It’s Banned Book Week!
It’s Banned Book Week!
For our final selection, we’re spotlighting Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina
Detailing the author’s experiences in Putin’s Russia as a political activist and member of the punk collective Pussy Riot. After staging a series of dramatic anti-Putin protests, Alyokhina found herself on trial, and imprisoned in Serbia. Her first book, a memoir of her experiences, continues her fight for justice. It is an urgent and essential exploration of the abuses of democracy and basic human rights, written by someone at the very heart of those abuses, functioning as further proof of the need for a free and fair press, as well as the right to protest.
A suitably raucous call to action, Alyokhina’s Riot Days brings a suitably raucous end to our Banned Books spotlight!
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Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina
Paperback £8.99
From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in Siberian jail for standing up for what she believed in.
People who believe in freedom and democracy think it will exist forever.
That is a mistake. What happened in Russia - what happened to me - could happen anywhere.
When I was jailed for political protest, I learned that prison doesn't just teach you to follow the rules. It teaches you to think that you can never break them.
It's inevitable that the prison gates will open at some point. But this doesn't mean that you leave the 'prisoner' category and go straight into the category of 'the free'.
Freedom does not exist unless you fight for it every day.
This is the story about how I made a choice.
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