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Transit and Tomatoes Today April 28 in SC
Charleston, SC- Transit in the Lowcountry needs your support today. While we’ve been working to plan a better system for the future long standing problems and exposure to the dysfunctions of our...
View ArticleA New Citizen Joins the Public Contest in Mount Pleasant
My son Jackson participated in the Black Lives Matter protest today as leader of the College of Charleston Students for a Democratic Society. It is his 23rd. Birthday. I wrote this Newspaper column on...
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Not a Great Day in South Carolina!
Yesterday in the burning heat of Morris Street I head the crowd outside the church sing Amazing Grace and this Little Light of Mine in the sweat beating sun of a Charleston June when the echo of death...
View ArticleCharleston Update, July 7 Story of America Screening
Charleston, SC- As a lifelong resident of Charleston, SC save for seven years in College and Law school and not near enough time in Europe, the staggering import of the past two and a half weeks on...
View ArticleCharleston, SC Update - July 7
Charleston, SC, USA- All of the news trucks have departed Charleston for the circus around the Statehouse in Columbia where the state Senate has voted to bring down the Confederate Flag by an...
View ArticleStriking the Colors in South Carolina
Much like the war itself, the fight over the flag has been controlled by reactionary elements who demand silence from their allies and simple, rigid agreement on things which are obviously untrue. In...
View ArticlePriorities and Privledge
I live in Charleston, SC and I understand everyone is incredibly angry. I work on public tranist issues and at this point, I have to rely on African American volunteers to distribute our material...
View ArticleTune out Trump
Tune out Trump.We begun to change the channel or turn the TV off at his appearance. Every cable channel and advertiser monitors the cable ratings in real time now. They watch the numbers going up and...
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Protesting Trump on Pearl Harbor Day in Charleston
Police tape surrounded a patch of worn grass adjacent to a cold war missle in the Parking Lot of Patiot’s Point, where the aging WWII Aircraft Carrier Yorktown sits in Charleston Harbor. It was Pearl...
View ArticleBernie Needs Builder and We need to be Bastards About It
The SC Democratic Party would prefer that we not bother them with calls about the Sanders Campaign being denied access to their voter data on the vote builder system. Of course they don’t want to be...
View ArticleFit for a King Tiny House- Charleston, SC
Charleston, SC- Construction of Charleston’s first Tiny House for the homeless will begin on the West Side of Meeting Street in Tent City under the off ramp of the Ravenel Bridge on Friday, January 15...
View ArticleTiny House Fit for A King Works Towards 4 pm Dedication Today
Charleston, SC- Charleston's first Tiny House for the homeless, The Tiny House Fit for A King, will be dedicated at the construction site at 342 N. Nassau Street at 4 pm on Monday, January 18 (Martin...
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Free Charleston's Tiny Houses
Charleston, SC- Join us in a citizens campaign to open the way to establish villages of Tiny Houses, small affordable dwellings in a planned community context that will liberate our community from the...
View ArticleCharleston Works Towards Building a Tiny House Village
On Friday William Hamilton, Nicolas Bell and State Representative Wendell Gaillard met over breakfast to review progress towards construction of the first Tiny House Village in the Lowcountry.A...
View ArticleResolution to Relieve Homelessness in the Palmetto State Advances in SC...
Columbia, SC- The effort to help relieve the misery of the rapidly growing tent cities in Charleston and across SC has risen from the muddy dead end lot on Nassau street where work on the Tiny House...
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Vision the Village in Charleston, SC Feb. 18, 2016
Charleston, SC- With over a thousand homeless people living in tents through the frigid winter months and all the tenants from Joseph Floyd Manor being driven from their ten story low income apartment...
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Bring Tiny Houses to Mount Pleasant and Build a Better Town
Mount Pleasant, SC- There are hundreds of people living outdoors in the Charleston area, including over a hundred in Mount Pleasant. By building a Tiny House Village here, we can provide affordable...
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Amphibious Democracy in Action in SC
Mt. Pleasant, SC- Dimitri Cherny, Democratic and Green Candidate for US Congress, running against incumbent Mark Sanford will be in the East Cooper area from August 2 to August 4 as he continues his...
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Cherny's Journey, Forging A Story for SC's Future Past
We will not recover America unless we can rediscover the poetry of it's journey.In the 56 years I've lived and the 40 years I've chosen to participate in our democracy as a public citizen and advocate,...
View ArticleLowcountry Up Is Good, PAC Upcoming Aug. Events
Charelston, SC is a traditional Southern City struggling with the arrival of the future at the rate of 65 new residents a day. It’s not ready with a dyfunctional transit system, low wages and a high...
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Bona Fide for BRT in the Lowcountry
BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) for the Lowcountry ProposedElizabeth Colbert Busch ran for Congress against Mark Sanford (R-SC) three years ago and reluctantly rode the CARTA #41 Bus as part of her campaign....
View ArticleNorth Charleston & Berkeley Express Bus Riders May Lose Park and Ride Lot
From Best Friends of Lowcountry Transit- April 20, 2017More Congestion Downtown- Downtown Charleston might have to accommodate several hundred more cars fighting for space on the streets and spaces to...
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Charleston, SC Activists Demonstrate Against Transit Cuts
On Monday morning (April 24, 2017), Charleston’s transportation system ground to a halt due to a Thunderstorm and a high tide. Over a Hundred thousand hours of productivity valued at over a million...
View ArticleRight to Ride Established in Charleston SC 150 Years ago Today
Charleston, SC, USA- On May 3rd. in 1867, 150 Years ago, after months of protest, the segregation of Charleston's horse drawn streetcars ended. Charleston Freed-woman Mary Bowers boarded a whites only...
View ArticleBus to Battery Beach in Charleston, SC for Equity in Mobility Independence...
From Best Friends of Lowcountry Transit, Inc.For Immediate Release, June 22, 2017Charleston, SC- The Beach in front of High Battery on East Bay street is the only beach in the Lowcountry which can...
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One Word, "plastics" Challenge to SC State Sen. Chip Campsen,
To SC State Senator Chip CampsenAs your constituent and former Law School Classmate, I owe you the service of absolute clarity on the pending bill (H-3529) which would strip local governments of their...
View ArticleAs masters unto service we release.
An exercise in iambic pentameterBy Julia B. Hamilton- April 2018By contrast we experience and defineThe attributes divine in time and space.Thus through the crucible of karmic fireOur virtues we refine...
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A Letter from Snow Island, Fighting for South Carolina from Within an Epidemic
There is a simple reason why South Carolina has been unable to properly address the problems of this epidemic, like so many other problems.South Carolina, Wyoming and Idaho have been targeted by large,...
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Community Circle- A Model for Focused Socially Distanced Demonstrations in...
Community Circle- A Model for Focused Socially Distanced Demonstrations in the Time of Covid-19A concept in development by Lowcountry Up is Good, Inc. PAC & William J. Hamilton, IIIDraft 5/12/2020...
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Greensward Speech - 2020 (SC, USA)
Charleston, SC, USA- The time to polish armor and victual our haversacks is upon us. I must declare the things for which I fight. For me, it lies in words once heard and the sound of America being...
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Propel Pendavis Sat. June 6 in SC
N. Charleston, Summervile, Lincolnville & Ladson, SC, USA- Marvin Pendarvis has spent the last three years in the SC Legislature introducing and working to pass bills which would make SC a more...
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To the Music of the Ukulele, We will teach our children to laugh again
“I was born on Maui, in the Hawaiian islands, in a hut at the base of a volcano.”South Carolina, USA- (I’ve known Jesse Williams for four years. He’s a reliable local activist who supports all the...
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Travel to the SC Statehouse to Fight For a Future SC can Live in! on...
Come to the Statehouse to try to see that better laws and budgets are made on June 24. The preliminary protest plan and participants guide to the Wed. June 24th“Fight For a Future SC can Live...
View ArticleJulia Hamilton's Memory to be Celebrated on July 18
Mt. Pleasant, SC- Jack and Jackson Hamilton invite their friends to a celebration of the life and love of Julia Hamilton, wife, mother, musician and activist on Saturday, July 18 from 10 am to 12 noon...
View ArticleMess with Texas to Protect Our Right to Choose the President- Forget the Alamo!
Texas has sued four blue battleground states to overturn the Presidential Election. 17 other states have joined the lawsuit filed in the original jurisdiction of the US Supreme Court. Reply briefs have...
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Boycott Georgia Tourism, Fight Republican Voter Suppression
I have called the Georgia Tourism Board and informed them that if the Republicans in their legislature strip ordinary Georgians of their right to vote after their historic, hard and honestly won...
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Charleston, SC Faces End of the New You Community 2022
Will the culture of democratically governed public education survive in Charleston, SC? In 1976, I participated in a day long Bicentennial workshop at the Hagood Ave. National Guard Armory devoted to...
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Louise Brown Speaks out Against School Privatization - They always want to...
The 1969 MarchNote- An audio file recording of Ms. Brown’s remarks can be obtained by request and will be available for download shortly. A video is in production. In Charleston Louise Brown is known...
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Pendarvis-Public Plan to Select the Best Use of our 32 Million in School...
State Representative Marvin Pendarvis, SC House #113 has released a statement calling on the Charleston County School Board (CCSD) immediately initiate an open, public process to select from the dozens...
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African Americans on Tour, History People and Places of Summerville, SC Book...
African Americans on Tour, History People and Places of Summerville, South CarolinaBy Linda Saylor MarchantMarch 2022- Now AvailableAfrican Americans on tour, History and Places of Summerville, SC by...
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SC Legislators, Order More Zoloft, It's Going to be a Rough Ride Down
Mt. Pleasant, SC, USA- Representatives in the SC Legislature have introduced four bills to gut public education here, with the hope of eliminating “social and emotional education.” They hope to empower...
View ArticleScarlett O’Hara has left the building: Woke History in Charleston, SC- the...
Scarlett O’Hara has left the building. The real story now standing is harder and more meaningful that the hoop skirt fantasy.Note- there will be a community day event at the Aiken Rhett House on Oct....
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Community Wins Lawsuit Against SC Developer Who took amenities & killed...
The SC Supreme Court vindicated the right of people who build community to rely on the promises of the men who call themselves developers and to strip them of millions when they cheat and lie last...
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HANDS Effort Resists Right Wing Moms for Liberty Charleston, SC School Takeover
Charleston, SC, USA From Lowcountry Up is Good, PAC Dated Feb. 16, 2023 Hand colored button art in button making machineImage, Right, HANDS button design colored by activist in button making machine...
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National Economic Action to Correct Failed CHS School Board Leadership Set to...
UPDATE: Thursday, Feb 23, 2023 · 11:58:06 PM +00:00·wjhamilton29464Lowcountry Students Joining National Education Protection Effort-Lowcountry Progressive Unity Flag — Deployed Oct. 2019Students...
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Actions for Progressive Change in the SC Lowcountry
Change is not achieved by banging on a keyboard. As SC faces the terminal stage of right wing takeover, Lowcountry Up is Good, PAC, Inc. acts with allied groups to see that some parts of SC remain home...
View ArticleHenry McMaster, Hunt Me or Apologize
You, SC Governor Henry McMaster have told the people of my state that you look forward to the day when he can hunt Democrats with dogs because we shall be so few in SC. As the first born son of the...
View ArticleRight Wing Groups are trying to take over your SC Lowcountry Town or City in...
Charleston, SC- After two weeks of controversy, at 8 am in the morning on little more than a day’s notice, the foolish five representing Moms for Liberty on the Charleston County School Board convened...
View ArticlePendarvis Seeks Co-sponsors for SC Anti Gerrymandering Bill 4222
Columbia, SC- Rep. Marvin Pendarvis has introduced an anti gerrymandering bill in the SC House of Representatives which would create a citizens board from both major parties and minority parties to...
View ArticleCharleston School Board Violated SC Law in Hiring New Superintendent....
Charleston, SC- SC Code of Laws SECTION 59-19-80. Requirements as to purchases and teacher employment provides as follows:“No teacher or other employee shall be employed or any purchase made except in...
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