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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]