Pussy Riot release apocalyptic BlackSnow video & share open letter to Putin
to escape intolerable living conditions, high rates of oncological illness, black snow, poisoned water, and the indifference of local government officials," member Nadya Tolokonnikova wrote in an open statement addressed to "Putin and his Cronies" that was released alongside the video. "their People in Kuzbass ask: “
How can you be a patriot of something or someone who won’t even notice how we live? How we breathe? What we drink?The song, which features a screwed and chopped interpolation of the traditional English nursery rhyme "London Bridge is Falling Down," pulls no punches in enumerating the kinds of environmental issues facing the nation.
The photos of the actions from earlier this year include images of the lyrics on giant banners hung in forests and in the letter Tolokonnikova talks about growing up in the industrial city of Norilsk, where she says they had "black blizzards," and she used to play on "giant mountains of slag" amid dead trees with black branches whose leaves "have necrosis from acid rain.
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