TIME TO VOTE, COMRADE!

Especially with all the centralized social media falling on their faces lately, I remember why i was attracted to crypto and blockchain in the first place.  

I’ve been shadow-banned for burning toy police cars, i’ve been labeled a foreign agent, I’ve been jailed for my art, and never know if a web2 company wants to shut me down for dressing or undressing in a way they decide is moral. 

It has been great to be in crypto and talk to @vitalik.lens about decentralization or work with @stani.lens and @bradorbradley.lens at lens on the PROOF OF PROTEST drop to pool funds to provide safe and legal abortions to women who have had their rights stripped from them. 

Thank you for everyone who supported

If you took part in the proof of protest, you can vote now for the Decrypt Cryptie awards. 

Step 1- Sign up for ethermail here - ethermail.io/community/crypties-by-decrypt

If you have issues, try turning off ad blocker. It will have you sign a couple transactions (no gas needed) in metamask.

After you sign up you’ll get an email that says welcome to the 2022 Crypties Awards, and then another email that says Cast your vote

Step 2- Once you get the voting token, go to the voting page here - crypties.decrypt.co/

You have until Nov 25th to vote

Step 3- Switch to Polygon (no matic / gas token is needed) and login with metamask to vote

Step 4- You’ll now have a “I voted” crypties NFT on polygon in your wallet - opensea.io/collection/2022-crypties-commemorative-token

Movements can start with just one action, communities can be across borders, hope still exists in this world. 

xo Nadya, Pussy Riot

Pussy Riot - 10 Years Later - Open Edition - “Judgement Day”

Description: Photo of Pussy Riot laughing as a reaction to being sentenced to 2 years. Taken by Anna Artemyeva on Aug 17 of 2012.

Personal Statement:

“The court believes that the restoration of social justice is possible only if a REAL PUNISHMENT WITH REAL IMPRISONMENT is imposed and the defendants are corrected. The court sentences: Tolokonnikova is guilty, 2 years in a penal colony. Samutsevich - found guilty - 2 years. Alekhina - 2 years."

That was the last thing we've heard from the court before being sent to labor camps. But we celebrate this 10-years-anniversary, together with you, because we believe that we came out on the other side of this punishment stronger. Pussy Riot has hundreds of members globally, from Buenos Aires to Hong Kong, and no one can imprison all of us, because we are a movement.

No Pasaran!

Pussy Riot - 10 Years Later - Open Edition - “No Pasaran!”

Description: This 24 hour open-edition piece is the first part of the 10 Years Later collection, commemorating the 10 year anniversary since our sentencing in Moscow on August 17, 2012 for our protest action against Putin.

Anyone who collects this post will be able to redeem for the AR No Pasaran shirt. Collectors of this piece will be able to redeem for an AR DRESSX version of the shirt in the next few days.

Personal Statement:
The prison guards don't let you own any clothes that's not black in a penal colony.

One summer day they gathered all 1,000 prisoners and searched our bags thoroughly. They stole all sorts of stuff from us.

One woman had a pair of pink silk slippers that she'd been holding dearly. In her own words, they were "slippers for my death" - in case she died while doing her time, she wanted to be buried in them.

My "No Pasaran!" shirt was taken away. I bonded with this shirt during our long trips to a courtroom, sharing with it my tiniest, dark and dirty court cells. I wore it on my sentence day, sitting in my "No Pasaran!" in a tiny dark court cell awaiting to hear about my fate and thinking about Stalin's repressions of 1937, sorrows, and tragedies that our governments always bring to us… people who simply want to think, love, wonder and create.

I begged the guards to let me hold on to this shirt. It's not just a piece of clothing, but the only thing that was left for me from the outside, free, activist and alive world that I used to live in.

They took it and burned it.

Now I can reclaim this shirt in the metaverse - and anyone who wants can collect it, and have it in their digital closet with DRESSX.

"No Pasaran!" means “They will not pass!” , used in opposition to fascists. It was used during the Spanish Civil War, at the siege of Madrid by Dolores Ibárruri Gómez, a member of the Communist Party of Spain, in her famous "No pasarán" speech on 18 July 1936.

Your keys, your shirt. No fascist prison guards can steal it from you.
Nadya Tolokonnikova, Pussy Riot