Pom-poms, pep and panties

Women's groups nationwide inject some attitude in activism in a 'creative resistance' to the GOP's policies
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/newyork/politics/ny-nyprot263819615may26,0,600367.story

BY DIONNE SEARCEY
STAFF WRITER

May 26, 2004


Women arriving in New York this summer will bring pom-poms and panties along with their political posters when they protest the Republican National Convention.

Hoping to add wit and femininity to the traditionally male-dominated protest scene will be Axis of Eve, whose members flash their underwear as a form of protest, and the Radical Cheerleaders, a political pep club that practices "activism with pom-poms and middle fingers extended."

The women's groups from across the country that are spending the summer organizing political Pantyware, rather than Tupperware, parties in preparation for RNC rabble-rousing have come a long way from their bra-waving forbears of the 1960s women's rights movement. Besides skits, songs and role-playing, some groups use their sexuality to deliver political messages.

Axis of Eve members, for example, with their skimpy panties emblazoned with racy political logos such as "Weapon of Mass Seduction," are a far cry from stereotypical burly union and bearded hippy protesters.


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The country is in dire serious trouble and they're going to wave panties? People are dying and we have over 3,000 amputee's
Pom-poms and knicker's is what they come up with?!? Maybe the Pom-Poms should send an invitation to the New World Order to make an accepting speech?

I'll bet they aren't the silliest group who will show up at the convention protests. More power to 'em, I say.

since you're going to be there protesting in a dire, serious way

meant that it was about the Bush twins celebrating their graduations.

This will just provide fodder for the GOP on how we on the left view the war.

or sex-based appeals. Who controls the advertising biz? Liberals? I doubt it.

Republicans do own everything and all you see from them is a lie.
I not discussing the sex thing, that's not it. The progressive's/liberals will be suckerpunched by this.

This will likely be one of the least controversial groups, despite the prospect that they may be the most titillating.

Who will never have sex again due to their war injuries. Hope the crowd enjoys.

about war is too much. Folk can disagree about how we protest but I think it's a cheap shot to imply that they don't care as much about the soldiers as you do because they will spend a day to protest Bush in this way.

Cheap shot.

I think it is brilliant. For a nation so hung up on sex and violence what else will get the media to pay attention. "You go Girl(s)"

where a female breast is more obscene than a decapitated person. we're fucked.

Part of demonstrating is people outside your ideological group paying attention... what the hell is wrong with flashing panties?

A cheeky protest
Bay Area anti-war activists go nude in surge of creative vigils-

Whether it's Singing for Peace serenading BART riders or a man beaming a PowerPoint message on an Interstate 580 overpass, homegrown activists are taking their message to the streets. They are bypassing mainstream media outlets they say are ignoring their pleas for a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi crisis. They're tired of pundits accepting war as a foregone conclusion and giving little airtime to diplomatic solutions.

Yet Sheehan said her group isn't full of activists, or "bored Marin housewives," as one naysayer referred to them. Their Jan. 4 protest -- in which they spelled "No War" on a Marin pasture -- in more waitresses (seven) than Ph.D.s (six), more social workers (four) than doctors (two) and only two self-described " '60s radicals." None was a nudist -- until recently.

They are Sheehan's friends, and their friends, recruited through concentric e-mail list circles. The first participants were all from West Marin, but now they come from San Francisco, Berkeley and points beyond, all frustrated about not seeing their views represented.

Making themselves so publicly vulnerable, Sheehan said, is a frantic semaphoric wave in the face of mainstream media indifference to the anti-war effort.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/12/BA128025.DTL

BARING WITNESS AGAINST WAR – Ninety-four mostly West Marin women on Sunday used their naked bodies to spell out PEACE on Drake’s Beach. Fifty women mounted a similar demonstration in Point Reyes Station Nov. 12: http://www.ptreyeslight.com/stories/jan02_03/naked_again1.html

Aussie women strip to protest war - Feb. 8, 2003:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/02/08/offbeat.aussie.protest.ap/

Women Strip In Central Park To Protest War:
http://www.wnbc.com/news/1963576/detail.html

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- A group of Fayetteville women dropped their clothes alongside the road Wednesday in a last-minute effort to avoid a war with Iraq.
http://www.thehometownchannel.com/news/2052998/detail.html

Chileans disrobe, protest war on Iraq - Mar. 1, 2003

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/americas/03/01/chile.protest.reut/