...Scott Laderman In 1985 several of the world's leading professional surfers announced that they would boycott the South African leg of the surfing world tour. This decision followed years of debate within the surfing community about whether and how to respond to the brutality of apartheid. While...

... of surfer challenges to the haolization of Hawai‘i in the mid-­1970s within the politics of Save Our Surf, a radical social and environmental protest movement in the 1960s, and the Hawaiian cultural renais- sance of the 1970s. In bringing the historical narrative to the present, this study reviews...

...- bly dubious or unpopular causes. His timing was near perfect. Perhaps it was his Southern California roots. Like a surfer, he could catch the cusp of an incoming wave of public concern just as it was about to break and then ride it all the way to the beach-r, in his case, the White House...

... to be a LENIN AND BARTLEBY IN PRAGUE/127 surfer, I used to ride the waves.. His young translator, the native of a landlocked country, paused and gave his American friend a puzzled look. For a few crowns, a paraplegic would swallow two- foot swords and bang four-inch nails deep into his nostrils...

..., writers, and educators working against the occupation of Palestine (httpcreative responseweb.net) and the Post Exile Collective’s “The Word Room,” where surfers are encouraged to record their responses to the current tragedies of war (http...