Point Reyes Light - January 2, 2003
Nude women protest war again; men also demonstrate
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| BARING WITNESS AGAINST WAR – Ninety-four mostly West Marin women on Sunday used their naked bodies to spell out PEACE on Drake’s Beach. Fifty women mounted a similar demonstration in Point Reyes Station Nov. 12. This time 24 men also demonstrated in the buff, creating a large peace symbol on the beach. Organizer Donna Sheehan of Marshall said the demonstrations were a "precursor to the mass naked demonstrations in San Francisco and Washington, DC, on Jan. 18." Sheehan said she expects "a 100,000 people – men and women – to disrobe for Peace" at that time. Sunday’s female protesters expressed the "desperation of women" opposed to the Bush Administration’s plans for war with Iraq. Sheehan said, adding that the men by forming the international peace symbol were showing "solidarity with the women against global domination and war." (Photo of women by Jan Watson. Photo of men by Christopher Springmann) |
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