Category Archive: 'Native American Sites'
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
234 Museum Drive, Mt. Washington.
Constructed between 1912 – 1914, the building was designed by the firm of Sumner P. Hunt and Silas R. Burns. It is one of the first major examples of the transition from Mission Revival to Spanish Colonial Revival in Los Angeles. The 1920 Lower entrance on Museum Drive is Pre-Columbian Revival [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Heritage Parkscape, Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy, Native American Sites, Public Art, Urban Parks Movement
Monday, November 17th, 2008
November 17, 2008
The contentious proposal to extend a toll road 16 miles, part of that through San Onofre State Beach in northern San Diego County, has been moving slowly through the bureaucratic process for decades. The $1.3-billion road is intended to connect Rancho Santa Margarita in southern Orange County with Interstate 5 at Basilone Road [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Native American Sites, Save Panhe and San Onofre
Monday, October 27th, 2008
Click here to hear the Song for Panhe by Jodi Levine.
Spirit Circle Acjachemen/Juaneño © Ricardo Duffy 2008.
www.savepanhe.org and www.savesanonofre.org
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Native American Sites, Public Art, Save Panhe and San Onofre, Transportation Justice
Friday, October 24th, 2008
Portions of the adobe structures were built in the 1790’s as part of the Rancho La Cienega o Paso de la Tijera. Archaeological evidence indicates a prehistoric Native American village existed on this site.
Learn more about the Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy campaign.
Visit the Heritage Parkscape online and on flickr.
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Heritage Parkscape, Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy, Native American Sites, Urban Parks Movement
Monday, October 20th, 2008
14400 Foothill Boulevard, Sylmar.
A flat, 3.8 acre Sylmar site, the cemetery is covered with native grasses and includes a walkway and memorial patio. It is the second-oldest cemetery in the San Fernando Valley and holds the remains of early pioneers, Civil War Veterans and Mission Indians.
Learn more about the Monuments,
Diversity, and Democracy campaign.
Visit the Heritage [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Heritage Parkscape, Native American Sites, Urban Parks Movement
Friday, October 17th, 2008
THE UNITED COALITION TO PROTECT PANHE
ART AUCTION BENEFIT
Saturday, October 25, 2008: 2-7 pm
Silent Auction Event: 4-6 pm
The proposed toll road threatens Panhe, our Sacred Ceremonial Site,
as well as Trestles, the World Famous Surf Beach, San Mateo Campground, and San Onofre State Beach.
The Silent Auction Benefit is sponsored by the United Coalition to Protect Panhe, a [...]
Posted in Native American Sites, Public Art, Save Panhe and San Onofre
Friday, October 17th, 2008
Thank you to Naui Ocelotl Huitzilopochtli for making this video and posting it on his YouTube site!
Please visit www.savepanhe.org and www.savesanonofre.org.
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Native American Sites, Save Panhe and San Onofre
Friday, October 17th, 2008
The Los Angeles Times report appears below. Read the letter from diverse allies to stop the $1.1 billion toll road bailout.
O.C. toll road agency seeks federal bailout
TCA has requested a $1.1-billion federal loan to help merge its two arms and to help refinance its $4.6 million debt. Critics say the roads aren’t as profitable as [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Native American Sites, Save Panhe and San Onofre, Transportation Justice
Friday, October 10th, 2008
“If surfers ever want to be a political force, we better learn to stand up. Now.”
- Matt Walker
I have a dream. Actually, it’s more of a nightmare. It’s a vision of coastal communities filled with pavement — but no parking. Where cultures founded on the idea of whole towns enjoying the beach together finally give [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Free the Beach!, Native American Sites, Save Panhe and San Onofre, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Los Angeles Times Editorial
Southern California’s toll road to nowhere
The Foothill South project serves neither the state nor the nation and should be rejected by Washington.
October 8, 2008
The U.S. Commerce Department came, it saw (or at least heard), and now it gets to decide whether to allow the Foothill South toll road to be built even [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Native American Sites, Transportation Justice