THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep.100: NEVER GIVE UP THE STREET w/ Mike Davis

I can't lie, I discovered the work of Mike Davis late.  I had heard the name before, but didn't really know his work.  After hearing him on a podcast earlier in the year I got decided to buy his book "City of Quartz" and reading it, I was blown away by it's prescience.  If you don't know Mike Davis, he's a social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California. He is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award.   Again, thank you Mike for taking the time to talk to all of us, we appreciate your work and all that you continue to do.     From the book "City of Quartz":   "Like the Tramp scares of the 19th century or the Red Scare in the 20th, the contemporary gang scare has become an imaginary class relationship, a terrain of pseudo-knowledge and fantasy projection. But as long as the actual violence was more or less confined to the ghetto, the gang wars were also a voyeuristic titillation to white suburbanites devouring lurid imagery in their newspapers or on the television.  Then in December 1987 frisson became fear as Southside gang hitmen mistakenly gunned down a young woman outside a theater in teh posh Westwood Village entertainment district near UCLA.  Westwood's influential merchants, who had recently induced the LAPD to enforce curfew ordinances to repel non-white youthfrom the Village, clamored for extra police protection, while local Council Member Zev Yaroslavsky, then essaying a Koch-like challenge to Mayor Bradley, posted a huge reward for apprehension of the 'urban terrorists'.  You can read Mike's latest piece in New Left Review here: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/riot-on-the-hill?fbclid=IwAR2DwoZPFJOVm2ceim2NHUQHI6kJna7A3dJTRfun07O2FdJfrM4-udUdl_Y You can watch Mike earlier in the year on Democracy Now! here: https://www.democracynow.org/2020/5/22/mike_davis_as_workers_face_dangerous   You Can Buy Mike's latest book, "Set the Night on Fire" here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3164-set-the-night-on-fire   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out.  We appreciate each and everyone of you.  If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!    Become a patron now : https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!) THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg   Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast   Twitter: @TIRShowOakland   Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Medium: https://medium.com/@jasonmyles/they-dont-really-care-about-us-e2f1703ca39e