SACRED PLACES CONVENTION FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES Saturday, June 12—Sunday, June 13, 2010 Puvungna, California State University Long Beach RESERVE YOUR SPOT AT THE CONVENTION TODAY! Registration Deadline is Monday, June 7, 2010. Indigenous sacred places are central to the ongoing spiritual, mental, and physical health of the people and the survival of Tribal Nations. The [...]

The City Project celebrates Women’s History Month. Lillian Robles remembered. Lillian Robles, an ancestor of the Acjachemen people, is honored through a garden at Bolsa Chica, the annual Ancestor Walk, and the leadership of her family to save the sacred Native American site of Panhe. “Lillian Robles’s legacy will not be forgotten because her family [...]

February 6 is the 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 toll [...]

San Onofre looking north from Trail 6 towards nuclear reactor The United States Department of Commerce on December 18, 2008, upheld the California Coastal Commission decision to stop the toll road through the sacred Acjachemen site of Panhe and San Onofore State Beach. With 2.7 million visitors a year, San Onofre is the fifth-most popular [...]

Posted: December 27th, 2008 http://www.cityprojectca.org/blog/archives/1205 Los Angeles Times Editorial OUT HERE 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Haga click en la foto para oír el programa en Radio Bilingue.  Click on the image to hear the program on Radio Bilingue. 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]