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Monday, August 20, 2012

¡No Pasarán!


PUSSY RIOT *
* NADEZHDA TOLOKONNIKOVA, MARIA ALEKHINA
& YEKATERINA SAMUTSEVICH


We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.
--Subcomandante Marcos




All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
--Henry David Thoreau


Gary Kaye: No Pasarán



The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.
--Susan Sontag





This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
--Frederick Douglass


007 & THUMPER (THE OTHER PUSSY RIOT )



First they

ignore you,

then they

ridicule you,

then they

fight you,

and then

you win.

--Mahatma Gandhi