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Global Antiwar Protesters Take Page From an Ancient Greek Comedy
Aired March 04, 2003 - 05:51 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Global anti-war protesters took a page from an ancient Greek comedy to express their feelings.
As CNN's Jeanne Moos reports, the theme is no peace, no sex.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): You know how protesters like to say make love, not war? Well, now they're saying make war and you'll get no love.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We really can't love until this war is over. You'll have to make some peace if you want to be my lover.
MOOS: All over the world, protesters were performing...
UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: Lys, Lys, Lys, Lysistrata. Lys, Lys, Lys...
MOOS: If it's Greek to you, it should be, a Greek comedy by Aristophanes.
SHARRON BOWER, COFOUNDER, LYSISTRATA PROJECT: The 2,000-year-old story of a resourceful group of women who end a war by refusing to sleep with their men until they agree to lay down their swords.
MOOS: If it's good enough for Athens and Sparta, it's good enough for the U.S. and Iraq, say anti-war protesters.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'll come right out and say it thus, we mustn't give an inch of us.
MOOS: It was performed in a store window on New York's 42nd Street. It was celebrated with lipstick on the subway. Missiles and lips recited lines in front of the U.N.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We'll tease and catch and pamper them, we'll make them want us bad. Then when it comes down to it, we'll say oh, that's too bad.
MOOS: The award for best set decoration goes to the underwear adorned 42nd Street store front.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's got no testosterone.
MOOS: And this was no theater critic's review. It was a little girl watching her mom from the warmth of a parked car. When the protesters handed out leaflets in the subway, this guy turned his into a paper airplane.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's face it, fellows, if all the girls in the world said listen, you're not going to get any unless you stop all of this, you're going to listen for at least a minute or two, to say the least.
MOOS: A few famous actors like Kevin Bacon and Mercedes Rule (ph) took part. Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham revealed the play's ending.
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM: The men laid down their arms and the women laid down.
MOOS: Lest you fear American soldiers face a sex strike, organizers describe all this as mere metaphor.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We're not advocating Lysistrata's tactics unless your husband's name happens to be George or Saddam.
MOOS: And the first lady's not the type to kiss and tell, or not kiss and tell, in this case.
Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COSTELLO: There are just so many things to say after that story, but I'm not going to say any of them.
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Comedy>
Aired March 4, 2003 - 05:51 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Global anti-war protesters took a page from an ancient Greek comedy to express their feelings.
As CNN's Jeanne Moos reports, the theme is no peace, no sex.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): You know how protesters like to say make love, not war? Well, now they're saying make war and you'll get no love.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We really can't love until this war is over. You'll have to make some peace if you want to be my lover.
MOOS: All over the world, protesters were performing...
UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: Lys, Lys, Lys, Lysistrata. Lys, Lys, Lys...
MOOS: If it's Greek to you, it should be, a Greek comedy by Aristophanes.
SHARRON BOWER, COFOUNDER, LYSISTRATA PROJECT: The 2,000-year-old story of a resourceful group of women who end a war by refusing to sleep with their men until they agree to lay down their swords.
MOOS: If it's good enough for Athens and Sparta, it's good enough for the U.S. and Iraq, say anti-war protesters.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'll come right out and say it thus, we mustn't give an inch of us.
MOOS: It was performed in a store window on New York's 42nd Street. It was celebrated with lipstick on the subway. Missiles and lips recited lines in front of the U.N.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We'll tease and catch and pamper them, we'll make them want us bad. Then when it comes down to it, we'll say oh, that's too bad.
MOOS: The award for best set decoration goes to the underwear adorned 42nd Street store front.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's got no testosterone.
MOOS: And this was no theater critic's review. It was a little girl watching her mom from the warmth of a parked car. When the protesters handed out leaflets in the subway, this guy turned his into a paper airplane.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's face it, fellows, if all the girls in the world said listen, you're not going to get any unless you stop all of this, you're going to listen for at least a minute or two, to say the least.
MOOS: A few famous actors like Kevin Bacon and Mercedes Rule (ph) took part. Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham revealed the play's ending.
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM: The men laid down their arms and the women laid down.
MOOS: Lest you fear American soldiers face a sex strike, organizers describe all this as mere metaphor.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We're not advocating Lysistrata's tactics unless your husband's name happens to be George or Saddam.
MOOS: And the first lady's not the type to kiss and tell, or not kiss and tell, in this case.
Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COSTELLO: There are just so many things to say after that story, but I'm not going to say any of them.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
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