Community

The Rockridge Institute invites dialogue among progressives, promoting effective ways to express our values, principles, and vision. Online, we do this primarily through Rockridge Nation, our web community. We also provide easy ways to promote progressive framing online to subscribers to Rockridge Action Alerts.

Rockridge Nation is a gathering place for progressives who recognize the importance of political language that communicates our values and successfully promotes progressive change.

Rockridge Nation has several regular features.

The blog features regular postings by Rockridge Institute staff, and, through comments, opportunities to share your thoughts and inquiries about our work. Use Ask Rockridge, to pose questions about the framing of issues that concern you, and read and reply to questions from other progressives. You’ll find responses from the Rockridge Institute staff in the Rockridge Responds section. Rockridge Nation also provides a way to share your enthusiasm for examples of effective framing by political leaders or commentators with a Tip of the Hat nomination or to pan failed framing with a Wag of the Finger.

Thinking Points Discussions are a popular feature of the Rockridge Nation community. Our book Thinking Points – which you can download or purchase in paperback – is a great place to start to expand your knowledge of politics, the mind, and ways progressives can communicate effectively. Review past discussions to deepen your understanding of concepts introduced in Thinking Points; then join the latest discussion to gain new insights into politics from cognitive science and other disciplines.

Can you give us five minutes from time to time? In addition to joining the conversation at Rockridge Nation, you can help us promote our work to other online communities and venues by responding to Rockridge Action Alerts. When you register for Rockridge Nation, you can choose to receive action alerts, which will provide simple steps to promote our online work about progressive framing. As a Rockridge activist, you can help to democratize knowledge about how politics works, expose right-wing myths, and activate progressive values.

Rockridge Institute staff also participate in selected public events, such as YearlyKos and the Personal Democracy Forum, and have organized events with other partners, such as What Are Americans Voting For?, a forum held prior to the 2006 election. As events are scheduled, we'll announce them in our weekly newsletter, which you can receive by joining Rockridge Nation.

Whatever your capacity, we need financial support, too. Learn about recurring online gifts and help keep Rockridge humming.

However you choose to participate in our community, we welcome you and thank you for joining us in the vital work of restoring progressive values to the heart of public life.