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Pussy Riot announce that they’ll bring their digital protest punk to Birmingham, Alabama’s Saturn on July 11th to protest the abhorrent signing of the Alabama Abortion Ban Law. Concert tickets can be purchased here with all proceeds from the show being donated to bothYellowhammer Fund and Planned Parenthood; you can also donate to both organizations direct here and here.
Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova on their new piece “Get Out Of My Uterus”: “GET OUT OF MY UTERUS OR I’LL CUT YOUR BALLS OFF. Pro-life? Ban the guns. When we’re on the street and a 60-yo creepy dude tells a 20yo woman what to do with her body, we call it a harassment or a rape. When we’re at the senate, it’s called politics.
I’ll always have planned parenthood in my heart. And in my vagina. I’ve seen desperate crying lonely women coming to PP as at their last resort. PP is a modern church for all the desperate, and for the poor. If only church would ever make any good for women.”
Extra information about Pussy Riot’s “law enforcement” tracks, plus their independently owned Mediazona news publication:
Pussy Riot spent 2 years in Russian jail for performing 35-seconds punk prayer in Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. Since Pussy Riot’s release they keep chasing corrupt officials, as well as expose and stand against police brutality.
Roughly speaking; one half of the group’s audio-visuals and performance-art pieces is dedicated to cops and the other half is about prisons. “Our duty is to try to see what punk will look and sound like 10 years from now, times of digital resistance, rise against financial inequality and mass people’s movements for saving the planet.”
In 2014 Pussy Riot launched Mediazona, a 100% free-of-censorship independent Russian media agency focusing on law enforcement issues. Conditions in prisons, tortures in police departments and FSB, persecutions of political activists, elections, protests. Activists of Pussy Riot are advocating for the prison reform in Russia and providing help and lawyers to prisoners.
“Mediazona, our activist media agency, posts news that you’d rather not read – endless criminal cases for reposts and for participation in rallies, brutal tortures of our fellow activists in secret FSB prisons, kidnapping and beatings of gay people in Chechnya, murders of Kremlin’s opponents. State violence that we’re forced to experience and think about everyday. That’s why almost all our tracks are about bad apples.”– Nadya Tolokonnikova
Other Pussy Riot’s tracks and actions:
“Policeman Enters The Game” action at Soccer World Cup Finale – more info here
“Track about Good Cop”– more info here
“Chaika” (a demand to Russian government to immediately fire Russia’s corrupt prosecutor general Yury Chaika)
“Make America Great Again” (an attempt to prevent the election of this #45)
“Police State” (a call to action for all activists who stand against police brutality and offensive excessive surveillance)
“I Can’t Breathe” (written in honor of Eric Garner, a man who was brutally killed by cops)
Pussy Riot live:
Thu 6.06 – Los Angeles, CA @ Wiltern (Charli XCX + Troye Sivan’s Go West Fest)
Thu 6.13 – Austria, CH @ Novarock
Fri 6.21 – Reykjavik, IS @ Secret Solstice
Fri 6.28 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Mirage (LadyLand Festival)
Tue 7.11 – Birmingham, AL @ Saturn (Planned Parenthood + YellowHammer Fundraiser)
Sat 7.13 – Ottawa, ONT @ Ottawa Blues Fest
Sat 8.10 – Skanderborg, DEN @ Smukfest
Fri 8.16 – Gornești, ROU @ Awake Fest
Sat 8.24 – London, UK @ Byline Fest
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http://www.zona.media/ (Pussy Riot’s publication focused on Russian courts, law enforcement, and prison system)
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