Two nude female anti-G8 protesters, one with a slogan painted on her back, take to the streets in the Swiss city of Lausanne on Saturday, May 31, 2003. Slogan reads: ‘Shame on G8! Not on me.’ Some 25 naked protesters blocked roads and shouted anti-G8 slogans to protest against the G8 summit in the neighboring Evian, France. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
And they wonder why we don’t take em seriously.
Emperor Misha I
Nice butt, though.
MommaBear
Not bad at all, but the use of the butt for propaganidizing indicates that what comes out is about the level of their discourse!
Mitch
I guess you have to use whatever argument works for you. Reason fails, force is unavailable — hey, let’s try sexual titillation! Is assillation a word, by the way?
Randolph Fritz
Basic principle of advertising: the hard part is getting their attention. Worked, didnt it?
JKC
Besides, who’d want to see Jonah Goldberg or Rush Limbauh naked?
Bird Dog
Misha beat me to it.
HH
Or Michael Moore or Noam Chomsky…
Tiger
Surprising, this display carried the message around the world.
Brian Linse
Jeebus, John! You been had! Been bamboozled! You’ve been used by an anti-globo agent — or rather, by the ass of an anti-globo agent! How many people who don’t even know what the G8 is will stop and take a look because this little honey painted it above her cute lil ass? And you republished it! Even pay for the bandwidth to diseminate it (cuz you’re an honest dude) from your own site! She out-smarted you!
Nice ass, too…
And besides, if it weren’t for Euro-Greens like this chicky, who would the VRWC use to smear the Democrats?
xoxo
B
Moe Lane
“How many people who don’t even know what the G8 is will stop and take a look because this little honey painted it above her cute lil ass?”
While I disagree with the sentiments, if we’re going to have them disseminated -anyway- we might as well have them disseminated via attractive naked female backsides (or, for our hetero female / gay male friends, attractive naked male backsides). Whoever came up with this has earned the resulting publicity, I’d say. :)
Old Dude
Shame on the photographer for being on the other side.
M. Scott Eiland
At last, an ass worth paying attention to shows up to one of those protests. . .]:-)
Andrea Harris
Okay, so any of you actually remember the message, or just the bare ass it was scrawled on? People will not be thinking “Wow, they are right, globalization sucks!” when they see these naked fools. They’ll just be thinking: “Look! Naked people!” Though I suppose these orgs will get a brief spike in membership applications from dudes thinking they can get laid by radical hippy chicks. Wait until they find out she only drops her drawers for The Cause.
James Frankcom
I think it obviously attracts attention to the cause and is an excellent, modern way of protesting. Good luck to you all – i hope one day I have the guts to do it myself.