SC Republicans want to spend $5.3 million on shrine to Confederate Flag

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Monday December 21, 2015 · 12:31 AM PST

2015/12/21 · 00:31

I’ve drafted a petition to try to stop it. Here’s the full text:

In the wake of the tragic mass shooting at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. church in Charleston, SC, by a white supremacist terrorist, a groundswell of opposition to the Confederate flag finally forced its removal from a place of prominence on the SC Statehouse grounds. Now, lawmakers are considering a plan to spend $5.3 million to once again honor the flag by making unnecessary renovations to the SC Confederate Military Museum, where it is to be housed, at a cost of more than five times that spent to construct the African American monument. You can read more about the plan here:
www.postandcourier.com/...
Space should be made for the flag in a museum at minimum expense to the taxpayers, where it should be displayed for purely educational (and not honorific) purposes. Also, the flag's display ought to be accompanied by signage and educational materials relating to the history of slavery, the brutality of Jim Crow, and the use of the flag as a symbol of opposition to Civil Rights. Educational materials ought also reflect the fact that the flag has been used as a rallying banner for white supremacist terrorist violence against African Americans, long before the murders of nine innocent people at Mother Emanuel. We petition the SC State Legislature to oppose the elaborate, expensive, and unnecessary renovations being proposed to the S.C. Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum, and to finally put an end to the glorification of a flag that is synonymous with slavery and racism.

Please lend a hand by signing the petition and sharing it on social media:

www.change.org/...

Kossaks, help! #FightforCofC part 3: Attack of the Homophobic knuckledraggers

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Wednesday April 09, 2014 · 10:59 PM PDT

2014/04/09 · 22:59

The corrupt, bigoted republicans of SC state politics have decided to attack the state's most progressive college from every angle. They've installed a neo-confederate president with no academic experience, over massive discontent from the faculty and students, through shady strongarming and manipulation of the Board of Trustees. They've cut funding from our programs for assigning LGBTQ themed books. They've tried ten different ways to turn us into a diploma factory for the Boeing plant up the road. And now one of the major ringleaders of this assault is raising money by attacking our LGBTQ friendly campus as run by "radical, militant, gay leftists".

MattRabon

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Wednesday April 02, 2014 · 11:15 AM PDT

2014/04/02 · 11:15

A few weeks ago, the College of Charleston's Board of Trustees caved to political pressure from South Carolina Republicans, and installed our famously racially divisive Lt. Gov. Glenn McConnell as president of CofC. The backlash has been swift and severe. Last week saw rallies, sit ins, Votes of No Confidence in the board from the Student Gov. Association as well as the Faculty Senate. Today we are still fighting tooth and nail to stop this hostile takeover. We ask for your help!

MattRabon

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Sunday March 30, 2014 · 5:21 PM PDT

2014/03/30 · 17:21

College of Charleston students have been making a ruckus this week. If you haven’t been following, on Saturday March 22 the Board of Trustees did what everyone expected and nobody wanted; they unanimously voted for neo-confederate Lt. Gov. Glenn McConnell to be the 22nd President of the nations 13th oldest College.

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