Naked protest has become quite the fad throughout much of the world. Young [and sometimes not so young, see here] people strip for peace, animal rights, women's issues, the environment, heritage sites..., whatever and somehow they expect us to take them seriously. Really, guys, this kind of display doesn't do much to advance whatever cause currently possesses you.
Now an interesting variation on the theme has begun to emerge (at least we can hope it's emerging).
The Telegraph reports:
Women who strip off their clothes are the latest weapon deployed by the "timber mafia" in the jungles of eastern India to help them illegally cut down trees.The women surround male guards and disrobe as the men try to protect the forests, embarrassing them into fleeing.
"It is proving tough to deal with these women," said B K Singh, a forest official from Chakulia in the region of Jharkhand. "It has become a regular practice for them to strip and we end up releasing the culprits to avoid trouble."
Another senior official said forest guards caught three men carrying away illegal timber in Chakulia but soon found themselves encircled by a mob of around 50 women demanding their release.
The three guards fled, abandoning their prisoners and the timber.
Read it here.
Down on the Corner, K-Lo notes that this story ticks off the pretentious fools at NOW and the Sierra Club simultaneously. Wow, a two-fer!
PETA is planning a mass naked run in Pamplona on July 5th. They call it "The Running of the Nudes." Read it here.
And of course in San Francisco a group of women stripped to protest the war here. [picture above]
And there's this from, where else, Florida.
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