UPDATE: The Longest Walk 2 Northern Route received its permit Friday afternoon. The sacred Longest Walk continues. SHINGLE SPRINGS, Calif. – The Longest Walk 2 Northern Route is combating an attempt by the California Department of Transportation to stop the sacred walk.
Jimbo Simmons, coordinator for the Longest Walk 2 northern route, said the California Department of Transportation is attempting to halt the walk now leaving Shingle Springs and heading east, during the afternoon of Friday, Feb. 15.
“We’re going to walk today, even if we are going to be arrested,” Simmons said on the live northern route broadcast on www.earthcycles.net/ from Shingle Springs Miwok Nation. "They can't stop us."
“We have permission. Grandfather Creator has given us the permission,” Simmons said. “We’re going to do it. If we have to walk over the mountain, we are going to do it.”
Simmons asked people to call Julio Elvir, chief officer on permits, 530-741-4403, and demand that permission be given for the sacred walk to continue through California to Nevada.


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