Category: “Paper Bullets” exhibition

Hamburg, the German port city home to the St. Pauli football club (Fußball St. Pauli or FC St. Pauli), hosts a sports team well known for its outspoken anti-racist, anti-fascist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic politics and its staunchly progressive social activism. Founded in 1910, the club is located in the working-class district along the docks near the Reeperbahn red-light district, and for the past forty years has maintained a certain cult following across Europe, initially attracting radicals, squatters, dockers, and prostitutes in the 1980s, and later, anarchists, punks, bikers, anti-fascists, and other politicized groups. Known as the “pirates of the league,” the…

[Left] As a result of May 6, 2012, “March of Millions” protest, 27 people face political charges (unofficially known as “Bolotny Case”) that could send them to prison for up to 10 years. Some are battle-hardened opposition activists, but just as many are ordinary Russians who had joined anti-Putin protests for the first time in 2012. “Fund-raiser for RosUznik 410011434636201 Yandex 9175905631 QIWI”. Sticker features a graphic image of a prisoner grasping jail bars with barbed wire overhead. [Center] The first March of Millions took place on May 6, 2012, in Moscow on the eve of Vladimir Putin’s presidential inauguration.…