July 26 DiversCity Update

 

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July 26 DiversCity Update - Bridges over Walls, Rivers towards a Smarter, Better Lowcountry   Fordham Speaking Friday, Noon Damon Fordham, a member of our Education Working group and one of the leading African American historians in Charleston will be speaking online at Noon Friday as part of the Bridge not Walls lecture series sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Charleston. Fordham brings a complex and deep understanding of the historic forces which have placed us where we are and which indicate how we can avoid losing the progress we have made to groups like Moms for Liberty and Unity City. You can reach  the livestream online at https://www.facebook.com/events/3400599050247713?active_tab=about Art and Culture Working Group Organizing - Why Unity City Brought Their Money Here As we’ve worked towards staffing our Art and Culture working group (See our new Art and Culture web page with details) we’ve learned a lot from the people on the front lines of what is clearly a historical culture war at the heart of why Unity City’s backers chose to invest hundreds of Thousands of  Dollars in a colonial city in a red state. To bolster their claim that the US was at its founding and must remain a nation under the control of “Christ Centered people” , capturing control of the metro area containing a historical city with roots in the Colonial period, revolution and Civil War is very important to them. There’s no chance they can take over New York, Boston, Baltimore or Philadelphia.  Charleston is their only available target. Our region, embedded in and surrounded by a right wing, red state is essential to them symbolically as a future stage for a national takeover.  This insight developed from talking to front line workers in our area’s historic community who have been encountering increasing numbers of aggressive tourists eager to confront them and correct the “mistaken” beliefs they’ve acquired from years of professional work and research using the rich troves of original material available in the city, much of which has become available thanks to modern electronic indexing. A major effort to deepen understanding of the American Revolution on its 250th. Anniversary is at hand. Given what we’ve been learning, there is a lot of stuff out there Unity City would want to suppress. Revised page on our Arts & Culture working group now online.  We’re aware of another Unity City type effort launched in Detroit which clearly targets rust belt social issues, but they came to Charleston to capture control of the past.  Dorchester Waylyn CARTA Bus to the Beach Trip Saturday Best Friends of Lowcountry Transit is one of DiversCity's founding organizations and it's volunteers have provided much of the muscle which has pushed our organizing effort forward through the summer. On Saturday they'll lead children and adults from the Dorchester Waylyn community in N. Charleston on a 1 hour and 46 minute journey to the beach, all on Transit. Help is needed with snacks and drinks and helping get progress of the effort out online. The reward is a trip where some of the young people may see the Atlantic Ocean for the first time in their lives. The weather is iffy. CARTA can be unreliable. It shouldn't be this hard, but dreams are earned by the determined. You'll can ride along or follow the trip online. Everyone's welcome. https://www.facebook.com/events/496239996150638?active_tab=about Education Meeting Online Sunday Evening We plan to join the Quality Education Projects Sunday evening meeting on their plans for addressing the tremendous and draining struggle for control of local school systems. Our working group will connect with several existing efforts. The current tactics of mass presence at meetings aren’t sustainable, though they’ve prevented a huge amount of damage. However the cost to the community in time sacrificed from other local efforts is starving Charleston’s human economic and social justice efforts. This was an intended result of Mom’s for Liberty’s attack on Education. Join online at 7 pm Sunday, Facebook Event Listing Science and Technology Group Organizing Look for information next week about the effort to organize our Science and Technology group, which also included medicine.  Labor Day Effort in Planning DiversCity will hit the road on Labor Day, visiting progressive events around the Lowcountry. If your planning something, let us know and our team will work out a time to visit. You can sign on to a Facebook event page to follow plans as they develop.  Communications We’re looking for input on people’s experience with the Mobilze platform. Please let us know how it has performed for your organization. Email wjhamilton29464@gmail.com or call (843) 870-5299 with your input. Recurring problems with Facebook experienced by us and other local activist organizations indicate it would be very dysfunctional to continue our primary reliance upon it as an organizing platform. The Dominionist right has deployed an army of hactivists to shut down progressive access to Facebook and other platforms by flooding their automated systems with complaints about our activities. The day before our July organizing event, both William Hamilton and Thomas Dixon were locked out of posting for over a day and for most of the previous week. It impossible to tell why we were locked out. These systems are almost entire automated and if you file enough complaints, they'll act on them.  More Information  For more information on DiversCity Charleston contact spokesperson Merrill Chapman at (843) 200-1977 or William Hamilton at (843) 870-5299. More information can be found at https://tinyurl.com/DiversCityCHS   Online.   Copyright © 2024 Hungryneck Straphangers (Public Transit Advocacy), All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.