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Beautify English Avenue!
Active Apr 24, 2008 to May 10, 2008
| Reverend Anthony Motley of the Lindsay Street Baptist Church and John C. Gordon, Co-Chairs of the campaign to "Beautify English Avenue - in Memory of Kathryn Johnston", ask your help in kicking off our efforts to revitalize this area. We will begin with a day of neighborhood clean-up on Saturday May 10, 2008 to launch our initiatives of cleaning up the area, ridding the streets of crime and laying the foundation for the eventual construction of playgrounds, parks, a community center, charter school and affordable housing. About English Avenue and Kathryn Johnston: Hidden in the shadows of downtown Atlanta is a mostly forgotten and abandoned historic neighborhood where little children play among abandoned and dilapidated buildings, dirty needles, drug dealers, prostitutes, trash and crime and where good and hard-working people live in conditions more representative of third world countries. Few Atlanta residents even knew of its existence until the area became the center of public scrutiny following the murder, of Kathryn Johnston, 92, by Atlanta police officers on November 22, 2006 executing a "no knock" warrant which they obtained by providing a Magistrate Judge false information. Kathryn Johnston, in an attempt to protect herself from what seemed to be a robbery, as the police were dressed in plain clothes, took one shot with her rusty pistol followed by a barrage of police gunfire leaving the elderly grandmother dead in the sanctity of her own home. The police officers attempted to cover up their crime by coercing an informant to lie. Fortunately, this informant was able to escape, dial 911 and report what was happening. English Avenue Today: Despite the spotlight placed on English Avenue in 2006 by both the media and the enormous public outcry over the death of Kathryn Johnston, little has been done to revitalize the area, prevent further brutal crimes or to provide a real foundation on which its residents may flourish. Our mission is to change the future for the residents of English Avenue and in order to do so we are enlisting your help. OUR REQUEST: We request participation in this endeavor as follows: Volunteer for the clean-up day; ask your friends and neighbors to join us; consider donating and donations of yard tools; trash collection materials; etc. Saturday May 10, 2008 - English Avenue Community (1 mile west of Coca-Cola World H.Q.) 8 am - 4pm @ The Lindsay Street Baptist Church For additional information contact me or TRACEY BATES, Executive Director 404-577-7311 or John Gordon, 678-778-5745. |
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