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| Rolling Stone July 2013 |
Two of the girls, pictured here, are on a U.S. visit to support the debut of the film that tells their story. Two of the other band members are still incarcerated in the penal colony that they were sentenced to for 'blasphemous hooliganism.' Pussy Riot's Punk Rock Prayer was a direct attack, not on religion itself, but the Church that supports Putin. In the article, Masha Gessen, a journalist who has written a book about Putin, said, "Putin has mentioned Pussy Riot six times since the arrest ... I don't think there's a country in the world he's mentioned six times in one year. Maybe not even Obama. he's personally upset and pissed off, and this is how he responds. he thinks of the cathedral as his- it's where he prays- and he feels like they shit on his stairway."
What is anyone doing about this? What's happening over there in Russia? What's up with Putin? This article bugged me. At the premier, Patti Smith introduced the film, and Salman Rushdie ate popcorn. The horror of what this represents, the denial of what we enjoy as a basic freedom, is packaged as the event, not a crime.
Send the SEALS. Get those girls out so that they can sing and protest the tyranny that is, apparently, Putin.
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