It feels as if tonight, for a couple of hours, we’re enacting what MLK called the beloved community here at the Charleston Area Justice Ministry (CAJM) meeting at Mount Moriah Baptist Church on Rivers Avenue.
Getting Paid for Failure
August 20, 2017 by Leave a Comment
[Steve Bailey is doing a great job keeping an eye on the growing scandal of SCANA’s nuclear reactor project. Here is his latest op-ed from the Post and Courier.] So with consumers yelling for heads to roll, what is South Carolina Electric & Gas planning next? The largest stock buyback in the company’s history, which […]
Charleston City Council’s Surprising Conversation
May 29, 2017 by Leave a Comment
On May 23rd, during the Citizens’ Participation portion of the Charleston City Council meeting, members of the Charleston Area Justice Ministry (CAJM) spoke about the need for the city to hire an external auditor to investigate racial bias in the police department. At CAJM’s Nehemiah Assembly in April, we highlighted this issue in more detail and […]
Transparency, Whiteness, and the Unspeakable
May 9, 2017 by 5 Comments
In order to explain why the city of Charleston needs an external audit of its police department, I first need to ask a question. Why is it so hard, for many of us, to say that any police officers ever did anything wrong? We’re willing to criticize presidents and doctors and teachers if we believe […]
The Mike Seekings FlexValve
May 6, 2017 by Leave a Comment
[This column first appeared in the Charleston Post and Courier on 29 April and is reprinted here with the writer’s kind permission.] On Monday, the heavens opened and the floods came, leaving much of the peninsula under water yet again. A day later City Council raved about a proposal to build a $40 million swimming […]
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