Pussy Riot Is Selling NFTs of the Ukrainian Flag To Fund DAO ????????????????????????
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Pussy Riot the queer punk bad and human rights activist collective are still at it.
Above :Members of the all-girl punk band Pussy Riot: Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (right), Maria Alyokhina (center) and Yekaterina Samutsevich (left) in a glass-walled cage during a court hearing in Moscow 2012. Andrey Smirnov /AFP/Getty Images
Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was labeled as a “foreign agent” by the Russian government part of efforts to stifle dissent. Tolokonnikova is one of the Pussy Riot members who became widely known for taking part in a 2012 protest inside Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral after which she spent nearly two years in prison.
The group has also staged unauthorized and provocative guerrilla gigs in public spaces in the country. And recently, they have taken to social media to speak out against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine this week.
Here is what the band has stated in just the last day, or so, from sadness to decrying Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin: “sanctions against Kremlin were not solid enough when Putin annexed Crimea in 2014. so he jailed Navalny, turned lives of Pussy Riot and other Russian activists into hell, forced many of us to leave our home behind and run, and now he started a war in Europe. when is enough?”
sanctions against Kremlin were not solid enough when Putin annexed Crimea in 2014.
so he jailed Navalny, turned lives of Pussy Riot and other Russian activists into hell, forced many of us to leave our home behind and run, and now he started a war in Europe.
when is enough?
— ???????????????????? ???????????????????? (@pussyrrriot) February 24, 2022
“Events in ukraine in english: https://meduza.io/en/live/2022/02/24/invasion”
⚡️ events in ukraine in english:https://t.co/1Ym5h2o5Iehttps://t.co/Iu9vhypnOH
— ???????????????????? ???????????????????? (@pussyrrriot) February 24, 2022
Now they are selling NFTs of the Ukrainian flag to raise money for the resistance.
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welcome to @Ukraine_DAO.
our goal is to raise funds to donate to Ukranian civilian organizations who help those suffering from the war that Putin started in Ukraine.
we’ll be buying an NFT of Ukrainian flag.
much support and love to Ukraine ????????????@TrippyLabs @PleasrDAO pic.twitter.com/cxVS7OiP2K
— ???????????????????? ???????????????????? (@pussyrrriot) February 24, 2022
Riot helped form a DAO on Thursday to assist Ukrainians as they cope with the Russian invasion of their country.
The newly formed UkraineDAO immediately attracted thousands of followers to its Twitter and Discord accounts. In addition to Pussy Riot, the group includes core members representing PleasrDAO, the DeFi collective from which FreeRossDAO spun out, and Trippy Labs, an NFT studio.
The group is currently organizing an NFT drop issuing tokens with all proceeds raised donated to organizations supporting Ukraine. The minting price will be set at 0.08241991 as a tribute to Ukraine’s Declaration of Independence on Aug. 24, 1991. NFT minting is expected to go live on Feb 26.
“Our goal is to raise funds to donate to Ukrainian civilian organizations who help those suffering from the war that Putin started in Ukraine,” Pussy Riot tweeted. “We’ll be buying an NFT of the Ukrainian flag.”
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 has triggered an outpouring of support for the nation’s embattled citizens from across the global crypto community.
UkraineDAO is still discussing which nonprofits will be the beneficiaries of the organization’s fundraising activities.
“Right now, we’re still evaluating that,” he said, emphasizing the importance of having DAO members that are on the ground in Ukraine. “I can’t opine there, I don’t know anything about which are the real groups in the Ukraine and which ones are fake.”
Trippy and Tolokonnikova said that Come Back Alive, an aid and open reporting organization, and Proliska, a humanitarian mission, will likely receive donations from the DAO.
“As the conflict in Ukraine escalates, we must remember the innocent lives being impacted across the region,” they added. “We will be maintaining an ongoing thread of nonprofits active in Ukraine that you can donate crypto to.”
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