[Editor’s Note: Mr. Goodmon is executive director of the Crenshaw Subway Coalition.]
Our Crenshaw community-driven effort to inform, engage and empower Crenshaw stakeholders would not be possible without your active support and engagement.
The Crenshaw Subway Coalition accomplished incredible feats in 2013, highlighted by the achievement of one of the community’s key design goals for the Crenshaw-LAX light rail line, a station at Leimert Park Village. Our struggle was even showcased on an international stage at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner through a documentary produced by film school students at USC, Beyond the Echo of the Drum. We broadened our coalition. We strengthened alliances. We educated, activated, agitated and brought about positive change for our community. We are doing great work, yet, there is still so much more to do!
Click here to donate today to help us continue our work in 2014.
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In Park Mesa Heights, MTA is still set on building the line at street-level. Our lawsuit in federal court that seeks to change the design to underground to preserve and enhance our community and protect life will be decided any day now. Simultaneously, we must continue pressuring the MTA Board of Directors and decisions-makers to hear the community's demand.
Discussions about long-term development that will be a product of the rail line are advancing, while many of the Crenshaw's cultural and commercial assets are being displaced or are under the threat of displacement.
This is a time when our voice is most needed.
To help build our capacity to fully participate in these important discussions we are launching a campaign to raise $10,000. Whether $25, $250 or $2,500 we need your support today to ensure our community is empowered at this critical time.
Click here to make a secure tax-deductible contribution.
Mr. Goodmon may be contacted at dg@crenshawsubway.org
