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Pussy Riot Rages Against Putin, Face Arrest

Pussy Riot Rages Against Putin, Face Arrest
Fri, 3/23/2012

Two members of Russian all-girl, feminist-punk band Pussy Riot remain detained in a Moscow holding cell after being arrested while performing in protest of Prime Minister Putin's recent re-election.  The two women were part of a direct action performance that occurred inside Moscow's main Orthodox cathedral in February; both could face up to eight years (!!!) in prison for the stunt. Speaking to the Financial Times, a member named Shabya put it bluntly, "Illegality is an essential element of our art...We never get permission for our performances."

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Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.

Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.

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What remains unknown is whether post-truth Republicans will succeed in 2024 as the Nazis did in 1933.

Based on details that have emerged about Trump’s presidential agenda, the far-right Heritage Foundation plans for the next GOP president to have all the tools necessary to demolish multicultural democracy and establish a white, Christian ethnostate that imposes a gender apartheid not unlike the Taliban’s Afghanistan.

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Posted 1 week 3 hours ago

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