done Jenny, thanks to everyone to spread this appeal and to contribute if you can, Michel On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 5:11 AM, Jenny Ryan <[email protected]> wrote:
'Only one week left to contribute - Open the Omni Commons!'?
via Jenny Ryan <[email protected]> [image: Attachments]5:11 AM (9 hours ago) to michel Hey Michel! Thanks for your support of Omni Commons' crowdfunding campaign. We're in the midst of our last week and blasting the below message to as many people as possible. If you think it's a good fit, could you forward along to the p2p foundation list, with the amended subject line, 'Only one week left to contribute - Open the Omni Commons!'? Many thanks <3 ------ Howdy, There’s only one week left to contribute to our crowdfunding campaign, and we’re really close to reaching our goal. Please donate now, and share this message as far as you possibly can! https://omnicommons.org/donate We only need another $12,225! Thanks to the generosity of our community, we’ve received $40,000 in major donations plus $27,775 in grassroots funding through our crowdfunding campaign page. That means, together, we’ve raised $67,775--approaching our overall goal of $80,000. What does it mean to forge a commons? Everywhere on the planet, those spaces, places, and resources that we share and hold in common are being targeted and exploited for personal gain and corporate profit. It is up to all of us to preserve whatever commons we still have, and to forge new ones whenever possible. The Omni Commons has tremendous potential to become a critical community space. In order to ensure our doors can open, and remain open, we need your help today. https://omnicommons.org/donate Although it is an important one, fundraising isn’t our only goal. Our collective of collectives includes many veterans of the Occupy movement who have developed effective community building and organizing strategies based on shared values: the commoning of space and resources, liberation of knowledge, transformative justice, and solidarity with struggles against capitalism, racism, misogyny, and other forms of violence. To spread awareness of the potential for decentralized, people-powered community spaces like this to run autonomously, not only in the East Bay, but all around the world, is part of our long-term mission. As for Oakland specifically, where economic disparity and displacement have pushed long-time residents out of the area, we see a real need for projects that provide space and resources in a manner more befitting of the city’s radical history of creativity, cooperation and social justice organizing. Love and Solidarity, The Omni Commons Fundraising Working Group-- ----- Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://sudomesh.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/