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38 The Link Magazine • August 2004
Naked protest gets attention for barbaric `sport'
The July Link featured a revealing photo of Anish Harrison, painted with bulls horns, with her mum Marilyn to promote a protest against bull fighting
at the annual running with the bulls in Pamplona. Marilyn describes the event organised by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
After the longbus trip from London on 3 July, eighty $'s 1"' ete ^ rested, so knickers or thongs were left on and ladies
protestors from Britain were ready to make our views cov a^ae r had posters to hold in front of their chest. Anish, along
felt, and seen, against the barbaric and gruesome way 5a"g with men and women from between 18 to 80 stood
bulls are treated in Spain. 1^ ^^ ^"" almost naked ready to run.Ifeltdecidedlyover-dressed,
Anish and I felt very apprehensive as we walked ' so off came my top!
through the city for the running of the nudes; every One o'clock sharp and we were off; hundreds of
where we looked we saw posters advertising the Bull people had lined the streets to watch, many cheering
Run. We soon felt better when we met up with the and clapping as we made our way to the bullring to
Spanish protesters and saw more and more people a listen to speeches and hear about the terrible torture
arriving - from Italy, Germany, France, Belgium, Ho!- Race that the poor bulls undergo inside the ring and for
land and USA; there was even a Ukrainian gymnast weeks beforehand.
who had been travelling for over a week to get there. PET" °^ Our run was a brilliant success; it just seems a shame
Clothes started coming off - we had been warned that we have to go naked before the world's press takes
that anyone taking off all their clothes would be ar- notice and reports on this cruelty.
Anish, making her point ._ - www.runningofthenudes.com

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