Author Mike Davis, who wrote the quintessential Los Angeles book 'City of Quartz,' offers a final call to action.
, that dying didn’t faze him as much as a scarring death would.
The man who witnessed police brutality during the Chicano Moratorium and who marched with heavily armed wildcat Teamsters always “romantically imagined” that we would go down “fighting.” Davis also leveled a critique at activists and the Democratic Party due to a lack of organizational structure. As for writing, the prolific author noted, “Learning to write is the most difficult thing I’ve ever done.”that the “environmental calamities” being experienced today were predicted in Davis’ 1998 book, “Ecology of Fear.” Two years before the L.A. riots, the Prophet of Doom wrote about the racial and economic injustices that finally boiled over.
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