Louis Robles, Jr., Rebecca Robles, Alfred Cruz, and Angela Mooney D’Arcy of the Acjachemen Nation sing a prayer before the California Coastal Commission, February 6, 2008. Dan Bartletti/L.A. Times.
Click here to visit the Los Angeles Times blog about the sacred Native American site of Panhe, San Onofre State Beach, and the proposed toll road.

Please see the YouTube video of Acjachemen elders and tribal members speaking of the meaning of Panhe in their lives at www.savepanhe.org and www.savesanonofre.org. The following is a transcript of that video.
Anita Espinoza Cruz: My name is Anita Espinoza Cruz. I was born in Orange County, Fullerton, 1928. I am Acjachmen Indian, yes. It’s not [...]

My name is Sally Cruz-Wright, Vice-Chairman of the Juaneno Band of Mission Indians, identified by the Office of Federal Acknowledgement, as petitioner 84B.
I stand before you today as a living testament to the existence of the Acjachemen People. A people who once occupied the village of Panhe. A village that has been estimated to be [...]

United Coalition to Protect Panhe and The City Project have submitted detailed public comments to save Panhe and San Onofre and stop the toll road. We urge the United States Department of Commerce to uphold the decision of the California Coastal Commission that voted 8-2 against the toll road, and reject the appeal by the [...]

The site of the Sa-angna burial ground was a major village and burial ground of the Tongva/Gabrieleño Native Americans circa 1540 and contains remains of tools, jewelry and weapons.
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Louis Robles of Long Beach, an American Indian activist was there in support the fight to stop the toll road. His daughter Rebecca Robles, Co-Director of the United Coalition to Protect Panhe, was one of the speakers that spoke against building the toll road through Panhe, a 9000 year old native American village the the [...]

The City Project is proud to work with the United Coalition to Protect Panhe, the Native American Acjachemen people, and a diverse and growing national alliance of civil rights, social justice, and environmental justice leaders to stop the toll road and save the sacred Native American site of Panhe and San Onofre State Beach. … Coastal Commissioner Larry Clark emphasized these concerns on Febraury 6 The Southern California Association of Governments has called for a multiagency effort including transit to alleviate disparities in access to state and national parks in its 2008 regional transportation plan environmental justice report.

The majority of us here represent the efforts of people from every walk of life and various cultures that are trying to save the world from human destruction. The dinosaurs did not know why they became extinct, but unlike them, we are able to understand our demise. It is time to be careful about how [...]

View the testimonials by Acjachemen Elders and triblal members to save Panhe and San Onofre and stop the toll road that would devastate both.

This documentary is produced by United Coalition to Protect Panhe, The City Project, and Womyn Image Makers and can be used pnly with the permission of UCPP.
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