If we want to build a new tomorrow, we must dismantle an oppressive NOW. The mentality that leads to countless deaths of Black Americans is the same mentality that keeps lines drawn, hatred alive, and injustice flourishing. Enough is enough.

We're starting the very important conversation of inequality in relation to the ocean and the environmental movement on World Oceans Day by hosting a special screening TODAY at 2 pm PT of the documentary, White Wash with a panel discussion following at 3:30 pm PT featuring:

Angela Sun: Spectrum News anchor, documentarian, Tedx speaker, adventurer
Graham Hamilton: Surfrider LA Chapter Coordinator and ACTORVIST: performance and ocean advocacy on Tongva & Chumash lands
Air Copeland: 5 Gyres Executive Director, producer of White Wash
Moderated by Danni Washington: 1st Black Woman Science TV Host, correspondent on Emmy-nominated Unstoppable, host of Xploration Station

Thank you all for joining us for this panel and discussion. The work continues beyond today and we are calling on our community to be actively anti-racist and stand in solidarity with the Black-led movement to defeat white supremacy and help turn the tide on institutionalized racism. 

Join us and take action now: 

• Learn and unlearn with this Anti-Racism Toolkit

• Support Black Lives Matter protest organizers and donate to the Los Angeles Action Bail Fund. 

• Help #DefundThePolice and demand a People’s Budget for the City of Los Angeles that will reallocate funds from the LAPD toward community-based services and programs for LA’s most over-policed and high-needs populations.  

• Help remove LA District Attorney Jackie Lacey who has refused to prosecute cops who’ve killed unarmed Black men in LA. 

• Support local Black-owned restaurants.

• Support local Black-owned surf companies.

• Follow @texturedwaves + @black.surfers + @blackgirlssurf 

• Keep protesting!