Oct. 16, 2018, "Confronting Public Bullying" with Roddey Reid at the Berkeley Public Library Central Branch

Berkeley Public Library Central Branch Presents

Confronting Public Bullying

with Professor Emeritus Roddey Reid

Professor Emeritus Roddey Reid explores how a climate of fear and intimidation has come to dominate national life in the United States in recent years, poisoning our politics and even reaching into our personal relationships. At the core of this history is a larger U.S. culture of intimidation and bullying in the workplace, media, and political arenas that has been building for 30 years.

Reid will offer insights into the strategies and dynamics of contemporary intimidation and public bullying: how they work, the dangers they present, and the lessons to be learned.

Book Reading & Discussion

Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - 3:30-5:00pm

Berkeley Public Library Central Branch

2090 Kittredge St., Berkeley, CA 94704 - 510.981.6100

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.

Rag Radio podcast: Conversation with Roddey Reid & Christopher Borwn on Politics in an Age of True Dystopia

Politics in an Age of True Dystopia: Imagining Better Futures through New Politics, Speculative Fiction  & Radical Scholarship

 
PODCAST 

A Conversation with

speculative fiction novelist Christopher Brown, scholar Roddey Reid & radio show host Thorne Dreyer, co-founder of 
The Rag, Austin's 60s underground newspaper

Rag Radio

  KOOP FM 91.7, Austin, TX

Friday, March 30, 2018

2 - 3pm CDT

Stream here

Christopher Brown is the author of Tropic of Kansas, a novel of American collapse and uprising published in 2017 by HarperCollins that NPR called "frighteningly prescient...the nightly news with the volume turned up to eleven” and Booklist said reads “like Cormac McCarthy meets Philip K. Dick.” A World Fantasy Award nominee, Brown’s work explores politics, economics, ecology and technology through a speculative prism. A former staff lawyer for the Senate Judiciary Committee and General Counsel of two publicly-traded technology companies, Brown lives in a rehabilitated petrochemical brownfield in East Austin.

Roddey Reid is author of Confronting Political Intimidation & Public Bullying: A Citizen's Handbook for the Trump Era & Beyond (2017) and 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 the 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.

Book reading: Confronting Political Intimidation & Public Bullying, Berkeley Public Library, April 25, 6:30pm

Berkeley Public Library, North Branch
Presents

Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying

Book Reading & Discussion
with
Roddey Reid
Professor Emeritus, UC San Diego

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

6:30-7:30 pm

Berkeley Public Library, North Branch
1170 The Alameda 

Roddey Reid is ProfessorEmeritus, 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.

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.