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Femen March Topless in Muslim Area of Paris to Celebrate Boot Camp Opening

Photos: Femen March Topless in Muslim Area of Paris to Celebrate Boot Camp Opening By Gianluca Mezzofiore | Sep 19, 2012 05:03 PM EDT Members of the Femen radical feminist group have paraded topless through Paris to celebrate the opening of their new training centre, aimed at teaching feminists how to evade security forces. The Ukrainian women's group marched half-naked through a predominantly Muslim neighbourhood in Paris' 18th arrondissement with messages written on their chests including "Muslim, let's get naked" and "Our God is a woman". Among the activists >>>

Femen Opens First Office Abroad

The Ukranian women's group Femen, famous for its radical topless protests, opened its first foreign office with a bare-chested march through a predominantly Muslim neighborhood in Paris' 18th arrondissement on Tuesday. In the first foreign office, fellow feminists are supposed to learn how to evade security forces, according to the group's website. Inna Shevchenko was present among the activist women. She fled to France over the summer after she showed support for the Russian Punk band Pussy Riot by taking a chainsaw to a large wooden crucifix in Kyiv. On the streets of Paris, Shevchenko >>>

Exporting Naked Protest Femen Opens First Office Abroad

The Ukranian women's group Femen, famous for its radical topless protests, opened its first foreign office with a bare-chested march through a predominantly Muslim neighborhood in Paris' 18th arrondissement on Tuesday. In the first foreign office, fellow feminists are supposed to learn how to evade security forces, according to the group's website. Inna Shevchenko was present among the activist women. She fled to France over the summer after she showed support for the Russian Punk band Pussy Riot by taking a chainsaw to a large wooden crucifix in Kyiv. On the streets of Paris, Shevchenko >>>

Feminists with no tops, no future flash France

If you just came for the pictures of beautiful topless Ukrainian and French women marching in the streets of Paris, click here.   For the honorable few who are still with me, thank you. This blog post is about the Ukrainian-born feminists movement Femen and its recent move to the French capital. The women kicked off their Parisian sojourn on September 18 in typical form: They marched in high-heeled boots, skin-tight jeans and neat flower crowns, their naked torsos markered-up with simple but provocative slogans.   From a distance the scene could have appeared like a Roman fresco depicting >>>

Femen Group Sets Up ‘Training Camp’ In Paris

Members of the Ukrainian feminist group Femen have paraded topless through Paris to celebrate the opening of what they describe as their new "training camp" in the French capital. The group says on its website [femen.org] that the camp will serve as its new European headquarters, where activists will be trained "to work in high-risk environments." The organization says it plans to open offices in New York, Montreal, and Sao Paulo. The Femen group, established in 2008, is known for its topless demonstrations in different parts of Europe, including at the London Olympics and the Euro 2012 soccer >>>

Ukraine’s FEMEN Activists Open Headquarters In Paris (PHOTOS)

“Come, strip, win." The slogan reverberated on Paris' streets on Tuesday as a group of feminist activists paraded topless through the French capital. 20Minutes.fr reports that the Ukrainian feminist organization FEMEN, famous for its bare-chested protests, celebrated the set-up of its new training camp in Paris on Tuesday. The training camp will become the group's new European headquarter, BFM TV writes. Inna Schevchenko, the activist who made headlines last month for chainsawing an Orthodox cross in support of the >>>

Femen activists set up training camp in Paris

19:50 Activists from the Femen women's right movement have announced their intention to set up "an international training camp for organization of sex attacks" in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, Le Nouvel Observateur weekly magazine reported on Tuesday.On the occasion of the opening of the camp several activists of the movement marched topless in the streets of the French capital. The activists had feminist slogans written on their half-naked bodies and they had traditional Ukrainian hairstyles decorated with many-colored flowers and ribbons."We don't stage plays, we organize sex attacks," >>>

FEMEN girls go France

The group invited all its supporters and those who are still hesitant to join the ceremony. The festivities will include a topless parade, a chain saw assembly contest and a poisoned pie throwing competition.The girls cal themselves “sextremists” but Ukraine’s government think they’re extremists and denied the group a registration. FEMEN’s main agenda is to fight discrimination against women. They want to draw attention to the problem by wearing slogans urging Muslim women to undress. France, which is 10% Muslim, found nothing extremist in our group, Irina Shevchenko from FEMEN told VoR."We >>>

FEMEN officially registered in France

FEMEN group has been officially registered in France, FEMEN said in a press release issued on Friday. At the same time, according to FEMEN, "the Ukrainian justice bodies have again denied FEMEN registration on the territory of Ukraine, essentially accusing the organization of extremism.""The Ukrainian agency's report says that the purpose of the movement's activities, specifically, the purpose of uniting women to defend their rights and fight discrimination against women in society, may be perceived as calling for violations of public order or the rights and freedoms of >>>

Prague Post: Gender politics

Images of stunning topless Ukrainian girls are no longer relegated to top-shelf men's mags and mail-order bride websites, reads The Prague Post report.  They are hitting the mainstream media courtesy of controversial Ukrainian women's rights group Femen, which catapulted into the limelight following a series of topless protests against the Euro 2012 tournament. Campaigning against prostitution, sex tourism and trafficking under the slogan "Ukraine is not a brothel," Femen protesters bared their breasts to attract media attention to their cause. They have alternatively >>>