2025 book thirteen: Mike Davis: City of Quartz - Excavating the Future in Los Angeles ️
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2025 book thirteen: Mike Davis: City of Quartz - Excavating the Future in Los Angeles ️
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Latinoamérica es un territorio de lucha y resistencia urbana. Como señala **Raquel Rolnik** (urbanista brasileña), *'la vivienda es un derecho, no una mercancía'*, y **Mike Davis** (geógrafo crítico) nos recuerda que *'las ciudades neoliberales son fábricas de desigualdad'*.
Desde el **Movimiento Sin Tierra (MST)** en Brasil —donde mujeres y hombres construyen asentamientos autogestionados— hasta las **asambleas feministas en Argentina** que ocupan plazas para tejer redes de cuidado, nuestras ciudades son semillas de otro mundo posible.
¡La lucha urbana es anticapitalista, antifascista y feminista! ¡La calle es nuestra! #UrbanismoLatinoamericano #MST #Rolnik #MikeDavis #FeminismoUrbano #urbanismo #UrbanismoCritico
Elaborado con #deepseek
"in the later phases of the war and then revolution, women’s struggles for decent wages, affordable rents, and safe workplaces often combined with demands for full citizenship—not only the right to vote but access to public employment, the professions, and political office”
Old Gods, New Enigmas
#MikeDavis
“Thus the 1888 walkout of 1,500 girls & young women in a Bow phosphorus-match factory electrified the entire unorganized working class of East London, setting in motion the events that led to the successful 1889 strike of 100 000 dockworkers & “New Unionism.”
Old Gods, New Enigmas
#MikeDavis
[New on cybergeo conversation]
Fire Storms in Los Angeles: Davis’ ‘Ecology of Fear’ re-read in the 21st century
“Fight with hope, fight without hope but fight absolutely.” _ Mike Davis
https://overland.org.au/2025/01/but-fight-absolutely/
Source: MD interviewed March 2016
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/researchingsociology/2016/03/01/fight-with-hope-fight-without-hope-but-fight-absolutely-an-interview-with-mike-davis/
"The loss of more than 90 per cent of #SouthernCalifornia’s agricultural buffer zone is the principal if seldom mentioned reason #wildfires increasingly incinerate such spectacular swathes of luxury real estate. [...] what makes us most vulnerable is the abruptness of what is called the ‘wildland-urban interface’, where real estate collides with #FireEcology." - #MikeDavis
#California Burns (2007)
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v29/n22/mike-davis/california-burns
#CaliforniaFires #LAFires #ecocide #ecology #urbanism #UrbanTheory
"From the mixed pine and oak forest in the Klamath Mountains to the Mojave Desert, Sierra Foothills, there is not an inch of California that is not now part of this conflagration and it's true throughout the American West of course"
2 great interviews from 2018 & 2021 on KPFK with the late Angeleno essayist #MikeDavis about #urbanism, "#FireEcology," colonial capitalism & #ecocide in #California
https://player.fm/series/kpfk-beneath-the-surface-2605305/beneath-the-surface-sunday-january-12-2025
#CaliforniaFires #ForestFires #ecology #UrbanTheory #LosAngeles
Maybe people should have listened to #MikeDavis and turned the #SantaMonica mountains into a park instead of promoting private homes and more #cars https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/11/joan-didion-mike-davis-los-angeles-fires?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other #Climate #climatechange #losangeles #losangelesfires
Incendies à LA: Allons voir ce qu'en disait Mike Davis (en 1996!)
"Let Malibu Burn: A political history of the Fire Coast"
https://la.indymedia.org/js/?v=cont&url=/news/2007/10/208946.json
Trump on Day 1: Begin deportation push, pardon Jan. 6 rioters, make his criminal cases vanish
https://apnews.com/article/trump-day-1-priorities-deportations-drilling-ukraine-6747c6e64b0440978f59450b928f61d1
Comment: coup d'état instantiate in one day
#Trump2 #GOP #JDVance #SteveBannon #MikeDavis
#fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation #xenophobia #dictators
#antiLGBT #transphobia
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #ElonMusk #AmericaPAC #Progress2028 #libertarianism
#Christofascism #misogyny #paternalism #sexism
Trump’s Likely AG: We’re Going to Put Kids in Cages - Vows Reign of Terror
* Mike Davis pot. Trump2 attorney general
* wants to put journalists in gulags & kids in cages
"Listen here, sweetheart:" Trump advisor Mike Davis threatens NY AG Letitia James with prison
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113448709600255473
#LetitiaJames #NewYork
#Trump2 #GOP #MikeDavis #fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation #xenophobia
#capitalism #billionaires #libertarianism #Project2025
#Christofascism #antiLGBT #transphobia
"...we're gonna put kids in cages. It's gonna be glorious." -- Mike Davis, potential next AG.
I thought MAGA wanted to empty the US of supposedly horrible people who are destroying the country. Now it's a giggle-fest about the "glory" of "[putting] kids in cages."
If you voted for Trump and identify as a Christian, you're deluded. And you've redefined what it is to be American.
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." Yeah. Right.
Trump AG Prospect Warns Letitia James: 'We Will Put Your Fat Ass In Prison'
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-davis-letitia-james-fat-ass-comment_n_672de5a9e4b0933e82c99ab2 #MikeDavis #Trump #TrumpSupporter #Violence #Bullying #USA #Politics #Extremism
"Listen here, sweetheart:" Trump advisor Mike Davis threatens NY AG Letitia James with prison
https://www.salon.com/2024/11/08/listen-here-sweetheart-ally-threatens-ny-ag-letitia-james-with-prison
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1854615830358614487
"I dare you to try to continue your lawfare against President Trump... listen here, sweetheart, we're not messing around this time and we will put your fatass in prison for conspiracy against rights."