Por Que No Pants?

I think this protest is really creative and a great way to get the attention of those in power. I hope that their voices were heard, and that others will be inspired by their efforts.

But... my favorite part about this pod is definatly watching Adam try to talk to half naked people in spanish, haha!

Beautiful. He's so cute.

This is great! I love the effect of human bodies making a statement for justice. Naked bodies speaking out for truth!!

As Adam points out in his commentary, we were just going down the street when we heard a commotion and started rolling video... A sort of an interesting back story is that earlier in the day, the head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, for Mexico and Central America, had just said on camera that if the U.S. and Mexico succeeded in restricting the availability of psuedoephedrine--the precursor from which methamphetamine is manufactured--it wouldn't end the supply of meth to Americans any more than it did when pseudoephedrine was restricted in the U.S. It would just move meth production further south in Latin America. In a public policy way, this was as startling an event on camera as seeing thousands of guys walking down Mexico City's main street without their pants. It's simply that the latter is easy to recognize as startling. But because of the generally low state of coverage on American television, there is no context set up in public consciousness for the DEA official's statement to seem as shocking as it was. The vast bulk of America's meth supply never had anything to do with how easy it was for John or Jane Q. public to go into Wal-Mart and buy a bottle of Sudafed, back when it contained pseudoephedrine, but it would be hard to know that if you watch TV news. In other words, there are a lot of things out there as startling as thousands of guys without pants, and sometimes we stumble upon them, but because of the generally low rate of discourse in the U.S., thanks to TV, they can be hard to recognize. Vanguard hopes to change that... On a cinematic note, while we were shooting this piece, the protesters turned to moon the morning Mexico City rush hour traffic, and as I started to shoot that, I thought to myself: Okay, get a tracking shot of the butts of hundreds of guys in their underwear. You don't find yourself saying that to yourself every day.

Mitch and I were in Mexico City to do a hardhitting story on pseudoephedrine and meth production that's essentially been chased down from california to mexico. we stepped out of our hotel just to see the city, get some city shots, etc... but we noticed hundreds of people in various stages of undress. Lucky for you, we had a camera with us..

I love when people get creative with protesting! What cause would you drop your drawers for?