Salon.com > Shanna Germain http://www.salon.com Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Bushes against Bush http://www.salon.com/2003/03/31/nude_protest/ http://www.salon.com/2003/03/31/nude_protest/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:13:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2003/03/31/nude_protest It was the first e-mail I'd gotten all day that actually caught my interest: 250 people were needed for a nude peace protest. It would take place in a rural, secluded spot, outside of Portland, Ore. The protesters would disrobe, form the Chinese symbol for peace, and a photographer would climb up into a cherry picker and take their picture from above. I wasn't really sure how nudity was going to help the peace movement, but I'd never gotten naked in front of more than two people at a time, and the idea of doing it for something I believed in seemed like a great idea.

I don't know what I expected it to be like, but I had a slightly sentimental view of the whole thing. Did I actually think that dozens of naked people were going to stop the war? No. But I did think, "Wow, we are going to make a dent in this peace movement." Turns out the only thing we made a dent in was the mud beneath our butts.

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