'Primitive' [Tribal Peoples and Cultures]

Is it so strange that some people don’t want to join the mainstream? http://www.survivalinternational.org

Survival International - The movement for tribal peoples

Seeing [Tribal Peoples and Cultures]

There are many different ways of living on this planet, who's to say their way is best?

Survival International - The movement for tribal peoples

Survival - iNAKED's Charity Of Choice

Survival is the worldwide movement for tribal peoples whose lives, lands and livelihoods are threatened.

Throughout Africa, Asia and beyond, tribal peoples face challenges to their land and welfare from mining, cattle ranchers, missionaries and other intruders bringing violence and disease.

For over 40 years, Survival have brought attention to their situations, supported their struggles and given them a platform to convey their message. We have supported court cases, launched massive media stories and carried out high-profile protests with great success.

Their work has led to the demarcation of tribal reserves, the abandonment of oil exploration projects and a far greater global awareness of the issue.

All this happens independently of governmental or corporate sponsorship, thanks to their supporters. They work towards a world where tribal peoples have their land rights respected, their human rights upheld and the opportunity to decide their futures.

It is the opinion of iNAKED, that the peoples that Survival represents are naturists in every sense of the word and it is only right to help these tribal people the best we can. Please visit the Survival website to find out how to support this charity and the tribal people.

Survival International - The movement for tribal peoples

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SOUCRE: the Nurba Gallery | It’s funny, isn’t it? Funny that we can promote...

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John Lennon [Heroes Of iNAKED]

John Winston Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Along with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.

This article is from Absolute Elsewhere: The Spirit of John Lennon:

John Lennon was clearly a supporter of a human being’s right to nudity, be it in private or in public. At a time when it was unheard of for a mainstream celebrity to appear naked, John shocked the world with the controversial cover of Two Virgins. But that wasn’t his first foray into exhibitionism...and it wouldn’t be his last.

The main hang up in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.

Read The Whole Article @ Absolute Elsewhere: The Spirit of John Lennon

John Lennon - Wikipedia
John Lennon: Official Website

Naked Woman In 'Yoga Protest' At Parliament [Blast From The Past]

20th May, 2010 - A naked woman stopped traffic near the Houses of Parliament yesterday, by clambering on to a black cab for a five-minute ‘yoga protest’.

She yelled ‘Troops out of Afghanistan’, as the cabbie tried to shift her and tourists looked on.
Police finally managed to move the woman.

Witness Carl Backland, 50, said: ‘She jumped on the cab when it stopped at the lights – the driver wasn’t very please

SOUCRE: Metro.co.uk

Stop Barefoot Discrimination [Barefoot]

An informative and educational video about the truth (with a focus towards US laws). Barefooters are being discriminated against.

Topless Protester Was 'Abducted And Beaten' In Belarus

This article is from The Independent, The story was first published on 23 December 2011: 

A Ukrainian woman who dared to hold a topless protest outside the headquarters of Belarus's feared KGB has told The Independent how she and her colleagues were abducted by security agents and subjected to a terrifying ordeal that included beatings, mock executions and having a corrosive substance thrown in their hair.

Inna Shevchenko, an activist with the controversial Ukrainian feminist group Femen, described how masked men told her she would "breathe her final breath" as they cut up her hair with a knife and beat her for daring to protest inside the quasi-Stalinist state.

The 21-year-old had travelled to Belarus on 19 December with two friends to demonstrate against the ongoing crackdown by the regime of Alexander Lukashenko. In a country where insulting the dignity of the president is a criminal offence, the trio stripped to their waists and put on fake moustaches to lampoon Mr Lukashenko, who is often described as Europe's last dictator.

Femen's modus operandi involves going topless to highlight feminist and human rights causes. The group had never travelled to Belarus, a country that languishes close to the bottom in international rankings for free speech.

Read The Whole Article @ The Independent

Vote Naked Illinois 2010 [Blast From The Past]

For the first time ever in 2010, the voting laws in Illinois (USA) had changed so that the locals were able to vote by mail from home. See the full campaign below:



Vote Naked IL | Facebook

Getting Naked For Ai Weiwei [Art, Protest, Censorship]

Back in mid-Novemebr, when artist Ai Weiwei disappeared, supporters made online appeals for his return. When authorities handed him a £1.5m tax bill, they sent money to help pay it. And now that he faces an investigation for spreading pornography – his admirers have stripped off.

Internet users began tweeting their nude photographs after Ai announced that authorities had questioned his cameraman over pictures which showed the artist and four women naked.

Many Chinese contemporary artists have taken pictures of themselves without clothes, and the pictures of Ai that have emerged so far do not appear sexually charged. Some suspect that it may be an attempt by the authorities to smear the artist, whose 81-day detention this spring caused international outrage (read the full story here).

According to hyperallergic.com's An Xiao:

Netizens** wouldn’t stand for this. Quickly, a meme emerged: post pictures of yourself naked in support of Ai Weiwei and Zhao Zhao. A few months back,  But this is online assembly. Unable to assemble in person, Chinese citizens in the mainland and abroad are using the power of the internet meme to assemble online.

On Sina Weibo and Twitter, they used the hashtags #艾裸裸 and #爱裸裸, both pronounced Ai Luo Luo. It’s a play on words with Ai Weiwei’s name and can mean something like “Love getting naked.” Predictably, the hashtag on Twitter was quickly flooded (or “polluted,” in Chinese parlance) by spam messages from the 50 Cent Party, a paid army of pro-Party internet commentators, to make it difficult to locate images.

An Xiao states that well over a hundred pictures have been collected at awfannude.blogspot.com and on Wuala. Here’s the Chinese Internet showing the government that they and Ai won’t take these charges with their pants down!

You can see a few of these protest pictures here on iNAKED but rest @ awfannude.blogspot.com.



** Netizens - The term Netizen is a portmanteau of the English words internet and citizen. It is defined as an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a user of the internet, especially an avid one.The term can also imply an interest in improving the internet, especially in regard to open access and free speech. Netizens are also commonly referred to as cybercitizens, which has the same meaning. The term was coined by Michael Hauben and recently developed by a French entrepreneur (Wikipedia).

Naked Ambition: Ukrainian Topless Protests Go Global [FEMEN]

A naked woman in a city's central square is bound to attract attention, which is exactly what Ukraine’s Femen group is hoping for with a series of high-profile demonstrations against the abuse of women's rights which has made the news across Europe.

And as [iNAKED] found out, the Ukrainian feminists are ready to conquer new horizons.

On a chilly morning in Kiev, half-naked women in racing outfits drink champagne and chant slogans. This is how the Femen movement celebrated the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi. Several days prior to that, Femen were in Rome, lending their support for the anti-Berlusconi protests.

Activist Aleksandra Shevchenko states, “We had staged a lot of protests against Berlusconi and his sexual adventures here in Kiev. And we are really happy his political career has finished."

“But we came to the Italian embassy not only to celebrate, but to say that he needs to go on trial for his sexual crimes,” Femen member Inna Shevchenko added.

For more than a week, Ukraine’s topless protesters have been making themselves heard across Europe on a road trip dedicated to drawing attention to the sexual exploitation of women.

While in Rome, one of their activists even made a revealing protest against injustice towards women in the Catholic Church at the Vatican, right in front of the Pope. Before that, they hit Paris, storming the residence of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

“Women from Italy came to us in Switzerland and said: ‘We know that you’re coming to Rome and will be staging protests against Berlusconi and the Pope. Thank you,’ they said, ‘for sharing our problems,’” Alexandra Shevchenko continued.

Their wild bra-free rallies in Ukraine have been making international headlines for several years, from protesting against the alarming rate of prostitution, especially with the upcoming Euro 2012 football tournament, to exposing flaws in Ukraine’s politics. Now they are looking even further afield.

“We understood that classic feminism no longer works,” Inna Shevchenko said. “It is, if you excuse me, impotent. But what we do brings the desired effect. That’s why not only Ukraine needs us, but Europe as well. We are planning to take over the world.”

The Femen movement has been well-received at home in Ukraine and in Europe, and now its members are planning to extend their reach even further.

“We receive lots of letters telling us to continue fighting religious injustice towards women, especially in Muslim states. That’s where we want to develop,” Alexandra Shevchenko told RT. “We are even ready to go to Iran or any other Islamic state to stage our topless protests, knowing all risks it could entail for us.”

In Ukraine alone, Femen has garnered tens of thousands of supporters. The network has taken root in Europe and now stretches as far as the United States. But with sex-tourism, prostitution, and the ‘mail-order bride’ industry still plaguing Ukrainian society, Femen say they still have a lot demons to fight at home.

Israeli Women Strip In Support Of Egypt Blogger [Video, Human Rights]

Dozens of Israeli women stripped off their clothes Saturday in a show of solidarity with the 20-year-old Egyptian blogger who caused a stir in the Arab world last week when she posted a naked photo of herself in protest against the limits on free expression in her country. Touched by the spirited protest measure, some 40 Israelis posed for a nude group shot in support of the Egyptian activist, Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, who received threats and harsh criticism for her actions. Unlike Elmahdy, however, the Israeli women did not fully display their intimate parts for the camera.The brains behind the operation is Or Tepler, 28, who opened a Facebook event inviting women "to show support in a non-violent and legitimate way for a woman who is just like us -- young, ambitious, full of dreams and evidently has a developed sense of humor." More than 100 women said they would attend. The participants were photographed holding a sign saying "Love without Limits," and "Homage to Aliaa Elmahdi. Sisters in Israel."

Egypt Shocked After Female Dissident Blogger Posts Nude Photos [Politics]

This article is from The Daily Beast:

An attention seeker or a true freedom fighter? Twenty-year-old Egyptian college student Aliaa Maghda El-Mahdy has split the Arab dissident community with her new political stunt: posting nude self-portraits on her blog.

Aliaa Maghda El-Mahdy, a 20-year-old dissident from Cairo, describes herself as a “secular liberal feminist vegetarian individualist Egyptian.” A college student, an atheist, and a blogger, she may seem like just another attention-seeking political activist. But her latest act of political rebellion has set off a firestorm in Egypt and in the Twitterverse of Arab dissidents.

Read The Whole Article @ The Daily Beast

Egypt's naked blogger is a bomb aimed at the patriarchs in our minds | Mona Eltahawy | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
مذكرات ثائرة: فن عاري

Performers Arrested In Ocularpation Go To Court [Young Naturists And Nudists America]

This article is from the Young Naturists And Nudists America:


Today was the big day. The 3 of us who were arrested for being half-naked / naked in the art performance Ocularpation went to criminal court to address the ticket charges! I’d been charged with disorderly conduct, and my two male cell mates had received a 2-for-1 deal of disorderly conduct and indecent exposure.

The result? CASE DISMISSED.

Read The Whole Article @ Young Naturists And Nudists America

[Topfree] Against Christopher Columbus Day

Artistic Director of Dance Theater Group Kandake, Olga El, exposes her nakedness, an artistic expression to relay frustration over Christopher Columbus Day during the Occupy Wall Street protests on Monday October 10th 2011.

San Francisco Bans Naked Dining Amid Hygiene Fears [Naturism]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Widely seen as the most tolerant and liberal city in the U.S., San Francisco is drawing the line at nude public dining.

The city's Board of Supervisors has adopted new rules that ban naked people from eating in restaurants, and forces nudists to place a cover on public chairs and benches before they sit down, the San Francisco Examiner reported...

Read the whole story @ Fox News

Naked Rambler Steve Gough costing Scottish taxpayers £500,000 [Steve Gough]

According to the The Sun, 'Naked Rambler' Steve Gough is costing the Scottish taxpayers £500,000.

It costs around £35,000 a year to keep the average prisoner but Gough spends most of his time behind bars in segregation, which is more expensive.

The Sun claimed that Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, a British pressure group and taxpayers union formed in 2004 to campaign for a low tax society said that:

It's unbelievable that this ongoing case has been allowed to waste so much taxpayers' money. A sensible resolution has to be found, sending the naked rambler back to prison benefits no one.

Read the full story here.

TEXT: The Sun

Breasts are a moral ‘threat’: Court rules topless sunbathing violates 'public sensibilities

An artist crusading for the right to sunbathe topless in New Jersey beach town has lost her bid after an appeals panel ruled baring breasts violates 'the public's moral sensibilities.'

Phoenix Feeley, aka Jill Coccaro, won a settlement for going topless in New York City six years ago, but must keep covered in the Garden State.

The two-judge panel - one male and one female - ruled Wednesday against Ms Coccaro's challenge to Spring Lake's public nudity law…

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TEXT: Mail Online