Back when Ai Weiwei was being interrogated over preposterous charges of pornography, Ai’s supporters started tweeting their breasts and crotches at him in support. Now, a similar protest is brewing for Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, who was allegedly banned from Iran for posing topless for French magazine Madame Le Figaro. Read more »
After the Siberian authorities repeatedly rejected Barnual citizens’ requests to hold legal demonstrations over Russia’s fraudulent parliamentary election, locals did this “protest.” The teddy bears, toys and figurines picketed with “I’m for honest elections!” and “A thief should sit in jail, not in the Kremlin” signs, aw. The police did not like it. They’re seriously investigating. Read more »
Moscow’s self-proclaimed “Feminist punk group” Pussy Riot terrorized the Red Square by blasting their protest song “Putin Pissed Himself” (alternatively, “Putin Is Chickenshit”) in front of Saint Basil’s Cathedral, before being hauled away by the Russian version of the Secret Service. After scaling a protective fence, these festively ski-masked hellions set off flares, called to “abort the system!” and gallantly thrust out their fists and crotches. See the video. Sigh along. Read more »
With Russia’s continuing eruption of post fraudulent election protests, it seems like hanging rouge banners on various architectural monuments is the thing to do now. Not everyone can hack a mall billboard to say “You Got Fucked!” but today’s “Take Kremlin!” banners will do. Read more »
Ghost “Bloodytitties” is back again this year to wish Nikolai Azarov, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, a Happy Birthday. Thusly, the wild girls of the FEMEN protest crew would like to remind Mr. Azarov that there’s a criminal under-representation of women in the parliament. Watch her climb to the very top of the parliamentary gates and boo and screech there until the fire department comes to crash the party. Read more »
The fall out after Russia’s spectacularly fraudulent parliamentary elections continues. Here’s a perfectly appropriate example of rouge urban hacking: The corrupt United Russia party poster says “You’ve been fucked.” Read more »
Wonder what Ukraine’s bare-breasted protest crew FEMEN has been up to? Some crazy shit! Here are the latest videos: FEMEN girls fighting off a crowd of gawking, grabby party-members, rallying for Occupy Netherlands and getting tackled outside a church in Russia. NSFW. Read more »
Last week, while I was a little preoccupied, the NY-based FEMEN-USA division took a stand against the raid of the Occupy Wall Street camp and the NYPD’s mistreatment of protestors in an action dubbed “Hands off our sisters!” Here they are at Wall Street. Read more »
“What’s disgusting? Union busting!” As Sotheby’s auctions was having one of their most extravagantly successful auction and raked in $315 million last night, over one hundred showed up for a planned protest in solidarity with the Teamsters Local 814 union members. The art handlers have been locked out since August. Things got violent, apparently. Read more »
Yesterday, FEMEN’s Alexandra Shevchenko sneaked into the Vatican and toplessly protested against the Pope’s “medieval” condemnation of contraception and abortion, during Mass. She was quickly apprehended and dragged away for four hours of captivity and near deportation. Read more »
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