Naked Protesters & Nude Activists

The World Naked Bike Ride
on June 12, 2004 was a huge success. Here are a couple of the nicer pictures. This first one is from Apeldoorn in the Netherlands:

In Seattle there was body paint, and cooling off after the event in a handy fountain:

Here’s a pretty picture of some lovely young university women (and some guys, too) kneeling nude in the sunshine:

Picture comes from The Sunday Times of South Africa and is captioned:

Nude students from the Santiago de Compostela University stage a protest in city’s streets on Tuesday, 11 December 2001, against the Spanish University Reform Law.

Here are a couple of nice pictures from the struggle for public nudity in Australia, courtesy of Freedom International. This first one comes from Melbourne in January of 2002, showing five men (“Very Impressive”, Stuart Kingsford, Rollan McCleary, Tony Pitman and Keith Stodden) going for a nude swim at Port Melbourne’s Sandridge Beach. “The men’s act of civil disobedience served as a protest against the fact that public nudity is a crime in the state of Victoria and they called on the Victorian government to reform this outdated and unjust law.”

The next one shows Tony Pitman in Melbourne’s Fitzroy Gardens, staging “a one-man nude protest for the legalisation of public nudity” in February 2001.

Here’s another picture of this guy:

From a protest in London on May Day, 2001.

Here’s a news story and photo mailed in by Bob (thanks, Bob!) of a naked protester at a recent pro-choice rally in Washington, D.C.:

Captioned: “A semi-topless Iris Dickerson holds a sign as hundreds of thousands of protesters rallied on the National Mall April 25, 2004 to show support for abortion rights and opposition to Bush administration policies on women’s reproductive health issues.”

Here’s an NZ celebrity of some sort naked in a good cause. Alas, these pictures didn’t come with an explanation of what the good cause was, although we suspect these are more pictures from National Penis Day:

This looks more festival than protest, but it’s too much fun not to include:

Presumably the usual Japanese oddness. Thanks to Amanda for emailing the link.

Here’s a scribble of artwork in honor of the Naked Protester patroness (herself an avant-garde naked protester). The lovely Lady Godiva:

Artist unknown.