If there’s one way to show the world that bullfighting is cruel, we think it might be to strip off, cover yourself in fake blood, stick a ‘banderillo’ in your back and lay across the streets of Pamplona. That’s why on Saturday over 60 activists from all over the world – seriously, Austria, Germany, Portugal, France, even Florida! – got (mostly) naked and protested against the San Fermin festival, which is currently underway.

It all kicked off this morning with the Running of the Bulls, where bulls are chased through the slippery and winding streets, being hit by runners as they race past. While human injuries are often reported (nine people this year already), it’s the bulls who face a deadly fate, leading onto the bloody bullfights and a gory slaughter.

Check out RunningOfTheNudes.com to see photos of past naked events to end bullfighting and Running of the Bulls.

We all know the Running of the Bulls sucks. I mean, it really sucks. How can it be fun to chase bulls through the streets, hitting, taunting and then finally killing them in a bloodbath in front of thousands of spectators? So think what a pleasant surprise it was for the 30,000 strong crowd last weekend, when instead of bulls racing through the streets and being stabbed to death in the bull-fighting arena, two Formula-1 cars took their place. The drivers, David Coulthard and Sebastien Bourdais, tore through the city early on the morning of June 28, finishing the “Red Bull Run” with car demonstrations in both the bull-fighting arena and a track.

Now that’s what I call playing nicely. Check out more photos and videos of the event here.

A historic moment in animal rights is on the cards: Spanish parliament has put forward support for the rights to life and freedom for great apes. This is the first time that any legislation for such rights for non-human animals has been called for at a national level.

Pedro Pozas, Spanish director of the Great Apes Project says. “This is a historic day in the struggle for animal rights and in defence of our evolutionary comrades, which will doubtless go down in the history of humanity,”

Despite not using great apes in experiments in Spain, the current laws do not prevent them from happening. While the proposed law is not yet in force, there is majority, cross-party support for the legislation and officials anticipate it will be in full force within a year. Also covered within this legislation would be keeping apes for circuses, television commercials or filming.

More associated with bull-fighting than animal rights, this fantastic, progressive move will go down in the history books as the start of total animal liberation.

Your ‘looking forward to total animal liberation so I can have a lie in’ Matt

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She may not be a household name here in the UK, but boy, is Alaska loved in Spain?! That’s why we’re soooo grateful the gorgeous and courageous singer of electro-pop band Fangoria decided to pose in an anti-bullfighting advert for PETA. The stunning ad was unveiled yesterday amidst the Festival of San Isidro in Madrid – one of Spain’s biggest and bloodiest bullfighting events which takes place over four weeks. Unless you’re fluent in Spanish, you probably won’t be able to read the feature on EncierroHumano.com or the coverage from the unveiling, but so you don’t miss out, here’s what Alaska says about bullfighting:

“My mother’s first husband was a bullfighter. So it was very normal when I was a little girl for my parents to take me to corridas. Sometimes you do grow up and you say ‘what’s going on? I don’t think this is right at all so I’ve got to do something’ and my way of doing things is being outspoken and opening my mind and speaking my mind to whoever wants to listen to me… We don’t deserve to harm anyone, not a boy, not a dog and not a bull.”

Too right, and with 82 percent of Spanish citizens between 15 and 24 years old not even remotely interested in bullfighting, it’s a disgrace it continues to make a buck.