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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPussy Riot Releases 'I Can't Breathe,' Inspired by Eric Garner
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/28703-pussy-riot-releases-i-cant-breathe-inspired-by-eric-garnerOn Wednesday, Pussy Riots Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina released their first song in English. Titled I Cant Breathe, it shows Nadya and Masha dressed in the blue uniform of Russias OMON riot police, lying in a grave. They are slowly buried alive.
Pussy Riot said they wrote the song after taking part in street protests against Eric Garners death at the hands of NYPD officers in Staten Island, New York last July. It was dedicated to Garner and to all who suffer from state terror killed, choked, perished because of war and police violence to political prisoners and those on the streets fighting for change.
Their own first-hand experience of police brutality in Russia meant we cant be silent on this issue, they said.
I Cant Breathe is also a powerful protest against the political situation in Russia, and President Vladimir Putins bloody undercover war in Ukraine. The video echoes the secret night-time burials of hundreds of Russian soldiers who have perished in the conflict. Their families are not told how their loved ones have died or where, Pussy Riot said, adding that such information is forbidden. The Kremlin officially denies that its army is fighting in eastern Ukraine. On Wednesday, Pussy Riots Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina released their first song in English. Titled I Cant Breathe, it shows Nadya and Masha dressed in the blue uniform of Russias OMON riot police, lying in a grave. They are slowly buried alive.
Pussy Riot said they wrote the song after taking part in street protests against Eric Garners death at the hands of NYPD officers in Staten Island, New York last July. It was dedicated to Garner and to all who suffer from state terror killed, choked, perished because of war and police violence to political prisoners and those on the streets fighting for change.
Their own first-hand experience of police brutality in Russia meant we cant be silent on this issue, they said.
I Cant Breathe is also a powerful protest against the political situation in Russia, and President Vladimir Putins bloody undercover war in Ukraine. The video echoes the secret night-time burials of hundreds of Russian soldiers who have perished in the conflict. Their families are not told how their loved ones have died or where, Pussy Riot said, adding that such information is forbidden. The Kremlin officially denies that its army is fighting in eastern Ukraine.
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Pussy Riot Releases 'I Can't Breathe,' Inspired by Eric Garner (Original Post)
eridani
Feb 2015
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riversedge
(70,242 posts)1. that image of being buried alive is horrible. I have
leaned something also. I knew Russia was till being coy about the invasions and that Russian soldiers had died and were dying. but had not really thought beyond this. Makes sense [in Putin way of thinking] that they would have to be buried in secret-their deaths literally kept a secret. So horrible for the families.
Ps--I have a vague memory of a photo or two of large grave sites--row after row--taken somewhere in the Ukraine--details are dusty.
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)2. K&R. Pussy Riot was incredible on House of Cards Season 3
This song is powerful.
Thanks for posting.