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Pussy Riot Pay Tribute to Eric Garner With Their First Song in English

Pussy Riot’s crusade for human rights has always been loud and clear, but the language barrier — their songs are in Russian — may have hindered the message for some. That changes today with the release of “I Can’t Breathe,” the band’s first song recorded in English (a collaboration with Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner and Miike Snow’s Andrew Wyatt). And it’s an intense one: The video sees Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina, who were famously jailed in Russia for protesting, buried alive while wearing Russian riot-police uniforms.

It fades out with a reading of Eric Garner’s final words, spoken before a police officer choked him to death last summer, by punk legend Michael Hell. Pussy Riot say the song is dedicated to Garner and “for all those from Russia to America and around the globe who suffer from state terror.”

Pussy Riot Pay Tribute to Eric Garner