Naked Against Bullfights in Bilbao
If you’re planning on staging a protest against bullfighting, you’ll want to gather a group of your closest hundred friends, take off your clothes, paint some of you black and some of you red, drop, and form the shape of a bull. At least that’s how you’d do it in Bilbao. Anti-bullfighting campaigners chose the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to protest the annual celebration of the matador in the Basque city in northern Spain.
One hundred activists in their skivvies played dead in the form of a giant bull; their nearly naked bodies painted black and red. A spokesperson for the Animal rights group, Anima Naturalis, stated: “We believe that, after the Catalan parliament’s decision last month to ban bullfighting in the region of Catalonia, communities like the Basque Region could also do it. Basque society is becoming more sensitive, rejecting animal mistreatment.” (Clearly a call for stripping and applying body paint…) The protest generated strong support locally. One resident (with a roving eye) stated: “We’re impressed with how well this protest has been done.”
