Vice Staffers Get Some Cool Tattoos to Promote Freedom in Russia
Members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in prison for "hooliganism" for staging an anti-Putin protest. The sentence was clearly an outrage, and drew worldwide protests. The most meaningful reaction of all: that of Vice magazine staffers in Brooklyn. They got some tattoos—Russian tattoos. READ IT AND WEEP, PUTIN.
At 5pm a bunch of
— Kelly McClure (@WolfieVibes) August 17, 2012@vice staffers are going to Triple Diamond Tattoo in Gowanus to get "Hooligan" tattoos in solidarity of#pussyriot.
Here's the story complete with cool photos, for your admiration. Now, several Vice staffers have tattoos that say "hooligan" in Russian. So.
The tattoos about Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tibet, Western Sahara, Belarus, Burma, Chad, China, Cuba, Laos, Libya, and South Ossetia are going to take up a lot of space, but nobody said freedom fighting would be easy.
