chelsea creek action group
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Story-Based Strategy:Amplifying the Impact of Grassroots Organizing
Chelsea Creek Action GroupOctober 13 & 14, 2009East Boston & Chelsea, MA
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PART I: Framing (15 mins)
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We are made of stories
Stories help reinforce meaning and values in a culture.
Symbols help recall stories.
People don’t just tell stories. Stories tell people who we are, how to live...
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Elements of Story
Conflict
Characters
Show Don’t Tell Images & Symbols
Foreshadowing
(Underlying Assumptions)
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Frame:
The larger story that shapes understanding of information, experiences, and messages; the structure and boundaries of a narrative that defines point-of-view and power. Frames operate is pre-existing narrative lenses in our minds.
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PART II: Narrative Power Analysis, Memes & Control Memes (20 Mins)
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NARRATIVE ANALYSIS OF
POWER
STORY-BASED
STRATEGYSTRATEGY
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EXTERNALPhysical/Economic
INTERNALNarrative/Ideological
Power Over
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Narrative Power Analysis
Changing the Stories: not what people don’t know, but what they do know =FILTERS
Examining Dominant Stories/Origin Myths in US Culture
Power shapes Point of View of the story
Stories can Normalize Power/Universalize Experience
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Meme“A unit of self replicating cultural information”
Contagious ideas, stories, images, and rituals that spread from imagination to imagination, generation to generation, shaping and shifting human cultures…
a capsule for a story to spread…
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“Loots” “Finds”
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Illegal Aliens
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Changing the Story…
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Winning the Battle of the Story
Frame the Conflict Draws our attention to particular details of the story
and avoids others outside the frame
Amplifies the Voices of Impacted Characters Stories speak to us through relevant Spokespeople
Show Don’t Tell -- Engage Peoples Values A good story emphasizes values and imagery over data
Foreshadowing --Shows the Future/Offer Vision People will only go someplace that they have first been to in their minds
Challenges & Changes Underlying Assumptions
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Elements of Story
Conflict
Characters
Show Don’t Tell Images & Symbols
Foreshadowing
(Underlying Assumptions)
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Framing the Conflict
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Characters
Who speaks for those most directly affected?
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Images/Show Don’t Tell
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Foreshadowing: Sets New Narratives into Motion
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story Amplify
Deepen Analysis/Connect
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Mobilize
Organize
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Design: Campaign Narrative
ELMER HERE
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Meme Campaign
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Encapsulating Story as Meme
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Story-Based Strategy
Frames/Reframes the Narrative
Amplifies Voices of Sympathetic Characters
Engages Peoples Values
Show Don’t Tell (Images, Symbols, Pop Culture Icons)
Foreshadowing the Future We Want
Challenging Underlying Assumptions
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Part 3 - Chelsea Creek Stories(15 mins)
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“Working Waterfront”
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Restoration
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Environmental Justice
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Urban Wild
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River RevelCommunity Access
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Historic Site
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