New website in development.. Until then you'll find plenty of material on the DiversCity Facebook page and blog entries listed below.
DiversCity Charleston is a coalition project in Charleston, SC with Lowcountry Up is Good, and others groups. It's goal is to establish a permanent standing coalition defense of the SC Lowcountry against Christian Dominionist attempts to control our public life, schools, churches, culture, media, science and technology, family, and government by Moms for Liberty, Unity City. A group of sovereign citizens and other groups. Over half a million dollars in funding is being used to target the Charleston area and Lowcountry.
DiversCity Charleston Communications
DiversCity Spokesperson Merrill Chapman at (843) 200-1977, merrilltownschapman@gmail.comDirector of Network Operations (Field) William Hamilton (843) 870-5299, wjhamilton29464@gmail.com
Lowcountry Up is Good, PAC (Lowcountry Up is Good, PAC will manage DiversCity through to February, 2025 when plans are to reorganize it as a fully independent, self governing organization.
Online Presences
- DiversCity Charleston Resistance on Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61562814266962
- Lowcountry Up is Good, PAC on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/lowcountry.up.is.good.PAC
Our Plan to Defend the 7 Hummocks of Lowcountry Culture
DiversCity Charleston is building a flat, collaborative network between strong existing community organizations and leaders. Each "hummock" will be protected by a small working group and a larger response group representing churches, non profits, educational institutions and local progressive leaders. Even conservatives have been included because while we have disagreements between us, we have long agreed on how we should disagree. The atmosphere of chaos unleased by Moms for Liberty and Unity City has been incredibly wasteful, burning up thousands of hours of community volunteer time at the school boards. This chaos won't spread to our town and city governments, community institutions and neighborhoods because we're going to stop them where they are now and push them back this fall. Read our detailed plan and the schedule to July 14
Funding for this superficially religious crusade comes from the same Billionaire's organizations funding Project 2025 and political campaigns down to the school board level. It's simply the cheapest way to bulldoze the citizens of the communities standing in their way. Their goal is to exterminate democracy at the neighborhood level and gangs of sovereign citizens aren't going to work to get bigger corporate tax funds or slash Medicare. It's all one fight against the same money. Read our blogpost on how our local fight relates to the national one and why Unity City came to Charleston to spend hundreds of Thousands of dollars.
Recent posts and information
- July 26 Update- 3 great opportunities for Crossing Bridges to greater understanding, Joy and a smarter future. DiversCity heads out to the beach, understanding and better education this weekend. Only one trip goes to the ocean, but the other two events are online, so you won't get rained on. https://mailchi.mp/7c6c904ccd3a/diverscity-update-for-july-26-bridging-walls-distance-and-a-struggle-to-learn-in-the-lowcountry-10569225
- New page on Art and Culture Working Group - Historic culture brought Unity City to Charleston with hundreds of thousands of dollars because they see our colonial and Civil War past as a key to controlling the nation's future. Read why they're here and what we're preparing to do to stop them. https://lc-up-is-good.blogspot.com/2024/06/DiversCityCHSSC.html
- July 17- Update- Effort to organize Art and Culture working group moving forward, results of launch event, New Facebook page, Communications input requested.
- July 14- DiversCity Declaration of Resistance Published. Read the full text online. Sign if if you are ready at one of our upcoming events. There are 800 spaces for signatures.
- July 10- Network Activation Party set for Sun. July 14 - Join us at Gage Hall at 4 Archdale Street to celebrate the launch of our network. It's a potluck dinner with the first opportunity to see our effort in action. Full details in this blogpost. https://lc-up-is-good.blogspot.com/2024/07/resistance-renewed-diverscity-launch.html
- June 29- "Won't Wake Up, Go Bankrupt" Demonstrations. On Sat. July 6, 10 am to 12 noon We'll challenge Tractor Supply's decision to repudiate it's Diversity, Equality and Inclusivity policies, corporate accountability policies and environmental policies, which is repudiated under right wing pressure by holding demonstrations at the entrances of some of it's Lowocuntry locations and handing out boycott tickets that former costumers can deliver to their customer service desks or have us mail in to their corporate office. See the evolving details at https://lc-up-is-good.blogspot.com/2024/06/wont-wake-up-go-bankrupt-demand.html
- June 26- Our Plan to Defend the Lowcountry Read the detailed draft plan now. Which hummock do you plan to protect?
- June 21- Why we're going to Ed Kellys House on Monday - Why Lowcountry Up is Good chooses to do nervy actions to force change while other people continue the fruitless 20 year hunt for persuadable moderate Republicans. Why an 81 year old woman can do things, people half her age don't dream of. Why we win, over and over again. https://lc-up-is-good.blogspot.com/2024/06/blog-post.html
- June 20- Demonstration Planned at the Home of School Board Member Ed Kelly. Lowcountry Up is Good, PAC, Inc. is planning a demonstration protest in front of the home of Ed Kelly, the school board member most responsible for the Moms for Liberty sponsored chaos destroying our public school system. He's been skipping coming to meetings in person and zooming in from what is apparently his home. Read the full press release. These meetings run for hours and a train wreck of a meeting is set for Mon. June 24. See school board agenda. If we have to sit through hours of meetings with unprepared Moms for Liberty Board members who may not have read the Agenda Ed helps produce, then Ed ought to be there to. We've had meetings where four of the five M4L Board members have zoomed in with only the Chairperson present in the room. Read the notice delivered to Ed Kelly's Neighbors and the Mount Pleasant Police Department today. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L5RTLZEbt6rrLN74gs8vMIlwjRtzMPllTOKrLbpuqe0/edit?usp=sharing
- June 19 (Juneteenth) Drafting of the Lowcountry DiversCity Declaration of Resistance Begins- The stub document has been posted on google docs. You can make comments now. We'll have a live public markup in N. Charleston the week after July 4. The target day to sign the declaration is Bastille Day, July 14 when we'll read our Declaration and the International Declaration of Human Rights at a celebration of Charleston's successful year and a half of resistance against Christian Dominationism and by signing our new Declaration, renew our commitment to preserve our DiversCity.
- June 19- Magnolia Liberation Juneteenth Campfire Friday, June 21- North Charleston, SC- Joe McGill, founder of the internationally recognized Slave Dwelling project, will lead a campfire discussion on the site of Magnolia Plantation's village of enslaved people on Friday night, June 21. The discussion will address the history of slavery and the dwellings which remain as evidence of the “peculiar institution” across the Lowcountry as well as current events including the decision to remove AP African American Studies from the approved SC High School Curriculum two weeks ago. Read the full release.
- June 16- Mother of the Movement Interviewed by WCIV TV to Challenge City of Charleston to Preserve Separation of Church and State on June 18, DiversCity Charleston will propose a resolution to the City Council of Charleston committing City Government to preserving the constitutional balance between Church and State and requiring candidates who plan to change that balance to disclose such intent before the seek election. Read the Press Release Read the Press Release on the Resolution our Mother of the Movement is putting before council. Read and comment on the proposed statement of causes and resolution Read and comment on the proposed statement of causes and resolution.
- June 13- Read the remarkable biography of Louise Brown's 55 year career as a Social Justice activist, from the 1969 Hospital Strike to her powerful speech on the Statehouse grounds last week. Read the full release- Louise Shall Not Be Moved Louise Shall Not Be Moved
- June 10- Plans for Demonstration and Hearing on African American Studies AP removal from approved High School Curriculum. Starts 11 am, Tuesday June 11 at African American History memorial on statehouse grounds. https://mailchi.mp/b7a57028adbe/diverscity-charleston-announces-appointment-of-chapman-brown-to-staff-to-protect-region-from-dominionist-takeover-attempt?e=f71545c879
- June 10- DiversCity Charleston Announces Staff Appointments- First three staff members announced. Plans to develop a standing defense of Lowcountry public life against Dominionist interference from now to Thanksgiving laid out. Read the detailed press release with Bios of Communications director Merill Chapman, Organizer Louise Brown and Chief Administrator William Hamilton. https://mailchi.mp/b7a57028adbe/diverscity-charleston-announces-appointment-of-chapman-brown-to-staff-to-protect-region-from-dominionist-takeover-attempt?e=f71545c879
- June 7- The Religion of Unity City and why Charleston Clergy says it doesn't follow the teachings of Jesus- https://lc-up-is-good.blogspot.com/2024/06/unity-city-and-religion-curious.html
- Thursday, June 6 at 6 pm on zoom. SC Will Not Cancel African American History, live from the Amistad Joe McGill, Damon Fordham and Louise Brown do zoom from replica slave ship Amistad to oppose SC's decision to decredit and defund African American AP History. https://mailchi.mp/133faae3141d/sc-african-american-historians-and-history-makers-webcast-from-slave-ship-to-challenge-decrediting-african-american-ap-history?e=f71545c87
- Initial public statement on Unity City - https://lc-up-is-good.blogspot.com/2024/06/diverscity-charleston-public-statement.html
- Press Release Up is Good Stands Up Against Gun Violence in N. CharlestonUp is Good Stands Up Against Gun Violence in N. Charleston at Cease Fire Cookout Memorial Weekend
- Unity City Speakers Candy Coated in Charleston, Ugly Elsewhere The people leading Unity City sound different when they're not in slick videos made to recruit unsuspecting people.
- Communication in Production
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