Pussy Riot, or rather their two most famous members, Masha Alekhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova, have released a video for a new song called ‘The Witches of Pussy Riot Are Cleaning Manezhka’, Manezhka being the name of the square outside the Kremlin where protesters gathered this week
Le Tigre has always dealt with issues concerning the LGBT community, plus JD has released a song called ‘Let Them Out Or Let Me In’ in support of the Pussy Riot girls when they were imprisoned after their performance in Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral.
Pussy Riot were the punk rock agitators of the gangster era Russia Putin reign, and got jailed for their efforts and then got out of jail, quit on music but got involved in the serious world of information decimation which is where they are right now.
‘There is hardly any political issues left in Russia outside of courtrooms’, confirmed Maria Alekhina, ‘and there is a great need for transparency and media coverage of things that are happening down there, so we hope that Mediazona will help close that gap and change the face of independent Russian media.’
They talked about the oppressive Putin’s government, harassing gay people with this new movement ‘Occupy pedophilia’ linking homosexuality to pedophilia and allowing violence against the LGBT community.
Now the PR girls have joined forces with #SolidarityWisconsin. Apparently 400 protest singers were arrested last summer at the State capitol -not a bad idea within reason, but in practise not so great. So the leaders of #SolidarityWisconsin are setting up a petition to have charges dropped against them
It’s very sad that Pussy Riot got divide this way, this is what Putin wants after all, but may be Nadia and Masha got a big ego after all
Former Pussy Riot-er Nadezhda Tolokonnikova had this to say at Barclay Center , “We have to remember that freedom is not a given.” And after five hours at this godawful show I know exactly what she means.
Yeah… Madonna may be ‘cool’ but there’s no way the Pussy Riot girls will take her seriously. And I understand, she is this rich entertainer who visits African orphanages wearing allergy mask and holding hand sanitizer
They don’t want to go on tour, or record an album or even become a real punk band. They have never been a real punk band to begin with, they were not even real musicians, and Pussy Riot was part of a bigger art movement protesting against Putin.
First, I read a few days ago that she had gone missing and her husband hasn’t had any information about her for 2 weeks, then we are learning she is on her way to a new penal colony of Nizhny Ingash in Siberia. This isn’t good news.
