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Who are Pussy Riot and why are they protesting in the U.S.?
We are members of Pussy Riot, Russian protest group. We've been imprisoned in Russia. We've been persecuted. We are in federal wanted list in our country.
We're members of Pussy Riot, a Russian protest group. We've been imprisoned in Russia. We've been persecuted. We're on the federal wanted list in our country. Pussy Riot are a punk band and a protest group that have been jailed in Russia and beaten up and hounded all over the globe now by Russian President Vladimir Putin. They have been chased out of that country. As such, they remain one of the last remaining visible, uncompromising and alive elements of the Russian resistance to Putin. Putin, of course, has managed to just kill off so many others who dared to oppose him. But this week, members of that Russian group came here, came to America, to New York City to scream at us, to literally scream at us
in an encouraging way, trying to tell us to act now before what has happened to them in their country happens to us here in ours.
Wake up, America! Wake up, America! Wake up, America! Wake up, America!
Wake up, America. You can see the signs they're holding there, including this one on the left here that says, nothing special. One member of the group, Masha Alyokhina, explained, I think, what they mean by that nothing special sign.
I don't think that there is something special with Russia or Russian people. The totalitarian state can appear anywhere if people are silent.
I don't think there's something special with Russia or Russian people. A totalitarian state can appear anywhere if people are silent. And so that's why they came here. They're persecuted and they've been imprisoned and they are now hunted by their own country. A dictatorship where it is illegal to use the word war to describe a war, where it is illegal for even one person to hold a protest alone or to hold up a protest sign even if it has no words on it. But here they are in our country trying to sound an alarm to tell us to move fast because your country doesn't come back when you lose it to a dictatorship. You see, the big sign they were holding there, the one that said freedom of speech and this other one, which kind of stuck with me, don't give up. It's kind of an unsettling thing. After everything they have been through, they're trying to encourage us.
We are here now because we see the rise of authoritarianism here. And we want to call people to not be silent. And we want people to remember to not give up, even in the difficult conditions, to have a hope inside, to have belief.
Don't give up even in the difficult conditions. Have a hope inside. Have belief. It's really jarring, right, to hear that from Russian dissidents, that they're the ones encouraging us. Like I said, it's unsettling to see it. But I also feel like, you know what? The American people right now understand the assignment. feel like right now we are so far from giving up.
Why are there mass protests planned across the United States?
We are whatever the opposite is of giving up. I mean, we are expecting a massive day of protest tomorrow in this country. I want to show you this from TikTok. This is the sort of hype video for the protests tomorrow that has been circulating online, particularly on TikTok. And it's funny because you'll see here, it's the kind of hook line here is that it's literally about we're done watching the news. We're stopping watching the news. We're going out tomorrow to protest instead. I recognize it's a little ironic for me to be showing you this on the news. But still, I have no ego about these things. And I think you should see it. Watch.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Who are Pussy Riot and why are they protesting in the U.S.?
0:36–4:30
2
Why are there mass protests planned across the United States?
4:30–11:26
3
How are Trump's policies causing economic turmoil?
11:26–20:54
4
What was the origin of Trump's tariff plan?
20:54–22:04
5
How did Jared Kushner find Trump's economic advisor?
22:04–43:03
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