{"id":622,"date":"2008-04-18T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T22:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/18\/network-members-make-news\/"},"modified":"2008-04-19T11:23:33","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T16:23:33","slug":"network-members-make-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/18\/network-members-make-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Network members make news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\">SC Progressive Network<\/a> is always proud of its members, but this week several of them got the media attention they so deserve. Read about what they&#8217;re up to, and be inspired by their dedication to work and community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>South Carolina Coalition for Healthy Families<\/strong> helped successfully defeat a bill that would have required women view an ultrasound before obtaining an abortion. A compromise was reached that changed the language to &#8220;allow&#8221; rather than &#8220;require&#8221; a woman view an ultrasound image. You can link to the bill <a href=\"HTTP:\/\/www.scstatehouse.net\/sess117_2007-2008\/bills\/3355.htm\">here<\/a>. Read more in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/politics\/v-print\/story\/378388.html\">The State<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2008804180340\">Greenville News<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wistv.com\/Global\/story.asp?s=8182642\"\">WIS News 10<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conchita Cruz<\/strong>, an organizer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coalitionfnsc.org\/\">Coalition for New South Carolinians<\/a>, was featured on the cover and lead story in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-times.com\/index.php?cat=1992912064227409&#038;ShowArticle_ID=11751604083911279\">Free Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ed Madden<\/strong>, a longtime Network activist who has served on our executive committee and on the boards of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scglpm.org\/\">SC GLPM<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scequality.org\">SC Equality Coalition<\/a>, was featured in the arts section of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-times.com\/index.php?cat=11001804073474158&#038;ShowArticle_ID=11751604083824344\">Free Times<\/a> for his debut poetry book, Signals. Join him for his launch party on April 20 at the Hunter Gatherer Pub, 900 Main St., in Columbia and on April 23, 7-9pm, at if Art Gallery, 1223 Lincoln St. Madden describes the book as &#8220;meditations on personal and cultural memory, race, and sexuality in the New South.&#8221; It includes several poems on the politics of race and sexuality in Southern culture, and at least two poems written at and about SC Progressive Network events.<\/p>\n<p>And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaliceweb.org\/uufc\/\">Unitarian Universalist Fellowship<\/a> in Columbia&#8217;s effort to &#8220;go green&#8221; was featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/local\/story\/380333.html\">The State<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Great work, comrades!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SC Progressive Network is always proud of its members, but this week several of them got the media attention they so deserve. Read about what they&#8217;re up to, and be inspired by their dedication to work and community. South &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/18\/network-members-make-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-newsevents","category-sc-newscommentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}