Monday, October 16, 2017
Today on The Michelangelo Signorile Show on SiriusXM PROGRESS ch.127
Since we last spoke
with John Nichols of The Nation a lot has happened, what with
President Trump signing an Executive Order to sabotage the ACA and refusing to recertify the Iran nuclear deal. John returns to the show today to talk all
about these issues and whole lot more, John is The Nation’s national-affairs correspondent, a contributing writer
for The Progressive and In These Times and the associate editor
of The Capital Times, the daily
newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin.
Back in 2012, members
of the radical Russian art collective Pussy
Riot smuggled an electric guitar into Moscow’s iconic central cathedral and
performed their provocative song “Punk Prayer,” to protest the Orthodox church
and its support for Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime. After the video of the protest performance
went viral, the members of Pussy Riot
became the targets of the government, with some of them being arrested and
imprisoned. The arrest, trial, and
jailing of Pussy Riot made headlines
around the world and highlighted the Putin administrations crackdown on any
opposition, and now one of Pussy Riot’s
founding members Maria “Masha” Alyokhina
who was sentenced to two years in prison for her role in the protest has
written a memoir called Riot Days
all about her experience in the group and years in Russia’s criminal system,
and she joins me today on the show to talk all about the book.
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