Join Our Human Rights Empathy Education Collective

Democracy makes no sense if we care for no one but ourselves.

Welcome. We care about you.

We are a progressive 501c3 nonpartisan, membership-driven human rights empathy education collective. We want to know what our members are most proud of that helped the most people outside their families. We use the latest brain science communication insights from George Lakoff to assist members in making empathy central to constant public discourse on human rights issues affecting their communities. We then partner with them over the years to strengthen the commitment of their stakeholders to the duty to care for each other’s freedom and human rights.

Join us.

We seek members focused on seven caring society institutions: effective government, nurturing families, progressive religions, education, ethical business, arts and entertainment, and the media.

Our duty to care requires empathy, the soul of democracy.

The United Nations defeated fascism when World War II ended in 1945. Take 1-minute to listen to former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who chaired the international committee of the United Nations from 1945 to 1948 that defined human rights. She is reading the Proclamation from the Preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Notice how it obliges “every individual and every organ of society” to learn about the UDHR and teach others about it. That requires a commitment to the legal concept of the duty to care. You can read the entire Preamble and all 30 of the UDHR at this link.

Individuals join membership-driven Empathy Surplus for $10/month.

Today, limited empathy conservatism and its anti-empathy fascism are still a threat. Not enough people under the age of 30 know they have a legal obligation to care for others, nor have they ever heard of the UDHR.

Empathy Surplus Network USA is a 501c3 nonpartisan, membership-driven, science-based communication, human rights empathy education collective. We are especially seeking care wing members of our populous to join us who are state legislators, legislative aides, attorneys, ethical business people, journalists, performing artists, educators, 501c3 board members, and others. Your membership dues, which are not tax-deductible, give you access to our educational Zoom forums and give you voting privileges when we elect our trustees. Just want to support our work with a tax-deductible recurring donation? Click here.

Organizations join for $36/month.

Organizations may join at $36/mo, making four of their leaders eligible to participate. Their logos are eligible to be displayed on this website and other materials.

Our Mission – Collaborative Science-Based Communication

Our mission is to help our members through collaborative mentoring make empathy, the soul of democracy, central to constant public discourse using science-based communication in our seven common good institutions of society: family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business, and government. We strive to be a progressive alternative to conservative organizations like ALEC. Download our bylaws.

Our Caring Model Legislation

 

who cares wins

Caring Thought Leaders Core Values

Empathy

the soul of democracy

Responsibility

both personal and social

Commitment

to govern with empathy and responsibility

Compassion USA Partner Since 2022

George Lakoff's Resources

The basic idea is this: Dr. Lakoff's resources are free and open to all. He will provide framing suggestions regularly over social media, and whoever receives them can decide how to use them, and whether to share them or retweet them.  Dr. Lakoff's process is bottom-up.

Dr. Lakoff also offers this framing service to activist organizations, media folks, and elected officials and their staff.

Pro-Empathy Pledge to the People of the World

(Recited while holding a neighbor's hand. People from other countries may insert the name of their country.)

I pledge my care to the people of the world

and to my neighbors in the United States of America

and to our human rights, which I defend and promote,

one world governed with empathy and responsibility,

with liberty and justice for all.

Empathy Surplus Network USA is a 501c3 local human rights empathy education community of practice that applies the latest brain insights of George Lakoff to moral and political discourse to protect human rights with the rule of law. To reverse our national empathy deficit, we invite you to join our culture diplomacy initiative to make empathy, the soul of democracy and ethical business, the center of public and private debate. Donations are exempt from federal income taxation under section 501(a) and described in section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.

UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL compact resources

Pro-Empathy Freedom Declaration

I am a progressive -
caring human being
in a strong, diverse community
of nurturing families.
I am a pro-empathy voter and
govern with empathy for and
responsibility to others.
I here highly resolve that
this nation shall have
a new birth of freedom
- and that government
of the people,
by the people,
for the people
shall not perish
from the earth.
I am a person
with human rights.
I care for my own
Safety and Happiness
and that of others.
I am the solution to
expanding life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness.
And for the support of this
declaration, joining
progressive human rights
advocates and
pro-empathy voters,
we mutually pledge
to each other
our Lives, our Fortunes,
and our sacred Honor.

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