Running naked through the streets

May 08, 2008
By Yury Sogis

VILNIUS - Sauna lovers in the port town of Klaipeda are poised to stage an unusual protest rally in front of the city council. Protesters are going to march stark naked through the city to show their disapproval of the plan to privatize the city’s only public bathhouse. The demonstration, which is sure to attract widespread media attention, is the latest part in a lengthy drama in this coastal city of 187,000 residents. In 2002, a group of Klaipeda residents collected signatures to stop p ...

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