Come check out the new branch to Campbell Brothers Surfboards, Bonzer5.org. We will be auctioning off two surfboards online. All proceeds will be donated towards Water 1st International, a non-profit organization based in Seattle that is dedicated to bringing safe water and sanitation to those in need around the world.
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Sent in by The Lord Mayor Guy Penwarden of the UK:

Surfers Against Sewages (SAS) new campaign Protect Our Waves (POW) had its first action today, The Gathering, a mass paddle out, in association with local campaign group Access BroadBench Association (ABBA). Over 350 surfers from across the nation joined SAS and ABBA and paddled out […]

So apparently Karl Rove has a Twitter account and yesterday he wrote:
Send a farewell letter to President Bush—Email gwbfarewell@gmail.com [no attachments] and I’ll give him your note.
He followed up and said that all messages are due by 6:00 p.m. ET on Jan. 19, and he will deliver them to Bush on Jan. 20. […]

If you want some great commentary about the Republican convention, I highly recommend reading Matt Stoller over at OpenLeft.  He’s on the ground in St. Paul and has been putting together some great pieces.  For example, here’s him describing the “Security Theater”  of the police state in St. Paul…
The soundtrack of this convention so far […]

Early voting in the Texas Primary has been out of control. It’s up 1000% in some precincts. But because of some f’ed up gerrymandering by Texas Republican and probably just dickish qualities, the closest voting precinct for the students of Prairie View A&M University is 7 miles away from campus.
So what […]

I received this video courtesy of our friend, Steve Barilotti… he has been working with D. Rastovich on a documentary entitled “Minds in the Water’, and was part of the team that attempted to intervene and stop this example of inter-species genocide.
It is easy to blow off “celebrity based” activism as (simply) photo ops […]

A friend of ours sent us a link to this petition concerning Rip Curls attempt to gain government approval for an ASP event in August 2008 at “Tombies” at Gnarloo. Here’s the email he sent:
Dear Friends:
I have blind link emailed about 100 of you to sign a petition to keep Rip Curl from having […]

http://action.chrisdodd.com/signUp.jsp?key=1570
The Military Commissions Act. Warrantless wiretapping. Shredding of Habeas Corpus. Torture. Extraordinary Rendition. Secret Prisons.
No more.
I have decided to place a “hold” on the latest FISA bill that would have included amnesty for telecommunications companies that enabled the President’s assault on the Constitution by illegaly providing personal information on their […]