Saturday, January 27, 2018

Video podcast: Roddey Reid on political intimidation & pubic bullying


Video podcast
UCTV

Conversation with 
Roddey Reid & Akos Rona-Tas
University of California, San Diego
December 7, 2017, 2pm

Segments:
Everyday bullying vs. political intimidation & public bullying (0:00)
1980s & 1990s: revolution in acceptable public speech & behavior (8:55)
How the mechanisms of public bullying & political intimidation work (21:50)
Political effects of violent public bullying (32:30)
The challenge to public life and civic action (37:50)
New forms of political action and organization (41:30)
 

Print and e-book editions available online at Amazon. 
Paperback copies are for sale in Bay Area bookstores: Berkeley 
(Moe's Books, Books Inc., & Pegasus Books [Solano Ave.], Oakland (East Bay Booksellers), and Santa Cruz (Bookshop Santa Cruz)

Net proceeds from sales will go to Indivisible National of IndivisibleGuide.com

Roddey Reid is Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego, where he taught classes on the modern cultures and societies of the U.S., France, and Japan. His latest writing has been on trauma, daily life, and the culture of intimidation and bullying in the U.S. and Europe. He hosts a personal blog called “UnSafe Thoughts” on bullying and the fluidity of politics in dangerous times. He is a member of San Francisco chapter of IndivisibleGuide.com (now Indivisble.org), the activist group that was formed in December 2016 to pressure politicians to preserve the legacies of the New Deal and the Great Society and that now has over 6,000 chapters nationwide.

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