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Open Access: Rethinking Resource Access in the Food System

by refugia

http://berkeleyfoodinstitute.org/open-access/ Open Access: Rethinking Resource Access in the Food System Monday, March 17, 2014, 3-5pm In this panel, we explore the frontiers of “open access regimes” within the food system, using seeds and land as starting points from which to reassess resource ownership and property rights in agriculture. We also consider how open access regimes connect to food sovereignty – the rights of local people to define their own food systems. In recent years, open-source licensing has emerged as a new approach to protect the seed innovations of farmers and plant breeders and provide them with access to diversified germplasm. Like open-source software, open-source seeds would create a protected commons in which materials are freely available and widely exchanged, but are protected from appropriation by monopoly interests. Similarly, land has become the focus of redoubled efforts to facilitate open access to resources for food production – the Landless Workers Movement in Brazil is one prominent example. We ask: what are the ways in which managing access to agricultural resources – whether plant genes or land –can promote the common good, and how might these ways change in different cultural and political contexts? A panel discussion moderated by David Winickoff, Associate Professor of Bioethics and Society in CNR, and Director of the Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies. The panel will feature: Jack Kloppenburg, Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Co-Director of the Center for Integrated Agriculture Systems Kloppenburg specializes in the social impacts of biotechnology and the global controversy over access to and control over genetic resources. He is interested in applying “open source” principles in the biosciences. Wendy Wolford, Associate Professor of Sociology, Cornell University Wolford focuses on issues within and between the political economy of development, agrarian studies, social mobilization, land reform, and political ecologies of conservation.

12 years, 7 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] $ sudo reboot

by Yardena Cohen

On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 5:36 PM, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote: > So just re: the common area, I'm not sure it makes sense spending any time > cleaning it Sat 3/22. And on Sun 3/23, you/we will be cleaning up after an > all-night rave. Y'all might ask george if he is getting a janitorial crew in > on 3/23, as he really should. And focus solely on cleaning sudo's space.. We're mostly talking about cleaning inside Sudoroom, so I don't know if it has to be a conflict.

12 years, 7 months

Words of Resistance: If You Surveil Me I'll Yell At You

by Vicky Knox

Friday March 14th | 7-9PM Rock Paper Scissors Collective 2278 Telegraph Ave. Gather your words to destroy the surveillance state, poetry style, rhymes so good they shatter camera lenses.

12 years, 7 months

Impromptu mushroom foray tomorrow, Leona Heights/Merritt College

by Peter Werner

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Impromptu mushroom foray tomorrow, Leona Heights/Merritt College Date: 2014-03-09 17:57 From: Peter Werner <germpore(a)sonic.net> To: Merritt Microscopy list <MerrittMicroscopy(a)yahoogroups.com>, BAMS List <BayAreaMushrooms(a)yahoogroups.com>, Nerds for Nature BioBlitz group <nfn-bioblitz(a)googlegroups.com>, Ron Felzer <rfelzer(a)peralta.edu>, Loralei Dewe <lldewe(a)gmail.com> Hi - I'll be leading a mushroom foray in Leona Heights Park and perhaps the main portion of Merritt College campus tomorrow (Monday) at 10 AM to Noon. It's a short-notice, strike-while-the-iron-is-hot event, scouting out the possibility of a more formal and widely-announced event next week. Meeting place: York Trailhead, across Campus Drive from Merritt College. Map here: https://goo.gl/maps/CJw08 NOTE: The first part of the foray is "Leona Heights Park", NOT "Leona Canyon Regional Open Space", the latter of which has a trailhead on the other side of Merritt College, a considerable source of confusion. Leona Heights Park is a benignly neglected property of City of Oakland, and generally a place where amateur naturalists can operate without official sanction. Various Merritt classes take advantage of its proximity as a site for nature walks. Afterward (noon) - for those who are interested, I might be able to lead a small group through mushroom microscopy at the Merritt College Microscopy classroom if there is interest. For those who are not familiar with wild mushrooms in California - wild mushroom fruiting follows a definite seasonal pattern, analogous to the large scale blooming of flowering plants during a given time in Spring, and is variable dependent on weather conditions during a given year. The majority of mushrooms in California fruit in late Autumn, after the first large rains of saturated the dry soil, and generally before temperatures become their coldest. Smaller fruitings of often different species of mushrooms generally follow through Winter and into Spring. This year, due to extremely unusual weather conditions, we are having a full scale fruiting of fall mushroom species some 3 months late. We are probably at the peak of our mushroom season now, and it may or may not extend further depending on if more rain will come in the next week or not. Peter

12 years, 7 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] [sudo-announce] Sudo at TeenZone, Wed 3pm

by Yardena Cohen

On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Vicky Knox <vknoxsironi(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> How did 3D's public appearance go last night at Art Murmur/1st Friday? That >> was CLASSIC! On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote: > It went great! For those who weren't at sudo last night: Jordan, Jake > and myself set up the 3D printer on a movable cart with a car battery > and some lights and rolled it to first friday and used the attention > to talk about sudo room. Picture! https://twitter.com/marinakukso/status/442150164803760128

12 years, 7 months

Need more stickers & flyers!

by Yardena Cohen

We had a very successful Art Murmur last night and it cleaned us out of stickers. Who made these stickers? What can we do to get more? We also made a stack of quarter-sheet flyers but almost all of those got taken as well. Who wants to design new, even better ones? :)

12 years, 7 months

Sudo at TeenZone, Wed 3pm

by Yardena Cohen

Sudoroom's 3D printer is travelling to the library this week, for Teen Tech Week! Main branch, downtown 14th St bw Madison & Oak/Lakeside Wednesday March 12, 3:00 PM http://oaklandlibrary.org/events/main-library/sudoroom-presents-3-d-printing

12 years, 7 months

Tonight during Art Murmur: Draw Oakland at Sudo Room!

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, Drop by Sudo Room during art murmur tonight to Draw Oakland<http://oaklandwiki.org/Draw_Oakland>with us. We'll get started around 7PM and will just be there throughout the evening. Paper and drawing supplies will be provided but you are, of course, welcome to bring your own materials. We'll be scanning our images and adding them to Oakland Wiki <http://oaklandwiki.org> to illustrate entries, like all of these neighborhoods<http://oaklandwiki.org/neighborhoods>which would be significantly improved with beautiful drawings. Best, Marina

12 years, 7 months

RARP: RAVE ACTION ROLE PLAY - THE NEW RAVE TREND Behind the RAVE | DJBROADCAST

by Romy Snowyla

http://www.djbroadcast.net/features/featureitem_id=243/RARP_Rave_Action_Rol… This is so awesome RARP: RAVE ACTION ROLE PLAY - THE NEW RAVE TREND BEHIND THE RAVE 110 Thursday 6 March, 2014. Text: Maria Mouk. RARPing is a fresh and somewhat secretive new rave form that involves costuming, hidden identities, and random missions while being an off-shoot of LARPing (live action role playing.) Those we interviewed about the subject were not very forthcoming, fearing they would be ousted by their RARP community. Read on to find out more. The History of LARP Live Action Role Playing, more commonly known as “LARPing,” is a free form of (mostly) unscripted role-playing (or live acting) that ranges from the purely theatrical through to combative, political or historical. Dozens or hundreds of characters meet in a decided location to freestyle through a framework of accepted scenarios, and live out an abstraction of their appointed avatar, whether it be magician, warrior, or other deviation from their everyday self. Gaining most of it’s momentum across the globe in the 70s with the invent of tabletop role-playing games. LARP identities or genres have since included science fiction, historical recreations, dystopian or zombie apocalypses, and even gender reconstruction scenarios. "...reconstructed realities aim to suspend or even rewrite normal rules of behavior..." Typically LARPing participants have identified with Medieval themes and battlefield scenarios, but as electronic music gains value in the 21st century, so LAPRing has spread a larger and more raving, music party goer.  This is where I stumbled across a story about RARPing. Rave Action Role Playing; a re-reality where electronic music forms the backbone for leaving your real name and day-to-day personality behind. Of course it was only a matter of time until the more bookish genres of LARPing were re-appropriated into more approachable models for a younger social generation. So what exactly is RARPing? Isn’t that just a veil for further party themes? Actually yes. Modes of this experience have often been portrayed by dedicated festival goers, people living in squats or communes, and other alternative scenarios in the vein of USA’s Burning Man Festival/City, where the variety-show and counter-culture freak-flag flies high. (I can attest to being one of the freaks). The details that tie any of this to the LARPing category are that these reconstructed realities aim to suspend or even rewrite normal rules of behavior, through unscripted acting and deviation from those day-to-day identities the person possessed normally. However even these communities have steered away from the complete submersion into the LARPing ethos, since there is not just one organized game under one scenario but too many, and rarely can the events be considered forms of interactive literature, as are many LARPing prompts. (I did however once sit in on a Last Supper at Burning Man, and many attendees there are actually living out “tribal” fantasies, but this was more impromptu than some long lasting role-play.) CONTINUE READING (1 of 2) Next 110 Thursday 6 March, 2014. Text: Maria Mouk. RARPing goes more niche, subtly scripted, and inclusive (or is that reclusive?) An insider told me about his ritual weekend of attending such RARP Festivals. He said that once on site at a secret location, where only former attendees can invite the new, everyone adjusts to the character and “power” they have chosen for themselves. Real names are never revealed. Upon entering the event, the characters are split into “families” and group activities, plots, and assignments throughout the day are supported by notes with clues to help one get through the various tasks. It’s kind of like a psychedelic team building, except no one is able to reveal their identities. At some point during this fantasy rave, the whole thing breaks into a party, where you, the Space Cowboy or whatever you have come as, dances with your “family”, maintaining your secret identity, never to reveal your name, or participate with the society outside of this setting. "...maybe our over stimulated minds need more context than familiar party models can deliver...?" There are also not-so-secretive breakouts of RARP. Take the performative group Micro Rave for example, you might just see them at your next music camp-out. Born as an experiment in 2009, with a focus on “Free-party Rave scenes, Live Action Role-playing, Computer Games, Immersive Theatre and 8-bit Music” this micro-hub of RARPing focuses on creating mini, dance party, experiences at festivals with missions that include “8-bit sounds / 2-bit costumes / Inferior AI / Boss Battles” and of course “Rave Challenges.“ So what role do these modern re-appropriations serve? Certainly it’s an opportunity for interacting with a community more geared to your musical and social interests than the Game Of Thrones model. But is it a form of escapism or extended meaning? Maybe our over stimulated minds need more context than familiar party models can deliver? Maybe we need to add theater and characters to our nights out? Just look at the British for example - they need the barest of excuses to dress up at any occassion. An art theorist researching game theory and LARPing recently suggested that “the terrible beauty of LARP's promise: “[is] you can play whatever rules you like, whenever you like, wherever you like. All you have to do is define them,” but well “we're all playing, and so involved... that we've forgotten that the rules are all our own creation.” This refreshing reminder in real life philosophy serves to ask “who do you want to be today?” The answer: Whoever you want to be. This is no 90s rave, it’s 2014, and these are the questions that push the box past limitations, be it in music or other creative pursuits. Previous CONTINUE READING (2 of 2) Sent from my iPhone

12 years, 7 months

Executive Assistant/ Event Planner, Breakthrough Institute, downtown Oak

by Danny Spitzberg

Here's one more for anyone who thinks in post-partisan pragmatist terms and believes in smart public investment... and can do outstanding work as an executive assistant/events coordinator, too http://thebreakthrough.org/about/jobs/ :Danny *Executive Assistant/Events Coordinator. * Background: The Breakthrough Institute is a paradigm-shifting think tank committed to modernizing environmentalism for the 21st century. Our core values are integrity, imagination and audacity. Our goal is to accelerate the transition to a future where all the world's inhabitants can enjoy secure, free, prosperous, and fulfilling lives on an ecologically vibrant planet. Job Description: Breakthrough is looking to hire a full-time Executive Assistant/Events Coordinator to provide support to the executive staff and to help plan various events, including our annual June conference. This is a great entry-level position for a smart, capable person interested in a career in nonprofit events management and nonprofit operations. As Breakthrough is a small and growing organization, the Executive Assistant/Events Coordinator will have the opportunity to contribute to a number of different areas related to the operation of the think tank. Ideally, the candidate would be available to start in March. Responsibilities include: - Assistance to the Breakthrough principals running the day to day operations of the think tank - Planning and providing support for various events and dinners throughout the year - General administrative support, including filing expenses, handling invoices and billing, taking notes during staff meetings, scheduling travel - Office maintenance and organization, including answering phones, supply maintenance, communicating with the building managers, setting up work spaces for fellows and new hires - Working with our Director of Development, Events, and Operations and outside events consultant to plan and execute the Breakthrough Dialogue, Breakthrough's annual June conference - Serve as a liaison for attendees of the Breakthrough Dialogue, helping them arrange travel to the conference, answering questions, and processing registrations Qualifications: - Four year college degree - Experience in event planning preferred (college experience okay) - Excellent verbal and written communication skills - Keen attention to detail and high level of organization - High level of proficiency on Macs - An interest in Breakthrough's core mission Salary commensurate with experience.

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