40-odd women bare breasts for world-wide "topless jihad day"! get mass international press!! [View all]

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Bare-breasted activists staged rallies in front of mosques and Tunisian embassies across Europe Thursday against what they called an Islamist crackdown on Arab women's rights.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130404/topless-protests-against-islamism-staged-across-europe


"Across Europe"! Wow, that sounds huge! Here's the tally:

Milan: three women
http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/41263/Femen-protest-in-Milan-for-topless-Tunisian-activist.html

Brussels: five women
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/04/international-topless-jihad-day_n_3014943.html

Berlin: "A small demonstration" which looks like 6 women in the pictures.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130404/topless-protests-against-islamism-staged-across-europe

Kiev: No more than can fit in one car.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/04/international-topless-jihad-day_n_3014943.html

Stockholm: some unknown number of people, both male and female, who apparently didn't bare breasts except for one woman, which is probably why they didn't get much attention.
http://dam.alarabiya.net/images/83d81d3c-5c38-4161-96fc-e5eb78ae870f/578/434/1?x=0&y=0

and the big, gigantic protest:

Paris: "Around two dozen topless feminists"

And this in the city of their "world headquarters," not so coincidentally located in the 18th arrondissement neighborhood of Goutte d'Or, predominantly muslim.

Can you say 'provocateurs'?

In Paris, btw, you can go bare-breasted in public, but you can't pray in public, even though muslims have prayed in the streets in this neighborhood since the 19th century.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14945467

Why are the femen protests getting so much press? (google it & see the wide coverage, with huge photospreads, from The Atlantic to MSNBC.)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=protest+africa#hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&sclient=psy-ab&q=protests&oq=protests&gs_l=serp.3..0l2j0i5l8.355938.357065.4.357270.8.7.0.1.1.0.308.1705.0j2j4j1.7.0...0.0...1c.1.8.serp.pUbCql_0I0A&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&fp=95d3a39185fd6a14&biw=1024&bih=582


Why is it Google's lead and top story when you google "protests," with the largest number of stories, when, for example, on the same day more or less:

Demonstrations erupt across the West Bank over the death of 64-year-old Maysara Abu Hamdiya , who died from cancer while in an Israeli prison.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/death-of-prisoner-triggers-protests-in-west-bank/2013/04/04/5b322552-9d2e-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_gallery.html

Group protests drones at BAE Systems Plant: April "Days of Action" one of a hundred protests going on during the month as an effort to create public awareness of the destructiveness of drones.

http://www.wane.com/dpp/news/local/group-protests-drones-at-bae-systems-plant

angry (egyptian) students continued to protest yesterday afternoon and into the night over the administration’s failure to ensure basic sanitation standards at the campus cafeteria (after 500 students got food poisoning)

http://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-students-win-a-round/

Salafi jihadists begin hunger strikes amid ongoing Hamas arrest campaign

http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2013/04/salafi_jihadists_begin_hunger.php

Protests rage in Egypt's Port Said for fourth day

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/06/us-egypt-protest-idUSBRE9250UM20130306

More face charges in Egypt’s escalating free speech and dissent crackdown

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/more-facing-charges-egypts-escalating-crackdown-free-speech-and-dissent-2013-04-03

Middle East Activists Muzzled and Arrested in Arab Gulf States

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/04/middle-east-activists-muzzled-and-arrested-in-arab-gulf-states.html

Muslim protesters face “unfair trial” under Ethiopia’s anti-terror law, says HRW

http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article46079

Soldiers and police stand by as thousands take to the streets of Banda Aceh (Indonesia) on Thursday in support of a new provincial flag based on the banner of the now-defunct GAM separatist insurgency.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/04/05/protests-against-gam-flag-aceh.html

between 400 and 500 fast-food employees in New York City to take part in Thursday's one-day strike

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/04/fast-food-strikes-new-york-city_n_3009780.html

Mass demonstrations welcomed President Obama to the Bay Area today and sent him a clear message on the Keystone XL Pipeline: Just say NO!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tina-gerhardt/bay-area-protests-welcome_b_3010557.html

On Thursday, dozens of people in Gaza forcefully entered the office of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the blockaded Palestinian territory, calling for the reinstatement of a monthly allowance to poor Palestinian families.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/05/296608/un-stops-food-distribution-in-gaza/

On Thursday hundreds of protesters waving flags with the words "Jobs, not gay marriage" gathered near the (French) Senate (in Paris)

http://news.yahoo.com/french-senate-starts-gay-marriage-debate-amid-protests-173345801.html

Protests Continue at School Board Members' Homes Morning shifts now join evening pickets; police escort called

(There are more protesters at this local school board contract dispute than at the paris femen demo, and on a daily basis)

http://strongsville.patch.com/articles/protest-continue-at-board-members-homes

More than 100 Bahamas Electrical Company workers staged a second day of protests refusing to return to their jobs until a terminated worker was reinstated.

http://www.tribune242.com/news/2013/apr/04/police-called-to-second-day-of-bec-protests/

The arrest of Zubair Baloch, said to be a brother of banned People’s Amn Committee chief Uzair Jan Baloch sparked protests in Lyari, where enraged people forced shopkeepers to pull down the shutters, blocked vehicular traffic on main roads and lit bonfires.

http://dawn.com/2013/04/04/arshad-pappu-case-arrests-spark-protests-in-lyari/

100 days on: (iraq) sunni protests won’t stop – but will they become violent?

http://www.niqash.org/articles/?id=3197

Budget hearing protests teacher cuts

http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2013/04/04/news/local/715085.txt

The state of Tennessee has denied several permit applications for demonstrations and protests against a white supremacist organization that plans to hold a major conference at a park in Dickson County

http://www.fightbacknews.org/2013/4/4/tennessee-denies-protest-permits-activists-will-confront-white-supremacist-conference

the women’s rights group UltraViolet has announced they will lead a protest outside of Reebok’s flagship store in Manhattan tomorrow (April 4).

http://allhiphop.com/2013/04/03/protests-scheduled-outside-reebok-store-in-nyc-petition-demands-reebok-fire-ross/

Noor Bagh residents protest acute water scarcity

http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2013/Apr/5/noor-bagh-protests-water-scarcity-18.asp

Kolkata observed complete bandh on Thursday, April 4 to protest against the death of 23-year-old Sudipto Gupta, a Student Federation of India (SFI) activist.

http://news.oneindia.in/2013/04/04/kolkata-observes-shutdown-open-protest-against-mamata-1186144.html

Ugandan religious figures, backed by US evangelical groups, held gay hate march next to the home of mother of slain gay rights activist

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/uganda-clerics-hold-gay-hate-easter-march010413

U.S. Dept. of Ed. Protesters Turn Fierce Rhetoric on 'Corporate' Reform

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2013/04/education_department_protesters_turn_fierce_rhetoric_on_corporate_reform.html

Union flag protests: more than 200 arrested in Northern Ireland

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/apr/03/union-flag-protests-arrested-northern-ireland

The women went to support a protest in San Salvador Atenco, were arrested and then sexually tortured. The protest related to the federal government’s plans to build an airport on top of the “Ejidos” (communal land) in Atenco. The fact that one town was able to defeat a large-scale development had significant implications for the neoliberal government of Vicente Fox.

http://uprisingradio.org/home/2013/04/03/truthout-under-the-international-spotlight-mexican-government-asks-for-friendly-solution-after-perpetrating-sexual-torture/

THE Delhi State committee of the students’ Federation of India organised a militant protest at Banga Bhawan on April 4, 2013 against the cold blooded murder of Comrade Sudipta Gupta

http://pd.cpim.org/2013/0407_pd/04072013_5.html

Arrest of atheist bloggers inspires protests in Bangladesh

http://www.examiner.com/article/arrest-of-atheist-bloggers-inspires-protests-bangladesh

Angolan police on Saturday stopped a protest by a youth movement demanding answers over the disappearance of two of its members

http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/angolan-cops-break-up-youth-protest-1.1493827

There's a lot going on in the world. US corporate media decided the most important thing for you to know was that 40 women bared their breasts.