British feminists call for Sun’s Page 3 models to cover up

Members of the No More Page 3 campaign hit the streets of London protesting the 43-year practice of displaying nude female models in the pages of the British newspaper, The Sun.

The plainly named “No More Page 3” campaign has emerged as one of the highest-profile of the many feminist activist groups that have recently sprouted up in Britain, fueled by social media and online tools that are connecting feminists from Brighton to Birmingham.

For its part, the Sun is characteristically unrepentant when it comes to the calls to drop its signature pictures.The Sun has called the topless women that are famously featured on its Page 3 a “British institution” — on par, seemingly, with a full English breakfast or quietly queueing at bus stops.

The campaign against Page 3 is part of a larger resurgence of feminist activism in Britain, with many women, as with Holmes, using social media and their personal stories to propel specific causes forward.
For instance, one of the most wildly popular recent projects is the Everyday Sexism Project, a Web site and Twitter account that catalogues stories of daily harassment. It has spread to 18 countries since its launch last year