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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

July 7, 2019 By Susan C. Strong

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: […]

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Filed Under: American Politics Tagged With: 2020Election, activism, Activists, campaigning, ClimateSafety, Democrats, FairPay, framing, GOP, healthcare, Immigration, jobs, organizing, slogans, SpeakingAmerican

July 6, 2019 By Susan C. Strong

Springing the GOP Trap

 This post was originally written during the Trump presidency but all of the advice in it still applies, no matter who is your opponent. These days every morning brings a new shock to the republic, as Mr. Trump and the GOP drive Americans into bigger and bigger traps. Trump’s most outrageous caper yet, the federal […]

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Filed Under: American Politics, Sticky Featured Tagged With: #AmericanPoliticalFraming, #PoliticalFraming, 2020Election, AffordableCareAct, bipartisan, ChangeCourse, Congress, CounterFraming, GOP, Left, legislation, McConnell, MedicareForAll, organizing, progressve, Shutdown, SinglePayer, SmartWall, TheWall, TrainWreck, Trump

October 11, 2018 By Susan C. Strong

GOTV Plus: Revisiting How to frame it “American” Now

If you are doing GOTV this fall, you will be given a party script, of course. But it’s always good to have some more ideas about what else to say, if you get into a real conversation. So here is some review on how to “speak American” now. These days the political framing challenge we […]

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Filed Under: American Politics Tagged With: #election, economy, framing, GOTV, guns, healthcare, ICE, ideals, metaphors, midterms, organizing, rules, taxes, voters, wages

August 24, 2018 By Susan C. Strong

Framing Our Climate March Messages to Persuade: September 2018

On September 8 there will be climate marches all over our planet. The date has been chosen, no doubt, in order to increase pressure on and publicity for The Global Climate Action Summit four days later in San Francisco. Here in California, Mark Baldaserre, CEO of the Public Policy Institute of California, has commented that […]

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Filed Under: American Politics Tagged With: #AmericanPoliticalFraming, #CarbonTax, #ClimateChangeDamage, #ClimateChangeDenial, #ClimateMarch, #PurpleNotRedBlue, bipartisan, framing, organizing

July 9, 2018 By Susan C. Strong

How to frame it “American” Now

These days the political framing challenge we face is greater than any we’ve faced in a long time. While it is absolutely vital to avoid repeating the frames, words, and memes our president tweets or uses in any way, shape, or form, even to negate or critique them, there is a great deal more we […]

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Filed Under: American Politics Tagged With: #DCcorruption, #election, #GunSafety, #ICEchildAbuse, #PoliticalFraming, #tariffs, #TaxBill, #voting, healthcare, organizing, voters

April 14, 2018 By Susan C. Strong

How to use “#SharedSecurityWorks. #PreemptiveWarFails!” Now

With President Trump’s choice of Bolton as National Security Adviser and Pompeo for State, our country has reached a more dangerous place than ever, especially in the light of new U.S. air strikes on Syria. A wide range of Americans, even Republicans, have been appalled by the choice of Bolton, an open supporter of preemptive […]

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Filed Under: Peace Tagged With: #Bolton, #ColdWar, #Doomsday, #GulfStream, #HybridWarfare, #NationalSecurity, #negotiation, #nukes, #omnicide, #PeaceMovement, #Pompeo, #PreemptiveWar, #Senate, #SharedSecurity, #Syria, ClimateChange, Congress, framing, organizing, War

February 14, 2018 By Susan C. Strong

What “#(Americans)StepUp _______” Can Do Right Now

Readers who follow me on Twitter and The Metaphor Project’s FB page may have noticed that as 2018 began, I started using the hashtag “#AmericansStepUp_______” or variants of it. (1) With it I identify news and frames about people, communities, or states countering DC folly with positive projects at home. The most recent example is […]

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Filed Under: American Politics Tagged With: #creativity, #elections, #FactoryFarms, #FossilFuelBan, #GrassRoots, #rural, ClimateChange, framing, organizing, rebirth

November 21, 2017 By Susan C. Strong

Say: “Stop the GOP war on America: (fill in the blanks). “  

Emerging from a long stretch of social media push back, I’ve been thinking about something more permanent. How might we create an “umbrella” frame that would bring it all together in a form all of us can use?  As Naomi Klein has shown, a key part of the “shock doctrine” is overwhelming the victim with […]

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Filed Under: American Politics Tagged With: ACA repeal, Alt-GOP, American Dream, American framing, American values, fascism, framing, GOP, Ideal American Identity Story, intersectionality, organizing, Resistance, Shock Doctrine, Tax Bill, Trump

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