Femen vs Putin & Merkel in Hannover
Femen haben grade in Hannover Putin und Merkel mit Brüsten attackiert. Und: Man beachte die nippellosen Bilder in der Facebook-Galerie.
Just right now sextremists FEMEN did an anti dictatorial attack of Putin. The Attack took place during exhibition in Ganover when Putin and Angela Merkel were watching an exposition. At the moment when Putin was watching what to steal from Volkswagen 4 topless activists could attack the bastard face to face. Activists screamed with voice of the nation ” fuck you, dictator!”. After incident Putin and Merkel left the place to follow the plan of visiting.
[update] Und gleich die Ansage aus’m Kreml: Kremlin urges Germany to punish topless protest against Putin: „Russia urged Germany to punish a group of women who staged a bare-breasted protest against President Vladimir Putin on Monday during a visit to a trade fair in Hanover with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.“
Femen-Activists protest for Amina
Femen-Aktivistinnen haben gestern in ganz Europa gegen die Einweisung der 19jährigen Amina protestiert, die in Tunesien für die radikalfeministische Truppe trommelte.
Earlier today, members of Ukrainian feminist group Femen staged protests across Europe as they called for a “topless jihad.” The demonstrations were in support of a young Tunisian activist named Amina Tyler. Last month, Tyler posted naked images of herself online, with the words “I own my body; it’s not the source of anyone’s honor” written on her bare chest. The head of Tunisia’s “Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice,” reportedly called for Tyler to be stoned to death for her putatively obscene actions, lest they lead to an epidemic. Tyler has since gone quiet, leading some to fear for her safety. Below are images from Femen’s protests today in Sweden, Italy, Ukraine, Belgium, and France.
Femen Stages a ‘Topless Jihad’
[update] Ziemlich interessante Entwicklung: Muslim women send message to Femen – Counter-protest launched against ‘Topless Jihad Day’. (Danke Andrej!)
The thing is, many Muslim women are indeed oppressed, just like many non-muslim women around the world. Patriarchy is a global problem, and I will not deny the misogyny in my culture. However, please, do not insult me, my intelligence, my color, my heritage and my body, and please don’t do it because you think you’re ‘saving’ me. There are many Muslim feminists in all Muslim countries, a feminist’s job should be solidarity, amplifying voices of local feminists, not imagining they don’t exist. Femen is simply very euro-centric, racist and colonialist. I haven’t yet seen a black Femen protester, they are racist because they amplify European ideals of beauty; white, skinny, and young. I can’t believe this isn’t more obvious to people.
Personally, Femen, shut the fuck up, and don’t claim that you speak for me, or anybody else. Stop dictating women that they need to be nude to be free, that’s just as bad as men dictating them to be covered.
Free Pussy Riot Lingerie-Commercial
Zum Jahrestag von Pussy Riots Punk Prayer in der Chirst-Erlöser-Kirche in Moskau, was zur Verhaftung der feministischen Punk-Aktivistinnen führte, schickt ein Berliner Unterwäsche-Label eins seiner Models mit Balaclava in Moskau halbnackt bei –15°C auf die Straße. Ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob tatsächlicher Protest als Werbeform neu ist, ob der Protest wirklich legitim ist, obwohl die Fashionindustrie sich bereits während der Prozesse für die Damen einsetzte und wie Sexy-Unterwäsche-Protest für die Freilassung durchaus radikaler Feministinnen passen soll. Was das Ding ja wegen all dieser Fragen durchaus interessant macht.
While it legitimately promotes the freepussyriot.org fundraising site to help the women, it is also promoting a product using a woman’s sexuality as the bait: „On the first anniversary of the Pussy Riot concert in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the Berlin based Lingerie label blush supports the free pussy riot movement with a sexy protest march through icy Moscow (-15° C). Support Freepussyriot.org!“
This is no Femen action, in which women’s bodies become weapons of protest. It is a commercial for sexy underwear that pays for its appropriation of a radical feminist cause by directing people to that cause. Is this irony?
“Free Pussy Riot” lingerie campaign: Appropriate, or appropriation?
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Russia bans Pussy Riots Punk Prayer-Video
Pussy Riot: One free, two remain in jail
Pussy Riot: The Jail Interview
Pussy Riot, Professionals at work
Musicvideo: Pussy Riot – Putin Lights Up the Fires
The Bored Ones of the Pussy Riot Trial
Femen cut a Cross with a Chainsaw to support Pussy Riot
Pussy Riot Liveblogs (UPDATE): 2 Jahre Knast
Global Free Pussy Riot Day
Peaches Free Pussy Riot-Video
Pussy Riot Statements von Slavoj Žižek und ihrem Anwalt
Interview with Pussy Riot
How Faith No More and Pussy Riot may have fucked up my Server
Free Pussy Riot-Protest by Amnesty International
Femen-Activist deported in Tunesia
In Tunesien hat man eine dortige Femen-Aktivistin in eine psychiatrische Anstalt eingewiesen, nachdem ein religiöser Fundi mit Wahnvorstellungen aka „salafistischer Priester“ die Dame nach der Scharia mit 100 Peitschenhieben und/oder dem Tode bestrafen will. Die Frau hatte auf Facebook ein Foto von sich gepostet, Kippe rauchend, blank gezogen und mit dem Spruch auf dem Oberkörper: „My Body is My Own and Not the Source of Anyone’s Honor“. Eine Petition auf Change.org habe ich grade unterzeichnet, you should, too.
Amina, a 19-year-old Tunisian aspirant to the radical, Ukraine-born feminist group Femen has been delivered by her parents to a psychiatric hospital in Tunis, according to reports received by Femen leader Inna Shevchenko in Paris. Amina (her last name is unknown) had posted topless photos of herself on the Femen web page she created for the group in Tunisia several weeks ago. One photo shows her topless, smoking a cigarette, with “My Body is My Own and Not the Source of Anyone’s Honor” scrawled in Arabic across her chest. Another shows her raising her middle fingers to the camera, with “Fuck Your Morals,” written on her torso. The site was subsequently hacked and temporarily plastered with citations from the Quran.
The head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Tunisia, Almi Adel, a Salafi Islamic preacher, has called for Amina to be “stoned to death” for posting the images. He warned that Amina’s action could cause “epidemics and disasters” and “could be contagious and give ideas to other women.” Media reports say Tunisian secular law would punish her with up to two years in prison.
The Atlantic: Tunisian Woman Sent to a Psychiatric Hospital for Posting Topless Photos on Facebook
Free Thought Blogs: 4 April 2013: International Day to Defend Amina; she represents us
Petition auf Change.org: Petitioning Tunisian Government : Amina must be safe
spOnline: Islamisten weisen Femen-Aktivistin in psychiatrische Klinik ein
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Femen vs Berlusconi
Femen cut a Cross with a Chainsaw to support Pussy Riot
Femen crash Davos World Economic Forum
Femen: Kievs Topless Protestors
Femen just made Football interesting, snatching the Euro Soccer Cup with Tits
Femen protest Chernobyl with Tits and Gasmasks (NSFW, sort of)
Femen vs Berlusconi
Die feministischen Nackedei-Anarchistinnen von Фемен (Femen) haben grade Berlusconi bei der Stimmabgabe bei der Wahl in Italien aufgemischt. Ich finde nicht immer alles toll, was die machen, aber das hier schon.
Pussy Riot: The Jail Interview
GQ hat über den Anwalt von Pussy Riot ein paar Fragen in den Knast geschmuggelt und die Antworten nun veröffentlich. „Katya’s answers got confiscated. Nadya’s and Masha’s follow.“
GQ: What is your average day like now? How do you get the news from the outside?
Masha: They have small, medium, and large cells here. We’re in three different small ones. Only the large cells have in-room showers; we get showers once a week. After 6 a.m., you’re not allowed to sleep under a blanket. Theoretically, until lights-out at 10 p.m., you’re not allowed to sleep at all, but in practice you can lie on top of the blanket and cover yourself with your coat. Nobody can explain why; the only answer you hear to any question is “That’s the rule” and “We keep to a regimen here.” Every day there’s an hour-long walk in a “yard,” which is a concrete box with two benches and a sliver of sky between a cement wall and a plastic roof. It’s all “Hug the wall” this and “Hands behind your back” that. They search our cells regularly and confiscate our drawings and notes. Why? “The rules.” Pretty much the only news we get is from federal TV channels. Only now do I realize the sheer amount of lies and censorship there. When you have the Internet, you don’t feel it as sharply. But once a week our lawyers bring us different news, words of support, and that helps a lot.
Pussy Riot: The Jailhouse Interview (via The Browser)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Pussy Riot, Professionals at work
Musicvideo: Pussy Riot – Putin Lights Up the Fires
The Bored Ones of the Pussy Riot Trial
Femen cut a Cross with a Chainsaw to support Pussy Riot
Pussy Riot Liveblogs (UPDATE): 2 Jahre Knast
Global Free Pussy Riot Day
Peaches Free Pussy Riot-Video
Pussy Riot Statements von Slavoj Žižek und ihrem Anwalt
Interview with Pussy Riot
How Faith No More and Pussy Riot may have fucked up my Server
Free Pussy Riot-Protest by Amnesty International
Pussy Riot, Professionals at work
Michael Idov hat beim Guardian einen großartigen Kommentar auf den Prozess gegen Pussy Riot geschrieben und warum er die Damen im Kontext ihrer Heimat Russland für großartige Künstler hält. Ich hatte ähnliche Gedanken im Zusammenhang mit Voina, an deren Performances ein paar der Mitglieder teilgenommen hatten, mal so formuliert: „der künstlerische Wert [Voinas] Aktionen ergeben sich für mich sicher nicht aus den ‘schönen Bildern’, sondern aus der Schnittmenge aus lokalem Aktivismus, gezielt eingesetzter Anarchie und ‘Terrorismus’, dem direkten Feedback und Bezug zum lokalen System, in dem sie leben, und eben Kunst. Mit einem Wort: Großartig!“
Pussy Riots Verurteilung zu zwei Jahren Straflager bildet hier einen Endpunkt unter ein Gesamtkunstwerk, das mit einer Punk-Performance in einer symbolträchtigen Kirche begann und letztlich die komplett reaktionäre und konservative Haltung eines großen Teils der russischen Gesellschaft entblöste. Systemrelevante, politische Kunst, die trotzdem unverschämt gut aussieht und diese umgesetzt mit mehr Eiern, als sie ein Putin jemals haben wird. Dass die Urteilverkündung zeitlich mit dem russischen Verbot von LGBT-Paraden für einhundert Jahre zusammenfällt, ist sicherlich Zufall, gibt diesem Gesamtkunstwerk aber noch einen fantastisch passenden, regenbogenfarbenen Klecks mit. Hack the System – und zwar ein System, das einen Hack echt nötig hat! – with Punk-Art und ihre Baclaclavas wären in einer besseren Welt die neuen Masken von Anonymous. Vor Pussy Riot kann man nicht erst seit gestern einfach nur den Hut ziehen.
The only professionals anywhere in sight are Pussy Riot themselves. From their name, perfectly pitched to both shock and attract the western media, to their instantly recognisable look; from their message (concise bursts of feminist agitprop with just enough of a tune to pass as a song), to their method of distributing this message via social networks; from their initial punk posturing in interviews, to their pointedly academic statements to the court, which no less than David Remnick called “a kind of instant classic in the anthology of dissidence”; these women, and they alone in this mess, know exactly what they are doing.
Minutes after the verdict, the band released a new single, Putin Lights Up the Fires, exclusively through the Guardian. It is notably more melodic than their previous work.
In fact, such PR precision may even open up a slightly icky discussion of whether, in the meta-artwork that is Pussy Riot’s story, imprisonment is an integral part. (The collective were once temporarily excommunicated from their parent art group, Voina, for allegedly planning the arrest of a group’s member as a way of amplifying the message).
But now is not the time for that discussion. Nuance can come later. When you trim away everything else, three young women will spend two years in jail for dancing in a church.
And the depths of vengeful backwardness that their case has teased out of the Russian soil have helped make a dubious art project into a great one: one capable of changing the society that tried to stifle it.
Pussy Riot prove the only professionals in sight – From their perfectly pitched band name to their academic court statements, these women know exactly what they’re doing (Bild via We are Pussy Riot)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Streetart: Die Pimmelbrücke von St. Petersburg
Artists steal a Chicken in a Vagina (NSFW)
Interview mit Voina, Throwers of Cats, Stealers of Chicken, Raisers of Pimmelbrücken
Interview with Voina (who stole Chicken in a Vagina, errected a Penis on a Bridge or fucked for Art)
Voinas Girls kiss Policewomen in the name of Art
Voinas giant Penis wins russian Art Prize
Voina burns Prisoner-Van for Art
Pussy Riot Statements von Slavoj Žižek und ihrem Anwalt
Interview with Pussy Riot
How Faith No More and Pussy Riot may have fucked up my Server
Free Pussy Riot-Protest by Amnesty International
Peaches Free Pussy Riot-Video
Global Free Pussy Riot Day
Pussy Riot Liveblogs (UPDATE): 2 Jahre Knast
Femen cut a Cross with a Chainsaw to support Pussy Riot
The Bored Ones of the Pussy Riot Trial
Musicvideo: Pussy Riot – Putin Lights Up the Fires
Femen cut a Cross with a Chainsaw to support Pussy Riot
Femen haben während der Urteilsverkündung gegen Pussy Riot (Updates hier, aber diese Aktion hier verdient ein eigenes Posting) ein Kreuz mit ‘ner Motorsäge gefällt. Take your „Religious Hatred“ and shove it up your butt.
Activists belonging to feminist group FEMEN have taken a chainsaw to a cross in Kiev, Ukraine, in support of Pussy Riot. The felled cross was in a park near Independence Square in the center of the city
[update] daMax schickt mir „die FEMENaktion inklusive Nippel“. Danke Max!
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Femen crash Davos World Economic Forum
Femen: Kievs Topless Protestors
Femen protest Chernobyl with Tits and Gasmasks (NSFW, sort of)
Pussy Riot Liveblogs (UPDATE): 2 Jahre Knast
[update] Pussy Riot sind zu zwei Jahren im Knast verurteilt worden wegen „1. Gotteslästerung, 2. Störung der öffentlichen Ordnung, 3. Extremismus (Feminismus), 4. Staatsfeindlichkeit (Putin), 5. Spionage.“, außerdem wurden bei ihnen Geistesstörungen wegen „overconfidence, stubborness, confrontational opinions“ festgestellt. Eine Bewährungsstrafe kam angeblich nicht in Frage, weil die Haftstrafe anderen als Warnung dienen soll. Eine Farce! Die Verteidigung kündigte bereits Revision durch alle Instanzen an.
Nach dem Klick das Originalposting mit allen Updates in chronologischer Reihenfolge.
Femen just made Football interesting, snatching the Euro Soccer Cup with Tits
Femen haben während einer Fotosession mit dem Europacup blankgezogen und versuchten, den Pokal zu entführen, um gegen Sex-Tourismus während der Fußball EM zu protestieren. Bilder gibt’s auf Google Plus, hier ihr Livejournal-Blog, Snip von Reuters: Topless Ukraine activist grabs Euro soccer cup:
A Ukrainian women’s rights activist stripped to the waist and seized the Euro-2012 soccer trophy while it was on public display in Kiev on Saturday in a protest against the forthcoming month-long championship. The young woman, 23-year-old Yulia Kovpachik, is a member of the Kiev-based Femen women’s rights group which believes the Euro-2012 soccer tournament being played in Ukraine next month will encourage sex tourism.
Ich hab’ ja immer meine Zweifel an der Wirksamkeit von Femens Aktionen, aber spOn hat einen langen und ziemlich ausführlichen Artikel inklusive Interview mit Oksana Shachko, die grade wegen “Hooliganism” angeklagt ist, und Anna Hutsol, der 27jährigen Anführerin der New School Feminismus-Protester und die Blankzieherei hat mehr Substanz, als es zunächst den Anschein hat:
The creators of the movement are Oksana, Anna Hutsol and Sasha Shevchenko. At first, they lived in Khmelnytskyi, a city with 300,000 inhabitants and two nuclear reactors.
There were hardly any jobs to be had, and the men drank. The girls, for their part, spent long evenings discussing philosophy, Marxism and the situation of women in post-Soviet society. They decided that instead of getting married, they would bring about change.
There were only three of them at first, but now the movement, whose ranks include students, journalists and economists, has spread throughout Ukraine and includes more than 300 women. Calling themselves “Femen,” they have started a movement that has also caught hold among women in Tunisia and the United States. It’s a movement that even encourages experienced women’s rights activists to undress.
The Body Politic – Getting Naked to Change the World
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Femen crash Davos World Economic Forum
Femen: Kievs Topless Protestors
Femen protest Chernobyl with Tits and Gasmasks (NSFW, sort of)
Femen crash Davos World Economic Forum
Die Nackedei-Protester von Femen haben heute morgen beim World Economic Forum in Davos, Schweiz, blank gezogen, um gegen weltweite Armut zu protestieren. Die Damen wurden selbstverständlich umgehend festgenommen. Von NPR:
Three topless Ukrainian protesters were detained Saturday while trying to break into an invitation-only gathering of international CEOs and political leaders to call attention to the needs of the world’s poor. After a complicated journey to reach the heavily guarded Swiss resort town of Davos, the Ukrainians arrived at the entrance to the complex where the World Economic Forum takes place every year.
With temperatures around freezing in the snow-filled town, they took off their tops and tried to climb a fence before being detained. “Crisis! Made in Davos,” read one message painted across a protester’s torso, while others held banners that said “Poor, because of you” and “Gangsters party in Davos.”
Davos police spokesman Thomas Hobi said the three women were taken to the police station and told that they weren’t allowed to demonstrate. He said they would be released later Saturday.
Альпийское нищенство. Святое дело, mehr Bilder auf Google+: FEMEN at Davos Forum (via Osocio)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Femen: Kievs Topless Protestors
Femen protest Chernobyl with Tits and Gasmasks (NSFW, sort of)
Femen: Kievs Topless Protestors
Sehr interessanter Artikel aus spOnline International über Femen, die nackten Bürgerrechtsaktivisten aus der Ukraine: „Facebook used to block their pages and Ukraine’s secret service has threatened them with violence: With a mix of political protest and eye-catching eroticism, the women’s rights group Femen has inspired fear in Ukrainian authorities with its fight against prostitution and sex tourism.“
Inna Shevchenko, 20, a student from Kiev, is a “Topless Fighter,” as activists with the women’s rights group Femen call themselves. For two years, the organization has been fighting against sex tourism and prostitution in Ukraine, a country that even Google automatically associates with “dating agencies” and “women.” The advertisements to the right of a Google search for “Ukraine” are for “Single Ukrainian Ladies,” “Women From Ukraine,” or “Partner Search Ukraine.” Although the group has only a few dozen activists like Inna and around 300 supporters, the topless protests have established a global reputation for Femen. […]
Old school feminists find the topless troops strange. “They dress like prostitutes,” criticizes gender researcher Maria Dmitrieva wrote of Femen in a Russian magazine. “The display of bare breasts, with or without cause, is certainly not conducive to social discourse.”
“Yes,” sighs Anna Hutsol im Café Cupidon. “We’re different from classic feminists. In order to gain a voice, they had to become like men. But we want a real women’s revolution. Our naked protests are part of the fight for women’s liberation. We have the right to use our bodies as weapons. It was men who made breasts into a secret.”
Kiev’s Topless Protestors – ‘The Entire Ukraine Is a Brothel’ (via MeFi)
Femen protest Chernobyl with Tits and Gasmasks (NSFW, sort of)
Die russische Künstlertruppe Femen, sowas wie eine… hmm… billigere, neo-feministische Variante der viel bissigeren Voina, dafür aber auch hübscher anzusehen (was dem Kunstbegriff allerdings eher im Wege steht, aber ich schweife ab), sind heute anlässlich des 25. Jahrestags der Chernobyl-Katastrophe ins Sperrgebiet eingedrungen und haben blankgezogen. NSFW, wenn man in einer Bank arbeitet, für normale Menschen geht das klar.
The women’s movement FEMEN “Murdered peaceful atom”, die Damen haben vor ein paar Tagen bereits schonmal protestiert, hier ein Video dieser Aktion (via Copyranter)
