Source: San Diego Surf Film Festival 2016 | Hoots and Shakas | May 18-28, 2016
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From 1820 to 2013, 79 million people obtained lawful permanent resident status in the United States. The interactive map below visualizes all of them based on their prior country of residence. The brightness of a country corresponds to its total migration to the U.S. at the given time. Use the controls at the bottom to stop / […]
Source: Here’s Everyone Who’s Immigrated to the U.S. Since 1820 – Metrocosm
Surfing in Palestine: pleasure-seekers of the occupied territories
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Avalon 1964, With Midget Farrelly and Bobby Brown
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
Australia’s world heritage site is the largest living thing on Earth. But warm water driven by El Niño is bleaching the reef, and a recent report calls for it to be listed as in danger
Source: Great Barrier Reef: the scale of bleaching has the most sober scientists worried
Source: San Diego Surf Film Festival 2016 | Hoots and Shakas | May 18-28, 2016
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Aztec style is big news this summer – here’s our pick of the best pieces
Source: The 10 best Aztec looks for your home – in pictures | Life and style | The Guardian
LA declares Ritchie Valens Day on 75th anniversary of his birth
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers formally rules that 8,500-year-old Kennewick Man, a.k.a. the Ancient One, belonged to a Native American tribe.
Source: San Diego Surf Film Festival 2016 | Hoots and Shakas | May 18-28, 2016
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Here’s a link with the related subject of Ghandi and the struggle in India: 129 of Gandhi’s speeches on India and self-rule
Source: San Diego Surf Film Festival 2016 | Hoots and Shakas | May 18-28, 2016
Rabbit Kekai, the Last of the Waikiki Beachboys, Dies At 95
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
Predicting the attack on Pearl Harbor
Drowned worlds: Egypt’s lost cities
The Marxophone is a 1912 toy instrument that combines a zither with a keyboard linked to flexible hammers that repeatedly strike the strings. The resulting sound, over the years, has earned a stran…
Source: The Marxophone, spooky carnival instrument / Boing Boing
Where are surfing’s most creative subcultures today?
A battle over access to a prime piece of California coast has brought unwanted attention to one of the most prominent venture capitalists in Silicon Valley.
Source: Billionaire V.C. under fire in beach dispute – Reuters.TV
An oil sheen of 2 miles by 13 miles could be seen off the Louisiana coast.
Source: Shell Oil Spill Dumps Thousands Of Barrels Of Crude Into Gulf Of Mexico
Best of Break Free Global Action
Berta Cáceres, the environmental advocate shot dead in her home in March, told friends of a hitman boasting about his plans as she ‘worked frantically’
Source: ‘Time was running out’: Honduran activist’s last days marked by threats
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Oldest known axe discovered in Australia, claim researchers
We need a revolt against the fossil fuel industry
Amidst lingering smoke from the morning’s ceremony, Garifuna leader Miriam Miranda opened up the space with a welcoming. “We celebrate that you are here with us today to build something real. We don’t want our Sister Berta to become an empty word. We don’t want her name to become just another slogan.”
Significant portions of the habitats for loggerhead turtles, right whales, and many other species would be impacted if the Obama administration approves permits for seismic testing.
Source: Loggerhead, Right Whale Breeding Grounds Are Entirely Covered By Atlantic Blasting Area | ThinkProgress
Water is at risk in the United States and around the world. Its quality and availability is in peril. Today, nearly one in eight people lack access to adequate supplies of safe drinking water. Globally, water-borne diseases kill more people than tuberculosis or malaria, and five times as many children die of diarrhea than of HIV/AIDS.
Source: Watching Out for Our Water | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community