*RTH* Pussy Riot - Punk Prayer

Mind you, we are the dog!

In Duitsland kun je er dus 3 jaar voor krijgen.
Copycats aan het werk http://rt.com/news/pussy-riot-support-germany-111/

Klasse reactie van de gebedsvoorganger in dit geval die het rustig aankeek en vervolgens vroeg te bidden voor Pussy riot

Binnen de Russisch-Orthodoxe Kerk ziet de leidende patriarch Kirill een goddelijk wonder in Putin´s leiderschap en vijandige krachten van de kerk in het punkgebed en de kerk steunt het vonnis van de rechtbank omdat het de taak van de samenleving en staat is om heiligschennis te bestraffen, maar twee hoge geestelijken (waaronder de geestelijk raadsman van Putin) vergeven Pussy Riot wel vanaf het begin vanuit de hoop dat ze in de toekomst zullen afzien van dergelijke heiligschennis en hoopten op genade binnen de grenzen van de wet.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443324404577597372874430372.html
De orthodoxe kerk zal de gelovigen, die in de rechtzaak getuigden dat hun religieuze gevoelens waren beledigd en daarmee de veroordeling mogelijk maakte van de 3 vrouwen voor hooliganisme uit religieuze haat, steunen zoniet vergeven. Maar is de straf van 2 jaar (waar 7 jaar had gekund) dan de genade waarop was gehoopt?

Pussy Rioy is opgericht eind september 2011 nadat Putin aankondigde door te willen regeren, uit politiek protest daartegen, vormgegeven als een feministische punkband die de volgende punk- invloeden noemt:
Kot: Some of us draw inspiration from classic oi!-punk bands of the early 1980s; The Angelic Upstarts, Cockney Rejects, Sham 69, and the other acts in that bunch—all those folks had incredible musical and social energy, their sound ripped though the atmosphere of their decade, stirred trouble around itself. Their vibe does really capture the essence of punk, which is aggressive protest.
Garadzha: A lot of credit certainly goes to Bikini Kill and the bands in the Riot Grrrl act—we somehow developed what they did in the 1990s, although in an absolutely different context and with an exaggerated political stance, which leads to all of our performances being illegal—we'll never give a gig in a club or in any special musical space. That's an important principle for us.
Pussy Riot heeft sinds afgelopen vrijdag, de dag van het vonnis, 6 nummers. Het 1e nr verscheen op 7 november 2011, en het punkgebed is het 5e nr.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443324404577597373476683052.html

Given how world-famous Pussy Riot has become, it may be surprising to learn that the entire oeuvre of the women's punk band is made up of six songs and five videos.

Poorly recorded, based on simple riffs and scream-like singing, the feminist singers were dismissed by many critics and listeners as amateur, provocative and obscene. But the performance and release of each song's video mirrored important steps in the rise of the opposition movement in Russia that protested Vladimir Putin's return to power as president.

By Friday, when three members of the group were convicted of hooliganism for performing a "punk prayer" in Moscow's main cathedral in February to protest the Russian Orthodox Church's support of Mr. Putin, it was clear the group also has won support around the world, including from musicians such as Madonna and Paul McCartney.

The band consists of at least 10 members who always performed in balaclavas so the identities of only the three who were convicted are publicly known.

Here, a look at Pussy Riot's songs, including one released Friday just hours before the Moscow court sentenced three members to two years in prison.

<1> 'Release the Cobblestones'
The group's first song and video are released on Nov. 7—the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.

A month earlier, Prime Minister Putin announces that he and his protégé, President Dmitry Medvedev, will swap jobs, giving Mr. Putin the top government post again. The announcement is followed by regional elections that the Kremlin's United Russia party wins by a landslide. Observers and government critics cry fraud, and online protests soon become widespread street demonstrations.

The Pussy Riot song recommends that Russians protest the coming parliamentary elections—and throw cobblestones during street protests because "ballots will be used as toilet paper," the group said on its blog.

The song's most quoted line says that "Egyptian air is healthy for your lungs/Turn Red Square into Tahrir"—the focal point of Egypt's uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

The song's video is compiled from footage of band members singing and twanging guitars from the top of subway and trolley cars. The blog says the group was formed after its members "understood that after the Arab Spring Russia lacks political and sexual liberation, boldness, a feminist whip and a woman president." From the very start, the group's members don't disclose their real names and sport their now trademark balaclavas and brightly colored miniskirts.



<2> 'Kropotkin Vodka'
Dedicated to Pyotr Kropotkin, a 19th-century Russian prince and one of the founders of anarchism, the song advocates the "toppling of the Kremlin bastards" and "Death to prison, freedom to protests."

It is videotaped during the band's unannounced performances in posh restaurants and boutiques, during which band members uses fire extinguishers to put out fires they have started.

The song's video is released on Dec. 1, three days before the parliamentary elections, which trigger the largest civil protests in Russia since the Soviet collapse.



<3> 'Death to Prison, Freedom to Protests'
The song is recorded in mid-December, days after the first anti-Putin protests break out. As many as 100,000 people turn out in the frigid cold for demonstrations demanding free elections, and the streets of Moscow ring with cries of "Russia Without Putin" and "Putin Is a Thief."

The band performs the song on the roof of a pretrial detention center where opposition leaders and activists are held.



<4> 'Protests in Russia, Putin Chickened Out'
The band's breakthrough performance takes place in a part of Red Square where czarist Russia once announced government decrees. During the performance, eight Pussy Riot band members are briefly detained.

Reacting to such rallies, Mr. Putin promises to allow more political competition and to take steps to ensure the transparency of the coming presidential election. Mr. Medvedev proposes a law to restore the direct elections of governors.



<5> 'Holy Mary, Drive Putin Away'
Before the now-historic stunt at Russia's grandest Orthodox Cathedral that led to Friday's conviction, band members try to play at Moscow's Epiphany Church but are taken away by security guards. The 41-second performance at Christ the Savior, during which five band members high-kick, dance and kneel, whispering "Holy Mother, Drive Putin Away," is interrupted by guards.

The Russian Orthodox Church's initial response is mild. An outspoken cleric known for his liberal views calls it a "legal outrage" during Shrovetide week, when church tradition allows and even encourages carnival-like escapades and jokes.

But the band then releases the video with an actual song—with screeching guitars and an angry chorus urging Holy Mary to become a feminist. The song also claims the church's leader, Patriarch Kirill, venerates Mr. Putin instead of God.

<6> 'Putin Sets the Fires of Revolutions'
Pussy Riot's latest song is played Friday afternoon by one of the band members who had escaped arrest from the balcony of an apartment building that faces the Khamovniki court building in central Moscow where a judge was reading the verdict.

The balaclava-wearing young woman also throws out compact discs containing the song. Hours later, the band's supporters dance to it near the court building—before police push them away, detaining several people.

The song mocks Mr. Putin for his alleged cosmetic surgery and urges him to marry Alexander Lukashenko, the authoritarian leader of neighboring Belarus.

The chorus says: Russia "takes to the streets to say goodbye to the regime."

Recent rallies have drawn smaller crowds than those in December, but polls have indicated that Mr. Putin's popularity is dwindling during his government's crackdown on its critics and the opposition.

Muziek vind ik het helemaal niets. Een 2 derhalve.
Heb natuurlijk wel de petitie getekend.

Stel, dat dit nummer gerankt zou worden vóór de actie en niemand van deze dames had gehoord. Dan was het gemiddelde vast lager uitgevallen.

Maar dat is dus niet zo. En dus laten sommige mensen hun sympathie voor deze actie meewegen in hun cijfer. En dat is hun goed recht, uiteraard. Het zal absoluut niet de eerste keer zijn. Hoe vaak wordt een nummer niet hoger beoordeeld vanwege externe factoren? Omdat de band in kwestie gewoon heel goed is, omdat de clip leuk is, omdat het mooi weer is, omdat ik in een goede bui ben, omdat het nummer een goede boodschap heeft, omdat sowhat het leuk vindt, omdat andere mensen het nummer een onvoldoende hebben gegeven...Andersom komt natuurlijk ook voor: het is een goed nummer maar de band is te commercieel, het gemiddelde wordt te hoog dus ik geef extra laag, etc. Mensen ranken op heel veel verschillende manieren, en dat is precies de bedoeling.

Ikzelf rank puur de muziek, en dat is eigenlijk een paradox, want ik kan dit geen muziek noemen. Wat ik gehoord heb krijgt een 1.

Over de kwestie "eigen schuld, dikke bult" nog even het volgende: ik denk dat dit van toepassing is op onomkeerbare zaken. Als ik een kind uit mijn klas, dat drie keer in één week te laat is gekomen (met een slechte reden, dus bijvoorbeeld verslapen), laat nablijven, dan is dat inderdaad zijn eigen schuld. Als ik hem echter in de nablijftijd de wc's laat schoonmaken, en ik hem vertel dat hij een probleem heeft wanneer hij dit thuis of in de klas vertelt, en híj doet dit vervolgens wel, dan is "eigen schuld, dikke bult" níet van toepassing. Dan heeft hij -terecht- door dat er iets mis is, en hij heeft het lef om dit naar buiten te brengen. Natuurlijk wist Pussy Riot dat dit niet onopgemerkt zou blijven. Dat was ook helemaal niet de bedoeling.

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