[applause] we have people from the press here tonight i would love it if our staff and board members could stand up to be recognized as part of this amazing team to put this book together. [applause] yesterday i got a message from the pussy riot number release from prison she is aware the book and is excited we are amplifying pussy riot what day half to say in the meaning of their

performance and she sent the message to re-read tonight. greetings to everyone who has gathered here tonight despite the distance that separates us we feel your support freedom for feminist and self expression and a big exclamation point as all around the. >> working on this book has been interesting from brooklyn to moscow the conversations about pussy riot the same topic comes up. so many say i of for somebody's speaking against oppression or fundamentalism

but was this superbly it making a performance is in a church? what i have realized over time is yes this is the way social change happens never about power and justice because of a higher consciousness is about people being willing to act out, be inappropriate when they're not supposed to and it is important to buy the book and support policy rise

in material ways to understand their message more deeply then how each of us stand up as often as possible. tonight joining me is some of my favorite artists and writers who are famously inappropriate and speak out of turn and i am so grateful to them to be a part of this project and book. i want them to come up and joining me here to start our program. [applause] we're going to do a brief enactment of the court room

because we have the piece of the transcript from the trial to give you a sense of what the pussy riot members were up against in court so i just want to invite to our artists to stand in front of the table and chair of microphones and i will introduce barbara browning in front, next to her is elisabeth, our publicist and in the orange is vivien goldman, eileen myles, a producer of the new documentary t. levin and johanna fteman i am sorry to

say justin vivian bond can not join us with a terrible flu but we send her greetings but without further ado excerpts from the court transcript a one. she tells she tried to follow the women but was stopped in her tracks by godwin they dropped their backpacks and began to engage in the doubles twitching she cannot be there unless she is married standing next to her husband for cushy fear the women would get naked. the headdresses that baird their shoulders that were

contrasting and their tights are different colors this is sacrilegious and insult to my feelings and face and ideals and defilement of my pain has not let up. >> defense attorney. >> did you seek psychological or psychiatric help? >> i am a believer the healing energy of the holy ghost is a million times stronger than any psychologist directed the healing energy relieves your moral suffering. >> the judge disallows the question. >> it is if it is said in church. >> they never to. testimony witness. >> who is possessed could exhibit different behavior to beat their heads against the floor and jump up and down. >> did they dance?

>> no. >> what about those who are not possessed and they're not qualified to render a diagnosis. >> testimony of witnesses describes trying to restrain the women said one broker free and begin cutting herself. >> did she crossed herself the whale citizens to? >> i do not remember exactly but it was a parody a satire people should cross themselves with piety and not rushing it was rapidly. this is not the sort of cross the way christians should bless themselves. i did not even watch the clip to the end because it was filthy but i noticed something i used to sing in the choir with that song

resembled church music in other words, that this was a parody of a church service and this is insulting. >> testimony of witnesses, a security guard at the cathedral. >> i was traumatized and have been unable to work for two months as a result. i forgive them personally but as far as god is concerned i cannot make that decision is up to god and the court. >> to find work and is insulting? >> i do. it is an insult or the obscenity. >> translator: with the word means? >> the judge disallows the question. >> [applause] thank you i think we will take our seats and have a short reading from the book with eileen myles. [applause]

>> hello? [laughter] i will do two things i will read the piece and then the poland's. i think i should read my piece first. deere "pussy riot" i am a fan and co-conspirator in regards to all meetings of your performance that has created so much importance

turmoil in russia and in the world. i realize the other day the one piece that you have done that is the most important is a strange and beautiful factor action supported a woman's right to pray. i have been reading about money and male power in how important men are on colin's and paper money sometimes to men but women are rarely on many some of the meaning is a represents the imperial prayer between father and son. that is governing, history, religion , ideology based on men's imperial prayer also uttered more publicly and privately and that power will be passed from father to son and everyone will with is that display and worship of

all the powers of the power especially the church. bring you asserted in your letter to the patriarch the sincerity of your prayer i wondered for a moment if you were being ingenuous. but the more it thought about it after reading the court documents, i realize what prayer is and was and female prisoners are kept hidden so there will be no spectacle of female power in the world. all actions must be hidden in order to support the grander force that is generally male, the president, the father, the pitcher, or the police. you pray publicly in a person -- church the cat is out of the bag but the tumultuous career will never be taken back. know i will read marsh's: [applause] >> what follows the year? what are we? here is what follows in conclusion. what does it make us? after we smashed into drops, walls, whose eyes found us? just yours good god, yours

alone. guide my hand. when i throw a fistful of words and vitry you right away wait for me. and the seashore come on the quay, i willis gave them. i will run away. in light of current events bad things are not scary to do, everyone does them. it is not hard to hide in a crowd, no one will notice. one piece of trash, one-piece less what is to be said with the times we live in our like that. we got unlucky the you cannot be afraid or ashamed to do good. you cannot there's so frighteningly little around these-- cynicism and fashion, ironic smiles and dole mellon collie, if you

don't do it, possibly no one will. they don't look at what they are doing but have time to look at others and a sign blame. if you choose to do good, come what may come you have most certainly lost but this doesn't mean you must not do it but who we are and no year conscience is what matters and follow your conscience not so much to change things but no the were changing them. to more. [applause] this is called it snows over bridges. >> i changed into things i hang like a convict i dine with kings. my carriage careens down your street under this no. i will lie down for a bit iamb dining with freaks. i changes i go i stand like

kicking under bridges and snow. my child sleeps the night time altogether seems to stop and turn to water into a sea that unites us all and all possibly me with you. and the greatest treasure would be safe in it afloat on a simple raft i will attract one negative attached every tree where people will find it and recognize it and remember. [applause] >> just one more piece. >> they say the of poland's when i hear things like this i feel like twisting the speakers neck into a tight tourniquet then steadily making him look at the rocking of the baby's cradle. then i want to take his hand. see?

how is the lilacs bloom in? can you feel that nothing will be left of us but this will go on will go on. [applause] >> hello of the time i conducted the interview the trial judge started in moscow. nobody can trust nobody know i try not to go to protest said one of the 10 members of the collective known as "pussy riot". part of the russian of fun to guard is just one persona of "pussy riot" multi headed goddess of the group may be hydra but "pussy riot" put useful female face of protests for those keeping a real means still going to the hair dresser back in the

old neighborhood. call it brave for blasphemy but the trial against "pussy riot" is called revolution into the spotlight. being a collective t. levin has bravely stepped with me. during the interview she comes up with "pussy riot" bullets she feels it is a good fit. a stylist is there to make sure they look good according to conventional wisdom. "pussy riot" is a different codes the different feminine image, are locked is not meant to be about long legs and high heels but to be serial. this project is not about being good-looking but simple and strong. "pussy riot" style is what

we produce you could be your own style list of "pussy riot" by whatever they lack in moscow they have access to colorful simple a line and shift dresses. and if you can find in the thrift shop or indifference closet. bold, graphic color is the essential element only to be used when necessary and could be customized with scissors. color is of subject of much heated philosophical debate. it is a miserable thing to talk some time but it is a good thing to discuss

discuss, anyone who has been in a collective weakness group can relate. is a possible to prepare yellow and blue? black is banned from the association of terrorist. like jazz musicians in search of the elusive note of this scale, "pussy riot" argue about the color with no name and what the multicolored is or might be which is the essence of all callers while being no known choler at all. the meaning of true beauty is a popular topic you to be beautiful or not so much the game is to conceal the identity, not promote them they do not endorse those

bit one negative bands so "pussy riot" is different. is indeed "pussy riot" see themselves in people and triumphant body language in recall triumphant proletarian workers with the constructivist artist the artist wife is the influence. the bandage is not walk along but they have dumpster diving barkeep "pussy riot" associates. those best known "pussy riot" music is discussed it is melodic punk with a chorus that rings like folk

music and it is very poetic. they must be short and well distributed and deal with the problem. some feminists tried to analyze the text of controversial things that do not fit their concept of feminism but it is silly because when you analyze the sex pistols they are not following the party line. perhaps most importantly "pussy riot" is a good project to use to discuss different positions. thank you very much. [applause] >> i wanted to read the

lyrics of peaches the cannot be here but send their regards. a couple weeks ago three "pussy riot" free "pussy riot" church and state separate a punk prayer fro freedom" old school great anarchist is what we need. free "pussy riot" freed "pussy riot" free pussy try it free "pussy riot." [speaking russian] >> i love you i don't care. i love you it is not fair. i love you anarchy set us free. set us free. here is up each put it on us deck the seven year itch

"pussy riot" of peach is a beach is the beach is of beach patriarchal bull shipped. [laughter] i don't care. it's not fair. set us free. free "pussy riot" freed policy try it. free "pussy riot" we are all "pussy riot." we're all "pussy riot." we are all "pussy riot." we are all "pussy riot." we are all "pussy riot." we're all "pussy riot." we are all "pussy riot". [cheers and applause]

>> that is a hard act to follow. beautiful. just before we came up here looking at 50 shades of gray and just because that book was self published not all t. i why is not progressive maybe it is the same shit. >> i will pass around punk prayer from my ukulele might greatest hit also just to say am preface of this piece that the reason i'm a row.i was on a panel in the fall

with a defense team of "pussy riot" and i was knitting the whole time i make ballclub is for the youngsters and taking request but she saw me knitting and said that is nice but they don't knit fares but they take a t-shirt and a ripped out the eyeholes and the mouseholes. i write to this october 10, 2012 surely after the of ruling on the appeal of "pussy riot" today's hearing of yekaterina samutsevich was suspended but maria

alyokhina and nadezhda tolokonnikova were upheld. this of course, is the ongoing story and will continue to go on matters of legal developments. sentences served on every point* delivered of the closing statements of the trial introduced that fact at the opening gashes in the mask with eyeholes ripped open to see clearly in the mouth hole ripped for speaking truth once ripped open there's no going back. a gash in the mask is there performance but it is there to draw a mask of another kind it was pointed out the process itself that was a malignant and grotesque mask with the people of our country. "pussy riot" are not hiding anything but has the actions between religion and

institutional stock. but "pussy riot" balked love it does not obscure the identity but to reveal the identity of a multitude. "pussy riot" unrelenting feminism, real intervention relies in the insistence that the complicity not only of political oppression but also of the patriarchy. time to open up eyeholes and mouseholes. thank you. [applause] >> i will read my piece from this. is one "pussy riot" still in siberia? to root get after-school

detention may be here. nonetheless, der "pussy riot" reversed heard the term "pussy riot" i laughed out loud instantly the similarity remains undiminished. "pussy riot" is the gift that keeps on giving. thank you thank you thank you. virtually no comedy stone is left unturned starting with the body hit of juvenile stoner ridiculous city that is a wave of cheap lee serious intent and intelligence serving pass the rational mind into one system had to hang on acting on it is in the parking lot while secretly circulating handing of associations and

setting in motion all kinds of time release troublemaking disturbances cognitive dissonance that makes my brain light up "pussy riot" is up to no good in the best way practicing sacred art at the form of resistance and part of all on lineage of disruption that up alessandro called psycho magic because it is about seoul and starts with your name. "pussy riot" as an entity and individual and revolutionary movement motivated by dedication by nonviolent resistance to trader fax sacredness and independence of of life sequestering gauging with the mystery in the innate rights of everyone to develop their creativity and explore the nature consciousness. "pussy riot" you represent life and truth with the power of art with imagination and wit of which no weapons are effective for

long. humor is always a giveaway with intact critical thinking skills with imagination living wages and terrifies power more than reverence and playfulness. psychopathic killers are cunning and ingenious with dominance and torture but limited and humorless the chief characteristic is paranoid and of course, cowardice nothing frightens them more than unpredictability and loss of control especially over language, the chief weapon of control. repressive group power was the game plan always with the ubiquity of their surveillance of coal technology was diabolical and frightening. the magnetic field is so powerful that science can measure how far it extends and it passes a anything from space straight through the plan in a nanosecond the metal jaws of the state

apparatus might as will be air that if you yourself are tortured physically and emotionally by powering police. various channels of communication although we are supposed to laugh and repeated the the power of prayer to heal instantaneously over great distances part in proximity to synchronize a thin minutes thoughts travel faster than the speed of life. it arises from the fabric of consciousness and it seems to be driven by creativity, playfulness and a delight of beauty and the unexpected. the entire universe is responding to your

communications and magnifying them. maybe it was waiting for this part of your ideas, a true magic, a casting of a spell, your 32nd performance during the aftermath are stunningly articulate and a concise description of our predicament and the possibility for healing and transforming this terrible disease of space death and infatuation which has the sense of hopelessness that there are levels of reality we can although not see or fathom which i am convinced you have activated globally. no brute physical force devised by primitive entities at the level of an oil spill and masquerade as authorities can stop the dissemination of your ideas and actions outside the confines of time and space

all of life exists under house arrest we're in made cynical old prison and raped and pillaged on every level from social engineering based on constant endangerment isolated from each other in mind robbed of access and transformed into prisons through language and scapegoating and punishment and backed up from forms of torture and generalized fear. we are reduced to seeking the most basic necessity of life of creature comforts but marsh's descriptions of psychiatric institutions and the population is apathetic intentionally deprived of access to avoid of

imagination or any connection to life itself sounds exactly like the world i live in. i share marshes incomprehension that thousands of people are necessary to overthrow the handful of psychopaths dedicated turning the earth into a lifeless piece of charcoal. why? because they can't so powerful to destroy even the means they're in a bunker somewhere surrounded by smoking ruins surrounded by corpses or zombies where is the thrill in that? so "pussy riot" the stabilization of the vast media apparatus means the term "pussy riot" is a battered incessantly by thousands of millions of people globally each time detonating a host of

linguistic associations constellated around images that in this juxtaposition shot through with compound and contradictory elements that simply will not yield closure or resolution meaning that whoever adders the term is activated to engage with the nature in general thank you "pussy riot". [cheers and applause] >> i will read the piece called plonk is protest join the party. you need a publicist or a record label or booking agent. nothing is for sale "pussy

riot" is a non commercial venture playing unsanctioned shows not rock clubs, they don't tour outside a commodity exchange they're not entertain the of the industrial complex there on a heroic mission to speak truth to power. "pussy riot" does in a the radio video footage shows territory that does not belong to them at the detention center, a subway, a fashion boutique, red square the line between public property and private space then they take their song from their world stage and before "pussy riot" and members were jailed they were confident the struggle would continue. we have nothing to worry

about because they throw one of us in prison, five, 10, a 15 more girls will continue the fight. "pussy riot" started in moscow the chapters are forming all over the world in response to group members and unjust imprisonment and state harassment. in the age of the archive "pussy riot." spunk into the 21st century presenting a new model for the protest outside of capitalism. so pick up a guitar and hit the streets to take over a government building, a defense plant and make your voice heard document your actions to participate and show your solidarity, we are all "pussy riot." [applause] >> that is basically our show. i would love for their readers to come back on stage one last time. [applause]

i just want to thank barbara browning laurie weeks comet johanna fteman, and all of you for being here tonight we will be site in units send up of experts that got them so much trouble in the first place please join us. page number 13 come say hello and get your book signed. thank you so much for coming

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