Riot Days

<b>From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in a penal colony in the Urals for standing up for what she believed in.</b><br /><b></b><br /><b>'One of the most brilliant and inspiring things I've read in years. Couldn't put it down. This book is freedom' Chris Kraus, author of<i>I Love Dick</i></b><br /><b></b><br />People who believe in freedom and democracy think it will exist forever.<br /><br />That is a mistake. What happened in Russia - what happened to me - could happen anywhere.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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'.<br /><br />Freedom does not exist unless you fight for it every day.<br /><br />This is the story about how I made a choice.<br /><br />We are all Pussy Riot.<br />And actions break fear.<br /><i></i><br /><i>'To Back Down an Inch is to Give Up a Mile'.</i>