SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK -- Share This: AUGUST CALENDAR - STATEWIDE CONTACT/JOIN E-MAIL LIST: SC Progressive Network Reserve your space now and plan to join activists from across the state for a weekend retreat at historic and restorative Penn Center Oct. 19-20. This is the most important Network gathering of the year. Don’t miss it! Call 803-808-3384 or email network@scpronet. for details. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH • A Call to Action! South Carolinians are fed up with the political fundamentalism crippling our state, and the Network has issued a call to our allies to help organize a mass action at the State House in January when the legislature reconvenes. We need your talent, your connections, your ideas. We’re holding regular meetings in Columbia. If you want to hold a meeting in your town, we can help with a speaker and/or materials. All are welcome. For details, call our office at 803-808-3384 or email network@scpronet. Next Columbia mass action planning meetings, to be held at the Network’s office at 2025 Marion St.: Tues., Aug. 6, 5:30pm and Tues., Aug. 13, 7pm. Aug. 24: March on Washington! Across the country peace, labor, and civil rights activists are mobilizing for the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. No single event spoke to the democratic promise of the Sixties like the March, which joined the religious and civil rights communities with labor leaders such as A. Philip Randolph and Walter Reuther. At the March, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. also delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, an oration that has since served as an inspiration to freedom loving people across the world. This 50th Anniversary event provides us with an historic opportunity to refocus our energies on the unfinished business of the Sixties, while defending the basic civil and human rights that have fallen under renewed attacks from the right. To ensure a strong showing from South Carolina, we are asking your organization to support this historic effort. Please send the Network information on any buses or rides you know of that have space. For information on buses, call 803-808-3384. If you need a ride or can share one, email network@scpronet. Sept. 6 is deadline for SC groups to apply to Fund for Southern Communities. The Fund supports community-based organizations working to create just and sustainable communities that are free of oppression and that embrace and celebrate all people. The Fund provides grants of $1,000 to $5,000 to progressive grassroots groups in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina that address social change issues, such as workers’ rights, environmental justice, economic justice, etc. Grants support new or existing projects, as well as the general operating needs of small organizations with budgets of $150,000 or less. Visit the Fund’s web site to download the grant application information. CHARLESTON Aug. 3: Charleston Pride parade starts at the corner of Meeting and Ann Streets. Walkers in the parade need to be at the lineup by 8:15. Parade steps off at 9. AFFA is at the front of the parade, right behind the Grand Marshall, Linda Ketner. We’ll be passing out rainbow flags and “gay rights” buttons along the route (no throwing!) If you cannot walk, and would like to ride on the float, email [email protected]. Parade route is 1.8 miles. If it rains, we still march. Bring water. Park in Visitor Center parking lot. Shuttles will be available at the end of the parade to take you back to the starting point. Aug. 19, 7pm: (Every 3rd Monday) Charleston Progressive Network meeting, ILA Hall, 1422 Morrison Dr. in the conference room at the north end of the building. Issues of homelessness, “Stand Your Ground” laws, voting rights, and March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Aug. 24 – and the issues are still very relevant! For details, contact George Hopkins at [email protected] or 843-819-0066. Thursdays, 6pm: MUSC CAFÉ meetings, ILA Hall, 1142 Morrison Dr. MUSC CAFE is an association of employees, patients, and community supporters dedicated to fair treatment for workers and great patient care. The group is affiliated with the Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment. Please join us! Call 843-830-4471 for details, or email activist1199@gmail. CLEMSON A new Progressive Network chapter is under construction in Clemson. If you’re in Pickens, Oconee or Anderson Counties and want to join the effort, email network@scpronet or call 803-808-3384. COLUMBIA Aug. 5, 7pm: Columbia Central Labor Council meeting, 2025 Marion St. Columbia area labor organizations and supporters monthly meeting. Call 803-808-3384 or email network@scpronet for details. Aug. 6, 5:30pm: Mass action planning meeting, at the Network’s office at 2025 Marion St. This is to bring new organizations and individual activist into the planning process for Jan. 2014 action at the State House. For information, call 803-808-3384 or email network@scpronet. Aug. 6, 7pm: Hiroshima Day Vigil, State House steps. We still live in the shadow of the bomb. Presentations by Tom Clements, “The MOX program and tritium production at SRS,” and Susan Corbett, “The Dept. of Energy and budgeting for the B61 bomb.” Organized by Carolina Peace and the Columbia Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. RSVP/Share on Facebook. Aug. 13, 7pm: Midlands Network meeting, 2025 Marion St. We have a lot going on; come find out what and how you can help. Meetings are informal, last about an hour, and open to all. Call 803-808-3384 or email network@scpronet for details. Aug. 27, 6pm: Progressive Movie Night: Free screening of “Brother Outsider” at Conundrum Music Hall, 626 Meeting St., West Columbia (just up the hill from the Gervais St. bridge). In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, the film is about Bayard Rustin, the gay strategist who was the prime organizer of the march. Since its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Brother Outsider has introduced millions of viewers around the world to the life and work of Bayard Rustin — a visionary strategist and activist who has been called the unknown hero of the civil rights movement. A disciple of Gandhi, a mentor to Martin Luther King Jr., and the architect of the 1963 March on Washington, Rustin dared to live as an openly gay man during the fiercely homophobic 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Go to rustin.org for more about the film and the man. SC Equality, a statewide non-partisan coalition of local and state social, religious and political GLBT organizations and allies is cosponsoring the showing. Snacks and beverages available for purchase. Wednesdays, 2pm: Midlands Transit Riders Association meets every Wednesday. Bus riders and advocates welcome. For information, call 803-808-3384 or email midlandstransit@gmail. Find them on Facebook. ROCK HILL Aug. 7, noon: York County Progressive Network will meet at Sila on Anderson Road. Please note we are earlier than in the past to accommodate our have-to-be-back-at-1pm members, but we will stay for the can’t-get-there-til-12:30 folk. Questions? Call Mary at 803-580-0198 or email keenanmsc@gmail.
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