“This song is for Eric and for all those from Russia to America and around the globe who suffer from state terror — killed, choked, perished because of war and state-sponsored violence of all kinds — for political prisoners and those on the streets fighting for change,” Ms. Alyokhina and Ms. Tolokonnikova said in a statement, adding that they stand in solidarity. “We’ve known, on our own skin, what police brutality feels like and we can’t be silent on this issue.”
The track was recorded in December, when Ms. Alyokhina and Ms. Tolokonnikova were in New York and joined protests in honor of Mr. Garner, the Staten Island man who died after being put in a chokehold by a police officer, and others who died at the hands of the police. The video was shot as one long take, and Ms. Alyokhina and Ms. Tolokonnikova were actually submerged in dirt, a discomfort which they took with their usual brio. “We’re sure that our burial will be a bit of wish-fulfillment for some people out there,” they said in the statement.
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