• GROW street sweep seeks volunteers

    GROW 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia

    Looking for a few volunteers! The Modjeka Simkins School participates in the City of Columbia’s Adopt-A-Street program by conducting a quarterly sweep of our neighborhood. We need help picking up trash on Marion Street between Elmwood and Taylor. We provide trash bags, gloves, pickers, and beverages. The sweep lasts about an hour. This month, folks

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  • Carolina Peace Grow Night

    GROW 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia

    Peace for Palestine monthly meeting (3rd Tuesdays), 6-8pm: Join Midlands peace activists working to educate the public and end the bloodshed in Gaza. Sponsored by Carolina Peace.

  • United Campus Workers meeting

    GROW 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia

    United Campus Workers meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at GROW.  Join union organizers for a monthly meeting to talk shop and plan actions.

  • Monthly Network meeting

    GROW 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia

    We are suspending our regular public Network meetings to focus on our internal work for the coming months. We are working on some exciting projects, including GROW building expansion plans. We are also organizing our fall retreat at Penn Center. Stay tuned!

  • Jazz Workshop

    GROW 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia

    Every 1st and 3rd Thursday between 8 and 10pm, GROW holds a free jazz workshop to showcase local talent. It's Columbia's best-kept secret. All are welcome.

  • Teach Truth Day!

    SC State House 1100 Gervais St., Columbia, SC

    We will mark the Zinn Education Project's national Teach Truth Day on June 7 by gathering Modjeska Simkins School students and allies on the SC State House steps for a short speak-out. Come show your support for teaching a true people's history in the Palmetto State. Join us at 2pm for a brief program with the school's lead instructor,

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  • Screening of Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre

    GROW 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia

    As part of its Deep Dive series, the Modjeska Simkins School will screen the 2014 film Scarred Justice, a 60-min. documentary about the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre. The Orangeburg Massacre brings to light one of the bloodiest tragedies of the Civil Rights era after decades of deliberate denial. The killing of four white students at Kent

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  • United Campus Workers meeting

    GROW 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia

    United Campus Workers meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at GROW. Join union organizers to talk shop and plan actions.

  • Peace for Palestine meeting

    GROW 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia

    Join Carolina Peace for GROW Night: Cuba, Lift the Blockade this Tuesday June 17th 6:30pm, featuring speaker Ty dePass, founding member of Asere. Light refreshments. Free/donations accepted. For six-and-a-half-decades the US has waged clandestine warfare on the island nation of Cuba. From the economic sanctions imposed by the Eisenhower administration, to the abortive Bay of

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  • Jazz Workshop

    GROW 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia

    Every 1st and 3rd Thursday between 8 and 10pm, GROW holds a free jazz workshop to showcase local talent. It's Columbia's best-kept secret. All are welcome.