Nude protest : Jubilee Network: Debt Cancellation & HIV/AIDS

[Guest guest]

Hi all!

You may have seen coverage of this protest on the news! I just wanted to share a

full list of news coverage with you.

I was so sorry I could not be there but the energy of the planning meeting for

this protest will surely buoy me through this week, and curb the nausea I feel

at Bush's being in NYC.

This is a great victory to both Debt Relief and AIDS Relief worldwide and I am

sure you will join me in congratulating my friends who had the courage to make

this sacrifice to send this message out.

Thanks & enjoy

Joya

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(from )

What went down:

We walked to the intersection of 33rd St and 8th Ave, which is the corner where

Madison Square Garden is. We walked into the crosswalk across 8th Ave and spread

out, tearing off our clothes to reveal body paint stenciling of

" Drop the Debt " and " Stop AIDS " and nothing else besides our birthday suits. We

chanted several different chants, such as " Bush, stop AIDS, drop the debt now. "

We were able to continue like this for ten minutes as the press

excitedly and frantically ( " tit " illated, if you will) ran around taking

pictures, traffic stopped to a standstill, and random passersby pulled out their

cameras and camera phones to record the action. The police were very hesitant to

arrest us, which is why we got a full ten minutes to do

our thing. Finally, they arrested us, piling us naked into the paddy wagon and

taking us to the precinct.

Meanwhile, four people had two banners. Two people with one banner were on the

street with the naked people, and the other two climbed onto a trailer next to a

bridge w/ a " NYC 2004 " sign with a twenty foot-long banner that said

" W: Drop the Debt. Stop AIDS. " The two on the trailer were also arrested.

The press reaction was unbelievably fantastic, and the protest went better than

any of us dreamed it would be. It was fanTAStic.

All of us were released except the two who were on the trailer, who faced

different charges.

So, things are GREAT. We have had unbelievable press. We've gotten press in the

UK, and all over the country. My ass was literally on network television

throughout the nation. Jennings talked about us on ABC News according to a

source in Ohio, and a South Carolinian saw us on local NBC news.

Now I'm going to leave you with an extensive list of links to press (it's

everything we've found thus far).

With much love to my fellow activists, Di, aka Naked D (a nickname given to me

by the person who provided the Bruce Springsteen CD)

PHOTOGRAPHS:

http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/103375/index.php

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Please be forewarned that in this photograph you will see more of me than you

ever expected to see.

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and because you *ahem* read playboy for the

ARTICLES:

New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/27/politics/campaign/27protest.html

Associated Press

This article was in the following states (so far):

Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas,

Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri,

North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Texas.

Also in the UK.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040826_2014.html

Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews & storyID=6083006

Reuters UK

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews & storyID=572403 & \

section=news

Voice of America

http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=3149D888-CD3C-454D-BEACE8ADAACD6536 & \

title=State-of-the-Art%20Security%20to%20Make%20Debut%20at%20Republican%20Conven\

tion & catOID=45C9C78F-88AD-11D4-A57200A0CC5EE46C & categoryname=USA

NPR

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3872727

New Jersey Star Ledger

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1093587154148840.xml

local ABC news in PENNSYLVANIA

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/082604_nw_nakedprotest.html

CBS 2 (this article also has a video clip - watch it!)

http://cbsnewyork.com/topstories/topstoriesny_story_239183107.html

NYC Indymedia

http://nyc.indymedia.org/feature/display/103495/index.php

Newsday

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/nyc-actup0826,0,6495058.story?coll=ny-\

nynews-headlines

New York Newsday

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/nyc-prot0827,0,5550020.story?coll=\

nyc-topheadlines-left

San Diego Union-Tribune

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20040826-1500-convention-protests.ht\

ml

Heartbreaknews.com

http://www.hardbeatnews.com/details1899.htm

Crain's NY

http://www.crainsny.com/news.cms?id=8678

Over and out, kids!

~naked d