I really enjoyed your livestream with Anat Shenker-Osorio. Thank you. I want to respond to your last question. I’ve been designing demo signs and my group, Momentum Blue Seattle, has been printing them up and distributing them to demonstrators in the greater Seattle area. We’ve been printing 100+ before all the big marches. So, I think a lot about messaging and, since we read Anand’s book The Persuaders, Anat has changed my thinking. For instance, in making a series of signs on immigration and ICE I started out with “Fuck I.C.E.” to “Abolish I.C.E.” and finally worked my way around to “Immigrants Belong.” When I got there I realized that’s what I really wanted to say. Not Immigrants Welcome, which basically says it’s my house and you’re a visitor, but Immigrants Belong, which reframes the narrative. Cuz it seems like whether you’re for immigration or against it everybody talks about it like it’s a problem (which is their frame). “Immigrants Belong” does an Aikido move around the standard narrative frame. People really respond to the message, and not just activists. I just gave 60 buttons to my doctor’s UW Medicine clinic. We have distributed over 1200 of these buttons just in the greater Seattle area and I’ve sent several hundred to places around the country, including Charlotte.
So my response to your question is a bit of a rant. Why, oh why are we stuck with “NO KINGS!” Now I guess we’re on 3.0. This is so lame. Who makes these decisions? It’s a negative message that I find hard to make creative signs for (I do but I don’t find it inspiring - I could more excited about NO FASCIST LEECHES).
I think our overarching message should be “Stand UP!” It’s an active verb. It tells us what we need to do. It rhetorically references strength against oppression. Once we had this messaging in place we could have subthemes: Stand UP! for Freedom, Stand UP! for Our Immigrant Neighbors, Stand UP! for Healthcare, Stand UP! for the Rule of Law. The possibilities are endless, and goddess knows we’ve got a nearly inexhaustible supply of issues to stand up for.
I’ve made over 200 sign designs. Every time I get anxious or pissed off about the news I make a sign. That’s a lot of signs. I tell my friends it’s cheaper than a coke habit (I’m guessing here). I use Stand UP! in many of my designs because that’s often what I most want to say. I’ve put an example of a Stand UP! button and a hat.
So that all said, I would like to know how to get into Anat’s bi-weekly messaging call. I did just get on her website and sent her an email using the form (which did not allow me to attach images). Maybe that’s enough?
Thanks for all your work. You’re making a difference for me and a bunch of people in my life.
Definitely agree…appreciate your elaborating too - adds emphasis! In my experience, it is easy for many many to recognize the ‘ethical’ problem, and be upset at gut level, but be unable and/or fail to articulate it. A call to action naturally proceeds from speaking the ‘ethical’ point: As in, this is basically unjust, unfair, wrong. SO let's address it, correct it, (and participate in justice-making.) Crediting my mentor's apropos axiom here: CLAIM vs. BLAME …
You know, standing is not so easy for me either. I can't go to the marches and demos because of my disabilities. I interpret Stand UP! metaphorically and I feel it includes me. While I certainly want people to show up it just doesn't carry the weight for me that Stand UP! does. When I say "Stand UP!" I know the next line is "to the oppressors." It's about taking a moral stance, which can be done from any physical position.
I’m right with you. I think we could have our blue Stand UP! hats. I’ve been set up a print on demand store as a way to get more of my designs out in the world (some income for me and some fundraisers for local groups). I’ve already designed a Stand UP! hat. https://call-me-woke.printify.me/product/25626712/baseball-cap-stand-up-4-democracy
I'm in Tulsa, I say this all the time: "If our protesting wasn't working, they wouldn't be doing all this shit" and remember, humor is subversive. Use a blue dot as a logo.
absolutely! I'll have to stop saying to my R friend who hasn't heard any of my "News" and my pat response: "of course you haven't because THEY don't want you to know it". I'll have to ask him why he hasn't heard it and let him connect the dots.
You did it again Jess. You introduced us to this wonderful smart woman, Anat. We are just soaking it in. Send out the links to her messages so we can learn more. Thank you, thank you . . .
Remember- Radio Free Europe- when the East Germans needed to hear the truth (not the propaganda) And an effort was made to supple these other images into the hearts and minds of the occupied state. We could use a broadcast.. Like Jess's work- the possitive efforts being made-a voice of hope actually- and freedom and that freedom is real. Sincerely Sally King
If you have read the Dr. Seuss book about the plain-bellied Sneetches and the star-bellied Sneetches ... I'd like to see us also wear red hats. Maybe ours can be something like MAKA, with this underneath: Make America Kind Again. Or MACA Make America Compassionate Again. Or "tolerant", etc. If MAGA people see that, they will know we aren't MAGA.
the Haitian Community did that in Springfield. They had banquets in Haitian restaurants for the community. I'm from Yellow Springs, Ohio, 20 minutes south of Springfield.
Sorry to say this, but if there is any logic in Anat Osorio's words it is almost completely lost in her hurricane of words. But if it motivates us, then it is a wonderful battle song.
For me the tactic of ridiculing these billionaires, bullies and their goons works.
BB's. BB goons begone. Class B human life forms at their best. And from there all the way down to Class F on their front line. (Selfish life forms gotta have that hierarchy.)
I really enjoyed your livestream with Anat Shenker-Osorio. Thank you. I want to respond to your last question. I’ve been designing demo signs and my group, Momentum Blue Seattle, has been printing them up and distributing them to demonstrators in the greater Seattle area. We’ve been printing 100+ before all the big marches. So, I think a lot about messaging and, since we read Anand’s book The Persuaders, Anat has changed my thinking. For instance, in making a series of signs on immigration and ICE I started out with “Fuck I.C.E.” to “Abolish I.C.E.” and finally worked my way around to “Immigrants Belong.” When I got there I realized that’s what I really wanted to say. Not Immigrants Welcome, which basically says it’s my house and you’re a visitor, but Immigrants Belong, which reframes the narrative. Cuz it seems like whether you’re for immigration or against it everybody talks about it like it’s a problem (which is their frame). “Immigrants Belong” does an Aikido move around the standard narrative frame. People really respond to the message, and not just activists. I just gave 60 buttons to my doctor’s UW Medicine clinic. We have distributed over 1200 of these buttons just in the greater Seattle area and I’ve sent several hundred to places around the country, including Charlotte.
So my response to your question is a bit of a rant. Why, oh why are we stuck with “NO KINGS!” Now I guess we’re on 3.0. This is so lame. Who makes these decisions? It’s a negative message that I find hard to make creative signs for (I do but I don’t find it inspiring - I could more excited about NO FASCIST LEECHES).
I think our overarching message should be “Stand UP!” It’s an active verb. It tells us what we need to do. It rhetorically references strength against oppression. Once we had this messaging in place we could have subthemes: Stand UP! for Freedom, Stand UP! for Our Immigrant Neighbors, Stand UP! for Healthcare, Stand UP! for the Rule of Law. The possibilities are endless, and goddess knows we’ve got a nearly inexhaustible supply of issues to stand up for.
I’ve made over 200 sign designs. Every time I get anxious or pissed off about the news I make a sign. That’s a lot of signs. I tell my friends it’s cheaper than a coke habit (I’m guessing here). I use Stand UP! in many of my designs because that’s often what I most want to say. I’ve put an example of a Stand UP! button and a hat.
So that all said, I would like to know how to get into Anat’s bi-weekly messaging call. I did just get on her website and sent her an email using the form (which did not allow me to attach images). Maybe that’s enough?
Thanks for all your work. You’re making a difference for me and a bunch of people in my life.
The images I pasted in didn't post so here they are in a Note. https://substack.com/profile/1753166-barbara-taylor/note/c-199107640?r=11kr2&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
Definitely agree…appreciate your elaborating too - adds emphasis! In my experience, it is easy for many many to recognize the ‘ethical’ problem, and be upset at gut level, but be unable and/or fail to articulate it. A call to action naturally proceeds from speaking the ‘ethical’ point: As in, this is basically unjust, unfair, wrong. SO let's address it, correct it, (and participate in justice-making.) Crediting my mentor's apropos axiom here: CLAIM vs. BLAME …
May I suggest we make this change: "SHOW UP!!", which does not exclude the many among us who cannot "stand"?
How about stealing a phrase from sports teams—“rise up!” Everyone can rise up in some way.
That’s good too. So many alternatives to putting NO KINGS on repeat.
You know, standing is not so easy for me either. I can't go to the marches and demos because of my disabilities. I interpret Stand UP! metaphorically and I feel it includes me. While I certainly want people to show up it just doesn't carry the weight for me that Stand UP! does. When I say "Stand UP!" I know the next line is "to the oppressors." It's about taking a moral stance, which can be done from any physical position.
Actually, Stand UP is great, because you can stand up for, against, to, or anything else. It would fit on a hat, if anyone is so inclined. Beanies?
I’m right with you. I think we could have our blue Stand UP! hats. I’ve been set up a print on demand store as a way to get more of my designs out in the world (some income for me and some fundraisers for local groups). I’ve already designed a Stand UP! hat. https://call-me-woke.printify.me/product/25626712/baseball-cap-stand-up-4-democracy
These look great! Beanies might be good for this winter.
Could every person in the Democratic Party bureaucracy PLEASE watch this video? Their messaging has been awful for years...
I'm in Tulsa, I say this all the time: "If our protesting wasn't working, they wouldn't be doing all this shit" and remember, humor is subversive. Use a blue dot as a logo.
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I love this! The formula is simple!
First. Do not reenforce the enemy's sound bite by repeating it, "Can you believe Trump says Haitians are eating...."
Next, start with recognizing the pattern. "Yep, they're doing it again."
Then a simple phrase, "This is what Trump's Bullies for Billionaires do."
Lastly, add a bit of ridicule or comedy, "Trump's the last person to be criticizing people's eating habits."
absolutely! I'll have to stop saying to my R friend who hasn't heard any of my "News" and my pat response: "of course you haven't because THEY don't want you to know it". I'll have to ask him why he hasn't heard it and let him connect the dots.
Jon Stewart is doing his part to get the message out,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IcUQkvoRIc&t=4s
Thank you! I have to remind myself it’s OK to laugh.
You did it again Jess. You introduced us to this wonderful smart woman, Anat. We are just soaking it in. Send out the links to her messages so we can learn more. Thank you, thank you . . .
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I LOVE Anat! Just like Jess said.
Remember- Radio Free Europe- when the East Germans needed to hear the truth (not the propaganda) And an effort was made to supple these other images into the hearts and minds of the occupied state. We could use a broadcast.. Like Jess's work- the possitive efforts being made-a voice of hope actually- and freedom and that freedom is real. Sincerely Sally King
Renee’s wife did this beautifully. What she was for!!!
Of course I said this before I heard Anat helped write the statement :-).
If you have read the Dr. Seuss book about the plain-bellied Sneetches and the star-bellied Sneetches ... I'd like to see us also wear red hats. Maybe ours can be something like MAKA, with this underneath: Make America Kind Again. Or MACA Make America Compassionate Again. Or "tolerant", etc. If MAGA people see that, they will know we aren't MAGA.
Barbara Taylor suggested Stand UP America. You can change the end. Stand UP for kindness. Stand UP for affordability. Stand UP for the rule of law. Stand UP for decency, etc. https://substack.com/profile/1753166-barbara-taylor/note/c-199107640?r=11kr2&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
the Haitian Community did that in Springfield. They had banquets in Haitian restaurants for the community. I'm from Yellow Springs, Ohio, 20 minutes south of Springfield.
Fabulous! I have already watched this video twice.
https://substack.com/@lulufraser/note/c-157575164?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=4dh5iz
Purple is the color of all parties. I wear this hat always.
Purple is the color of all parties. I wear this hat always.
Sorry to say this, but if there is any logic in Anat Osorio's words it is almost completely lost in her hurricane of words. But if it motivates us, then it is a wonderful battle song.
For me the tactic of ridiculing these billionaires, bullies and their goons works.
BB's. BB goons begone. Class B human life forms at their best. And from there all the way down to Class F on their front line. (Selfish life forms gotta have that hierarchy.)
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Great conversation!
interesting! yes, let's send these to the Democrats.