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Context where we're supposed to be nice and pretty and try to sell the project. now we don't sell project. we speak out loud and sell an idea. >> i am half naked but not an object. i'm not here for your pleasure. i'm here to deliver my own message. >> in august, 2012, a solo act of defiance in the ukrainian capital of kiev gets ina in very hot water. a protest dense the trial of the band pussy riot, arrested earlier that year. >> they did an action in the church. they were dancing and singing songs against the ideas of the dictator. >> destroying the cross which has stood on its site since 200...

The ashes from her grandson from the midwest. you know, who read in the paper, you know, that this action was going to happen, and, you know, got on a bus to bring her grandson's ashes there. >> we just made a human wedge. we kind of locked or arms together so it would be hard to pull us apart. we just kind of, like, moved in through the police so we created this funnel on both sides to allow people who had ashes to get through. >> i never saw cremated ashes before, but i was looking at the lawn. it was kind of a grayish-green, and bone fragments. you're looking at bone fragments of people. pe...

>> femin uses the nudity in another context, not a seductive context where we're supposed to be nice and pretty and try to sell the project. now we don't sell project. we speak out loud and sell an idea. >> i am half-naked but not an object. i'm not here for your pleasure. i'm here to deliver my own message. >> in august, 2012, a solo act of defiance in the ukrainian capital of kiev gets ina in very hot water. a protest against the trial of the russian punk rock group pussy rrested earlier that year because of an action in a church. >> they did an action in the church. they were dancing and si...

Bush administration. >> i think the ashes action was kind of drawing a line in the sand and saying, we aren't going to take it anymore. you know, we are bringing our dead to your door, and you had better start doing something to stop the dying, or, you know, you literally are going to be walking over our bodies. >> shame, shame, shame, shame. >> it was the most emotionally charged thing i've ever participated in. we never had a problem with showing our anger, but below that really thin layer of anger was this enormous ocean of grief. this is what's left of our lives. this is what's left of our...

Femin activists celebrate by scandalizing visitors at historic cathedral of notre dame in paris. >> for me, it was one of our most successful action. you need to shock people and video, they are viral. the video, and the pictures, they are everywhere now. >> for us it's more important to have five cameras around than 50 people, because we know that behind each of the camera, there are a thousand million minds. >> despite the beatings and arrests, the group continues to grow all around the world. >> we don't need to recruit. at the beginning, yes. now people, they want to be femin. >> we have p...