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Milestone Of Women's Rights Marks 20Th Anniversary
TORONTO - All it took was a pair of exposed breasts in public to set a milestone for Canadian women.
Gwen Jacob was 19 when she arrested in Guelph for indecent exposure in 1991. She and a fellow university student noticed a group of guys naked from the waist up playing sports in the blistering sun and decided to take off her top after musing about the inequality of it all.
She was charged and fined $75.
Five years later, the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned the conviction and gave her back the money.
On July 19 this year, Jacob’s fight officially celebrates its 20th anniversary.
“With my hands shaking furiously, I took my shirt off and jammed it down the back of my shorts and I can’t tell you the freedom that entailed in that moment,” Jacob, now in her late 30s, said during a recent interview with Bare Oaks Family Naturist Park in Sharon...
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SOURCE: Toronto Sun
Gwen Jacob was 19 when she arrested in Guelph for indecent exposure in 1991. She and a fellow university student noticed a group of guys naked from the waist up playing sports in the blistering sun and decided to take off her top after musing about the inequality of it all.
She was charged and fined $75.
Five years later, the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned the conviction and gave her back the money.
On July 19 this year, Jacob’s fight officially celebrates its 20th anniversary.
“With my hands shaking furiously, I took my shirt off and jammed it down the back of my shorts and I can’t tell you the freedom that entailed in that moment,” Jacob, now in her late 30s, said during a recent interview with Bare Oaks Family Naturist Park in Sharon...
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SOURCE: Toronto Sun
Women Not Exercising Their Topless Rights
TORONTO - More women are interested in being topless on the street – but actually going through with it is another story, according to the Topfree Equal Rights Association (TERA).
Since Gwen Jacob’s appeal to overturn a conviction of being bare-breasted in public, TERA has been receiving more questions about the legalities of going topless. Some people may not know that, in Ontario and most likely across Canada, because of the ruling, it is legal to publicly expose breasts...
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SOURCE: Toronto Sun
Since Gwen Jacob’s appeal to overturn a conviction of being bare-breasted in public, TERA has been receiving more questions about the legalities of going topless. Some people may not know that, in Ontario and most likely across Canada, because of the ruling, it is legal to publicly expose breasts...
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SOURCE: Toronto Sun
Breast-Feeding Mother 'Told To Leave Council Headquarters Because She Would Offend Muslim Visitors'
A breast-feeding mother has been ordered out of council offices after staff said it would 'cause an uproar' among Muslim visitors, it has been claimed.
Emma Mitchell, 32, was about to feed her 19-week-old son, Aaron, when a receptionist at Oldham Civic Centre told her it was a 'multicultural building'.
When she was told to use the toilets of a nearby shopping centre she argued with a manager before being offered an empty room under supervision.
Ms Mitchell, a carer who is currently on maternity leave, said: 'It was just awful. I felt humiliated, intimidated and guilty through the whole thing.
'We all live in Oldham and we all use this building, and I was doing what was one of the most natural things a mum can do....
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SOURCE: Mail Online
Femen On The Belgian TV
The public Belgian TV Channel VRT made a great documentary on the activities of the Ukrainian women's organisation FEMEN. It was broadcasted in the weekly 'Terzake' news show on July 11, 2011.
Topless Austrian tourist saved after floating in the Adriatic for hours
An Austrian partygoer has been saved after hours of floating in the Adriatic.
Croatian maritime police have saved the 30-year-old Austrian woman J.F. noticing her floating in the sea close to the western town of Pula on Sunday.
The exhausted woman was topless, dressed only in bikini bottoms, tabloid 24 Sata has reported.
The policemen have found out from her she attended a party in Stinjan close to Pula on Saturday. At the end of the party she wanted to refresh herself a bit by jumping into the sea. She said she had been very tired and could not swim against the strong currents so she was floating for hours, not having enough strength to swim towards the coast.
The police patrol boat crew noticed her at around 9.30 in the morning.
Police are still checking the circumstances of this event as it could have ended in a tragic way.
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SOURCE: Croatian Times
Croatian maritime police have saved the 30-year-old Austrian woman J.F. noticing her floating in the sea close to the western town of Pula on Sunday.
The exhausted woman was topless, dressed only in bikini bottoms, tabloid 24 Sata has reported.
The policemen have found out from her she attended a party in Stinjan close to Pula on Saturday. At the end of the party she wanted to refresh herself a bit by jumping into the sea. She said she had been very tired and could not swim against the strong currents so she was floating for hours, not having enough strength to swim towards the coast.
The police patrol boat crew noticed her at around 9.30 in the morning.
Police are still checking the circumstances of this event as it could have ended in a tragic way.
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SOURCE: Croatian Times
Mothers Arrange Mass Public Breastfeeding Session
Rose Tolhurst and Anna Higgs persuaded 170 mothers to go along and feed their babies simultaneously in the main concourse to mark National Breastfeeding Awareness Week.
The campaign is supported by mother-of-three and former page 3 model Melinda Messenger.
The women were recruited through Facebook and a “call to arms” on parenting and pro-breastfeeding websites such as lactivist.net.
Although the NHS recommends breastfeeding babies until six months, only three per cent of babies in Britain are breastfed at five months old...
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SOURCE: Henley Standard
Topless Femen Activists Protest Pension Reform In Kyiv
Three activists of the movement FEMEN organized a protest against the adoption of the pension reform by the Ukrainian parliament near the parliament building on Tuesday.
The topless girls, who had wreaths on their heads, ran in front of the central entrance to the parliament building, shouting "Down with Bull Reform!" They were holding red placards saying "Rada Is Bullpen."
After being detained by the police, the activists continued chanting their slogans and demanded their release.
Some time later, the girls were put in a police car and taken away. The police said the women had been detained for violating public order.
FEMEN leader Oleksandra Shevchenko told reporters the protest targeted the pension reform, which discriminates against Ukrainian women, "many of which will simply not live to their pension."
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SOURCE: http://www.interfax.com.ua/eng/main/73100/
Interview with Carla Watson of GoTopless.org
Interview with Carla Watson of GoTopless.org, on a woman's right to be topfree in public the same as men, on August 23, 2009, in Goodale Park, Columbus, Ohio.
Girls walk topless through Portland, Maine USA in protest
Girls walk topless through US city in protest
Organiser Ty MacDowell, 20, said the protest in Portland, Maine, was aimed at showing the double standards in the state of Maine.
Men are allowed to walk down the street shirtless but, although not illegal, women are too afraid to go topless.
How To Practice Nude Beach Etiquette
Unless you're an old-time nudist, you probably have questions about the proper way to behave on a nude beach. Well, we've got the answers.
Was Mysterious "Topless Bowery Woman" Illegally Ticketed?
There is "bad" topless, like certain congressmen who feel the need to sext pics of their gym face to blackjack dealers and porn stars. And then there is elusive, magical, perfectly legal toplessness: this week, a woman, since nicknamed "Topless Bowery Woman," took a causal stroll in lower Manhattan sans shirt in the sweltering heat—here's a NSFW pic of her. And while most seemed amused by her exercising her right to do so, Bowery Boogie reports that the woman was stopped and issued a fine by cops...which is illegal... Read More.
Topfree woman got $29,000
Two years ago she was arrested for going topless in public. These days she got $29,000 settlement from the city as compensation for that unlawful arrest.
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