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No clothes for the emperor: Hello Kenya! The five thousand naked men and women, waiting to greet President Barack Obama when he visits his alleged “home” country, won’t change his “open and aggressive support for homosexuality” an iota. With the nude welcoming committee, Kenya’s Republican Liberty Party seeks to show Obama the difference between men and women, in their birthday suits. “The party said it has already notified the authorities of the protest scheduled to hold on July 22 and 23, coinciding with the U.S. president’s visit to Kenya. (Premium Times, July 14, 2015)

A protester used unusual tactics on Wednesday to expose what she alleged animal abuse at the Ringling Brothers circus: she exposed herself. The half-naked woman from the animal-rights group PETA handcuffed herself to the Gallery Mall in Center City Philadelphia. The circus is currently at the Spectrum in South Philadelphia. Brandi Ballad wore shackles and fake scars to depict what she said was reality for circus animals. What she wasn't wearing was a top to go with her black panties "I want people to know that every time they buy a ticket to Ringling Brothers, they are paying people to...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals comes out against a lot of practices. Wearing fur. Wool shorn from Australian sheep subjected to a process called mulesing. Considering fish food rather than friends. The anti-animal cruelty organization even invokes God in a recent campaign targeting Latter-Day Saints, saying that factory farms and slaughter houses are "hell on Earth" and likening eating meat regularly to going against one's faith. But apparently public indecency is OK. Nudity has emerged as a common thread in the activist organization's tactics, dating at least to the 1990s' "I'd Rather Go Naked than Wear Fur," campaign...

Eleven people have laid naked on the lawn of New Zealand's Parliament to protest about government plans to lift a ban on genetically engineered plants and animals. The 11 bodies and one fully-clothed woman spelt out "No GE" against the green grass, watched by half a dozen security guards. Protest organizer Valerie Morse said the naked protest was a metaphor for New Zealand, which she said could be "stripped bare" by genetic engineering. "We've got some of the most unique flora and fauna in the world and if we release GE into the environment we just simply have no idea...

<p>More U.S. companies are expected to increase their hiring in the fourth quarter, reversing a downward trend seen since early this year, according to a closely watched employment survey.</p> <p>"This is another indication that we may be finding our way out of this difficult period we've been in," said Jeffrey Joerres, chairman and chief executive officer of Manpower Inc., the Milwaukee temporary-staffing agency that has conducted the survey for decades. "As soon as I say that though I have to hesitate because it's only one quarter."</p>

<p>CANCUN, Mexico (AP) -- Activists marched in the streets and stripped on the beaches in an attempt to derail a meeting of the World Trade Organization, at which representatives of 146 countries will try to increase global commerce without throwing millions out of work.</p>

Friday, 5 July, 2002, 20:09 GMT 21:09 UK Nude protest at Pamplona bull run Naked animal rights campaigners have demonstrated in the Spanish city of Pamplona to protest against the start on Sunday of the hugely popular annual spectacle of bulls chasing dare-devil young men through the streets. At least a dozen young activists from various European countries and the United States said they wanted to draw attention to the suffering of the bulls during the animals' three-minute charge through the old city. Their bodies painted with slogans like "let bulls die in peace," the activists stopped traffic and drew...