Translating the printemps érable

Where: Consulate of the Russian Federation (3655 Avenue du Musée, Montréal)
When: Wednesday August 1  NEW DATE: Thursday August 2 2012, 6:30PM - 8:30PM

Original French Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/394101260647067/

Let’s gather in solidarity with Maria Alekhina, Ekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, three members of the PUSSY RIOT punk collective, who were absurdly condemned by the Russian judicial system to three months of prison for having possibly expressed their political opinions during a “punk prayer” staged on February 21 2012 at the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow. 

The song requested that the Virgin Mary become a feminist and banish Vladimir Putin. It also criticized the support that certain representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church had given Putin. For this act, the members of PUSSY RIOT are facing charges of “hooliganism on the grounds of religious hatred”. 

The gathering will begin in front of the Consulate of the Russian Federation (3655 Avenue du Musée, Montréal). If our numbers are great enough, we will then leave in a demonstration to then make our way to Parc Émilie-Gamelin in time for the 100th Nighttime Demonstration. 

Bring your balaclavas! :D

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Translated from the original French by Translating the printemps érable.

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