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Resurgens the Official Newsletter of Councilmember Michael Julian Bond Member At-Large Winter/Spring 2017 Resurgens The Official Newsletter of Councilmember Michael Julian Bond Member At-Large Atlanta City Councilmember l Michael Julian Bond l Post 1 At-Large Dear Constituents, This newsletter is intended BOND’S FISCAL to provide you with more information about the RESPONSIBILITY work our office is doing in the community and to Councilman Michael Bond is reporting a share with you the many $95,160 operating budget savings from ways we can help you access city services and fiscal year 2016, as has been his annual make the most of your practice. Bond has operated his Council voice in city government. Office’s budget in the black for seven We have accomplished so much over the last few years, it is not possible to include it all. consecutive years, returning an average of nearly $100,000 each year. So this newsletter serves as a “Year in Review” of 2016 with a few benchmark accomplishments of previous years - all highlighting our incredible accomplishments, including community outreach and events, approved legislation, and proclamations honoring so many Atlanta citizens. Of course none of what we have been able to accomplish has been without your ideas, your phone calls, and your public input. Currently, I serve on the Community Development/ Human Resources Committee, the Public Safety/Legal Administration Committee, and on the Committee on Council. Each of these Committees offer public comment opportunities, and I will continue to be a strong advocate for your right to address the Council Committees with no time limits. Atlanta’s National So remember that you are always welcome to contact our office by phone, email, or just coming down to City Night Out In Midtown Hall. We are here to help constituents with a variety of issues, including citywide concerns and issues effecting Councilman Michael Julian Bond toured the city for individual communities all across Atlanta. the annual “Atlanta Night Out,” a simultaneous event Please do not hesitate to contact me with your questions in which various neighborhoods within Atlanta city or concerns. The office phone number is (404) 330 6770, limits host block parties to celebrate and acknowledge and my email is [email protected]. You can also visit my website at www.atlantapost1.com, and can the state of their surroundings. always call 311. Emails regarding the newsletter can be forwarded to [email protected]. The Atlanta Police Department, Atlanta Fire and Thank you for allowing me to serve as your Post 1 At-Large Rescue and district Councilmembers made their Councilmember. rounds to a dozen participating neighborhoods. Councilman Bond...”Please tell us a story!" Councilman Michael Julian Bond became "Storyteller Bond" at Hamilton E. Holmes Elementary School, March 28, 2016. As part of "Men's Monday" at the school, Councilman Bond "enchanted" a group of Kindergarten and 1st graders as he told the story of "Apollonia and the 3 Golden Apples". Delivery of a Thanksgiving Baskets Post 1 At-Large delivered a basket filled with a turkey and ALL the trimmings for a wonderful Thanksgiving to a family in that lost their home due to fire. It was an honor and privilege to provide a Thanksgiving Basket to the family with Atlanta Fire & Rescue to include Fire Chief Baker and Deputy Fire Chief Smith. Bond also distributed 30 turkeys to families that have children in Atlanta Public Schools (APS) that were in need of our support. Thanks! - 2 - New Historical Trail Honors... The Atlanta Student Movement On August 17, 2015, the Atlanta City Council approved resolution 15- The Atlanta Student Movement O-1317, sponsored by Councilman was formed between February and Bond, establishing the Atlanta Student March 1960 in Atlanta by students Movement Historical Trail; and of the campuses of the Atlanta providing for historical markers. University Center (AUC) and led by the Committee for the Appeal for Gov. Vandiver ordered arrests, The finished product will consist of a Human Rights resulting in 77 students in jail. total of thirteen markers scheduled to be unveiled in late spring of 2016. On February 05,1960, Morehouse The NAACP arranged legal students Lonnie King, Julian Bond assistance for the students. The Trail is a culmination of several (Councilman Bond’s father), and Attorneys A.T. Waldon and Donald years of work by Councilman Bond Joseph Pierce discussed the idea Lee Hollowell were among many and several veterans of the Civil of following in the footsteps of the Black attorneys who provided free Rights Movement in Atlanta. A Greensboro, North Carolina sit-ins, representation to the students. Commission was formed in 2010 to with the idea to organize similar begin the process. actions in Atlanta. Even Atlanta Mayor William B. Hartsfield spoke in support of the Last year, on November 01, 2014, Other activists in the movement movement, saying the movement’s Councilman Bond unveiled the first include former Atlanta City concerns were reflective of the young historical markers as part of the Trail, Councilwoman Carolyn Long Banks, people in the city and that “we Marian Wright should at least listen” to them. And Edelman, Ben Brown, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. advised the and Roslyn Pope. students on many of their activities of civil obedience. The student activists were summoned By their actions and the actions of to the office of the others, in the fall of 1961, the City of Presidents of all six Atlanta ended the formal practice of AUC colleges, who at segregation in public facilities. the time, challenged the students to write On June 07, 2010, a Commission a document, rather was created to identify locations than to proceed where these historical actions with immediate took place, and erect markers to direct action such as memorialize different actions that organizing sit-ins at took place in the 1960’s student at the corner of James P. Brawley segregated lunch counters. movement in Atlanta. The Commission Drive and Atlanta Student Movement recommended the creation of a trail Boulevard. The document they developed in 2012. was called An Appeal for Human The Trail is intended to celebrate the Rights and was published in several The trail was to be called the achievements of the Atlanta Student publications including the Atlanta Freedom Trail, but this is already Movement, and provide Atlanta Constitution and the Harvard Crimson. a trademarked name for a trail in residents and tourists alike with an Then-Gov. Ernest Vandiver reportedly Boston, Massachusetts. exciting new way to learn more about said it was too well-written to be by a the movement. student in Georgia and was probably In 2014, a Task Force was created to written by a foreign Communist! develop recommendations regarding The markers will chronicle the Atlanta historical markers for the trail. Student Movement between 1960 U.S. Sen. Jacob Javits from New and 1965 with text that explains the York entered the Appeal in the The unveiling of the completed Trail is historical importance of each location. Congressional Record, and the New to take place in late spring 2016. Stay York Times ran it as a full-page ad. tuned for more information. The markers will be interactive with QR codes that a person can scan with a On March 15, 1960, the Committee smartphone or mobile device. on Appeal for Human Rights, with the assistance of the NAACP, launched a Scanning the codes will take them to direct action campaign. a web page with more information about the history. Some two hundred students participated in sit-ins in ten different The main feature of the web pages locations downtown, including the will be videos of individuals who State Capitol building, the county participated in the historical events court house, City Hall, bus stations, at that site, as well as archival news and railway stations. footage. - 3 - Post #1 Active Around Atlanta Councilman Michael Julian Bond led “Team Atlanta” in the American Diabetes Association’s annual “Walk to Stop Diabetes” at Turner Field. November 12, 2016, Councilman Michael Julian Bond hosted and participated in the 2016 Fall Scrap Tire Drive, held at CHaRM on Hill Street in Atlanta, Saturday, November 20, 2016. Bond invited citizens to help cleanup the environment by bringing in old tires for FREE disposal. Councilman Tackles Emergency Police Brutality Preparedness Escalating tensions between law enforcement Many of the children participating in Atlanta’s summer and the black community, in the wake of a string camps will be better prepared in case of disaster, thanks of deadly police encounters, was the impetus to the efforts of Councilman Bond and the American for a conversation at a Unity in the Community Red Cross. Bond’s summer tour of Atlanta Recreation event. Hosted by the City of Atlanta Office of the Centers included talking to children ages 8 to 11 (3rd Public Defender, Councilman Bond joined a panel to 5th graders) about fire safety and preparation for discussion on Fostering Understanding, Trust & possible weather emergencies. Confidence in the Criminal Justice System, in which Bond told urban youths to “learn your rights when American Red Cross instructors were on hand, teaching encountering law enforcement and the judicial a hands-on course in disaster preparedness. As part of system.” The Pillowcase Project, each child receives a Disney pillowcase to design as they learn how to make a Colleague and Councilmember Ivory Lee Young, family emergency kit with everyday items in their home. Jr. joined the discussion at Booker T. Washington They also learn about home fires and how to create High School, along with a number of community an evacuation plan. The program encompasses more leaders working in and with the courts. than 300 children citywide during July.
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