FEMEN Solidarity Video Message to FEMEN Holland
A video created by FEMEN entitled, FEMEN Solidarity Message to FEMEN Holland, caused quite a stare when it was placed on YouTube and then linked to various individual’s Facebook pages.
To some it came as a shock that people would be so upset to see this video because of the message and the aim, to send a message of solidarity to sisters in protest against overconsumption and corporate greed. It was as if people forgot that there is such a thing as nonsexual nudity. After all, one can walk into any art museum to find examples. However, this video was flagged on YouTube as obscene. Since YouTube recognizes non-sexual nudity, the video was not taken down, simply marked as “age-restricted.”
The fact that viewers could be so disgusted and disturbed at the site of women’s breast that they would have to declare “The sky is falling!” is a testament to how little this society has progressed. Some commenter’s on Facebook even went so far as to say that what they women were doing was not a valid form of protest. Surprising so, many of these commentators were also people who themselves were Occupiers or those who supported the Occupy movement. The irony being that there are some people who might think Occupiers sleeping outside for days “like animals, without taking baths,” is barbaric behavior; as such comments have been heard on conservative talk radio and read on conservative blogs. For example: M. James Currier wrote an open letter entitled, “Letter: Occupiers need a bath”, where he said, “The occupiers’ barbaric behavior has changed the national political conversation from “the Democrats have no tea party” to “look at those lazy Democrat occupiers.” Despite these attitudes, many continue to sleep outside, without access to showers, because they believe in their cause. These women are no different. They are utilizing a form of protest that is common in their country because they too believe in their cause.
FEMEN (Фемен) is a Ukrainian protest group based in Kiev, founded in 2008. The organization became internationally known for organizing topless protests against sex tourists, international marriage agencies, sexism and other social, national and international ills. (FEMEN Holland was founded on 12.02.2011.)
The video message is as follows:
We want to express our solidarity with our sisters in Holland. We know this Millionaire Fair is full of unnecessary luxury. Toys for the boys. And women for decoration. The empty-headed spenders, who rather buy a new car, or a new fashion bag every day than spending some time of the day on a deeper thought. Even for once)
this international fair is a slap in the face of all ordinary people who suffer from the financial crisis. Millions of people are at the risk of losing everything in Europe, but here the filthy rich keep on partying. If nothing else outside their glamorous world exists.
But they are the ones who caused the international crisis in the first place. They are part of the international network of high finance. Bankers and investors. Speculators. Corrupt politicians, ‘Businessmen’. Mafia. They all work together in an world-wide, oppressive, financial system. And instead on investing their money in the future of the planet, they prefer to waste it here on useless extravaganza.
They are driven by greed. Destroyers of ordinary peoples live. Gambling with their money. Make them responsible for the debts when it goes wrong. Annexing their houses. Their land. Taking away their jobs. Stealing their future. Making them poor, so they can sit on golden toilets in diamond closets. And shit on the world.
We must stop this world-wide cult of ignorant selfishness. Of intellectual emptiness. Of material waste. Of cultural barbarism. Or it will become the end of civilization as we know it.
FUCK YOU OLIGARCHS!
Bernd Pulch 
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