Patch Adams Leads Nude Protest

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

Well, I always said we were in the business of preventing unnecessary 
exposure. This is one case where this was highly needed!!!!!!

Tuesday October 5 7:37 AM ET 

Patch Adams Leads Nude Protest

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Led by a naked Patch Adams, a group of anti-
nuclear protesters paraded nude down a San Francisco street to 
publicize the potential dangers of a catastrophic Y2K atomic 
meltdown.  

``Nonviolent people like us really have so few tools to face the 
capitalist system,'' Adams told the protesters as they stripped for 
their demonstration Sunday. ``All we really have are ourselves and 
our ideas. Our ideas have not done the job.''  

Adams, an unconventional doctor whose prescription of activism laced 
with humor was portrayed by actor Robin Williams in a recent movie, 
was one of a group attending a conference entitled ``Creating a 
Culture of Peace for the 21st Century.''  

The San Francisco Examiner reported on Monday that frustration over 
lack of media attention prompted Adams and prominent anti-nuclear 
activist Dr. Helen Caldicott to organize the nude demonstration to 
publicize the threat that nuclear accidents could occur on Jan. 1, 
2000, if computer systems around the world crash because they are 
unable to handle the date change.  

``To be scared of doing something like this, which is a little thing 
compared to what's facing us, is just silly,'' Caldicott said, urging 
participants to undress. ``It just shows that people are desperate 
for this cause and will do whatever it takes.''  

The naked group paraded briefly down San Francisco's Van Ness Avenue, 
chanting ``Disrobe for disarmament,'' and ``News, not nukes.'' A few 
cars slowed to gawk, the Examiner reported.  

``I'm glad to be a part of a community that is as passionate as I 
am,'' protester Carol Brouillet, a 42-year-old mother of three and 
author of books on nuclear issues, told the newspaper.  

``I'm glad my husband's not here,'' Brouillet added. ``He wouldn't do 
this, but we have different world views.''  

Sandy Perle
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"The object of opening the mind, as of opening 
the mouth, is to close it again on something solid"
              - G. K. Chesterton -
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