Russia's Pussy Riot Brings Protest Message to Mexico Rafa Fernandez de Castro - Fusion
go to original November 17, 2015

The Russian punk rock group, Pussy Riot, carried its message of protest to Mexico, voicing support for the relatives of the still unresolved disappearance of 43 student protesters who vanished more than a year ago.

The feminist activists Ksenia Zhivago and Maria Alyokhina made an appearance in Puebla, Mexico last week, attending an annual conference known as the City of Ideas, which hosts TED-style talks on arts, science, technology and innovation.

Speaking to a group of Mexican youngsters, Alyokhina offered up the group’s trademark statement of protest. “Your boss, your president, or even a God, cannot give you your freedom,” she told the attendees. “Freedom is something for which we have to fight.”

“If someone robs your freedom, tell them firstly ‘thank you’ and then ‘go fuck yourself,'” she added.

After the speech, several young woman jumped into the stage wearing the band’s signature neon-colored ski masks and started dancing to one of the collective’s punk rock songs.

“I feel free when I can shout Ayotzinapa lives!” shouted a woman on stage, referring to the missing students who were allegedly kidnapped and murdered last year by a criminal gang in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.

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