<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">from the earlier thread about the 8th st space: <br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<font size="1"><br></font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="1">It addresses two of the major concerns raised about The Omni in being two blocks from BART in a neighborhood that seems/feels safer than the area around MacArthur BART, and in being located in a less gentrified neighborhood. </font></span></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>not to make it into a blow-by-blow, but to clarify. when people took off with the safety/crime issue, i noticed the comment about gentrification, and asked myself, "why is being in a less gentrified space a plus?" maybe that's the question i could have posed, to be more direct. instead, i asked about (heaven forbid) considering the effects of sudo's presence in the area (and tbh not being familiar with the area). since then, marina has clarified that level of gentrification isn't on the wiki as criteria for the space. (also of note, neither is safety level.) looking back, i also see that marc/juul's comments were meant as personal observations, not as any kind of official stance.</div>
<div><br></div><div style>however...</div><div style><br></div><div style>i do think it's useful, helpful, educational, and important to discuss gentrification. i don't think it is "race-baiting" (although yes people easily make it about only race, just as easily as some try not to make it about race). just because we can't "solve" it here doesn't diminish its value.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>take-aways for me at this point echo some others':</div><div style><br></div><div style>1) there should be solid effort to reach out to neighbors and surrounding community to gather what the area's needs are according to its people, wherever the new space is</div>
<div style>2) it might be a good practice to have regular guided* in-person group discussions around race, intersections of oppression, oakland history, white supremacy, gentrification, etc. </div><div style>*guided as in, by someone who has a strong level of analysis and understanding of the subject at hand, and with skills to healthily direct the emotions stirred up by such discussions. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>thanks.</div><div style><br></div><div style>-amber </div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 1:53 PM, solarimix <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:solarimix@yahoo.com" target="_blank">solarimix@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yes Marcus. You're so correct.<br><br>Cappuccinos and cupcakes..lol. I prefer the grit. Keep that acorn affordable to P.O.C.<br>
<br>One Love<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br>Marcus Owens <<a href="mailto:owens.marcus@gmail.com" target="_blank">owens.marcus@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><div dir="ltr">Just to chime in having observed this thread, and having previously restrained myself from noting 8th/Alice is not west oakland, and in the wake of the bizarre white guilt racism on the recent threads- I don't want to be pedantic but as an urbanist I usually shudder when bay area liberals start talking about gentrification, invariably bringing identity and cultural politics into the mix. Identity and culture are important but gentrification is an issue of political economy, period. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/10/gentrification-not-urban-renaissance" target="_blank"> As geographer Dave Madden writes in this on-point guardian piece, </a><div>
<br></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif">"<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:18.987144470214844px">The least useful way to criticize gentrification is to obsess about an area's character, coolness, or even worse, "grit". Lamenting the proliferation of cupcakes and cappuccino is a staple of reporting on places like Williamsburg or Dalston. But this kind of story reduces something that's all about inequality to middle-class agonizing over authenticity."</span></font></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:18.987144470214844px"><br></span></div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18.987144470214844px">In short, while people such as ourselves are often able to leverage our relative economic, social, cultural capital in securing housing more so than other segments of society, real estate is not reducible to a consumer choice akin to buying a t-shirt or an mp3 off itunes. White people didn't "just decide" to leave Oakland in the post-war years, and young people aren't "just deciding" to move back to the city for kicks. I don't know about you all but my choice in housing wasn't between getting a mortgage in the suburbs or moving to east oakland. It was between a few places like east oakland, and has been in every city I've lived in. </span></font></div>
<div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18.987144470214844px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18.987144470214844px">There are political and financial forces shaping the way we live and work that are stronger than the few choices we may have in finding housing, however greater these choices may be than those that more marginalized members of society have. It's important to keep the focus where it belongs- dismantling capitalism and the system of white supremacy that keeps it in place and building community, not self-loathing white/middle-class guilt. </span></font></div>
<div><br></div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18.987144470214844px">m</span></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">p.s. David Madden is basically riffing off the late great geographer Neil Smith. One starting point for further inquiry: <span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:16.1200008392334px"> </span><i style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:16.1200008392334px">The new urban frontier: Gentrification and the revanchist city</i><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:16.1200008392334px">. Routledge, 1996.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Jenny Ryan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tunabananas@gmail.com" target="_blank">tunabananas@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Some clarification:<br><div><br>The new location has been completely neglected for the past 15 years, and we were intentionally invited by the folks behind <a href="http://creativedevelopmentpartners.com" target="_blank">Creative Development Partners</a> as the kind of community-oriented maker/project space they're hoping to see thrive in this neighborhood.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I totally agree with batkid. As a black person who has contributed directly to the gentrification of west oakland I'd like to say that gentrification is an issue that can not be reduced to race, social status, industry, etc. I would encourage people to think critically about how their actions affect the communities they live in, but not to get caught up in liberal guilt land unless you plan on taking some kind of direct action.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Craig Rouskey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:craigrouskey@gmail.com" target="_blank">craigrouskey@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Huh? I thought the new location was unoccupied?</div>
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<span style="font-family:Verdana"><span style="font-size:12px">I don't understand the strange self flagellating threads about gentrifying people out of Oakland while searching for a space.<br>It's not productive and I truly do not understand what the end goal is here. We're not going to solve racism in the bay area<br>
with the mailing list.<br><br>It's ok to displace the Chinese, but not blacks? WTF?<br> <p style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Incentives applicable at this location:</p>
<ul><li>The City of Oakland is offering business license and sales tax abatement as incentives</li>
<li>The State of California's manufacturing equipment sale and use tax exemptions</li>
<li>The State of California's California Competes income tax credit</li>
<li>The State of California's New Employment Credit</li>
<li>No African Americans would be displaced, only Chinese</li>
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