DiversCity Update July 17, 2024

DiversCity Charleston Resistance Update - July 17, 2024

DiversCity Network is Functioning

Sunday’s Launch event, happening in the shadow of an attempted political killing and during a thunderstorm with extensive flooding, still drew a good and active crowd. Much progress was made towards organizing our seven working groups. Education, Government, and Faith are fully operational. Business/Labor and Science, Technology, Medicine, and Environment are coming online. More work needs to be done on Art and Culture and Family. Roland Spear of West Street Designs presented our new logo (see logo presentation video). Our Declaration of Resistance was rolled out to receive signatures. Everyone enjoyed Chicken and Rice and our Vegan Options. We had some wonderful cake and made some new friends. Thanks to the Unitarian Church for providing the Gage Hall historic meeting space.

\New Facebook Page

DiversCity Charleston Resistance has a new Facebook page. It links to our most recent content. We hope you like the page and share it with friends. You can see our new logo being introduced by Roland Spear, read the full text of our Declaration of Resistance and find out about our developing plans for Labor Day. DiversCity is a network and communication is our primary function. We’re not your organization or family’s boss. We don’t think God has told us how we should run you. We need to do this together. Hopefully this dedicated Facebook page will help accomplish that. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61562814266962

Help us Pick New Communication Tools

Image, right, canvassing James Island to get a bus stop installed, 2019 Over the past week several of our leaders, including William Hamilton and Thomas Dixon have been locked out of Facebook for reasons Facebook never really explains. A computer decides based on numerical values assigned to communications that we should be locked out for hours or days. Some of this is based on online complaints submitted by our opposition, which uses a massive national network to flood facebook with complaints about ideas or organizations they want to suppress. We never learn exactly what we did to provoke the shutdowns, but it always seems to happen when we comment on major national issues or corporate entities. This problem crippled efforts to prepare for our launch event. Given where we must go, we can’t have this happen again. We’re experimenting with other options for large scale online communication including Signal and Mobilize. Please give us your input by emailing it to Willam Hamilton at wjhamilton29464#gmail.com  or just call him at (843) 870-5299. Please don’t post anything about this on Facebook as it may get our new page shut down.

Art and Culture Working Group Organizing

Image, left, Making buttons in N. Charleston to promote Transit awareness and bus to the beach with Best Friends of Lowcountry Transit

Community outreach to support organization of an Art and Culture working group if underway. If you work in this sector or are part of an organization present there, please contact William Hamilton, (843) 870-5299 or wjhamilton29464@gmail.com

Join Joe McGill on Morris Island Thursday, July 28

Join us on Thursday, July 18, 2024 as we commemorate the 161st anniversary of the Assault on Battery Wagner. The Assault on Battery Wagner on July 18, 1863, was an unsuccessful assault led by the 54th Massachusetts, an African American infantry, famously depicted in the movie Glory. Battery Wagner is located on Morris Island in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Boarding begins at 1:30 pm and we will leave for Morris Island at 2:00 pm from the Charleston Maritime Center, 10 Wharfside Street, Charleston on the boat Palmetto operated by Sandlapper Tours. The boat will return at 4:00 pm. Tickets will be $50 and can be purchased by clicking here.