Lowcountry Resistance will Cohere and Grow Using #chsresist Hashtag

The growing size and energy of Lowcountry resistance efforts since the election of the Trump/Musk/Putin administration is encouraging, but it's nearly impossible for anyone to know what is going on.

Image, Right, Protest Music from throughout America's history of Struggle, some updated for the moment, was a sing along concert at the Unitarian Church on March 15

Join the #chsresist 

Effective Immediately DiversCity Charleston, Lowcountry Up is Good PAC and Best Friends of Lowcountry Transit will begin inserting hashtag #chsresist in all our resistance related posts. We invite other progressive resistance and community support efforts to do the same. 

While many local progressives are attempting to migrate to Bluesky, finding a Lowcountry progressive focus within that online community has been difficult. A simple hashtag will fix that. If you haven't signed up for Bluesky, please do so. Evidence mounts that Facebook is becoming too dysfunctional to rely on. My feed there is https://bsky.app/profile/wjhamilton29464.bsky.social

Until this hashtag is widely adopted, your best chance of getting a comprehensive feed of what is going on is to monitor the Facebook feed of Pastor Thomas Dixon

Local print and broadcast media are under tremendous pressure to black out progressive activity. They and their advertisers are threatened when they cover us. While we continue to agonize over decisions about boycotting businesses, an organized effort in place for over 15 years threatens to boycott any organization that advertises on media which covers our activities. While a few reports are published to avoid outing the existence of this effort, we can't rely on media to do our communicating for us any longer. 

Using #chsresist will allow us to use apps to monitor all our social media, connect with our friends and make our stand on this precious blue island along the coast more effective and rewarding. 

Image, Presenting former Congressman Mark Sanford with the big petition for Transit at a morning constituent meet and greet in Awendaw, 2017 (probably). 

April 5 Efforts Building

There is a massive cluster of local resistance actions developing around April 5, a day selected for National Resistance which is also Charleston's biggest tourism weekend of the year. The Bridge Run, Tennis Tournament and Charleston Festival (Formerly the House Tours) fill our city with tourists. It's the day to show 50 thousand visitors that #chsresists. We'll be organizing a demonstration on Daniel Island entitled Ace Mace, Chip and Charge! to offer Representative Mace the opportunity to return to representing her district instead of working for Trump/Musk/Putin. 

As much as we often disagreed with Mark Sanford, he did respond to us, was always friendly and clearly respected us as citizens. We contributed to his defeat in the 2018 Republican Primary. Mark even though we still believe we needed different policies and contributed to your defeat, we have to admit we miss you and the old days now. 

More  Information

about Lowcountry Up is Good, PAC and our 10 year effort to build a Lowcountry which has functional public transit, affordable housing and a living wage. 

• Call Executive Director William Hamilton at (843) 870-5299 or email him at wjhamilton29464@gmail.com
• Follow us on Blue Sky at https://bsky.app/profile/wjhamilton29464.bsky.social

Released March 16, 2025, Mt. Pleasant, SC