Activism – Page 27 – Skate and Annoy

Girl Scout kick starts skatepark campaign

A 17 year old girl scout named Kaitlin Fabich is leading a push to get a skatepark built in her town. Unfortunately, this isn’t going to be about how more young girls are getting into skateboarding. You see, Kaitlin doesn’t skate, she’s just using the process to qualify for a Gold Award in Girl Scouting. […]

The Entitled Generation – Ungrateful spoiled brats.

This was going to be a thread about the trend of municipalities closing down skateparks when they get tagged as an incentive program to stop vandalism. I was going to highlight that a new nearby park in Vancouver Washington is going to experience such closures: our park maintenance office has decided to handle graffiti removal […]

(Not) All skateboarding kids are bad.

Welsh Pete wrote “while some skate kids are smashing store owners in the face, others are rescuing babies from dumpsters…” So in the interest of fair and balanced reporting: Four skateboarders found a crying infant girl – the umbilical cord still attached – wrapped in a blanket and left atop a trash bin Monday night […]

How to fight for a skatepark

You may have noticed banner ads in rotation for Razorcake magazine here on Skate and Annoy. It’s originally the brainchild of Todd Taylor, author, punk rocker, publisher, skater, drinker and general all around good guy to know. Razorcake is bigger than him now, it’s a non-profit organization for baby Jesus’ sake! Issue #41 has a […]

Stacking the deck

Howard Weiner intends to run for the Portland city council seat that will be vacated when Sam Adams runs for mayor. He needs 1000 registered Portland voters to make $5 contributions by January 31, 2008 to qualify him for the ballot. Howard owns Cal Skate and has has been a longtime advocate for skateparks in […]

Macomb Il skatepark drama

I once “dated” a girl from Macomb Illinois who was a little bit… out there. This video about a Macomb Illinois skatepark controversy sheds a lot of light on the situation. Not the skatepark situation, mind you.

(Yesterday)
Drive-thru SPS benefit

This Friday – December 7th, 2007, The fine folks at the SE 67th and SE Foster Dutch Bros. Coffee will donate one dollar per drink sold to Skaters for Portland Skateparks. They do a regular donation to community organizations that benefit youth. If you’re in South east, drop by between 5 a.m. and 11 p.m. […]

It’s those scooters I can’t take.

At the Ed Benedict meeting I saw the one of the bike guys I see around handing off a benefit check to the skatepark effort. So while the street and vert guys are flaming each other about terrain on the internet, The bike guys are raising money and going to meetings.

Grind for Life 2007 – Saturday November 17

It’s time for the annual Grind for Life awards benefit/contest/demo/party. If you are anywhere near the neighborhood of Cocoa Beach Florida you should consider making a day of it. Dan Hatcher writes: Hey everyone, if you missed this one last year, you must have heard about it by now. Nearly 1500 attended last year so […]