No Time And Yet A Life

FREE PUSSY RIOT! This is a benefit for their legal defense fund.

Three alleged members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot, Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Ekaterina Samucevich, charged with “hooliganism,” have been remanded in jail. The three women are facing up to 7 years criminal punishment for allegedly participating in the punk-prayer “Virgin Mary, Send Putin Away” that publicly demonstrated for human rights and against the current oppressive regime under Putin. The case illustrates the gross level of violations against human rights in Russia and requires immediate attention. The detained activists now need the support of the world’s community. 
-from www.freepussyriot.org

live sets from:
::HELIOTROPES - https://www.facebook.com/Heliotropes?ref=ts
:::SHADY HAWKINS - http://shadyhawkins.bandcamp.com/
::::TINVULVA - https://www.facebook.com/TinVulva

special DJ set from:
::AD-ROCK (OF THE BEASTIE BOYS)


Tuesday, June 12th
8pm
all-ages
$7 donation at the door, but give more if you can

Permanent Wave is a network of feminist artists and activists. We want to challenge gender inequality as it manifests itself in art, politics, and our personal lives, and we want you to join us. We believe that women should see each other as collaborators and inspirations, not rivals. We want to continue the feminist movement that began generations ago by creating a revolutionary arts movement that’s relevant to women, queer, and trans people today. 

www.thepermanentwave.org

We book benefits and other shows, host movie screenings, organize protests, make zines, and more! We’re always open to new ideas.

Have an idea? Join us and find people with similar interests to help make it happen!

To join our listserv, send us an e-mail at thepermanentwave@gmail.com and request to be added.

A good argument for why we need radical feminism in 2012:

“The past decades have seen the rise of a nominally apolitical marketing campaign masquerading as feminism, with Komen merely the most visible symbol. Komen aligns perfectly with what Linda Hirshman labeled ‘choice feminism’—a moral-relativist approach to feminism that tries to scrub the movement of politics and value judgments in favor of uncritical affirmation of all women’s choices.

In her statement of apology, Komen CEO Nancy Brinker said, ‘We do not want our mission marred or affected by politics—anyone’s politics.’ That’s exactly the fallacy—that somehow women’s health can be narrowed to an apolitical and innocuous agenda. Women’s bodies are the most politicized sites on earth. When women focus on a hyperfeminine aesthetic at the expense of issues of substance, we end up with a hot pink ghetto of goodwill that forfeits the conversation about rights, access and money to the menfolk.

For the past decade, this has been the feminist’s lament: How do we identify the line where feminism becomes a marketing strategy for the very patriarchy it nominally opposes—selling a non-threatening agenda that doesn’t buck the status quo?”

“For a long time the issue of ‘women in rock’ seemed trivial to me, and frankly, I didn’t think about it much. But reading Ellen Willis has given me pause. There’s a lot more at stake than whether or not a girl decides to learn guitar. Most of the women in my consciousness-raising group have said that as adolescents they felt like they didn’t relate to girls. Smart, dynamic teenage girls shouldn’t feel that their demeanor, their qualities, and their goals make them ‘one of the boys.’ And while there’s nothing so wrong with having men for heroes, it worries me that freedom—especially that anti-authoritarian, ‘fuck you,’ rock and roll freedom—is still seen as male.”