More naked Australian women

Naked demonstrations are becoming a regular event for Australian women.

Some 450 Australian women were recently in the news over plans to hold a naked rain dance and more recently, another group of 300 Australian women have staged a war protest in the buff on a Sydney sports field, where they spelled out "No War" with their bodies.

Anti-war nudity may be catching on: some 300 men and women also got naked for peace in Santiago, Chile, where they stripped in a public park over the weekend, and several hundred Australian men spelt out "Peace, man" with their bodies last week in NSW.

Several of the weekend's Chilean protesters, presumably clothed, were later arrested following a march from the park to the presidential palace.

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More naked Australian women

Naked demonstrations are becoming a regular event for Australian women.

Some 450 Australian women were recently in the news over plans to hold a naked rain dance and more recently, another group of 300 Australian women have staged a war protest in the buff on a Sydney sports field, where they spelled out "No War" with their bodies.

Anti-war nudity may be catching on: some 300 men and women also got naked for peace in Santiago, Chile, where they stripped in a public park over the weekend, and several hundred Australian men spelt out "Peace, man" with their bodies last week in NSW.

Several of the weekend's Chilean protesters, presumably clothed, were later arrested following a march from the park to the presidential palace.

In Vancouver, Canada, a group calling itself Artists Against War has been staging smaller rallies in the buff at odd intervals, according to the Vancouver Sun

In Sydney, however, the demonstrations -- to propitiate the rain gods and antagonise the Howard government -- were peaceful and police-protected.

According to AP stories, several hundred protesters later gathered outside Prime Minister Howard's official residence.

The story of Australia's naked activists is gathering momentum and scale as it filters out through the media. South Africa's Sabre News is running a Reuters story that says a thousand women joined to spell out the No War slogan on the Sydney sports field.

It's not the first time Australian women have stripped for peace, actually. AP reports about 750 NSW women stripped and assembled an anti-war slogan with their bodies at the beginning of February.
03-Mar-2003