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March 26, 2015 By Susan C. Strong

Countering the GOP “Sabotage America” Campaign

As everybody knows, our GOP-dominated Congress is deep into a full scale “sabotage America” campaign. Everything is under massive attack, from our negotiations with Iran to the perfectly legal way Social Security Disability Insurance has always been funded. (More  info here in 1. below.)  Their full scale demolition derby could dismantle almost everything about America […]

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Filed Under: American Politics, Still Featured Tagged With: austerity government, budget, climate damage, Congress, framing, mainstream media, minimum wage, Minnesota, Social Security, Social Security Disability Insurance

March 15, 2015 By Susan C. Strong

See our “Speaking American” TEDxVail Video on YouTube.

See our “Speaking American” TEDxVail Video on YouTube. Our short 1.09.15 TEDxVail Talk video, How Speaking American Can Help Save America, is still available on YouTube. It’s about how to address those who don’t agree with us. And it includes proof that with the right verbal and social tactics, it’s possible for grass roots Americans […]

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Filed Under: Social and Economic Justice, Sticky Featured

January 29, 2015 By Susan C. Strong

The “One Big Family” Frame in 2015

As everyone knows, the most fundamental crisis in America today is the fierce partisan divide we have in government. This situation makes collaboration or cooperation in solving the nation’s problems across party lines appear impossible everywhere. Appear? Certainly in national and state politics it’s real. But what about at the grass roots level? In 2014 The Pew […]

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Filed Under: Peace

November 22, 2014 By Susan C. Strong

A Watershed Metaphor for These Times

Of course right now everyone on the left and among the Democrats is feeling shocked and down because of the horrid 2014 election. There’s been a torrent of analysis and blaming on our side. Although many factors were in play, one stands out. That’s the role of corrupt corporate money in fueling Right wing victories […]

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Filed Under: American Politics

September 11, 2014 By Susan C. Strong

Framing Climate Change Action Now: Advice, Slogans, & The “Necessity” Frame

Right now many people are preparing for the People’s Climate March, in New York or in many locations around the country. So I’m getting requests for slogan ideas for signs and other demonstration pr. Below are three items that can give folks some ideas about what to say on signs and other demonstration media. 1.The […]

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Filed Under: Environment & Sustainability

April 26, 2014 By Susan C. Strong

Say “Let’s get to climate safety fast!”

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released 4.03.14, strongly urges a  fast shift to clean energy.  Since the last report, carbon emissions have accelerated to unprecedented levels. Impact on land, sea, and air is growing catastrophic much faster than scientists predicted. Yet national governments continue to drag their feet about mandating the […]

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Filed Under: Environment & Sustainability

March 7, 2014 By Susan C. Strong

National Security: Going “Up” or “Down”?

In his January State of the Union message, President Obama said two noteworthy things: the first was “America must move off a permanent war footing.” Of course this remark was preceded and followed by a lot of predictable stuff about keeping America strong by military means. But the President did preface the bold remark I’ve […]

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Filed Under: Peace, Still Featured

January 11, 2014 By Susan C. Strong

SOS: Framing the Climate Protection Act Now

Senators Boxer and Sanders are now back on track promoting their Climate Protection Act, and I am happy to note that they describe what companies would pay as a carbon ‘fee,’ not a ‘tax.’ After all, it’s a ‘pay to play’ situation for business, and that is the definition of a ‘fee,’ not a tax. […]

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Filed Under: Environment & Sustainability

November 30, 2013 By Susan C. Strong

Reframing Obamacare Now

The administration’s decision to adopt the Right’s “Obamacare” frame for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been incomprehensible for a long time. But now it is becoming mortally dangerous.(1) And not just for Obama and the Democrats—for all the sick people who suddenly can get care now via the ACA, care the Right wants to […]

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Filed Under: Social and Economic Justice, Still Featured

November 2, 2013 By Susan C. Strong

Framing Climate Change Action Now

There is evidence that a number of American citizens know we have a climate change problem. But many of them experience it as something we can’t fix technically, socially or politically. So they ignore it to keep going day by day. Among the already convinced, that’s where the issue is stuck. But we also have […]

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Filed Under: Environment & Sustainability, Still Featured

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