Public Transit, Politics and Protest in the SC Lowcountry Now

Signing the Community Commitment to Transit

Until recently, establishment power in the United States preferred to retain control by avoiding overt oppressive violence. One of the ways this was accomplished was by building a landscape and transportation system which marginalizes the poor, disabled, young and senior citizens. These people have time, energy and motivation to commit to social justice movements and keeping them immobile renders them silent. Please don't add to their oppression by making a car and driver's license the price of entry to your protest event or campaign. Don't be complicit and allowing our precious transit vehicles to become instruments of oppression.

Make Sure your Campaign or Event can Be Reached on Transit

We believe it is essential that protest and political activity be planned for times and places where transit riders can reach them. A campaign or organization which chooses to plan without regard to transit access tells tens of thousands of transit dependent necessity riders that they're not welcome sand they should vote for someone else. It also tells environmentalists and choice riders that they must use a car, with its attendant social and environmental damage, to reach their event. Many people find driving the Charleston's angry traffic full of stressed people to be very taxing and more and more people refuse to do it. Those that do arrive at your event already worn down by the cruelty and violence of traffic.

Get your Prius Coal Rolled or tailgated by a white pickup and you'll know what we mean. In these stressed, angry times the fight trough traffic is often not worth it.

The late Mary Smith, appearing at Gay Pride as Syphide

We worked with the Marvin Pendarvis campaign to design a day long event on Saturday which puts serious, change making political activity in places where it can be reached by transit (with the exception of Summerville, which has not weekend service.) We're also using Bikes as part of the effort. Every event of the day is within a two block walk, on sidewalks of a stop on the #10 Rivers Ave. Bus line. The 9 am breakfast is one block from Superstop.

Remember, being transit enabled includes a safe trip home afterwards. Transit service ends early in some places. Few of our bus lines run past 8 pm and some riders must make a connection to another route to complete their trip. All trips can planned on Google Transit locally now.

Superstop is served by six different bus lines and is the easiest place for a transit rider to reach in teh region.

We're ready to help any campaign, Democratic, Republican or Independent plan events which are transit enabled. Just call William Hamilton, (843) 870-5299. We can usually work through it on zoom or over the phone.

Here is the event announcement for the Pendavis event. https://www.facebook.com/events/1192814577724690/

Opposition to the Use of Transit Vehicles to Facilitate Mass Arrests

Transit Campaign, 2016 Roadside Pitch on Highway 78

Best Friends of Lowcountry Transit opposes use of CARTA and LINK Transit vehicles to facilitate mass arrests in the Lowcountry. Transit vehicles are for bringing freedom and mobility to people, not oppression. We joined with our national coalition of transit, labor and social justice leaders in issuing this statement. As of this time, we are not aware of plans to mis use our local transit vehicles in this fashion, but with major actions planned for this weekend, we want to be on record and will be issuing a statement to the press today. This detailed release has information on what has happened in other cities. If you are planning an action, you should read the accounts from other places. https://labor4sustainability.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=487&fbclid=IwAR0nthrsm9NoKUQEFxrjcd1KU4lmiH0bnMMaq1M5dbMDzroXaWgD5ObKL98.