In California, a group of women have launched a nude peace campaign to protest US President George W. Bush's "naked aggression" against Iraq in a bid to prevent a war.
Around 105 angry housewives, grandmothers and doctors between the ages of 22-83 are exposing their souls and bodies in a series of "spelling bee" protests in which they spell out peace slogans using only their nude bodies.
The group, organized by 72-year-old artist Donna Sheehan, decided to take the radical action and form the "Baring Witness" movement after becoming frustrated that pacifists' voices were being drowned out by a clamor for war.
"We are doing the most dangerous thing that women could possibly do in public: becoming vulnerable by showing our bare bodies, which shows extreme courage, in order to try and avoid a bloody war with Iraq," she said.
"Women and many men are extremely frustrated at not being heard over this hostile aggression that the United States is pre-empting," she told AFP from her home, north of San Francisco.
"What we really want is for Laura Bush to say to her husband, 'Hey honey, let's have a talk,' and to rein him in," she said. (Albawaba.com)
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