Go topless day 2012

[Klondike]

As a way of gauging this years protest overall and comparing it to last year, I am looking for pics from the lesser known cities. I mean Asheville, NYC, Austin, Seattle, Phoenix, Toronto, DC have been posted. I heard that San Francisco's didn't happen this year, according to Fingers over at Cocco's. He said he showed up and didn't see any protest. Just in case he got the wrong address, I also checked Fishst1ck's photostream at Flickr. He covered SF's protest last year. But he does not have any pics up either. Also, what happened in Portland? I have seen no pics yet. Many other cities were reported to hold protests but no pics have appeared on these pages yet. I'm kind of thinking this event may be not holding up too well, but I could be wrong. Anyway, but if people looking for pics could give preferential treatment to sets from lesser known cities, that would be great. See the list posted earlier in the thread for a list of cities.

EDIT: here is the list again:

Amsterdam, Holland
Asheville, NC
Austin, TX
Bolivar Colombia
Burkina Faso, Africa
Chicago, IL
Columbia, MO
Columbus, OH
Geneva, Switzerland
Harare Zimbabwe
Hong Kong
Honolulu, Hawaii
Lake Michigan, IN
Lismore, Australia
London, England
Madison, WI
Manchester, NH
Miami Beach, FL
Minneapolis, MN
Nashville, TN
New Orleans, LA
New York City, NY
Oshawa, ON
Paris, France
Philadelphia, PA
Phoenix, AZ
Pittsburg, PA
Portland, OR
Puebla Mexico
Richmond, VA
Rochester, NY
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
Tampa, FL
Tel Aviv, Israel
Toronto, ON
Vancouver, BC
Venice Beach, CA
Washington DC
Wichita, KS

thx, Klondike

[mr_herman]

Small NYC set:
flickr.com/photos/sambrananphotos/sets/72157631262957100/with/7907700736/

[ddandd]

Originally Posted by Fango

Just google who?

Fango

Oops! I meant the lass in your avatar. I somehow managed to delete the quote about her being a Vegas magician.

[Fango]

youtube.com/watch?v=PE7E9jsdwr0 - Reason TV finally put up their video from Washington. The redhead is at the very end. Everything's censored and mostly out of frame, though. Still, I was mainly interested in hearing her voice.

Enjoy

Fango

[Flinn]

Originally Posted by Klondike

This is preposterous. The gotopless protest event is worldwide and was internet created. Its expected that those that participate will get media attention. That makes it no different from the WNBR, and with the WNBR, riders are all well informed that they will be photographed.

to show up at one of these rallys and NOT expect to be photographed is very naive. To then complain about it on youtube is preposterous (unless the photog(s) in question were rude and intrusive beyond a reasonable level).

On the other hand, it was mentioned that in NYC this year, photogs also created some problems. I guess the issue here may be that, unlike the WNBR, women aren't moving and hence they have little power to escape the guys with cameras. Being able to move (and get away if necessary) really makes a difference for a woman and why they feel a lot safer on bikes.

That said, you should still have very little expectation of privacy here. After all, your intent is to generate media attention to your cause, and if you don't feel comfortable at a top free protest, how the hell are you going to feel comfortable in the top free world that you advocate!!!

Klondike

She didn't like the fact that perverts (her words) were photographing her. What I found funny was that she was denying one right while advocating for the rights of another.

I don't know if they were crowding her like they did to the topless men and women at the gotopless event in nyc, but then nyc is a completely different place than Asheville, NC. Gotopless day at nyc was over the top this year. If I didn't know any better, and truth be told, I actually don't, I would have thought that many of the men there had never seen breasts before. I might understand getting crazy over beautiful coeds, but that's not what I saw there. Moira was by far the hottest, and probably youngest female there, until a few attractive girls decided to go topless long after the event was over.

[USAVegas]

The more often people see female breasts in public, eventually it will not be as big a deal, like it is now. Thanks to the WNBRs and Moira in NYC, eventually all women will have the right to walk around topless, if they wish. That's what Equal Protection under the law means. That or men will no longer be allowed to be topless.

[hallingood]

Originally Posted by Fango

youtube.com/watch?v=PE7E9jsdwr0 ...Everything's censored and mostly out of frame...

Not everything. Looks like they missed her sitting on the bench in the background from time 0:14 to 0:22 seconds

[mr_herman]

Video:
dailymotion.com/video/xt4ka1_wtf-go-topless-rally-nyc-2012_sexy

[mr_herman]

Asheville:
flickr.com/photos/86954342@N05/with/7966533056/#photo_7966533056

[Fango]

Originally Posted by mr_herman

Asheville:
flickr.com/photos/86954342@N05/with/7966533056/#photo_7966533056

flickr.com/photos/86954342@N05/7965138766/in/photostream

Love this showing off for the crowd pose.

Thanks

Fango