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The Metaphor Project [MP] offers many free resources on this site for communicating our political messages. Find out how to use language that evokes progressive American values, when you tell your own story!

Scroll all the way down for quick links to our American Framing resources and services. On the way you'll also see our Metaphor Project News section with news of our new book, MOVE OUR MESSAGE: HOW TO GET AMERICA'S EAR, and links for our most recent web essays and blog entries. We also offer talks, workshops and coaching on American Framing.

Subscribe to get our free monthly posts on ways to frame topics of the day. Join our free national and international Metaphor Project Network in forwarding our framing suggestions to your own lists!

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Metaphor Project News:

Our new book is here!

Our new resource,  Move Our Message: How to Get America's Ear, is now available. Click the link above to see what's on the back cover and also the table of contents. The first section of the book will help you and your friends understand better what 'American Framing' is and why it works. Part II contains a wealth of 'speaking American' examples. Part III is the 'how to section.'  It includes the most up-to-date versions of all our Metaphor Project tools, methods, and resources, plus much more. 

We hope you find the book useful in your organizing work! Early reports from experienced activist readers have been very enthusiastic about it. Please tell your friends and colleagues about it via your social networks and every other means you may have to get the word out. Upgrading progressive framing is absolutely vital this year. If you publish a review, please send us a copy, to help us get even more notice for the book. This is a VIP year for it, and we have to make the most of it. We are a 501c3-sponsored educational organization, and all proceeds from book sales go to support our pro bono work, online and offline. 

Six Ways to Get the Book:

1. Our print-on-demand e-store link to order the book using a credit card is to the left on this page. Our e-store price of $10.00 includes California state sales tax we will pay. For more credit card options, see #5 below. 

2. If you would rather buy the book directly from our home office, please send a check for $15.00, to cover shipping & handling expenses, made out to The Metaphor Project, to Post Office Box 892, Orinda, CA 94563.

3. Through local bookstores: copies of the book are now available at Pegasus Books on Solano Avenue, on Shattuck Avenue, and on College Ave, (Oakland), Diesel Books on College, at Black Oak Books on San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley, CA, and at Orinda Books, in Orinda, CA. More local bookstores will be added in the future. Contact us  about getting your local bookstore to carry the book.   

4. At events, conferences, talks or workshops: Watch this space for more news of events coming soon. If you would like to host a talk or workshop, please contact us.

5. Other credit card options include getting the book as a gift by making a minimum $30.00 tax-deductible donation to The Metaphor Project, using our Donate button in the left column; the book will be sent to you as a 'thank you gift.' Our book is also listed on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, but we get very little compensation if you get it from them.

6. For bulk orders, please write or call us at our home office: Post Office Box 892, Orinda, CA 94563; Phone and FAX: 925-254-3304.

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Articles:

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Re Iran: Say 'Think Outside the Box!' 1.27.12

Spring the Super Trap! 10.29.11

Telling the “Set America Free!” Story 7.29.11  

Use the 'One Big Family' Frame! 4.10.11

American Dream or American Sword? 2.24.11

Let’s Reinvent America Ourselves! 9.29.10

The Grass Roots Stimulus Story 3.17.09

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Quick Links To Our Free Resources: 

Please let us know if you use the free resources on this site in your work! Write to us at: metaphorproject@earthlink.net and you will help us a lot. Thanks!  

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