Roots vs the Future

Stanley Black Sophisticat in Cuba 1958

The New People (1969 Promo)

Mapuche Leader Moira Millán: “We Mapuche people don’t fight for land ownership but for a way of living on the land”

California wildfires: 120,000 forced to flee as blazes tear through south of state

Are You Ready to Consider that Capitalism is the Real Problem?

How 5 African-American Women Are Shaking Up Atlanta’s Cocktail Scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRgeHocY6ME
Nelson and Ashley Ahina, Laniakea 15 Nov 2017

DownHill SkateBoarding Freeride Lacets Montvernier

This British gent lives life like it’s the 1940s / Boing Boing

Checkmate: how do climate science deniers’ predictions stack up?

This skate company is turning guns into skateboards

Climate change has created massive blooms of ecologically disruptive jellyfish, but luckily they’re delicious

Bartend Against: Helping Communities Across the Globe

“Pacific Vibrations” 1970 “Brave Ulysses”, Ashish & Randy’s Music

Bros go to LA city council to speak for house parties

The problem with nuclear waste

Source: House Preparing to Sacrifice Right Whales for Big Oil

MCS joins 150 organisations backing call to ban oxo-degradable plastic packaging | Marine Conservation Society

So we lost John Severson and Bruce Brown in the same year …

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I watched his films many times – maybe because I couldn’t be in the water nearly as much as I would have appreciated. His iconic The Endless Summer was my first exposure to both Brown’s work as well as to mid century surf films as a genre.

California wildfires encroach on heart of Los Angeles – in pictures

Parking Lot Sale and Art Show!!!

December 3rd, 2pm

featuring
High Tide Preforming The Ventures x-mas album in its entirety
Durangos Tacos
DJ Big Tiki Dude (outside)

Source: North Hollywood Events

‘As close as the US gets to Egypt’s pyramids’: how Chaco Canyon is endangered by drilling

Source: Tom Goldtooth: Carbon Trading is “Fraudulent” Scheme to Privatize Air & Forests to Permit Pollution | Democracy Now!

Source: Study finds different types of alcohol may affect our emotions differently / Boing Boing

Source: Will You ‘Promise to Protect’? Coalition Urges New Wave of Resistance to Stop KXL | Common Dreams

Source: Who Owns the Internet? | The New Yorker

EV West, a car shop in California, built the world’s first electric Ferrari.

Source: Meet the DIY Mechanics Retrofitting Classic Cars With Electric Motors

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Honda’s new classic Super Cub motorscooter looks as good today as it did 60 years ago

Source: Honda’s new classic Super Cub motorscooter looks as good today as it did 60 years ago

Source: Harry Belafonte tells crowd at likely last public appearance: ‘We shall overcome’ | US news | The Guardian

Source: The great climate silence: we are on the edge of the abyss but we ignore it | Clive Hamilton | Environment | The Guardian

Source: Mapping 15 of Los Angeles’s Most Glorious Remaining Googies

Source: the unbelievable story of transgender soul singer jackie shane – i-D

Source: Waiting for the tide to turn: Kiribati’s fight for survival | World news | The Guardian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdX6SdD9Um0

We keep discovering talents from Brazil. Patricia Rodrigues is a Downhill Skateboarder from São Paulo who just dropped a freeride run down Timburi. LGC

Source: LGC Brasil’s Patricia Rodrigues – Timburi Run » Blog Archive » Longboard Girls Crew

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Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

Indigenous Education Foundation (IEF) Watch a Film, Save a Culture – #wafsac campaign

Source: #WAFSAC

(2017). Criminalizing Environmental Activism. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 49, Prisons, Punishment, and Policing in the Americas. Across the region, violence continues to spiral. What can be done?, pp. 315-322. doi: 10.1080/10714839.2017.1373958

Source: NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol 49, No 3

Source: Disappointment and delight mark the death of Energy East pipeline | National Observer

Source: Crazy-cool vintage Aloha shirt: Tikis wearing Shriner fezzes / Boing Boing

Source: Lakes of mercury and human sacrifices – after 1,800 years, Teotihuacan reveals its treasures | Art and design | The Guardian

Source: Adsausage – vintage advertising library.

Source: In a Summer of Wildfires and Hurricanes, My Son Asks “Why Is Everything Going Wrong?”

Circa 1910. ‘Los Angeles & San Diego Beach Railway — Gasoline motor car running from San Diego to La Jolla, California.’ A McKeen Motor Car at the Hotel Cabrillo in La Jolla. 5×7 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co.

Source: La Jolla Line: 1910 | Shorpy | #1 Old Photos

Source: Moondog: the Man on the Street : Free Streaming : Internet Archive

Source: ‘This is a really big deal’: Canada natural gas emissions far worse than feared | World news | The Guardian

Distant volcanic eruptions disrupted climate, a new study suggests, causing life-giving rains along the Nile to fail.

Source: How Volcanoes Caused Violent Uprisings in Cleopatra’s Egypt

The Pacific Southwest Exposition embodied the spirit of 1920s Hollywood: spectacle for its own sake, cheerful vulgarity, and commercial hard sell.

Source: Flappers and Indians in the Dream City: The Jazz Age Ends in Long Beach

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Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

Source: Caliber Truck Co. – Microcosm – SKATE[SLATE]

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Source: Lace Music Products – The Teliki – Custom Electric guitar from Lace.

Source: When Wall Street Owns Main Street — Literally | naked capitalism

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Source: Moondog: the Man on the Street : Free Streaming : Internet Archive

Source: One of world’s largest marine parks created off coast of Easter Island | Environment | The Guardian

Source: Elektroauto Jaguar E-type Zero: “Das schönste Elektroauto der Welt” | heise online

Source: Soul & Mod – Mod Subculture Directory & Soul Events Advertising – Mods

Source: Could these flip-flops save the earth?

Johhe rules the dancefloor at the Jam Jam club in Kobe. He spins, shuffles and launches a series of high kicks: his baggy trousers billowing as he syncs his moves to the steady tempo of singer Luther Ingram’s 1967 non-hit If It’s All the Same to You Babe.

Source: Inside Japan’s northern soul movement: Where UK’s retro music rules below the streets of Kobe | The Independent

Nestlé continues to pump millions of gallons of public water from public land, claiming it’s their right. But can they prove it? Sign the petition now!

Source: Tell Nestlé to Prove Its Water Right! | Story of Stuff

Source: Oil and Plastic Are Choking Planet Earth: We Have to Stop Pretending This Isn’t a Problem | Alternet

Source: Alaska’s Permafrost Is Thawing – The New York Times

The story of how I discovered the Morro Bay Skateboarding Museum may be one of the most odd coincidences I’ve experienced in my skateboarding career, so far.Pi

Source: Morro Bay Skateboard Museum | Concrete Wave Magazine

Source: Why is it Every Time We Turn Over a Pirate Rock White Nationalists, Nazi’s and Bigots Scurry Out? | The Trichordist

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Source: If you have $50k, you might be able to buy this iconic 1969 dune buggy / Boing Boing

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