"Tits for Human Rights"

(picture by dpa)

At the Pariser Platz in Berlin, right at the Brandenburg Gate 25 refugees are holding a hunger strike (for a week now) to protest against residential obligation (having to stay in one city, without freedom of travelling within Germany) and to achieve a ban on deporting. The last hassle by the Berlin police was to take away sleeping bags and blankets from the refugees camping there.

As a support action, female members of the Pirate Party Berlin announced, that they would hold a protest by undressing at the camp site and called their project "tits for human rights".

On a sunny but frosty cold Monday afternoon they assembled, meeting the press (including, of course the infamous German yellow press) and several TV news teams. And as they began undressing, they unveiled t-shirts reading slogans like "Human Rights - Not Tits!" And it became clear that, of course, they never meant to get naked or topless there... they unmasked the real press interest, though.

Calling out "Sex Sells. Human rights are not for sale" the protesters got their point across. And, at least, the journalists who were put to shame talked to the refugess first, before turning to the women.

Laura Dornheim, Pirate Party representative for gender affairs, was offered to appear on page one of the German tabloid "Bild", if she did show her tits. That's what the so-called "journalist" offered her... great job in confirming the reputation of "Bild": that it's mainly blood and shit printed on cheap paper.

Here's a link to the German newspaper "taz" featuring the creative protest:

http://www.taz.de/Piratinnen-fuehren-Medien-vor/!104503/