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Pussy Riot: The Cost of Standing Up
Posted: 08/17/2012 3:48 pm
"Several years after my "Dodgeball Reinstatement Petition" failed, when I was in seventh grade, I began seriously practicing Brazilian jujitsu. A year later, I felt my jujitsu skills were strong enough to make me a productive member of the school wrestling team. When I found out my school didn't have a wrestling team, I was outraged. But this time, when a PE teacher told me that the possibility of starting a wrestling program was unrealistic, I didn't even bother with a petition. I felt the costs of protesting PE outweighed the benefits. The genocide in Syria and the sentencing of Pussy Riot have shown me how ridiculous that assertion sounds. There were no costs! So, today, in light of the Pussy Riot sentencing, I ask that everyone reading this joins me and takes a step back from your day-to-day struggles to appreciate the freedoms we have as Americans."
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