This week: messaging advice on pending Supreme Court decisions
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Amplify Values in These Emerging Issues
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Messaging Advice on Upcoming Supreme Court Decisions
As the Supreme Court term winds down over the next few weeks, important decisions regarding LGBTQ rights, the Affordable Care Act, voting rights, and criminal justice are expected. Now is a good time to review our messaging advice for talking about Supreme Court cases in general, and these cases in particular.
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Five Strategies for Talking About Anti-Asian Racism
As we mark one year since racial justice protests swept the nation, we are seeing more people starting to understand how systemic racism impacts Asian American communities. However, anti-Asian attacks continue to rise across the country. In consultation with racial justice advocates Gregory Cendana and AJ Titong we have assembled five strategies for talking about anti-Asian hate, as a starting place for tackling the long-term narrative shift work that helps create a more just and equitable world.
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Upcoming Media Hooks and Events
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Events:
June 25, 2pm ET: Join this month's Narrative Research Lab webinar. Julie Fisher-Rowe and Porshèa Patterson-Hurst of The Opportunity Agenda will present on audience stances on relevant issues such as political and racial division, systemic racism, immigration as compiled in analysis by Lake Research and Symphonic Strategies.
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June is
LGBTQ Pride Month, Immigrant Heritage Month, and African American Music Month<[link removed]>
June 20:
World Refugee Day<[link removed]>
Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Cultural Hooks:
June 12, 1967 -
Supreme Court decision in Loving v. Virginia ends bans on interracial marriage<[link removed]>
June 12, 1987 -
President Ronald Reagan delivers his "Tear down this wall" speech<[link removed]>
June 13, 1966 -
Supreme Court decision in Ernesto Miranda v. Arizona<[link removed]> creates law enforcement procedure of reminding suspects of their rights when being arrested
June 15, 2012 -
President Barack Obama announces DACA program<[link removed]> for childhood immigrants
June 15, 1982 -
Supreme Court decision in Plyler v. Doe forbids states from denying immigrants K-12 education<[link removed]>
June 19, 1865 -
Emancipation frees the last enslaved Americans in Texas<[link removed]>, now known as Juneteenth.
June 20, 1944 -
President Truman signs the G.I. Bill<[link removed]>
June 26, 2018 -
Supreme Court upholds third iteration of President Donald Trump's Muslim Ban<[link removed]>
June 27, 2015 -
Activist Bree Newsome removes Confederate battle flag at South Carolina Capitol<[link removed]>
June 28, 1969 -
Stonewall uprising in New York City<[link removed]>
June 29, 1956 -
President Dwight Eisenhower signs the Federal Aid Highway Act<[link removed]>
June 29, 1972 -
Supreme Court decision in Furman v. Georgia ends death penalty<[link removed]>, a decision revisited and overturned by the court four years later
June 30, 2018 -
Nationwide protests against President Donald Trump's policy of separating immigrant families<[link removed]>
Image credits: Public domain, NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, The Opportunity Agenda, Selina Alko, public domain.
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