Sing Truth to Power: Pussy Riot Going to Court.

The "crime" being committed. Pussy Riot playing on the altar.

Pussy Riot

Pussy Riot Members

Pussy Riot [Link] is a feminist collective/Punk Band in Russia whose crime was to reveal the moral rot of  Vladimir Putin's regime by staging an impromptu concert without permission in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ. The song asked the Virgin Mother to intercede on behalf of freedom. Their ultrasound exposed the government for what it is (and it should be noted that the church has been cheerleading Putin since it was rebuilt). The Patriarch of the Church called in the authorities, and three of them were arrested. They face seven years in prison.



Pussy Riot sees itself as a group of a generation disgusted by Putin's iron grip on Russia.






They wear Balaclavas to emphasize their collective identities over individual ones. One of their group with the nom de guerre "Sparrow", said in a recent interview: "everybody can be Pussy Riot."





As Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29, go to trial, artists and musicians all over the world are in solidarity with them. It is not they who should be on trial, but the government and church who cows obediently to it. 



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Awaiting trial