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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American Dream or American Sword?
Framing the Right’s Nuclear Gamble
I recently received a handwritten, signed, gold-embossed, heavy cream note card from my congressional representative, after I had sent him a preprinted postcard urging support for reducing nuclear weapons. He suggested I write to Senator Kyl, the Republican Whip, since Kyl is the one promoting more delay in ratifying the new START Treaty. Of course, […]
Framing Earthgate After Copenhagen
OpEdNews Original Content at www.opednews.com/articles/Framing-Earthgate-After-Co-by-Susan-Strong-091215-155.html Please scroll down to see the article, which is an updated version of an earlier MP Post with a different title. December 16, 2009 Framing Earthgate After Copenhagen By Susan C. Strong, The Metaphor Project, www.metaphorproject.org/ Lately we’ve been hearing a lot about the need for more preventive health care, […]
Smart Healthcare Includes Preventive Earthcare
Lately we’ve been hearing a lot about the need for preventive health care, and rightly so. Private insurance companies have been unwilling to pay for it (what were they thinking?), and the uninsured can’t afford it. We taxpayers end up covering the high cost of the emergency room result. However, the price of ignoring preventive […]
Eco-Workshop Examples 1997-2002
Some creations generated from standard American themes or stereotypes: Balancing our ecological (or environmental) budget, getting rid of the ecological deficit or debt, relying on ecological deficit financing, calling for an ecological audit Moving from the ‘me generation’ to the ‘we generation’ ‘Pioneering a new green economy,’ ‘bioneering the new green economy’ Making, gearing up […]
Our new Metaphor Project Strategy 6/04/22
Our new Metaphor Project strategy prioritizes being active on social media over writing blogs. Now that President Biden and Vice President Harris are vigorously pursuing the positive changes our nation so desperately needs, we particularly recommend that you use some of the language we suggest in the following tools on our website, and similar words you […]
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 […]
Say: “Move America Forward?”
In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “Forward, not left, not right!” My explanation for this change was familiar to my readers: always put the positive first. But today I’m suggesting a far more important edit: […]
Framing Our March Messages to Persuade
This year April is march month: the Tax march on 4.15, the Science March on 4.22 and the People’s Climate March on 4.29. As a tactic, marching does create a highly visible sign of resistance. Large numbers of people have made it a priority to drop whatever they do on Saturdays and show up in the […]