Pussy Riot have banded together with Argentinian artists Parcas, Dillom, and Muerejoven for a new protest song, ‘1312’.
The track is a searing indictment of femicide in Latin America and police violence. ‘1312’ is a the numerical representation of of ACAB. The nu-metal tinged track culminates with singer Nadya Tolokonnikova screeching “ACAB try to catch me wow!”.
The track was penned in response to a protest that took place in Chile last year. The anti-government display incited a violent police response, leaving thousands of protesters injured, at least 30 dead, and 445 blinded.
Though this feels so harrowingly relevant to the current social uproar surrounding the tragic murder of unarmed black man George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.
“Their goals should be to help people to deal with social and economical problems, not to punish them and kill for no reason, as they just killed George Floyd in the US,” the band state. “The government and the police are our servants. Too often they forget about it and think that it’s us who’re here to serve them”.
The track arrives with a manifesto penned by Pussy Riot and Chilean feminist collective Lastesis.
“Either we organize ourselves or we perish. We are facing an unprecedented escalation of state brutality and repression.
And with it, the historic opportunity to set it all on fire,” the Manifesto reads. “This call cannot be postponed because at this moment, while we are confined.
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“Governments are intensifying the persecution of social struggles, armies are taking over our streets, tearing apart our rights, our freedoms.”
“Police act dangerously,” said Tolokonnikova, the Pussy Riot co-founder who was imprisoned for 18 months in 2012 for staging a protest in the Russian Orthodox cathedral. “Instead of protecting people and investigating real crimes like rape or domestic violence, police persecute activists and protect those with power.”
Check out ‘1312’ by Pussy Riot featuring Parcas, Dillom, Muerojoven:
