{"id":12729,"date":"2014-01-23T14:40:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T14:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12729"},"modified":"2014-01-23T14:40:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T14:40:44","slug":"pussy-riot-in-an-unauthorized-offensive-show-at-the-us-federal-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12729","title":{"rendered":"Pussy Riot in an unauthorized offensive show at the US Federal Reserve?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12731\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12731\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pussy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12731\" alt=\"Before the make-over\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pussy-300x141.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pussy-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pussy.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before the unusually expensive make-over<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is the American Federal Government into concert promotion?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two members of the unusually lame Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot, who seem to have a unusually strong media promotion team behind them, were recently released from prison and will appear at an Amnesty International concert in Brooklyn February 5th, WNYC reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina are scheduled to appear during the Bringing Human Rights Home concert at the Barclays Center in New York.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is not certain which human right they had wished to defend when they were caught\u00a0trespassing in a church in Moscow. The whole episode has an air\u00a0of being manufactured, as if they might appear alongside the\u00a0US Federal Turds next.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musically it is hard to understand their large global following, but politically less so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina were\u00a0released from prison last month after serving 21 months for hooliganism after a March 2012 arrest for giving an unauthorized offensive performance in Christ The Savior Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is not known whether they might do an unauthorized offensive performance in front of the Federal Reserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the American Federal Government into concert promotion? Two members of the unusually lame Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot, who seem to have a unusually strong media promotion team behind them, were recently released from prison and will appear at an Amnesty International concert in Brooklyn February 5th, WNYC reports. 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