Tag: human rights

• Vans, Reef, and Anti-Gay Legislation

  

  “There’s something very dangerous happening in states across the country. A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors. Some, such as the bill enacted in Indiana last week that drew a national outcry and one passed in Arkansas, say individuals can cite their personal…

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  March 30, 2015

  Environmental Justice, Gay, Social Justice

  gay rights, human rights, labor rights, North Face, Reef, Vans, VF Corp

• “Standing Her Ground”: Curl Magazine #31

  (This interview about women in surfing and my decision to boycott the ASP World Tour, was just published in the summer issue of Curl Magazine. There is no online access to this article so it is being reprinted here, with the images and captions provided in the article. I have also added links throughout the…

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  December 17, 2011

  Feminism, Interviews/Articles, Politics, Surfing

  ASP, association of surfing professionals, boycott, brodie carr, carissa moore, Chelsea Williams, China, chinese government, Cori Schumacher, Curl Magazine, Feminism, Hainan Island, human rights, Kassia Meador, Lindsay Steinriede, longboarding, new york times, nike, one child policy, shortboarding, SIMA, surfing, the inertia, volcom, women in boardsports, women’s longboarding, women’s rights, women’s rights without frontiers, women’s shortboarding, zach weisberg

• no place for politics?

  John Carlos and Tommie Smith   Forty-three years, one month and one day ago, two American athletes took the platform at the Olympic games in Mexico City to accept their gold and bronze medals. As the Star-Spangled Banner was played and the American flag crept up the flagpole, the two men took black gloves from…

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  November 17, 2011

  History, Politics, Writing

  Cori Schumacher, human rights, John Carlos, Olympics, sports, The John Carlos Story, Tommie Smith