Sunday, December 30, 2018 - Fires reinforcing existing socioeconomic inequality

Guest: Mike Davis, Meleiza Figueroa, Steve Breedlove At year'''s end we look at the fires that ravaged California, and the aftermath ''' which as urban theorist Mike Davis reminds us, reinforces the socioeconomic inequalities that already characterize this nation-state of 40 million people. Mike Davis looks at the Paradise and Malibu conflagrations, the Tale of Two Fires first aired on November 18. Then UC Berkeley grad student and activist Meleiza Figueroa, who lives part time in Chico, near Paradise, and Steve Breedlove, social critic, veteran, and permaculturalist active in the Cleanup and Rebuild working group of North Valley Mutual Aid look at day to day survival and recovery since the disaster ''' as well as climate crisis and the role governments must play to avert complete disaster.