The Collective Homestead Project is a social and political experiment in practical living.  With a generous allocation of 7 acres and a house in the beautiful South Carolinian countryside, Charleston FNB is seeking to create a source of nutrition, recreation, and education.  An ambitious project, we seek to create a small scale agricultural site based on sustainability and community.  This project is still in its' beginning stages.  We are actively seeking responsible and interested individuals to get involved and follow their passions and interests at the homestead.  Our goals are to provide a constant source of food for statewide Food Not Bombs projects and a place for individuals to explore a different lifestyle.

At this point, workdays are the only time the homestead is accessible.  If you are interested contact
Email CharlestonFNB@blackflag.org

We are organizing for social justice around issues like housing, police violence, the shelter-industrial complex, homelessness, and rights to housing and public space. Our first mission with this email is to set up a consensus decision making network of people to defend the current housing foreclosures, resulting from the economic crisis and in general. We feel that necessities like housing and food are a right, not a priviledge. Every time i read a story about a family losing their home or see pictures of piles of possessions on the side of the road, my stomach aches.
Indeed, bearing witness to the decaying of our neighboorhooods and the suffering of our neighbors can conjure up some serious feelings of being, well, powerless to the foreclosure storm. Not to mention downright furious about how irresponsible and illogical our nation's response has been to this housing mess
We want to collectively build "Home Defender Teams." These teams will be prepared to mobilize on short notice to help defend a family's right to stay in their homes. We are seeking to build phone and email lists.
We are also planning a radical political arts festival that will be centered around the issues of gentrification, housing, and public space in the fall.
If you would like to be involved or have any ideas, just contact us through the email below.
Email Reclaim Charleston

Charleston SDS/MDS is an organization dedicated to engaging students and others in the larger movement for positive social, political, and economic change. Our goal is to use direct action and educational resources to help create a society free from poverty, racism, sexism, exploitation, imperialism, and general oppression.
We meet at the Stern Center 3rd floor, Mondays at 7pm.
http://www.cofcsds.org

Holy City Bike Co-op is a group of volunteers who believe that one of the ways to increase bicycle ridership in the Charleston area is to teach folks how to fix and maintain their bikes.
Our Monthly bikes workshops happen on the first Sunday of each month in Marion Square from 3-6pm. Please bring spare parts, tools, and knowledge to share with all.
http://www.holycitybikecoop.org

The Charleston Women's Collective is a group of women in the Charleston community who have come together for the purpose of creating a safe space for women of all genders, races, ages, classes, and sexual orientations to come together under the commonality of female identification to voice our opinions and personal experiences. We also seek to encourage political activism in the Charleston community.
Meetings are held the first Saturday and third Wednesday of every month at 5:00pm. Locations are different every month.
For more information: http://charlestonwomen.blogspot.com

A local group dedicated to promoting peace and social justice.
We meet at 7:00pm on the third Tuesday of every month at the Circular Congregational Church, 150 Meeting St. (upstairs in the back building)
http://www.charlestonpeace.org