Moira Johnston, 29, a topless dancer from Philadelphia, says she is exercising her legal right to take off her shirt.
She became a bare breast activist after she was banned from a yoga studio after going topless in class, something men were freely doing.
Since May, she has been seen strolling around the city’s East Village topless to remind women that, under New York law, they have the right to bare their chests, just like men.
Johnston says many people are unaware of that right – including the New York Police Department, which arrested her in May. She was later released without charge.
“I want women to know their rights and to give them the courage to go topless too,” she told The Daily Beast.
“It’s not that I want everyone to take off their shirt, but I’m supporting a woman’s choice to do it and think every woman should do it on her own.
Millionaire unveils
Noah’s Ark A Dutch millionaire has opened the doors of his full-size replica of Noah’s Ark to the public.
Johan Huibers spent four years building the ark after dreaming his hometown would be destroyed by a flood of biblical proportions.
Using dimensions set out in the Book of Genesis, the 137m x 21m craft features its own ‘Bible museum’, complete with life-size plastic animals.
“We wanted to build something that can help explain the Bible in real terms,” explained Mr Huibers.
“The wood is Swedish pine, because that’s the closest we think to the ‘resin wood’ God ordered Noah to use in the Bible. The animals are plastic and come from the Philippines.”
The project stems from a dream the 52-year-old had in 1992, in which his native Holland was flooded by the North Sea.
“The next day I bought a book about Noah’s Ark,” he said. “That night while sitting on the couch with my kids, I looked at it and said: “It’s what we’re going to do”.”
Mr Huibers originally wanted to sail his ark, currently moored on the Merwede River, Dordrecht, to the London for the Olympic Games.
However he was forced to abandon that plan after Dutch authorities raised health and safety concerns about the proposed voyage.
Performance beer launched
The award winning brewers, BrewDog, have launched a performance enhancing beer called Never Mind the Anabolics in opposition to Olympic sponsorship which they deem ‘shallow’.
The beer which is a 6.5 percent India Pale Ale contains a selection of banned Olympic substances.
The brewer said in a statement: “BrewDog has today unveiled a limited edition beer it hopes will undermine global sponsorship deals for this summer’s games, called Never Mind the Anabolics. Designed to ‘unmask the corporate beast’ of the world’s biggest sporting event and highlight the shallow nature of sponsorship, the new beer contains creatine, guarana, lycii berries, kola nut, Gingko, matcha tea, maca powder and steroids.’’
Never Mind the Anabolics takes its lead from the relentless marketing campaigns of global fast-food chains and international mass production breweries that replace the sporting spirit with a fast buck, a greasy burger and an ugly plastic cup of insipid, fizzy, yellow lager.”
Speaking about the new ale, Brewdog co-founder James Watt, added: “It seems a beer laced with performance enhancing ingredients isn’t actually illegal, but it is definitely frowned upon. Never Mind the Anabolics is a thorn in the side of the biggest corporate beast spawned this century. This is the craft beer community showing the sponsors of the games the finger in the best way we know how.”
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