Two words wimmin!!!

Pussy Riot - Check it! (but not on your company computers, lol!) Maybe when they get out of jail, they could play Fest?

Global Pussy Riot Rallies scheduled for Friday.. :D

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainm ... =138887484

Thank you to the womyn who organized the flash mob at Fest to bring attention to this issue. Please write in and ask the producers to bring these women to the day stage.

The Bill Moyers & Company news show on PBS can be difficult viewing, but for this day-and-age it's excellent journalism. It's also a good resource for finding organized citizens' groups active in Political reform.

http://billmoyers.com/content/how-to-fi ... ens-united
offers some information on organizations and movements involved with trying to clean-up the corrupt financing of politics for anyone interested in helping. (An Amendment to win the vote for womyn was a tough battle, but it was won; and there is probably much broader public support for removing the treasonous Citizens United decision across the public spectrum than the womyn's suffrage movement ever had. But i would take President Obama's recent lip-service support with a serious grain of salt. His coffers are filled with unchecked millions of corporate money as well, and there are plenty of well paid for reasons why he was very anxious for his supporters to just docilely go on home after the last election. Such "public servants" can't and aren't much inclined to do anything substantive about this problem without actively involved public support, pressure and (hopefully Non-Violent) grassroots civic organizing and non-cooperation.) For Ohioans i can also recommend contacting the office of U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (who, though a Democrat, is also quite popular with moderate Republicans in the state) for info if you are interested in becoming locally involved. (He has been speaking against this court ruling since the finding.) As a disclosure, yes this Senator and his constituents have good vested interests in seeing the financing reformed: 20 million plus from Rove and company flooding into the state so far to help fix the Senate race we're in. And that's just what's documented; plenty of shadowy slush funding goes on these days which is not. By-the-way, Elizabeth Warren (long-time advocate for populist and sane financial reform) faces the same onslaught of ALEC and corporate funding against her as well in Massachusetts' Senate race.

(R.I.P. Henry Champ - great Canadian journalist
Chris Kluwe - Well, ya!!! nice to see a sports figure speak out! (now if maybe the players union could get behind the refs and a little and help us all out))

Pussy Riot is not teens and not even a real band. They are not anti-Putin. They are supported (coerced?) by men.

Please consider why the western media is encouraging all of us to support them. They're not what our media portrays them to be. (surprise!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR68_zb_DB4

Remember:
1) The media is mostly men. Men love an excuse to get the word Pussy published.
2) Russia is a bugbear to many readers.
3) Western press likes to show how unfree other nations are.
4) Because all of the above are sensational in a way that centrists and "liberals" can feel ok about and outraged about, while buying newspapers and checking the news websites to keep up to date.

Here are several links in this feminist analysis to videos but be warned: some are VERY GRAPHIC and could be triggering! I will not even describe them as some of our readers might find the descriptions too graphic both sexually and violently.

http://radicalhub.com/2012/08/20/pussy- ... hose-riot/

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Thanks for posting this, RL. Yet another example of the dog-and-pony show we are constantly subjected to in this country to keep people's minds distracted and rattled.

Hey Rabbit.Leaps! Looks like your email got hacked too! Or the micro gremlins are having a field day with your computer.. :)

Thanks for posting the further analysis about Pussy Riot. The criticism for how the media has handled this story is well taken. Male patterned titillation at the expense of real journalism. Why blow this story up, instead of another one inside or outside of the US, right?

I guess I have to admit I jumped on the bandwagon too, somewhat, in light of the shenanigans in Michigan about the censuring of the representatives for using the word vagina in the state house, and the Mega Bill on restricting reproductive freedom there and elsewhere, but let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.. I don’t find the name itself, Pussy Riot, to be offensive to women as some in the analysis claim it to be. I learned to reclaim and embrace the words used against us at Fest. They are power words. Pussy Manifesto, brought to us by Bitch (and Animal). Fierce Pussy, an artist collective here in NYC has used public acts to draw attention to the degradation of women. Laura Love’s recent acts of civil disobedience in MI hanging the banner that “Vagina’s are Revolting” in which revolting is a verb connoting action (and she was also arrested for “hooliganism” (disorderly conduct/resisting arrest) and last year’s Occupy Oakland action.

Soo.. I got caught up with what I was hoping was some sign there was a global feminist action beginning to develop, like the Arab Spring uprisings, this time for women. Sigh.. Maybe the international attention will give the women of this anarchist group, purportedly being used by men for anarchist activities, an education and enlightenment they didn’t expect. We can only hope.. It HAS fueled discussion of feminists and radical feminists, in theory and in practice. As a feminist, though, I want to practice what I preach and not put words in the mouth of other women. I don’t know what is in the minds of these women, and I don’t get to define them or their intentions, but I DO have to make sure I dig deeper into what I think I see..

VERY interesting to read about Russian culture though..

The analysis you posted brought up another important idea to explore and that is what happens inside mixed-sex anarchist groups. Anarchist infiltration is what has killed off a lot of the energy in the OWS movement. Anarchists are not feminists, and the young men tend to dominate and act badly within these groups. This is my opinion, based on my experiences and anecdotal evidence.

1.1 trillion in student loan debt and growing (with a default rate rising as well), plenty of it being done in predatory ways (often for a growing for-profit on-line "education" industry that has time and again been shown to charge more to society's most vulnerable while granting degrees of dubious value and return for all our investment. In some instances these "universities" are much more about organizing loans for students than educating them. And the drop-out rate is very high.), still being packaged in bogus financial instruments that distort the responsible accounting of the banking, investment and insurance industries. We are being set-up again and neither Romney or Obama will do anything financially sound about it. (Just look at who the President has appointed to oversight and regulatory posts during his tenure. Industry insiders and political pay-masters who helped design the preceding public swindle, power shift and payout.) Makes for a great way to turn citizens into debt serfs, too.

("If your not outraged, your not paying attention." i use to see this on shirts and bumper stickers all the time back in the seventies. What an irony to almost long for the days of Nixon. He was probably just as corrupt and authoritarian as many of the Politicians of today. But he didn't have nearly as much concentrated power, money and institutionalized right-wing organizing behind him; nor as brow-beaten and impoverished of a citizenry to contend with. And his coup d'etat didn't work; Bush's did.)

Hi wrinkles! What is trending along with this story on predatory student loans is that accrediting agencies are getting tough on private schools and trade schools to provide verifiable job placement data or risk losing the ability to offer student aid etc.

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jun ... ools-job-/

http://www.wfaa.com/news/investigates/R ... 02545.html