Forum on Gentrification and Displacement

[ahoc-somerville.livejournal.com]

Gentrification and Displacement: What do they mean?  What can we do about them in Somerville?

Thursday, May 14th, 6 PM
at the Elizabeth Peabody House
277 Broadway (at Broadway & Grant St--#89 Bus from Davis Sq.)
Somerville, MA 02145
 
Please join us to:

• Watch the film "BOOM: the Sound of Eviction" about gentrification and efforts to prevent displacement
• Hear brief comments from Somervillians dealing with this issue
• Discuss together our ideas for Somerville.

Sponsored by the Affordable Housing Organizing Committee (AHOC) and Save our Somerville (SOS). For more information, please contact Mary Regan at 617 776-5931 x230 or mregan at somervillecdc dot org

x-posted to somervillemass 

Comments

[ron_newman]

capitalism/class = bad, which leads one to other option which is classless society/communism

This strikes me as a false dichotomy, since other options exist that mix varying degrees of capitalist and socialist elements. The countries of Europe demonstrate some of the possible alternatives. But now this discussion is taking us far from Somerville.

[smoterh.livejournal.com]

Despite socialist elements in European countries (we have those elements here in US too), those countries still have classes. In every European country there are rich and poor.