Posted on 12/18/2009 8:13:45 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
An Edina woman in Copenhagen for the U.N. climate conference as part of a youth group joined 30 others in shaving their heads outside the conference center on Friday, the last scheduled day of the gathering.
Valida Prentice, 24, who traveled to Copenhagen two weeks ago as an accredited observer, and the others each held a sign outside the conference center that explained why they made this symbolic gesture.
"Shaving my head can symbolize a lot," Prentice said in a prepared statement, "the ugly negotiating process, the bad decisions made by negotiators, or the catastrophic changes that unabated climate change could bring about. But for me, my shaved head symbolizes a promise of new growth in the international climate movement to secure a fair and binding international agreement on climate change."
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Turtle wax and a mustache.
attention whore...
Didn’t the Dutch also do that to Dutch women who were mistresses of German soldiers? I thot I heard that somewhere.
Yes. And the French. The guy I knew remembered seeing it as a little boy. Even as an adult, he hated Germans.
In the dark, there’s still ears to grab on to........
By that standard they should have shaved the heads of everyone in France, and probable a lot of Denmark, too.
“Collaborator” has a broad definition.
she needs to grow it back and cover her face with it
Is this because she wants to be cooler in anticipation of some warming? She’s got quite a while to wait!
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