To: Jason Roth
Subject: Re: How Can I Help You?

Absolutely. It all depends on the organizer in your area. Where are you, by the way? And if there isn't one in your area, who better to start an action than you??? If you let us know where, we amy be able to put you i touch with a local group. Some of them are women-only, of course. All the more reason to do your own!

Go for it!! All the details of how to do it are on the website www.baringwitness.org

THanks,
Donna&Paul

To: BaringWitness.org
Subject: Re: How Can I Help You?

Dear Ms. Donna and Paul,

I am in New Jersey, near New York City. And if you've been following those weather reports, you know that "baring one's buns for peace" isn't going to be easy with all this snow, but heck, which is more important, stopping a war against a dangerous dictator with "weapons of mass destruction" or keeping one's pants up? :)

Is there a dual-gender Baring Witness organization in the New York City area? If there is, maybe I could start one in New Jersey instead. Or, perhaps I could start a men-only organization? (Is that allowed under your protocols?) Alternatively, if the women's group would allow me, I could help out but just keep my clothes on. For example, maybe I could volunteer to be a photographer's assistant or to keep track of everyone's clothing while they're naked.

Of course, these are only ideas, so if there's anything more useful I could do, please let me know. I look forward to hearing from you!

Regards,

Jason Roth
Humanitarian

To: Jason Roth
Subject: Re: How Can I Help You?

OK New Jersey! We need one there. The NY organizer was Wendy Tremayne <iam@wendypolyploidy.com> She has other actions planned, but not necessarily the same kind. Check her website.

But yes, we need NJ! Have a good read of the How-To pages and GO FOR IT.

We do understand the difficulties of freezing weather, but you're really only naked, if you do it naked, for a few minutes. We are about to get a photo from Ontario, where it was 20 degrees.

Anyway, Baring Witness is open to all. It would be great if you did multi-gender, even better if it were multi-racial. Whatever you can do. We've noticed a positive shift in press coverage in the past couple of weeks, but we have to keep the momentum going. We're looking for one action in every state. So....

Let us know if you have any specific questions. We look forward to seeing your beautiful, powerful photo!

Thank you, Jason.

Donna&Paul

To: BaringWitness.org
Subject: Re: How Can I Help You?

Great! We're getting nude in New Jersey! Just you wait, you clothed war mongers! You're about to get a face full of pale, fleshy buttocks! It's time to give new meaning to the phrase "Garden State" if you know what I mean!

I was thinking about spelling "Antidisestablishmentarianism" - what do you think? Just kidding! But actually, I love your multi-ractial idea. I don't think it would be too hard to get enough people to spell out "Stop it, just stop it!" We could have white people do "Stop", Native Americans and Eskimos and some of your lighter browns do "it", African Americans and Jamaicans do "just" (it would be great if we could have a few dreadlocks in the letter "t"!), Asians could take care of the second "stop", and maybe Greeks, Italians, and people from the French Riviera could do a nice, golden "it!" to round it all out. What do you think? I hope it's not too ambitious!

How do you usually publicize your efforts? Do you find that you can get enough people advertising only on the Web, or do you have to take out newspaper and television ads? I don't know if it's possible, but I was wondering if maybe I got A LOT of people, we could even do one of those 3-D images. You know, like on first glance, you'd only see a bunch of naked men and women, but if you look really hard, you'd see a 3-D image of Ari Fleischer? Oh, I don't know, maybe I'll just keep it simple.

There's a beautiful mountain here in New Jersey which I bet would be a perfect location. And now, with all the snow, we could be a bunch of proverbial "snow angels"! What could be more beautiful than snow angels fluttering around an atmosphere of hate and extinguishing the very flame of evil with their naked, multicolored bodies, helping to bring to an end, with their brethren and sistren (or whatever the "sister" version of "brethren" is) around the globe!

I can't wait to get started! There are plenty of community colleges nearby where I'm sure I could recruit some liberal-minded folks! (I bet frat boys would get naked in a second if I chip in for a few cases!) I've found that community college students generally don't care as much about protesting the war because they're too concerned about their so-called "careers" and having the US military defend their "freedoms" and stopping "terrorism" from happening again. But still, there's gotta be somebody around here who wants to get involved.

What do you think?

Jason

To: BaringWitness.org
Subject: Re: How Can I Help You?

Ms. Donna,

I haven't heard from you, so I just wanted to make sure you got my last message. I'm really ready to the whole "snow angel" thing, so I'm looking forward to your feedback.

Regards,

Jason

To: Jason Roth
Subject: Re: How Can I Help You?

Sorry Jason, it's crazy here at Media Central.

To get people together, teh sim[lest way is to phone/email your friends and have each of them phone/email 3-5 of their friends, and so it builds. we've never had troubel gettng women to join in. Men may actually be more difficult. Anyway, it seems to work. If you publicize, you will get a lot of press attention, which gets tricky to handle, if the participants are at all shy. You have to protect them.

Read the How_to page on the website, it really explains everything, model releases, photographer agreements, setting up, etc.

Let us know if you have specific questions that aren't answered there.

Looking forward to seeing a NJ photo!

Go for it!

Donna&Paul

To: BaringWitness.org
Subject: Re: How Can I Help You?

Ms. Donna,

We did it! And just in time, before the snow started melting! I scanned the photo so I hope it came through ok. Let me know what you think!

[click here to see the "photo" that was attached]

Originally, we we're going to spell "Just say no!", but we didn't have enough people for the "Just". (I thought that would have been a great satire on that old Nancy Reagan line about drugs.) Also, we decided not to include the exclamation point at the last minute, even though we could have had enough people if we rearranged things a little. The problem was that no matter how well we did the dot in the exclamation point, it kept looking like "SAY NOI", and we didn't want anyone to think we were demonstrating for the Nation of Islam.

Anyway, let me know what you think!

-Jason

To: Jason Roth
Subject: Re: How Can I Help You?

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