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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 06:18 PM
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Group gets naked to protest bullfights
Updated: 1:01 p.m. ET June 29, 2005

MADRID - A group of half-naked animal rights demonstrators brought Madrid’s historic Puerta del Sol square to a halt on Wednesday in a protest against bullfighting.

Shoppers gawped and tourists snapped photos as the five young women and one man carried out one of a series of protests leading up to the traditional “running of the bulls” in the northern Spanish town of Pamplona starting next week.

“Stop the Bloody Bullfights” read one sign held by the protesters, who wore only white panties and plastic bulls horns on their heads. “Torture is not art or culture” they chanted. <snip>

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8405231/
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Stuckinthebush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 06:25 PM
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1. I don't believe it...
I need to see pictures.

:D
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dissent1977 Donating Member (795 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 06:30 PM
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2. Do a google search on naked bullfight protests
Edited on Wed Jun-29-05 06:32 PM by dissent1977
I am sure you will find what you are looking for, they do these things all the time.

on edit: here is one link http://www.nakedprotesters.com/2005/05/03/naked-cheerleaders-for-peta/
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 06:31 PM
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3. Activists go topless at embassy to protest treatment of bulls in Spain
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1569986

I think there were some in this thread or in the links cited there ...
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Nabia2004 Donating Member (566 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 06:32 PM
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4. Me too
...a picture
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 06:46 PM
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5. Here ya go ...
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dissent1977 Donating Member (795 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 06:52 PM
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7. Oh my god, I found the most disturbing letter ever on that site
This is an excerpt from a letter addressed to Donald Rumsfeld:

I invite you to tip the scales back a bit by coming to Spain to participate in the Running of the Nudes— also called the Human Race—an alternative to the cruel spectacle that occurs three days later.

We all live and learn, and we often become more caring as we age. PETA would be pleased to welcome you to run with representatives from Spain and from around the world, wearing as much or as little as you like.

I look forward to hearing back from you.

Very truly yours,

Ingrid E. Newkirk
President, PETA

More: http://www.runningofthenudes.com/f-rumsfeld.asp

Donald Rumsfeld running down the street naked? :puke: :puke: :puke:

What is PETA thinking?
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livinginphotographs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 08:17 PM
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10. As a PETA supporter, I disagree with them on this.
Forget cruelty to animals, it's cruelty to humans to see that man naked. Ugh.
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dissent1977 Donating Member (795 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 08:20 PM
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11. I support animal rights too
But when anyone suggests that Donald Rumsfeld should run down the street naked that is where I draw the line.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 08:41 PM
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14. I dunno. I think he should get down on all fours naked and bark for us ...
... after wallowing all night in his own excrement. Then we could all have a nice little chat about Camp X-Ray ...
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livinginphotographs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 08:41 PM
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15. We all have to have our limits.
:)
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 06:48 PM
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6. PETA President Asks U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to Run Naked
http://www.runningofthenudes.com/f-rumsfeld.asp


I'd rather poke my eyes out with dead chicken feet.
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dissent1977 Donating Member (795 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 06:53 PM
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8. I just noticed that as well
:puke: :puke: :puke:
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olddad56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:56 PM
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9. Maybe it was our Emperor, he has no clothes.
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 08:28 PM
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12. We should protest naked to stop the war. It would get attention.
Of course we need some good looking bodies along with the majority of us. I think a bunch of old farts running around naked would not get a lot of sympathy but a large crowd of naked folks of all types gathered in one place like Golden Gate Park would attract the media.

We would need a message that is easy to get out there before we all get thrown in jail.

I would take part if enough people were willing to do it. Maybe a critical mass would keep the authorities from arresting everyone.

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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 09:04 PM
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17. What's this "we" shit, mountain man?
Edited on Wed Jun-29-05 09:04 PM by TahitiNut
Cold weather makes me look like a gelding. An old, flabby gelding. An old, flabby, pale gelding. An old, flabby, pale, frog-hipped gelding.

It'd be like lying ... since I'm really Tarzan (on the inside, where it counts). :silly:

(Well, I suppose I could get a tan.) :shrug:
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olddad56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 08:37 PM
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13. I think we are on to something.Naked protests will draw big crowds
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dissent1977 Donating Member (795 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 08:41 PM
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16. There have been several done already
And they always get media coverage, even when they are fairly small. This is a tactic that has been proven to work, that is why people keep doing it.
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