >
> > Mutual aid societies proliferated during the gilded age, as workers,
> > miners, loggers, and farmers joined together in fraternal orders. The
> > Grange, or  patrons of husbandry" was such an order, founded in 1867 by
> > forward thinking farmer Oliver Kelley, assisted by his niece Caroline Hall. Grange
> > Future <http://www.grangefuture.org/> is a celebratory tour organized by
> > Greenhorns <http://www.thegreenhorns.net/>, a young farmers cultural
> > organization. This will be our 9th stop on the tour-- investigating the
> > revival and preservation of the grange as a commons. It's an
> > inter-generational event to help interpret the radical history, and
> > potential of the grange for both greenhorns and the grey-hairs who've
> > loyally tended this community-owned institution, its lovely halls and
> > ritual practices.
> >
> > As victorian as it is Occupy, the grange holds a powerful critique of
> > monopoly capitalism. The grange was the first order to give equal votes to
> > women, and operated as a social hall, economic reform organ, and
> > legislative training facility for the populist movement.  Grangers believed
> > mightily in yeoman agriculture, in direct democracy, and in equal access to
> > information and science. Grangers successfully organized thousands of
> > co-operatives across the country as well as the 8 "Granger laws" regulating
> > railroad monopolies, and lobbied successfully for Rural Free Mail Delivery
> > -- the equivalent in its day to rural broadband or electrification.
> >
> > Aren't today's cooperatives
> > <http://www.thegreenhorns.net/guidebooks/cooperativefarming/>, open
> > source licenses, hacker-spaces and mutual-aid associations an analog
> > response to Gilded-age type concentration of capital? Is the grange a venue
> > for the sharing economy
> > <http://communityenterpriselaw.org/forming-community-enterprise/nonprofit-organizations-in-the-sharing-economy/>,
> > today's populists and common-wealth advocates working on a public-banking
> > <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/13/post-office-banking-_n_4776767.html> to
> > rescue a failing Post Office (threatened with privatization), the community
> > seed banks (threatened with USDA regulation), to host buying clubs,
> > co-packing facilities, affordable rural day-care and fix-it potlucks? As a
> > generation with 1.3 trillion dollars in student loans, don't we need a
> > club-house for community action, democracy schools, and doesn't it not
> > matter if we aren't all farmers?
> >
> > This tour brings a multi-format exhibit showcasing the radical themes of
> > Grange history to more than a dozen Grange halls in the state of
> > California. It’s a chance to interact with next-generation grangers working
> > on inter-generational truce-making. It's a chance to learn how to operate
> > the microphones, the power breakers, the correct arrangement of pots. In
> > short, it's a place to meet the keepers of the Commons. Severine has
> > created a slide show presentation with contemporary echoes of Grange
> > Spirit. We continue to sniff out and study, and perform oral histories on
> > emergent cultural forms and trends. So far we’ve documented: Pancake
> > breakfasts, benevolent societies, community orchards, seed libraries, and
> > community canneries. Our exploration of past and present populism
> > continues. Listenhere
> > <http://thegreenhorns.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=df3f36b607325b38808f5e844&id=269f4efa92&e=988f710374> for
> > the podcasts of the Grange Future Oral history project.
> >
> > Matt Senate collaborates with many others on the Omni Commons, a
> > grass-roots initiative to forge a commons in the east bay within a 20,000
> > square foot former Italian social club (and former music venue). Using a
> > spokes-council model and horizontalist organizing practices, the Omni
> > Oakland Collective is constituted by member collectives and operates on a
> > consensus-based process, as well as with do-ocratic values. He is a
> > co-founder of the Sudo Room, an Omni Commons member collective, and home of
> > the Sudo Mesh project launching the People's Open Network, a
> > community-owned and -operated wireless mesh network.
> >
> > Brewster Kahle <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Kahle> has been
> > working to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge for more than
> > twenty-five years. Since the mid-1980s, Kahle has focused on developing
> > technologies for information discovery and digital libraries. In 1989 Kahle
> > invented the Internet's first publishing system, WAIS (Wide Area
> > Information Server) system and in 1989, founded WAIS Inc., a pioneering
> > electronic publishing company that was sold to America Online in 1995. In
> > 1996, Kahle founded the Internet Archive which may be the largest digital
> > library. At the same time, he co-founded Alexa Internet which helps catalog
> > the Web in April 1996, which was sold to Amazon.com <http://amazon.com/> in
> > 1999. Kahle earned a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> > (MIT) in 1982. As a student, he studied artificial intelligence with W.
> > Daniel Hillis and Marvin Minsky. In 1983, Kahle helped start Thinking
> > Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker, serving there as a lead engineer
> > for six years. He serves on the boards of the Electronic Frontier
> > Foundation, Public Knowledge, the European Archive, the Television Archive,
> > and the Internet Archive.
> >
> > Severine Fleming is a farmer, activist, and organizer based in the
> > Champlain Valley of New York. She is director of Greenhorns
> > <http://www.thegreenhorns.net/>, a grassroots organization with the
> > mission to recruit, promote and support the rising generation of new
> > farmers in America. Severine has spent the last seven years gathering,
> > bundling and broadcasting the voices and vision of young agrarians.
> > Greenhorns runs a weekly radio show on Heritage Radio Network
> > <http://www.heritageradionetwork.org/> and a popular blog. They produce
> > many kinds of media, from documentary films to almanacs, anthologies,
> > mix-tapes, posters, guidebooks and digital maps. They are best known the
> > documentary film, “The Greenhorns”
> > <http://www.thegreenhorns.net/category/media/documentary/> and the
> > raucous young farmer mixers they’ve thrown in 37 states and 14 grange
> > halls. Severine is co-founder and board secretary of Farm Hack
> > <http://farmhack.net/home/>, an online, open-source platform for
> > appropriate and affordable farm tools and technologies, as well asNational
> > Young Farmers Coalition <http://www.youngfarmers.org/> which now boasts
> > 23 state and regional coalitions.  She serves on the board of the
> > Schumacher Center for New Economics, which hosts Agrarian Trust,
> > <http://agrariantrust.org/> her latest startup, focused on land access
> > for beginning farmers, and permanent protection of affordable organic
> > farmland.
> >
> > Grange Future is a community history project undertaken by The Greenhorns
> > to investigate the the Patrons of Husbandry as a 125 year old populist
> > movement, and to showcase the Granges and Grange-like organizations
> > continuing to work, and organize in this spirit. We see the Granges as an
> > appropriate vessel for futurist, family-farm oriented community action,
> > with a strong basis in economic theory, resistance and cooperation. We hope
> > to embolden greenhorns in our network with an entry-point into the grange
> > movement, to unlock and revive the many grange halls currently hibernating:
> > to use the syllabus of past actions to inform contemporary ones, and to
> > reclaim the radical politics of the grange at the local and national
> > levels. With this project we’ve captured the history and current activities
> > in audio, visual, and written form, we’re gleaning the institutional wisdom
> > from decades of agrarian organizing, and connecting with the broad
> > community tackling similar themes throughout the nation. Community is the
> > pre-condition for action, if you too feel inspired by the grange, we hope
> > you will join in the convening, the kinship and the future-making.
> >
> >
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