Breasts not bombs eh!
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On Saturday, July 23, an impromptu crew of exhibitionists and flashers decided it was a good day to expose their private parts to everyone in Berkeley. In order to avoid possible arrest, they cleverly disguised their public sexual escapade as a political protest. They dubbed the protest “Breasts Not Bombs.”
Why Breasts not Bombs?
Why are we baring our breasts today?
What do breasts have to do with the Iraq war?
We say this war as indecent.We reject that exposing our breasts in public is indecent
We say torture and cluster bombs are indecent. We say using depleted uranium in our military hardware and spreading radiation throughout Iraq and in the bodies of own soldiers is indecent. We say that there is something terribly wrong in a culture that easily allows the media to show thousands of violent images daily to our children but says women’s breasts are offensive.
We are here to bring attention to the fact that our young men and women have been sent to Iraq under flase pretenses and are needlessly killing people there and being killed as well – over1,780 of them to date and over 13,000 more are terribly injured.
We are here to bring attention to the fact that well over 26,189 Iraqi women and children and men have died since the beginning of the war.
We are here as women who are the bearers of life and responsible for nursing into maturity, stand opposed to our children being killed around the world.
We are here to symbolize that we can live in a culture of nurturance (symbolized by the breast) not a culture of war. We are offering an alternative to war.
We will use our feminine nature to wake people up, to cause a stir, to arouse people from their (apathy, complacency)slumbers.
We stand in a long line of women who have used their bodies, their femaleness to bring attention to a dire situation, among them:The brave women of Nigeria who won concessions in 1984 and 2002 from international oil companies who were destroying their towns and their communities. Several thousand women disrobed in 1984 and hundreds threatened to disrobe in 2002 at the oil facilities. The companies met their demands.
We are not exhibitionists here to entertain perverted pleasures. We do not do this action easily or blithely. We know women’s bodies are used, abused and humiliated in this country and around the world. We know we are subject to this energy. But we cannot sit silent while this war continues. We will use our bodies to bring attention to the immoral injustices of war, its torturous prisons and obscene profits.
We know this is controversial and that we will be criticized.
To our critics we say, if this action is not for you, please find one that is. Do not waste your energy in judgement of us; use it to further the cause of peace in our world. The world needs us now to take a stand. We believe that if women were safe to walk through the world with their breasts exposed we would all be safe. We are sick and tired of war. We are heartbroken over the senseless and ongoing loss of life.
This is our stand. What is yours?
Protests in the Interenation Drive area of Orange County Fl would get the attention of many people who travel to the area to see Disney, SeaWorld, Universal from all over US & World. Great work, keep it going.
oh yea the dead Hussain brohers on tv are perfectly decent but some ladies taking off their shirts is terribly indecent, i love the USA
I think it is a sad day we lose people in war. The current war is hard to believe it is over anything but power of money and oil. I think what you all are doing is a heroic act in it self. To be so inflamed about this administration is to me what a true american is all about. With that statement I salute you! Keep up the good work.
Lets hope the people are waking up. BRING THEM ALL HOME.
Well…it doesn’t shock me at all to see remnants of the sixties drag their tired and worn rhetoric to decry their disdain for the war (which I might add we all have disdain for, believe it or not, my brother and best friend having served 2 tours of duty in Iraq without being killed). Can we also agree that the concentration of terrorist engagement in arab countries is MUCH MORE preferable than on our own shores? Whether we were duped into the war or not, it has a twisted logic about it that can’t be denied by the most liberal of thinkers. Sure…we could bring all our soldiers back..and unchecked…our adversaries..THE TERRORISTS…who could give a flyin’ flip less who bared their breast for bombs or called Bush a liar or claimed there were no WMD’s, etc.etc.etc….will calmly…and patiently…as they did before September 11th, 2001…plan an attack on such a scale that our good ol’ US of A will NEVER recover. If that’s what you are really wanting…then…I suggest traveling to France and joining in the Muslim struggle of setting cars on fire by the thousands……….
To CV… where to begin. The war in Afghanistan to topple the regime that supported terrorists was arguable just and is not the one that people have a problem with. The continued stationing of troops in Afghanistan to pursue the remnants of a terrorist organization is acceptable, even desirable and is not the action that people have a problem with. The war in Iraq is not an exercise in self protection, is not an exercise in global responsibility by a super power, is not a demonstration of restraint and diplomacy, is not a valid war of defence that the US claims that it is. The war in Iraq is proof that some people are only aggressive and will stoop to any level to act out their aggression on others. The people in power in the US federal government have lied to the American people and acted in a way that goes against the American way of life for the past two hundred years. While you might be in favor of the war you should not be in favor of the methods employed to get there. Anyone who tries to justify the war, through whatever twisted logic necessary misses the point that they were lied to.
The war in Iraq seems to only offer American targets closer to the terrorists home bases. You can disagree with that assessment. You can even be in favor of the war in Iraq for your own reasons. You are allowed in this country. The same freedoms to have opinions belong to every citizen of this country. One day when you reach maturity you will understand and maybe even honor that position.