Pussy Riot Redux

Spencer Ackeman, punk rock aficionado and foreign policy wonk wrote an insightful and in-depth article on the punk, politics and Pussy Riot on the same day I wrote my little blurb about the band. Not unsurprisingly, we both referenced Profane Existence's slogan "Making Punk a Threat Again" as our part of our central idea but I only read his piece today via The Daily Dish.

Pussy Riot

The anarchist zine Profane Existence slogan was "Making Punk a Threat Again", which is a motto that Russian anarcho-feminist collective Pussy Riot have lived up to. The band itself, a spiritual and musical kin to Bikini Kill and their Riot Grrl ilk, are on trial for launching a guerrilla protest against the dictatorial actions of Russian leader Vladamir Putin at a Russian Orthodox Church.





The fact these women are on trial and facing years in jail for this protest is itself criminal. Of course, this very threat of being jailed as dissidents proves to the wider world how far towards the dictatorial Putin has moved and how enmeshed in his power-grab the Russian Church is. Guardian article here.

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