Friday, April 21, 2006

 

Bare All for Bears

UK Indymedia reports:
Bare Witness is asking you on behalf of PETA to join this demonstration against the use of real bear fur in the Palace Guards' hats.
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The British Ministry of Defence commissions an average of 140 bearskin caps a year to be made for the Queen's five Guard Regiments. Sadly, each cap can take the skin of one entire bear.

For each bear killed for a Palace Guard's hat, we need one person - that's a 140 compassionate people we need to recruit for this eye-catching demonstration.

Wearing nothing but a bear mask, each person will be strategically placed to create a stunning visual display.
Grizzly?

The group sponsoring it - Bare Witness has been responsible for a number of nude protests. Whilst I approve highly of any protest action which doesn't require unnecessary violence and vandalism, this nude obsession I just don't get.

Protesting naked may have been novel in the 60s, but now it really strikes me as an unproductive exercise in self-promotion, little else. It's a given that such protests only take place in countries whose protesters frequently take their freedoms for granted in opposing efforts to spread them.

This porn site (fair warning) asks:
Does this mean nude message-spelling is becoming the new "what do we want? ... when do we want it? ..."?
and has lots of links to naked protest (and non-protest) action.

Comments:
Wazz up

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