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 This month we lead with shameless promotion of the first conference
of the South Carolina Progressive Network, the coalition of grassroots
groups that POINT has been helping to organize. Some 65 activists
met over the weekend of April 13  14 at Penn Center (near Beaufort) to
solidify the Network and to identify some projects for the group to
launch.
There is an old school of activist thought that says if you're not
being cut off at the knees you're not standing tall enough. So when the
ultraconservative South Carolina Policy Council
a right
wing think tank
said nasty
things about the Network in its latest newsletter, we were gratified.
Under the headline Radicals Rally Anew, they wrote: " Liberals
realize they no longer have the public's attention or sympathy and are
desperate to regain power in government. In order to seize political and
ideological leadership, the coalition was formed to orchestrate a
grassroots counter-culture movement that favors their radical agendas.
The group is fast becoming the Beavis and Butthead of South Carolina
politics
"In the past, progressive' groups claimed to have new ideas
Today's progressives have no new ideas. They are both morally and
intellectually bankrupt. As good capitalists who relish competition, all
conservatives can say to the leaders of the Progressive Network is come
on in and make our day.'"
Knowing how difficult it is to get people up and moving,
POINT tips its hat to the GLPM organizers who pulled together
last month's Pride March in Columbia. Some 5,000 gays, bisexuals and
their friends who are straight but not narrow marched to show their
intolerance of intolerance.
If you read nothing else in this issue, be sure to visit the Land of
the Pasaquan on page 8. If it moves you, come to the Halsey Gallery at the
College of Charleston this month for a series of events to celebrate the
life and work of St. EOM. Curator Mark Sloan says that on May 10 a psychic
will commune with the artist's spirit. No kidding.
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