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January 30, 2020 By Susan C. Strong

Framing #ClimateDamage for the #ClimateHoldouts

For too long too much of our climate crisis framing has resonated only with the already convinced. That is still going on today, this very minute. Even Greta is doing it, with an important exception I’ll mention later in this piece. But before the rest of us can get more effective, we need to be […]

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Filed Under: American Politics, Environment & Sustainability, Still Featured Tagged With: #ClimateDamage, #FossilFuel, business, capitalism, Chorofluorocarbons, ClimateDamageCosts, ClimateHoldouts, ClimateSafetProfits, economics, finance, framing, oil, organizing, SeatBelts

July 29, 2019 By Susan C. Strong

Use Smart Words to Stop #NukeDoomsday

During this Democratic primary season and even before, a great many longstanding injustices in American life have become high profile: #MeToo, police violence against people of color, the climate crisis, to name just a few. But there’s one still under the public radar: the nuclear threat. The climate crisis will make life on earth increasingly […]

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Filed Under: American Politics, Still Featured Tagged With: #2020Campaign, #2020Candidates, #birddogging, #Ellsberg, #ForeignPolicy, #Iran, #NorthKorea, #nuclear, #NuclearDrones, #NuclearOmnicide, #NuclearWar, #NuclearWinter, #NukeDoomsday, #nukes, #Pentagon, #PoliticalFraming, #RedButton, #Russia, #TheDoomsdayMachine, 2020Election, Congress, House, organizing

April 6, 2019 By Susan C. Strong

Being Clear About What #TrueAmericanFreedom Means!

Ever since Rep.Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D- NY) and her colleagues launched the Green New Deal resolution, the GOP has been betting they can scare the American electorate with new fears of evil government control.  Their method is to shout some version of “Freedom or Socialism? That is the question for 2020!” But this GOP “freedom” […]

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Filed Under: American Politics, Still Featured Tagged With: #2020, #AynRandTrap, #CarbonFee&Dividend, #CarbonTax, #ClimateCosts, #ClimateDamage, #CommonGood, #ConstitutionalRights, #DaringGreatly, #ethnic, #FossilFuel, #Freedom, #Gender, #GunControl, #GunSafety, #GunSense, #Pentagon, #Reich, #Religion, AffordableCareAct, economy, energy, GOP, MedicareForAll, pollution, SinglePayer

May 30, 2015 By Susan C. Strong

Say: “Smart on Prison Dollars” not “Smart on Crime”

With recent reports that aspiring presidential candidates Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin and Senator Marco Rubio, have both bucked the growing wave of bipartisan agreement about reforming criminal justice in this country, suddenly what looked like a slam dunk reform movement may be in jeopardy again. Up until recently, there has been a growing bipartisan consensus […]

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Filed Under: Social and Economic Justice, Still Featured Tagged With: 2016 election, criminal justice reform, governors, presidential candidates, private prison lobby

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

August 31, 2014 By Susan C. Strong

Stopping the Mega-Corp Coup

What could make Americans say “enough!” to mega-corporations’ meddling?  Examples of it are everywhere now: the attempt to privatize water in Detroit, massive cuts to public education in Mississippi, Burger King’s tax evading move to Canada, to name just a few. (1)  Their goal?  Extracting the last dollar of corporate profit from increasingly desperate people […]

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Filed Under: American Politics, Still Featured

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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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

February 1, 2013 By Susan C. Strong

Tell the Media Again: Say “Safety,” not “Control!”

Mayors Against Illegal Guns has recently reported that 100% of Americans want universal background checks for gun buyers. They say that even gun owners and hunters,  grass roots NRA members, agree on this. Of course the national NRA leadership is against it. So right now it’s NRA head Wayne LaPierre vs We the People of […]

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