Los Angeles - A group of women in free-wheeling California have launched a cheeky nude peace campaign to protest President George Bush's "naked aggression" against Iraq in a bid to prevent a war.
About 105 angry housewives, grandmothers and doctors between the ages of 22 and 83 are baring their souls - and bodies - in a series of "spelling bee" protests in which they spell out a giant peace slogan using only their naked bodies.
The group, organised by 72-year-old artist Donna Sheehan, decided to take the radical action and form the Baring Witness movement after becoming frustrated that pacifists' voices were being drowned out by a clamour for war.
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"Women and many men are extremely frustrated at not being heard over this hostile aggression that the United States is pre-empting," she said from her home in Marshall, California, just north of San Francisco.
'The only way to make ourselves heard is to remove our clothing' "Women kept telling me we had had it with what's going on and that our calls to the White House and letters to the editors of our papers were being ignored, so I decided to get a few of us together and do something about it."
The women chose the attention-grabbing action of exposing themselves in public in their most vulnerable state to get the attention of the Bush administration which appears to be on a collision course with Baghdad.
They have already posed in the buff for seven photographs in which they use their bodies to spell out the word "Peace" on a beach and "No War" on a hillside on a California ranch.
About 25 men also joined the cheeky protest and posed separately for a similar photograph in which their bodies formed the international peace sign - an upsidedown "Y"-like form in a circle.
"We are normal, modest women from all walks of life, in all shapes and sizes with all our lumps and bumps who would not normally even take off our bathrobes in the house, but we wanted to make a point," said Sheehan.
"It's a sad indictment on our society that the only way to make ourselves heard is to remove our clothing, but that's the way it is." - Sapa-AFP
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