framing "Winners and Losers"
I am working on a “visual frame” for the September 15th Peace March.
To reach the 30 percent that still support the “Losers”, I am using a sports frame of “Winning and Losing” and a religious frame of “Peacemakers and Blind leaders of the Blind”.
I could use Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, King and Robert Kennedy if it would be better to use only historical winners.
Who would you suggest for the four winners?
http://www.stormloader.com/users/runjay/WinnersLosers.swf
The “text frame”
NFL coaches with big losing records get replaced. With a multi-year losing streak in Iraq, our politically blind coaches have betrayed our troops. Our politically blind coaches keep moving the goal post of failure and getting more of our troops killed. The longer Congress follows, the more of our troops will die in an ever deepening ditch of death.
Please add your ideas.
Thanks - Jay
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framing "winners and losers"
As George Lackoff has pointed out, the Iraq operation ceased to be a war in May 2003; it is now an occupation. Therefore, you are using the framing of those who make war. One cannot win an occupation. Also, as Iraq has once again shown, there are no winners in war. Furthermore, the sports frame is simply another war frame (on this, see Alfie Kohn's 1992 book No Contest: The Case Against Competition).
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Add Abraham Lincoln and Harry Truman to your winners. I love the picture of Truman holding up the front page of the Chicago Tribune the day after he was re-elected.
For biblical winners, Daniel, and the three children in the fiery furnace (Shadrach, Mesach, and Abednego) These biblical characters defied the government of Nebuchadnezzar, and won in the end.
Examples of biblical winners:
The Jews in the Book of Esther,
Rahab the harlot
Naomi and Ruth
Job (if you can understand the book)
Ezra and Nehimiah- who rebuilt the temple
My personal favorite: Elisha (successor to Elijah) The only other character who has more miricles ascribed to him is Jesus Christ... yet very few people have heard of Elisha.
New Testament:
The original twelve apostles. From the defaet of Christ's cruxifiction, they proclaimed a message that changed the world.
The poor widow who gave "two mites" to the offering