Our
imprisonment has served as a clear and obvious sign that the whole
country is being robbed of freedom. And this threat of annihilating the
freeing, emancipatory forces in Russia – that’s what causes me to be
enraged. Seeing the large in the small, the trend in the sign, the
common in the individual.
Second-Wave
Feminists said the personal is political. That’s how it is. The Pussy
Riot case has shown how the individual troubles of three people facing
charges of hooliganism can give life to a political movement. A single
case of repression and persecution against those who had the courage to
Speak in an authoritarian country has shaken the world: its activists,
punks, pop stars, and government members, its comedians and ecologists,
its feminists and its masculinists, its Islamic theologians, and those
Christians who are praying for Pussy Riot. The personal has become
political. The Pussy Riot case has brought together as one forces so
multidirectional, I still have trouble believing this isn’t a dream. The
impossible is happening in contemporary Russian politics: a demanding,
persistent, powerful and consistent impact of society on its government.
I
am thankful to everyone who has said “Free Pussy Riot!” Right now, all
of us are participating a large and important political Event that the
Putin regime is having an ever more difficult time controlling. Whatever
the upcoming verdict for Pussy Riot, we – and you – are already
winning. Because we have learned to rage, and to speak politically.
Pussy
Riot is happy that we have been able to spur a truly collective action,
and that your political passion has proven to be so strong, it has
cleared the barriers of language, culture, surroundings, and economic
and political status. Kant would say that he sees no other reason
for this Miracle besides man’s moral beginning. Thank you for this
Miracle.Via
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