SC Prog Blog

South Carolina Equality Coalition – a Network member – sent this notice today. Congratulations!

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SCEC CELEBRATES VISIBILITY AND INCLUSION!

We prevailed! The SC Democratic Party voted yesterday to set a goal of sending at least 3 openly GLBT delegates from South Carolina to the presidential convention in 2008. Long active in political organizing in this state, gays and lesbians are now being recognized as an important constituency of the state party. The new policy sets an explicit standard of visibility and inclusion.

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As we have in the past, the Network will power down over the summer months. We won’t resume our monthly meeting schedule until September. Meanwhile, we have extra time to read and ruminate. Got me wondering what you have on your reading list. If you have a good book or magazine to recommend, let’s hear about it.

The magazines I subscribe to include Harper’s, The Nation, Ms. (although it is a shadow of its former glorious self) and Yoga Journal. For daily news, I get The State, read the BBC online and listen to NPR. And I sometimes listen to Rush, just to keep my hackles up.

So how ’bout you? Got anything to recommend?

Becci Robbins

We’ve decided it’s time to take the plunge into the 21st Century and add our voice to the blogoshpere. Thanks to our Webmaster Steve Hait for gently easing us into this medium. We hope this will be a useful forum for us to stay in touch, share our stories and ideas, and to give hope to other progressives in South Carolina. We also hope to reach beyond our own membership to broaden our base and engage folks who have yet to get active in their communities and government.

Because we progressives live in a hostile climate here in the Palmetto State, this site will be moderately moderated. We invite your posts, but comments will be monitored to keep the ubiquitous and rabid right from infecting this site with their venom. This doesn’t mean that the loopiest of the left can expect a free pass, either. We’re interested in a thoughtful exchange rather than bombs lobbed in either direction. There is enough of that in this world.

Let the blogging begin!

Becci Robbins