Controversial Russian musicians, Pussy Riot, who were arrested in 2012 after protesting Vladimir Putin, have released this video for a track which plays tribute to Staten Island’s Eric Garner who died tragically last summer.
The group collaborated with Richard Hell, Nick Zinner, Andrew Wyatt, Shahzad Ismaily (The Ceramic Dog) and Russian bands Jack Wood and Scofferlane during protests against police brutality in New York, last December.
The track, their first in English, was posted to the band’s YouTube channel and accompanied by this message:
“Pussy Riot’s first song in English is dedicated to Eric Garner and the words he repeated eleven times before his death. This song is for Eric and for all those from Russia to America and around the globe who suffer from state terror – killed, choked, perished because of war and state sponsored violence of all kinds – for political prisoners and those on the streets fighting for change. We stand in solidarity.”
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