[sudo-discuss] Oakland gentrification is very well planned & executed

[Phil Wolff]

I haven't thought of "white flight" for a long time.
Never thought of gentrification as white flight reversed.
It's not an exact opposite, but helpful in thinking of gentrification as a
flavor of migration.

Omni and Sudo won't materially affect gentrification rates one way or the
other.

What's in our power is affecting how our communities respond to
this change, and to others.

We are propagating values, skills, and resources handy for those
confronting macro-level disruptions. Hacker ethics. Maker skills. Inclusive
community. Sharing economics. Occupy energy. Sustainable practices. Culture
innovation. Where we bring these, we're making our community more capable
and resilient, healing the world. *Tikkun olam. *

This month we're very aware of Sudo as a place, a site at an address. We
talked about raising Omni funds by drawing the surrounding community to use
our common areas for events, by boosting memberships of the collectives as
we pull people into our orbits. Moving in, settling in should take the rest
of this year.

But we should also be thinking about ways to bring our Sudoey goodness to
more people and more neighborhoods. I've heard Matt imagine small satellite
Sudo spaces spread across the map. I've seen yar do FirstFriday and library
outreach. Hackpacks have a similar future. Perhaps we'll eventually have
the hacker version of library bookmobiles, a hack truck we bring to
schools, fairs, parking lots. 2015?

Our presence sudofies, not gentrifiies.




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