Under sunny skies overlooking a bustling Turlington Plaza, 24 UF students lay unmoving on the hard ground Monday afternoon.
Their tongues hung from their mouths as red goo that resembled blood dripped off their chests.
Students for a Democratic Society, a student protest group, staged the anti-Iraq war demonstration to advertise a larger protest scheduled for Oct. 22, called "No War, No Warming."
The 24 motionless bodies represented the 1.2 million total Iraqi soldiers and civilians who have died in the war, which is 24 times UF's population, said Tina Steiger, a UF political science junior and organizer for the group.
The group will stage a different visual protest on campus every day until Oct. 22 except on weekends, she said before the demonstration.
At 12:30 p.m., a wailing siren signaled the participants to shriek, stumble and collapse as they popped bags of fake blood onto their bodies.
"If people get scared, they need to get a reality check," Steiger said. "This is reality."
