Daiana Feuer on November 18th, 2015

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“We are planning to release a lot of disturbing videos next year, we hope that you will not like them,” says Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova. There are many disturbing realities that Pussy Riot opposes, citing neo–facist parties in Europe, Donald Trump in the U.S., the rise of Germany’s AfD as a few pillars they want knocked down. The video for “Refugees In” is the first in a series of statements against what they describe as the global right-wing conservative curtain. They dedicate “Refugees In” to the 750,000 refugees that have arrived in Europe this year. Pussy Riot filmed the video at Banksy’s anti-establishment “bemusement” park Dismaland on Sept. 25 with director Ralf Schmerberg. The song was written for that show, the closing night of the park, and the lyrics, well, they’re blunt: “Met in Europe by razor wires, governments here, fucking liars” and the chorus, “Refugees in, Nazis out, Governments here should feel the shame, Fucking liars, you are to blame” floated over crowds who could drive little boats of refugees in a nearby installation featuring dead and drowning people in the water. Despite the aggression in their lyrics, the Pussy Riot message urges people to care and act, but not violently. Tolokonnikova says, “The time of grief for the dead should not become a time in which we betray the belief of millions in the humanity of the European world. Our grief should not teach us to aim for revenge, war and hate. It should teach us to help and show real compassion for each other.”

||| Watch: “Refugees In”