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Day-Long Workshop with UW Professors David Domke & Crispin Thurlow (Portland)

DomkeThe Power of Articulation: Turning Values into Political Messages
Using Value-Laden Language to Communicate about Health Reform 

A special one day workshop for leaders in health reform.

For too long, health reform leaders have been bogged down in policy-speak. That is, they have focused on policy minutae and failed to speak a language that connects with everyday Americans. This approach fails in the public arena, because the reality is that many Americans don’t have the interest or time to sift through the endless array of issues, personalities, and competing agendas in today’s political culture. As a result, individuals look for ways to simplify their intake and evaluation of information. One way that has become increasingly commonplace among citizens is to rely upon “cues” — that is, credible people or information that can be confidently used to guide decisions. The most politically potent cues, often, are core values and beliefs that unite Americans and inspire them.  

The bottom line is this: Progressives must become effective — much more effective — in identifying and communicating their core values in ways that are moral and culturally resonant. We call this articulation: the use of language in purposeful, everyday ways to create clear connections between guiding principles and social priorities. To do this is hard work — far harder than one might suspect. The approach we utilize is highly interactive and hands-on: Our goal is to help you identify and pursue your goals by clarifying and working through key ideas, issues, strategies, and concerns. We strive to merge our scholarly expertise with concrete, realistic, and applied understandings of contemporary politics and media.  

Proposed Workshop Agenda:

The Archimedes Movement is proud to sponsor a 6-hour workshop to help activists craft a purposeful language to communicate about the issues that are important to us.

The workshop will include elements of these steps:

  • identifying central, over-arching principles that unite groups,
  • creating powerful, engaging language that link these principles with your messaging,
  • learning how the media serves as an “echo chamber” for political messages, and
  • connecting these principles, language, and political messages into action plans.

David Domke, is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. He worked as a journalist for several newspapers in the 1980s and early 1990s, including the Orange County Registerand Atlanta Journal-Constitution, before earning a Ph.D. in 1996. His research and teaching focus on how political leaders strategically craft their public communications and how news media and the public respond to these messages. His most recent book is The God Strategy: How Religion Became A Political Weapon in America, published in 2008 by Oxford University Press. In the last few years he has spoken about politics and news with academic, political, media, and public audiences around the country. In 2002 he received the University of Washington’s Distinguished Teaching Award, the university’s highest honor for teaching.  In 2006 he was named the Washington state Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. And in spring 2008 he was selected as the favorite professor of the UW graduating class. 

Crispin Thurlow, also a professor in the Department of Communication, has an academic background in psychology and critical linguistics, and his work examines the ways that people use language and other forms of communication to negotiate their differences. Specifically, he is committed to understanding how relations of power and conceptions of privilege and inequality are sustained in everyday human interaction. His latest book is Talking Adolescence: Perspectives on Communication in the Teenage Years (Peter Lang, 2005). In 2007, he received the University of Washington's Distinguished Teaching Award.

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To find out more please email Matt Webber at matt@wecandobetter.org.

Start Date and Time: 
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 9:00am
End Date and Time: 
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 3:00pm
Location: 
Urban and Public Affairs Bldg
506 SW Mill St
Portland, OR, 97201
See map: Google Maps

Town Hall Update

Wow, the town halls are hot in the news - but not because the media is talking about what we need in terms of health reform, or how the health crisis is hurting Americans and American businesses, but because of the sound of people trying to disrupt the town hall process by yelling and screaming. 

Speak Up for Health Reform Done Right

Don't stand by and watch.

Talking Points: What to tell Congress during their August recess

The message below is the result of a collaborative effort among Archimedes Movement Community Leadership Council members and staff. Members of Congress are holding town hall meetings all over the country in August. We're maintaining a list of the Oregon ones here

Now is the time to share your views on health reform.

Congressman Wu: Town hall in Portland

Oregon 3rd District Congressman David Wu will hold a town hall at Good Sam Hospital in Portland on Tuesday, August 11th.

Should you attend, please speak up and ask the congressman a question. Here are some possible talking points from which you might formulate your question:

We support comprehensive health reform that would accomplish the following:

  • Every U.S. resident will have access to a clearly defined set of essential health services. 
  • The Triple Aim will drive the design of the health care system, in that the health system demonstrates:
    • Improvement in the overall health of the defined population,
    • Reduced per-capita costs, and
    • Improvement in the individual patient experience in terms of clinical outcomes, patient safety and patient satisfaction.
  • The business models within our health system must realign financial incentives to make them consistent with the Triple Aim.
  • Prevention, health education, and wellness services will be provided and promoted.
  • Disparities in access to an essential benefits package and subsequently health outcomes between people of different socioeconomic and demographic groups is not acceptable and therefore should be eliminated.
  • The delivery system must be transformed to provide greater access to effective primary care and chronic disease management, while specialty care must be more effectively linked and integrated with primary care providers.
  • Electronic Health Records should be developed and implemented to promote and support  evidence based decisions and improved efficiency of health care delivery.
  • We must include development of a competitive publicly funded insurance option that gives Americans affordable and fair choice in how their insurance is purchased.
  • We must explicitly acknowledge that public resources are finite. Therefore, public funds must be focused on providing the services which will cause the greatest improvement in population health. Many people may be able to purchase services that are more than those that are provided as part of the essential benefit package available to all residents and they should be allowed to do so. This is true of Medicare where close to 80% of Medicare beneficiaries have some type of supplemental coverage on top of their traditional Medicare benefit. However, the core benefit must provide a sufficient floor of essential benefits so that buying additional services is not absolutely necessary in order to achieve consistent positive health outcomes.
Start Date and Time: 
Tue, 08/11/2009 - 5:00am
End Date and Time: 
Tue, 08/11/2009 - 6:00am

Howard Dean in Portland

Howard Dean was in Portland last Friday at Powell's Bookstore giving remarks to a crowd of about 200 people about a book he has just finished called Howard Dean's Prescription For Real Reform. Rick had been invited to meet with him after the book signing and I tagged along.

Update on Health Information Technology

Liz Baxter and I attended the ‘Oregon Health Information Technology (HIT) Stakeholder Engagement Meeting' in Salem on Thursday July 23.

End of Session Celebration

Hosted by SAFE: United for a Healthy Oregon, you're invited to a reception to celebrate Oregon's big step forward on health reform with the passage of HB 2009 and HB 2116. IF you have questions you can call Chris Coughlin at 503-312-8178.

Wear your WCDB t-shirt if you have one; if you don't have one let us know and Erick will get one to you for the next event! 

Start Date and Time: 
Wed, 07/22/2009 - 11:00am
End Date and Time: 
Tue, 07/21/2009 - 1:00pm

End of Session Celebration

Hosted by SAFE: United for a Healthy Oregon, you're invited to a reception to celebrate Oregon's big step forward on health reform with the passage of HB 2009 and HB 2116. IF you have questions you can call Chris Coughlin at 503-312-8178.

Wear your WCDB t-shirt if you have one; if you don't have one let us know and Erick will get one to you for the next event! 

Start Date and Time: 
Wed, 07/22/2009 - 11:00am
End Date and Time: 
Tue, 07/21/2009 - 1:00pm

Both HB2116 and HB2009 are passed by Oregon House

Next step - vote on the floor of the Oregon Senate, possibly as soon as Wednesday. If you have not contacted your Senator yet, now is the time to do so.

Liz

HB2116 Sent to Ways and Means Committee; HB2009 Work Session Today

HB 2116, which would generate revenue needed to pull down matching federal funds for expanding coverage to uninsured children and low income adults, was passed out of Oregon's House Revenue Committee on Thursday and sent to the Joint Ways and Means Committee with a do-pass recommendation.

Your Job: Keep the Legislature on Course

Three ways to get your message heard in Salem

In the midst of a legislative session with tough economic decisions to be made, it's very easy for the well-intentioned Oregonians serving in our legislature to lose sight of the goals of health reform. We have three ways to help you remind them to be bold and set a course for Oregon's future health system.

Archimedes Member Roberta Hall interviewing Ruth Palma on KBOO

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Archimedes member Roberta Hall will be interviewing nurse practitioner Ruth Palma, who discusses her profession, current problems in the health care system and the need for universal health care.

The interview is part of KBOO's Health and Health Care Forum, radio series that provides a window into today's health care by interviews with diverse people involved in it. One goal of the programs is to help the public expand its horizons about needed changes, and hence reduce fear and increase support as changes are planned.

The show will be aired on KBOO fm radio (90.7 Portland, 91.9 in the Columbia Gorge, and 100.7 in the Willamette Valley) from 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Mondays. The program is hosted by Roberta Hall, co-leader of the Corvallis Archimedes chapter and produced by her and Joe Magner of Anabyte Recording and Electronics, Corvallis.   

If you enjoy the show, let Kathleen Stephenson know; she is KBOO morning news editor (amnews@kboo.org). The show is also available to community radio stations in other parts of Oregon, who can contact Hall for information (rhall@oregonstate.edu). 

 

Start Date and Time: 
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 2:00am
End Date and Time: 
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 2:30pm

Pre-Election House Parties with John Kitzhaber

Your HouseWant to know where the Presidential candidates stand on health care reform?

Are you a health reform "Maverick" filled with "Hope"?

Want John Kitzhaber In Your Living Room?

You got it!

» Sign-up to host a house party

If this link doesn't work, please email Matt Webber of the Archimedes Movement staff (

Obama and McCainThe Archimedes Movement invites you and your guests to join us on a statewide (and beyond) house party conference call with John Kitzhaber on Thursday, October 16th. The call is to discuss the health reform plans of Presidential candidates Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama, as well as address the need for grassroots reform at the state level. This is a great opportunity for you to invite family, friends, and neighbors into your home to not only learn learn about the candidates' plans but also to grow the Archimedes Movement.

It's Real Simple:

  1. Sign-up to be a host
  2. We'll provide you with the "How-To Kit" (see attachments below)
  3. Invite 5-10 friends, family or neighbors over to your house
  4. We'll then email you the conference call number 4 days prior to the event
  5. Pick up the phone on October 16th @ 7pm and dial-in

What You'll Then Need:

  1. A phone (with a speakerphone option)
  2. Internet connection (It will help but is not mandatory)
  3. A living room (or a space with chairs so guests don't sit on the floor)
  4. 5-10 friends
  5. A desire to reform health care from the grassroots level

These house parties will occur all over Oregon and will give people a chance to come together around a common goal: working to fix a broken health care system trough grassroots education and mobilization. With your help this event accomplishes the following:

  • Educates people on where the candidates stand on health reform

  • Introduce the Archimedes Movement to new people

  • Get friends, neighbors and coworkers talking about health reform

  • Recruit new Archimedes Movement members

  • Energize new grassroots supporters

» Sign-up to host a house party

If the above link doesn't work, or if you have a question, please send a note to Matt Webber at .

Start Date and Time: 
Thu, 10/16/2008 - 11:30am
End Date and Time: 
Thu, 10/16/2008 - 1:00pm

Oregon Health Fund Board: Community Town Forum in Hillsboro

In September, the Oregon Health Fund Board (OHFB) will hold a series of public meetings across the state to share details and gain feedback on its draft plan for reforming health care and building a healthy Oregon. For more information contact 503.373.1538.

The draft will be available in early September. OHFB staff will be presenting it across the state and want your feedback before finalizing their report in October; your comments will be summarized and forwarded with the Final Report to the Governor and Legislature.

This will be a Town Hall style forum designed to encourage both feedback and dialog.

Audience members are asked to focus comments on concepts being presented; limit comments to no longer than 2 minutes per speaker to allow as many people as possible to speak. Comment cards will be distributed. Attendees may leave written testimony at the end of the evening.

Start Date and Time: 
Tue, 09/09/2008 - 11:30am
End Date and Time: 
Tue, 09/09/2008 - 2:00pm

Archimedes Movement 1st Annual Membership Conference


Inaugural Membership
Conference
Saturday, June 14, 2008

 

John Kitzhaber invites you to join him at our 1st Annual Membership Conference. You can see Gov. Kitzhaber's invitation in his blog.

Agenda
9:30 am - Pre-conference workshops (optional, but pre-registration is required)
12:00 pm - Registration and lunch, and bumper sticker contest
1:30 - Plenary Session and Member Convention with John Kitzhaber and the Interim Steering Committee (see grassroots structure document here)
2:45 - Concurrent workshops
4:30 - Looking Forward: Our Next Steps, John Kitzhaber
5:30 - 7:00 pm - Members-only Reception with John Kitzhaber: Appetizers, no-host bar and live music by the Bobby Torres Ensemble - Fun!

» Workshop details (tentative)

Location
Lewis & Clark College
The campus is truly a beautiful setting – see photos. There's free parking, too.

» Lewis & Clark campus map

Lewis & Clark will have road signs posted coming from all directions to help you find your way. The conference will mainly take place at the Templeton Campus Center, #36 on the campus map.
» TriMet Bus Line #39 (Lewis & Clark) map & schedule
As of this very moment the weather is looking good so please feel free to bring a blanket if you would care to eat lunch outside on the beautiful campus. This is Oregon – so please bring an umbrella as our breakout rooms are in a neighboring building.

Accommodations
Lewis and Clark is making dorm rooms available for those who wish to spend the night Friday and/or Saturday evenings. The lodging must be pre-arranged and costs between $22-$27 per person.

Cost
$30 - Conference sessions, materials and lunch
$35 - The above, plus the Members-only Reception and 1-year membership

A limited number of scholarships are available. You may also inquire about a travel stipend.

For more information or to reserve a room or to arrange to pay onsite, please contact Matt Webber at 503-860-5854 or matt@wecandobetter.org.

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Start Date and Time: 
Sat, 06/14/2008 - 2:30am
End Date and Time: 
Sat, 06/14/2008 - 12:00pm

Oregon Health Fund Board - Community Meeting in Washington County

Health care is on everyone's mind. Health insurance costs, quality of care, access in our communities - there are many concerns which affect us all. While the health care system is broken, there’s currently a process in place to fix it.

Oregon leaders are developing a proposal for quality, affordable health care for Oregonians. But what does that mean for you?

Join us at a community near you for an important discussion on health care in Oregon. These events are free and open to the public. Your input will help shape the future of health care in our state. Everyone’s voice matters:

  • people with or without health care
  • employers
  • seniors
  • people with disabilities

You can also get involved in the conversation online at a new website on health reform in Oregon. Share your views at www.talkhealthreform.org.

Brought to you on behalf of the Oregon Health Fund Board by:



Start Date and Time: 
Tue, 05/20/2008 - 12:00pm
End Date and Time: 
Tue, 05/20/2008 - 2:00pm

Archimedes Leadership Training

Our second Leadership Training will be held the first Saturday in April. Please RSVP using the sign-up link below (preferred, though you must be logged-in to use the sign-up feature) or by sending an email to matt@wecandobetter.org.

This training will focus on three things:

  • our new structure and grassroots decision-making
  • presenting our message to groups large and small (AKA the speaker's training)
  • the upcoming membership meeting

We will also hope to introduce our new staff members.

Start Date and Time: 
Sat, 04/05/2008 - 3:00am
End Date and Time: 
Sat, 04/05/2008 - 8:00am

Universal HealthCare Vouchers - Portland City Club

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel will be in Portland, OR, on January 30 for appearances before academic, business, civic and health providers to discuss the need for comprehensive healthcare system reform and the role of HealthCare Vouchers in truly fixing what ails the system.

Dr. Emanuel can be heard at either of two public appearances. The first event will be hosted by the Oregon Health Forum and will begin at 11:30 at the Governor Hotel. For more information consult their Website, http://www.healthforum.org/events/Emanuelluncheon.html.
The second event will be sponsored by the Portland City Club and will take place at the City Club Commons starting at 6:00. For more information consult their Website, http://www.pdxcityclub.org/. Both events are open to the public.

HealthCare Vouchers is the brainchild of two prominent healthcare professionals. Dr. Emanuel is the Chair of the Department of Bioethics at the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health; he is also a breast oncologist. Victor Fuchs is the Henry J. Kaiser, Jr., Professor ofEconomics and of Health Research and Policy, emeritus, Stanford University.

Start Date and Time: 
Wed, 01/30/2008 - 10:00am
End Date and Time: 
Wed, 01/30/2008 - 11:30am

Universal Health Care Vouchers - Oregon Health Forum in Portland

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel will be in Portland, OR, on January 30 for appearances before academic, business, civic and health providers to discuss the need for comprehensive healthcare system reform and the role of HealthCare Vouchers in truly fixing what ails the system.

Dr. Emanuel can be heard at either of two public appearances. The first event will be hosted by the Oregon Health Forum and will begin at 11:30 at the Governor Hotel. For more information consult their Website, http://www.healthforum.org/events/Emanuelluncheon.html.
The second event will be sponsored by the Portland City Club and will take place at the City Club Commons starting at 6:00. For more information consult their Website, http://www.pdxcityclub.org/. Both events are open to the public.

HealthCare Vouchers is the brainchild of two prominent healthcare professionals. Dr. Emanuel is the Chair of the Department of Bioethics at the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health; he is also a breast oncologist. Victor Fuchs is the Henry J. Kaiser, Jr., Professor of Economics and of Health Research and Policy, emeritus, Stanford University.

Start Date and Time: 
Wed, 01/30/2008 - 3:30am
End Date and Time: 
Wed, 01/30/2008 - 5:30am
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