{"id":540,"date":"2013-12-23T16:42:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T16:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/?p=540"},"modified":"2013-12-23T16:42:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T16:42:37","slug":"punks-freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/2013\/12\/23\/punks-freed\/","title":{"rendered":"Punks Freed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/files\/2013\/12\/imagesCAWT38HY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-541\" alt=\"Pussy Riot\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/files\/2013\/12\/imagesCAWT38HY.jpg\" width=\"261\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a>In a bold move, the Putin administration granted an amnesty releasing 30+ political prisoners from Russian penitentiaries last week.\u00a0 Included in this band of rogues were members of the Greenpeace activist contingent arrested for disrupting Gazprom&#8217;s arctic drilling operations, the former richest man in Russia oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and the two remaining\u00a0 jailed members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot who denounced the church and Putin while taking the stage of a large Orthodox Church in Moscow by force.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/dec\/23\/pussy-riot-nadezhda-tolokonnikova-freed-russian-prison\">Pussy Riot<\/a> members had been moved to Siberian prisons as a punitive measure.\u00a0 Many media sources, as well as the prisoners themselves, believe that the amnesty was passed to contradict Russia&#8217;s glaringly bad human rights record.\u00a0 This measure precedes the 2014 Olympics which will be hosted this year in Sochi.\u00a0 Already large <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2013\/12\/11\/as_olympic_winter_games_near_russian\">mobilization campaigns<\/a> have begun to boycott the games because of the discrimination and brutality which LGBTQ communities face in even the most cosmopolitan centers of the country.<\/p>\n<p>In relation to this, punk rock still carries a torch for challenging power through art and subversive culture.\u00a0 A new collecting area has been initiated for the Alternative Press Collection at the Archives &amp; Special Collections for 1980s and 90s punk rock ephemera.\u00a0 Still being cataloged, the Joe Snow Punk Rock Collection features show flyers, demos, distro catalogs, photographs, zines and lots and lots of Maximum RocknRoll.\u00a0 The finding aid will be published in the coming month and is currently available for research.<\/p>\n<p>Contact the <a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.uconn.edu\/asc\/dodda2z\/subjectarea.cfm?Area=1\">curator<\/a> for more details on the APC Punk Rock Collection.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bold move, the Putin administration granted an amnesty releasing 30+ political prisoners from Russian penitentiaries last week.\u00a0 Included in this band of rogues were members of the Greenpeace activist contingent arrested for disrupting Gazprom&#8217;s arctic drilling operations, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/2013\/12\/23\/punks-freed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[24,21,50,34,49,35],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NL7Z-8I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}