Omni Commons
Oakland, CA
We are twelve Bay Area collectives with a shared political vision of more equitable commoning of resources and meeting human needs over private interests or corporate profit:
- Art Bison Design Coop is a feminist organization producing radical screenprints and hand-dyed products.
- Bay Area Public School is a free, self-organizing, anti-capitalist school with radical and contestatory politics.
- Chiapas Support Committee supports autonomous health care and education in Zapatista communities.
- Counter Culture Labs is a citizen science and DIYbio space that is open sourcing biology.
- Food Not Bombs has been bringing free food to parks, political events, neighborhood gatherings, and social centers since 1991.
- Global Communication, Education and Art provides support for immigrant families in the form of language classes, youth music programs, and homework assistance.
- Global Women's Strike - Omni Collective is an international network working toward the return of military spending to the community starting with women, the main caregivers everywhere.
- Liberated Lens is a radical film & video collective dedicated to social change.
- Phat Beets is a food justice group building farmers markets and gardens in North Oakland.
- Sudo Room is a place to build, learn, reclaim technology for the people, and create alternatives to the tech industry
- The Village is creating autonomous encampments on public and private land in Oakland.
- Timeless, Infinite Light is an Oakland small press focused on contemporary poetry and critical theory.
Read more on our wiki.