Naked Protesters & Nude Activists:

Here’s a protest against insane definitions of “fat”, captured by photographer Jordan Matter:

Caption is:

I had a meeting with a casting director from LA. Without a glance at my headshot or resume, and not even a decent introduction, this stranger looks at me, all 5 feet and 2 inches, 125 pounds of me and says, “You need to lose twenty or gain thirty because where you are right now, I can’t do anything with you.” A bit thrown, but not wanting to be rude, I ask, “Can you elaborate on that?” To which she replied, “Your face says ingenue but it wouldn’t quite work, and I can’t put you as fat best friend because you’re not *exactly* fat.” — Katy, Broadway

Remember the pretty French labor protester? Here’s a Boing Boing post with details and context, plus links to images of la Marianne that don’t look like they’ve been through the laundry:

Not naked, but there’s an upskirt view:

Via Spanking Blog, this purports to be a vintage view of British police spanking an anti-war protester in 1968.

It wasn’t us, but it sure could have been!

Pooja’s semi nude protest walk lands on porn site

AHMEDABAD, India: Pooja Chauhan’s semi nude protest walk on Rajkot roads not only grabbed international media headlines and the city police commissioner’s attention, but also placed her where she might never have wished — on a porn website.

Pooja took to the streets in her underwear in July protesting against police inaction in arresting her husband and in-laws.

She had alleged that police had refused to register her complaint of harassment by her husband and parents in-law including dowry demand.

Pooja married Pratapsinh Chauhan after their brief love affair. But her nightmare began soon after their marriage. Pooja also tried to immolate her self before the Rajkot police station.

Director of Society for Women’s Action and Training Initiative (Swati) Poonam Kathuria attributes Pooja’s clipping on a pornographic website to some ‘pervert’.

“It is demeaning for every woman. All she did was protest against the harassment she went through. To put her on a pornographic website is perversion of her protest.” Kathuria told DNA.

Chauhan’s family members were not available for comment. Her semi-nude clipping posted on the web site is taken from a television clipping.

Sources say that the clipping was initially circulated as a multi-media message (MMS) and later posted on the site as ‘Pooja Chauhan MMS’.

Our perverted thanks to Fleshbot for the link.

…who is the Lady Godiva, of course! Art from Petshark.com:

Remember the pretty blonde More Fucking, Less Fighting girl? This Brooklyn Vegan page has more from that protest, which was an Axis Of Eve event during the 2004 Republican convention in NYC:

If that’s a cop or security type chasing these two, they’re giving the phrase “high-tailing it out of there” a whole new meaning:

From the anti-Bush protest during his visit to Brazil:

Via Wonkette.

This is from a London instantiation of the ever-popular annual World Naked Bike Ride (I’m not sure what year).

Photo is by brianmickey and there are lots more at his page.

It’s the modern-day reincarnation of Lysistrata, in the (curvaceous) flesh:

She’s not quite naked, but she’s very fetching:

Photos are by Zombie and were taken at the “U.S. Out of Iraq Now” anti-war rally sponsored by ANSWER in San Francisco on Sunday, March 18, 2007.

Via Ananova comes this completely undated story of protesting naked coeds. Cute and female equals win!

The story:

Students in Chile have staged a naked protest against poor quality education.

A group of 25 college students in Valparaiso stripped off in the main Sotomayor Square, Las Ultimas Noticias reports.

The students painted their bodies with protest slogans and said they wanted to make public their complaints about bad schooling in the region.