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FEMEN Topless Protest In Davos: Feminist Activists Demonstrate Outside World …

Activists from Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN staged yet another topless protest Saturday in Davos, Switzerland. Picketing outside of the 2013 World Economic Forum (WEF), the trio of women chanted "S.O.S. Davos," shot off flares and blew whistles in a demonstration against what they say is male domination of the world economy, Independent Television News reports. Swiss police detained the women after they tried to breach the security barrier. SCROLL DOWN FOR PHOTOS, VIDEO Top financial officials met last week at a resort >>>

FEMEN Topless Protest In Davos: Feminist Activists Demonstrate Outside World …

Activists from Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN staged yet another topless protest Saturday in Davos, Switzerland. Picketing outside of the 2013 World Economic Forum (WEF), the trio of women chanted "S.O.S. Davos," shot off flares and blew whistles in a demonstration against what they say is male domination of the world economy, Independent Television News reports. Swiss police detained the women after they tried to breach the security barrier. SCROLL DOWN FOR PHOTOS, VIDEO Top financial officials met last week at a resort >>>

Topless Femen protesters get arrested at Davos summit

The World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland ended today—but not before the Ukrainian feminist group Femen had a chance to make its voice heard. The Femen protesters, who like removing their tops to ensure a large media turnout, were screaming: "Poor because of you." Every year, the world's billionaires and heads of state gather in Davos for an elite bun toss. This year, Facebook investor Sean Parker, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, and JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon were among the attendees, according to a report on the Daily Beast site. >>>

Topless protest: Femen campaigners target the Davos summit

Topless protesters from the Ukraine have been arrested after clashing with police at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The women, from the activist group Femen, stripped off in the freezing temperatures and tried to breach security barriers while waving flares and chanting "SOS Davos". In their second year at the summit, they said they were protesting against what they describe as the male domination of big business."There is only one way for us today to attack patriarchy. We are using our naked bodies, our nudity, to share a new interpretation about nudity," said protester, >>>

Femen activists at World Economic Forum in Davos

Written by Jed E. Robinson Three women from the feminist activist group Femen have protested this Saturday against male domination over the economy of the entire world and against sexism by ripping off their shirts. The women showed their anger by force as they tried to make their way into a Swiss Resort where many corporate elites were gathered. The Ukrainian >>>

Topless Femen activists held in Vatican

Rome, Jan 14 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Four activists of Ukrainian feminist group Femen were held for staging a topless protest for gay rights at the Vatican Sunday. They protested when Pope Benedict XVI was reciting his prayer. The activists with slogans “In Gay We Trust” painted on their backs, staged the protest by the Christmas tree in the centre of St. Peter’s Square, media reports said. The women were briefly detained by Vatican police. Ukraine’s radical feminist movement Femen was established in 2008. It is devoted mainly to protests on women’s issues. The group has earlier >>>

Watch: Feminists Strip Down, Tell Pope to Shut Up

While Pope Benedict XVI delivered his annual homily to Catholics around the world from a Vatican window Sunday morning, the ladies of Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN did their best to interrupt the Holy See's speech by calling out the Pope's homophobia… And stripping topless to do it. Four FEMEN activists, who call themselves "sextremists," stripped off their coats amid thousands of Catholics gathered to hear the Pope's annual message on the "Feast of the Baptism of the Lord," revealing their bare breasts and the words "In Gay We Trust" painted on their bodies and on banners they held high.  The >>>

4 women strip, protest Vatican gay marriage stance. Video

Four women went topless in St. Peter’s Square to protest the Vatican’s opposition to gay marriage. Police quickly took the women away Jan. 13, and the pope appeared not to have been disturbed as he delivered his traditional prayer from his studio window overlooking the piazza. On their bare bodies, the women of FEMEN had painted slogans “In Gay We Trust,” and “Shut Up.” One of them, Inna Shevchenko, said: “Today we are here to protest against homophobia.” Wikipedia describes FEMEN as a Ukrainian feminist protest goup based in Kyiv and founded in 2008. The organization >>>

Topless women flash Pope in protest against anti-gay Vatican

Image published by Gay Star News ROME -- Four women staged a topless demonstration in front of the Pope in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, Jan. 13, protesting the Vatican's anti-gay views. The protesters from Ukraine-based feminist group FEMEN took off their T-shirts to reveal the slogan "In Gay We Trust" painted on their torsos and yelled "Homophobe, shut up" as the Catholic leader gave a traditional prayer from his window. The activists were removed by police after sparking anger from pilgrims, reported Reuters. "Today we go with a message >>>