[Swiftwater Gazette] Attn. Ed - I Need Help With Travel Plans

[Herb Parsons]

Dang.... and WE get Cindy Sheehan...


On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ed,
>
> For some strange reason I've discovered this sudden interest in
> politics in the Ukraine.  Could you help me with some travel plans and
> perhaps make a suggestion on a good model of video camera?
>
> Brad
>
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>
>  Half-naked women protest Ukraine election
> Feb 07, 2010 at 14:46
>
> Four young women naked from waist up barge into polling station, hold
> rowdy protest, official says.
>
> KIEV - Four young women naked from the waist up barged into a
> Ukrainian polling station on Sunday and held a rowdy protest just
> before a candidate in the country's presidential election cast his
> ballot there.
>
> The women, members of a small feminist group called Femen known for
> staging eye-catching protests, were hustled out of the Kiev polling
> station by security guards before Viktor Yanukovich showed up to vote,
> an AFP photographer saw.
>
> "Enough raping our democracy!" shouted the protesters, who held signs
> with slogans such as "Help! Rape!" and wore nothing except for jeans
> and strips of green electrical tape over their nipples.
>
> The women told reporters they were protesting "the end of democracy"
> in Ukraine and not specifically against Yanukovich or in favour of his
> rival, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
>
> The two candidates fought a bitter election campaign and many
> Ukrainians say they are with frustrated with the choice, amid deep
> disillusionment with the country's protracted political stalemate and
> economic crisis.
>
> Femen, whose members are mostly university students, drew
> international attention last summer by holding a protest against
> Ukraine's sex tourism trade where activists picketed in central Kiev
> wearing bras and panties.
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