Category Archives: Activism

Looking for some new graphic T-shirts as the weather gets warmer? Why not represent The Vegan Straight-Edge with this shirt from Because We Must. ($15.99) Because We Must, is a Animal Earth and Human Rights coalition that unifies the movements … Continue reading →

Film maker and skateboarder Nathan Gray & theBedouins have a new skate video project on Kickstarter. PUSH Tunisia, is a skateboard activism film that engages the youth culture nearly a year after the Revolution that sparked the Arab Spring uprising. … Continue reading →

To pay respect to the Women of skateboarding and one of modern skateboardings founders and Vegetable Shredders, Peggy Oki here is a clip from the 2006 documentary SkateGirl(Peggy @2:33). She gives a glimpse into her past, as the only girl … Continue reading →

 —————————————————————————————————————————————————- March 1, 2012 – On the tail end of the worst winter Kabul, Afghanistan, has seen in nearly two decades as well as the heaviest snow accumulation in the past 15 years, the Skateistan facility in Kabul suffered a … Continue reading →

In solidarity with the virtual protest of SOPA/PIPA, I present Le Tigre’s “Get off The Internet.” A song I listen to skating, one that gets me amped, one to remember another world is out there. I wanted to blackout VSB, … Continue reading →

“Free” is a word often used by the students and teachers of Skateistan; Kabul’s co-educational skateboard school. The interviews we read of skateboarders often comes back to “why we all skate” and describing a sense of freedom achieved from the … Continue reading →

Plank Eye Skate Shop posted this interview with “The Outlaw Collective” on their blog last year. The Outlaw Collective are creating and improving landscapes in and around Pittsburgh to skate. So many of these spots I’ve gotten a chance to … Continue reading →

When you think of Skateboarding, you probably think California not Copenhagen.(and probably not Kabul either)  Denmark has a vibrant skateboarding history and community for quite sometime. They had their own Euro Bones Brigade, Rune Glifberg, and the CEO of BlackBox … Continue reading →

I started school in August and have two classes on Social Justice.  I felt like Skateistan (a skateboard school in Afghanistan) would be a perfect NGO to discuss women’s rights in Afghanistan.   The first draft was really skate heavy, … Continue reading →