West and South Point Leaders for May 4th. #chs #EARTHRISING Community Circle Rally Selected

West and South Point Leaders for May 4^th. Community Circle Rally Selected

Charleston, SC, USA, April 26, 2020- Erin McKee (West, Social and Economic Justice) and Christian King  (South, Community and Family) have stepped up to the Circle.

Cardinal Point Leaders for South and West Selected

The Good Old Day, We don't do this anymore

Erin McKee is a local union leader with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. The electrical union has a long and necessary history of dealing with safety issues with physical proximity elements. McKee has spent decades working as a union leader. Earlier in her career she worked as a flight attendant, dealing with safety issues, including the transmission of illness on aircraft. She’s a determined advocate for a $15 an hour minimum wage and workers rights in SC. Erin will take up the West position on the circle and be responsible for supervision and organization of those demonstrator’s stations between the Western point and North where people working for Social and Economic justice will stand at numbered stations along the circle, 12 feet apart.

Christian King, Executive Director of Pink House, a community support organization located West of the Ashley will take up the South location, dedicated to Family and Community. Pink House provides tutoring for children in their area, enrichment activities, food support and labors to build up human dignity in the neighborhoods East of Citadel Mall. King is also a Christian minister and leads the West Ashly unit of Best Friends of Lowcountry Transit.

Leaders for the North and East Locations are now being selected. William Hamilton, Attorney and Executive Director of Lowcountry Up is Good, PAC and Best Friends of Lowcountry Transit and a technical team from Up Is Good will run the center of the circle, where speakers, art and music will originate. A separate team of online communicators, off site will amplify and retransmit elements of the event to virtual participants. Spring 2020, a new song by local activist Sharon Robles has been selected as the Anthem of the gathering. It’s part of the nationwide #Earthday2Mayday mass mobilization.

Plans for and Reasons for the Rally

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Plans for the May 4, Community Circle Rally, a socially distanced real world gathering for renewed work to rebuild family, community, social and economic justice, environmental justice and Government and world leadership is currently recruiting leadership to take up the cardinal leadership points on the 197.2 feet in diameter circle of community that participants will take up stations around at 6 pm on Monday, May 4^th, the anniversary of the day Charlestonian Mary Bowers gained the right to ride the City’s Horse Drawn Streetcars in what may have been the Lowcountry’s first Civil Rights victory in 1867. It is also the 50^th. Anniversary of the Kent State shootings.

The Community Circle Rally has been conceived as a way to enable renewal of a progressive presence for Social and Economic Justice in the public physical and mental space. Our public squares have been monopolized by armed groups of anti science reactionaries focused on weapon ownership, anti-immigrant activities and resistance to public health measures implemented to contain the spread. These gatherings have been characterized by a dangerous and unconsidered disregard for the likelihood of biological hazard transmission of the Covid-19. A summary version of the safety and operation plan for the rally is now online in the Goodsharing.net event listing for the rally as text and a downloadable PDF.

   

More Information

We can't do this anymore either. 

For more information about the rally see postings on Goodsharing.net, the Lowcountry’s new social media platform at https://www.goodsharing.net/groups/2218670/ or you and contact William Hamilton at wjhamilton29464@gmail.com or (843) 870-5299.