Reposted by Ruth TaylorCommon Cause Foundation @commoncause.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Common Cause is hiring! We're looking for someone to join our small team to help build on our recent successes. There's lots of opportunity for a new member of the team to bring new ideas & perspectives to shape the next phase of our work. Find out more & apply here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 043
Reposted by Ruth TaylorDavid Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 17/01/2025When David Graeber explained why Corporations behave the way they do in modern Capitalism! youtu.be/QOVnb3y8hm4youtu.beDavid Graeber on Modern CapitalismYouTube video by Institute of David Graeber 19137
Reposted by Ruth TaylorJason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Social democracy is not a viable alternative to capitalism. It is a tempting prospect, but ultimately suffers from violent contradictions that cannot be sustained. 🧵 29590203
Reposted by Ruth TaylorCommon Cause Foundation @commoncause.bsky.social · 03/02/2025"Lakoff is right: we need to support and celebrate the arts for its subversive potential. But this potential is, without question, lost as soon as the arts become valued only for their contribution to economic growth." Read @tomcrompton.bsky.social's latest blog post here:commoncausefoundation.orgGeorge Lakoff and the Arts on Trump’s inauguration day - CC FoundationOn the day of Donald Trump’s most recent inauguration, the veteran campaign strategist and “deep frames” scholar George Lakoff published a 17-point rallying call to resist authoritarianism, co-authore... 084
Ruth Taylor @ruthtaylor.bsky.social · 20/01/2025If you're a journalist or media professional, come and join me, @elsieroderiques.bsky.social and others in your field to talk about the media's cultural values footprint this Thursday! www.tickettailor.com/events/commo...tickettailor.comSelect tickets – Values in the Media: working with values in practice – ZoomCommon Cause Foundation invites you to join a workshop developed specifically for those working in the UK media. Values in the... 042
Ruth Taylor @ruthtaylor.bsky.social · 06/01/2025📢 Narrative & Culture Change Roundup #50 Kicking off my 2025, with a round up of stuff I've been reading and listening to over the last few months. Hope you find some gems in there to help ease you into the new year 💕 open.substack.com/pub/valuesna...open.substack.com📢 Narrative & Culture Change Roundup #50Welcome to Culture Soup, the new home and name for ‘In Other Words’ - the narrative and culture change roundup email, curated by me (Ruth Taylor) from 2020 - 2022. 030
Reposted by Ruth TaylorNEON @neonuk.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Come and join the Comms team at NEON! It is a really special role in an amazing team - with a budget to commission messaging research, a training component, rapid response work and working with the Spokes Network & Worker-led Transition programmes. www.neweconomyorganisers.org/about-jobs/h...neweconomyorganisers.org| Work at NEONThe purpose of this role is to lead the messaging programme at NEON. That means developing messaging guidance, training and coaching support. You will be the go-to person for messaging work in the Com... 0912
Reposted by Ruth TaylorCommon Cause Foundation @commoncause.bsky.social · 28/11/2024We’re here at the beautiful St Ethelburgas for the very first ‘Values in the Media’ conference, where we’re discussing what the UK media can do to take responsibility for its influence on UK values #VIM24 141
Reposted by Ruth TaylorCommon Cause Foundation @commoncause.bsky.social · 21/11/2024"Mainstream news has always been shaped by dominant cultural values & the reverse is also true: the media helps shape cultural values. It’s time for the sector to acknowledge the inevitability of this&take responsibility for its “cultural values footprint.” New blog from @elsieroderiques.bsky.socialcommoncausefoundation.orgBridging the values gap: reimagining journalism through human connection - CC FoundationLast month, a friend and colleague shared an article with me that cited a recent study conducted into ‘journalistic values from an audience perspective’ in Chile, the results of which recognised the “... 053
Ruth Taylor @ruthtaylor.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Oh blimey! Didn't look at Bluesky for 10 days and my followers have doubled. Is the exodus from the-site-that-shall-not-be-named finally here?!!!! 030
Ruth Taylor @ruthtaylor.bsky.social · 25/10/2024I've got a new blog out today exploring the common ways that the word 'values' is understood and how perhaps we're missing the transformative power of values for systemic change. open.substack.com/pub/valuesna...open.substack.comThe Big Thing People Miss When Thinking About ValuesWhen you hear the word 'values' what do you think of? As a word it has many meanings... some more helpful for systemic change than others. 054
Reposted by Ruth TaylorAdam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 22/10/2024Today is World Wombat Day so I must again say that my favourite ever blessing is an Indigenous Australian one and it goes "may the wombat of happiness snuffle through your underbrush" 12085961817
Ruth Taylor @ruthtaylor.bsky.social · 19/10/2024Do you work in the media? Come along to this event on Nov 28th and explore the question of how the mainstream media shapes our cultural values www.linkedin.com/events/value...linkedin.comValues in the Media: How the mainstream media shapes UK cultural values | LinkedInAn event for all those working within or with the UK news media sector You're invited to our inaugural Values in the Media event on 28th November, an afternoon of talks and workshops focused on how t... 031
Reposted by Ruth TaylorDr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 15/10/2024The assumptions and beliefs that drive the climate crisis are unlikely to deliver us safely out of the climate crisis. Most people and leaders don't believe that and instead push harder on the same dangerous levers. 1186
Ruth Taylor @ruthtaylor.bsky.social · 15/10/2024The latest Culture Soup roundup has been published! 📢 If you'd like to see the latest writing and thinking in the field of narrative & culture change in one place, you can check it out here: valuesnarrativesculture.substack.com/p/narrative-...valuesnarrativesculture.substack.com📢 Narrative & Culture Change Roundup #49Welcome to Culture Soup, the new home and name for ‘In Other Words’ - the narrative and culture change roundup email, curated by me (Ruth Taylor) from 2020 - 2022. 010
Ruth Taylor @ruthtaylor.bsky.social · 01/09/2024“The plural of incremental change is not system change. The plural of incremental change is failure." - George Monbiot 010
Ruth Taylor @ruthtaylor.bsky.social · 20/08/2024📣 New animation from the Common Cause Foundation advocating for the need to shift our cultural values in order to meet the social and environmental challenges of our time. Check it out, share and let us know what you think: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDoD...youtube.comThe importance of cultural values for meaningful changeYouTube video by Common Cause Foundation 020
Ruth Taylor @ruthtaylor.bsky.social · 19/08/2024Hello 👋 Could this be the place to fill the twitter-shaped hole in my life?media.tenor.coma woman with her eyes closed and the words please do this for me above herALT: a woman with her eyes closed and the words please do this for me above her 2211