Category Archive: 'Save Panhe and San Onofre'
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
Posted: December 27th, 2008 http://www.cityprojectca.org/blog/archives/1205
Los Angeles Times
Editorial
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The Acjachemen’s victory
The Acjachemen quietly marked the win against the Foothill South toll road by honoring land that will not be disturbed.
December 27, 2008
On the chilly morning of the winter solstice last Sunday, the sun was just cresting the ridgeline of San Mateo Canyon as the Acjachemen talking [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Free the Beach!, Fun in the Park, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, Save Panhe and San Onofre, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement
Friday, December 18th, 2009
Diverse allies working together persuaded the California Coastal Commission in February and the United States Department of Commerce on December 18, 2008, to save the sacred Native American Acjachemen site of Panhe and San Onofre State Beach and stop the toll road there.
“Our hearts are filled with gratitude today. I am grateful for the support [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Free the Beach!, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, Save Panhe and San Onofre, Urban Parks Movement
Friday, November 6th, 2009
New York Times
November 6, 2009
EDITORIAL
White House receptions of American Indian leaders have too often been patronizing historical footnotes. President Obama opened what we hope will be a more promising chapter on Thursday when he met with the leaders from all 564 federally recognized tribes. He vowed that there would be no more “going through the [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy, Save Panhe and San Onofre, Urban Parks Movement
Friday, September 18th, 2009
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SALVAR LOS PARQUES. Las comunidades de color están entre las que menos acceso tienen a los espacios verdes, incluyendo los parques y los campos escolares. Activistas de derechos civiles y de justicia ambiental [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus, Free the Beach!, Fun in the Park, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, Public Art, Save Panhe and San Onofre, Transit to Trails, Urban Parks Movement
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
More details emerged Thursday.
A new Assembly report said the state could close 50 parks because of an $8-million reduction in funds.
“It’s a certainty some parks will close with these reductions,” said Roy Stearns, a spokesman for the Department of Parks and Recreation. “What we don’t know is what parks and where.”
Other administration officials said the [...]
Posted in Clean Water, Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus, Free the Beach!, Fun in the Park, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Heritage Parkscape, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, L.A. River, Olmsted Vision, Public Art, Save Panhe and San Onofre, Transit to Trails, Urban Parks Movement
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Preliminary findings from a recent Sacramento State survey found that visitors to California’s state parks spend an average of $4.32 billion per year in park-related expenditures, based on attendance estimates by state Parks and Recreation of about 74.9 million visitors a year.
The survey, commissioned and funded by the California Parks and Recreation Department and conducted [...]
Posted in Clean Water, Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus, Fun in the Park, Health and Equality, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Heritage Parkscape, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, L.A. River, Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy, Olmsted Vision, Public Art, Save Panhe and San Onofre, Schools and Communities, The City Project, Transit to Trails, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement
Sunday, April 19th, 2009
CHICANO PARK
Chicano Park was founded on April 22, 1970 — the same day as the first Earth Day — when the community of Barrio Logan joined activists to protest the construction of a Highway Patrol station on the present site of the 8 acre park. The community had already been degraded by the demolition of [...]
Posted in Baldwin Hills, Diversifying Democracy, Fun in the Park, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Heritage Parkscape, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, L.A. River, Olmsted Vision, Public Art, Save Panhe and San Onofre, Schools and Communities, Urban Parks Movement
Friday, April 17th, 2009
For more information, contact Rebecca Robles, rebrobles1@gmail.com, or Angela Mooney D’Arcy, at angela.ucpp@gmail.
Save Panhe and San Onofre.
Sunday, April 19th11am to 5pmPANHEEarth Day CelebrationFeaturing Native Singers, Dancers, SpeakersStorytelling, Basketry, Native Plant Demonstrations,and lots more!!Flute Circle9:30 am to 11:30am
PANHE: From CA I-5, exit at Cristianitos in San Clemente and go East towards Camp Pendleton for 1 mile to the [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Fun in the Park, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy, Save Panhe and San Onofre
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
February 6 is the first anniversary of the California Coastal Commission’s 8-2 vote to save the sacred Acjachemen site of Panhe and San Onofre State Beach and stop the toll road there. Coastal Commission member Mary Shallenberger explicitly concluded that the impact on the Native American people alone was reason enough to vote against the [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, Save Panhe and San Onofre
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
Filed Under: Opinion
When President Lyndon B. Johnson was about to sign the Immigration and Nationality Act on Oct. 3, 1965, he chose to do it at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. That day he said, “Our beautiful America was built by a nation of strangers. From a hundred different places [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, Save Panhe and San Onofre
