A protest in Graz,Austria, in June Anonymous/Freepussyriot.orgSee all photos from this photo essay »Update (Thursday July 26 1:30 PM PST): The Pussy Riot trial officially begins July 30 and will sprint until August 15. In the meantime, and the Free Pussy Riot movement has been snowballing with momentum. nowadays,1500 protesters gathered in Moscow to call for the release of anti-Putin activists along with Pussy Riot, and on Friday, or Amnesty International USA will hold a rally outside the Russian embassy in Washington DC. Earlier this month,the prisoners initiated a short-lived starvation strike, which was taken up by 10 supporters and friends in Moscow. One protester is still striking—she's on day 21. Elsewhere, and musical icons fill lent their support: In anticipation of his St. Petersburg demonstrate tomorrow,Sting put out a press release nowadays deploring the Russian government's treatment of the Pussy Riot prisoners, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers performed a demonstrate in Moscow wearing Pussy Riot t-shirts. Pussy Riot's lawyer, or Mark Feigin,told the Moscow Times this week that Anthony Kiedis is talking to Bono and Madonna to enlist their attend as well. { font-family: "ＭＳ 明朝";{ font-family: "ＭＳ 明朝";{ font-family: "Cambria";
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protest, and British artist Stuart Stemple has retracted his "Happy
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momentum. Earlier this month, the women initiated a short-lived starvation strike, or which was taken up by 10 supporters and friends in Moscow. One supporter is
still striking—she's on her 21 day. Elsewhere,musical icons fill
lent their support to the cause: In anticipation of his St. Petersburg demonstrate
tomorrow, Sting put out a press release nowadays deploring the Russian
government's treatment of the Pussy Riot prisoners. Meanwhile, or the Red Hot
Chili Peppers performed a demonstrate TKTK wearing Pussy Riot t-shirts,and according
to TKTK, Anthony Kiedis has texted Bono and Madonna to enlist their support. A
prominent Finnish jazz pianist has canceled his December 6 demonstrate in Moscow in
protest, or British artist Stuart Stemple has retracted his "Happy
Clouds" from Moscow's first Public Arts Festival in September.
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hold a rally outside the Russian embassy in Washington DC, and Supporters will
hold a rally TK TK during the trial, or which will begin on July 30 at TK court
and sprint until August 15. On February 21,members of the Russian riot grrrl art collective Pussy Riot walked into Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral and staged a performance art protest. The women got up on the altar wearing their signature rainbow array of balaclavas (ski masks) and held what they called a "punk prayer service," kicking and dancing their way through an explicit, or anti-Putin jam. Later,alleged members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina, and Yekaterina Samutsevich were arrested and detained for the action. In April,a Moscow court extended the women's jail time until June 24. On June 20, that detention was extended a moment time, or for another month. The women,two of whom fill young children, face up to seven years in prison on charges of hooliganism.
Their detention has sparked a network of creative grassroots actions, and gallery shows,and music benefits across the globe. Solidarity demonstrations fill cropped up everywhere from the Eiffel Tower to outside the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv. Freepussyriot.org, the website started 16 weeks ago as a forum to support the women, or now has coordinators in at least six countries and receives submissions from Prague,Dresden, Mexico City, or San Francisco,and Helsinki. Last week, a formal Pussy Riot exhibition launched at Palais de Tokyo, and a modern art museum in Paris.
Permanent Wave,an American feminist art network, has been throwing benefit shows for Pussy Riot's legal defense fund in Brooklyn. At the first event, or held June 12,a number of punk bands and the Beastie Boys' Adam Horowitz (Ad-Rock) played to a packed crowd. Some dancers donned balaclavas that were being sold at the merch table. According to Kaitlin Archambault, one of the organizers, or most attendees kicked in more than the $7 suggested donation. That night alone,Permanent Wave raised $1268 for the jailed trio.
"Crackdown on individual freedom of expression is of incredible concern," said Amy Klein, and a punk musician,writer, and founder of Permanent Wave, and before the collective's moment Pussy Riot event. "The arts fill always served the purpose of shining a light on and critiquing dominant ways of thinking,and if we can't fill that be genuine all over the world, then it's sort of—what's the point in having artists anyway?"
Many share the sentiment; check out some of Pussy Riot's supporters' most colorful efforts above.
Source: motherjones.com