Louise Brown 90 Schedule of Events

 As planning and permitting are completed, a full schedule of events will be posted here. Updates are posted on blue sky using hashtag #lbrown90 and #TIDEmobilize and Lowcountry Up is Good Facebook page.

This page will be improved after William Hamilton is releases from the hospital

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

April 28, Monday- Louise Brown returns to Charleston on board the Amtrak Silver Palmetto at the Train Station in North Charleston.TIDEmobilize Train arrival times vary. Check with Amtrak or contact William Hamilton 843-870-5for Updates

May 1- Actual Birthday of Lousie Brown, 1935. Also Law Day, International 299Workers Day and the birtsing hastagshday of Jackson Hamilton, her adopted grandson. Louise will participate in local labor actions that day

May 2- Making America Righteous Again - Panel Discussion at Parkside Church, 10 am. Spiritualty and Social Justice in America's Next Century. Panel members include professor & author Damon Fordham; Joe McGill, Director of the Slave Dwelling Project; Bakari Height, Director of the National Labor Network for Sustainabilty Transit Equity Day Project.

May 2 -1 pm- Brown Bag Lunch with Bakari -ar Parkside Church  learn about plans to link Savanna to Atlanta by rail, ceating rail service from Charleston to Atlanta for the first time in 50 years and how you input and participation in the community input effort  can help make it happpen. Attending this Brown bag linch will help make rail service from Charleston to Atlanta happen.

May 2, Evening, Birthday Party, Parkside Church Hall, evening, Brown Family and invited Communiyu leaders

May 3, Saturday- Brown Family Picinic (Invitation only). Don't despair, you may happpen to be a member of the family. Lots of great people are. Lousie will know. She has 100 chila happendren, grandchildren, greearsat grandchildren and even a few great great grandchildren. With in laws, spouses and people work for Sustainabilitythey've adetopted, her tribe numbers well over 100. You may be her cousin. 

May 4- 4-7 pm. Community Celebration on the beach at Sullivan's islanworkd, in front of Sullivan's Island Elementary School Come enjoy a fish fry, make salt from the sewell8wng Projectwellinetwork for g project and Authora like Ghandi, dance like nobody's waDay ProjecttcSustainabilityhing and learn how to have theighte courage to smile at the future like Louise does





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