In a risky action, activists with Greenpeace attempted to drop a banner off of an arctic oilrig when Russian Special Forces raided their boat, guns drawn. Today, thirty Greenpeace activists sit in Russian jails, faced with the charge that they posed a significant threat to the oilrig. The military-style reaction to a peaceful protest has rocked the international environmental movement, and petitions garnered thousands of signatures overnight. In the midst of this spectacle, two native Russian activists—members of the popular art punk collective Pussy Riot—continue their weeklong hunger strike in a penal colony with little fanfare in the US. Ironically, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina have been involved in protest movements for a long time, and Alekhina has worked as an activist with Greenpeace Russia.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 17:50:11 +0000
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