North Charleston Police Arrest Local Artist Protesting Elbit Systems in Ladson
"Our Lowcountry lifestyle and community deserve better than the likes of Elbit Systems. It is well within our ability to evict it."
— MARTIN LEVISEN, ARTIST, RETIRED MARINE BIOLOGIST, CHARLESTON RESIDENT, ABC NEWS 4
“As a parent in the Charleston County School District, I am outraged to learn that tax money which should be funding our children’s education is instead producing weapons to be used in the destruction of Gaza’s entire school system. Gaza is already the most dangerous place in the world to be a child, and subsidizing Elbit Systems with our public money is making it even more dangerous for both the children of Gaza and the children of Charleston County.”
— CHRIS TITTLE, CHARLESTON RESIDENT + PARENT
“…the people's voice does matter and there are people that do not stand for this genocide and want their communities to take no part in it.”
— ROSE HASSOUNEH, CHARLESTON RESIDENT
“The oppression of Gullah-Geechee people and Palestinians come from the same snake. The same tactics and technology is being trained to our police. Peep the deadly exchange. The namesake for our jail, Al Cannon, even gave seminars to Israeli military and police. The same people biting us is the same biting them."
— FEZ, GULLAH GEECHEE RESIDENT OF CHARLESTON COUNTY
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