I'm sure you heard about PUSSY RIOT getting two years in prison for singing an anti-Putin (Russia's de facto dictator) song in an Orthodox Russian cathedral.
According to
The Huffington Post report on it (one of the rare Huff Post stories with some substance) the judge cited them for doing "devilish dances" in a church! Talk about the New Dark Ages, or the return of oligarchies and dictators! This is what the USA would look like if rightwing fundamentalist Christians had full control of our government and courts etc.
Along with Ai Wei Wei in China and all dissidents being imprisoned or having been imprisoned for acts of art and truthfulness about those in power, the PUSSY RIOT trio deserve to be lauded and defended through writing campaigns and demonstrations of support, etc. Long live PUSSY RIOT!
3 comments:
Right on, Michael. This conviction is so disturbing.
It's wrong, sad, bad, but it's also growing pains. It's bringing attention of the global one-ness to this incident of backwardness.
I hear you Janet and Robert. I had friends who were arrested in demonstrations in the '60s and then jaywalked while out on bail and got thrown in prison or ever worse one got caught with two joints and did several years in a really horrible Texas prison where he suffered what you can imagine and truly was never the same. It can happen here and has. But Robert's correct, there is a "global one-ness" that is changing the game slowly but hopefully surely.
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