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Swedens REIN (known in real life as Joanna Reinikainen) worries a lot about societys largest problems, including the return of fascism in the Western world, the continual denigration of womens rights, and income inequality. We should all be worried about these issues and REIN brings them front and center in her righteous brand of electropunk. REINs latest single is Democracy and its a banger that hits the nail right on the head, calling out those billionaire business figures that control 85% of the worlds wealth. Accompanied by footage of protests from around the world, the video for Democracy is powerful and moving as REIN questions whether those of us in so-called First World democracies are actually experiencing anything like real democracy. REIN tells PopMatters, I talk about exclusion, feminism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism and I want to raise important questions like, are we really living in what they say is a democracy? These are big, contemporary subjects in a time when history is repeating itself.

Democracy will appear on REINs upcoming FREEDOOM EP. I just had enough after the US elections, the rise of the right-wing movement in Europe, the Syrian War, and Brexit. Why not be open to new solutions? Why not abolish the entire system instead of going backward? I think that it is important to at least start the debate, says REIN.

Sarah Zupko founded PopMatters, one of the largest independent cultural criticism magazines on the web, back in the Internet's early days of 1999. Zupko is a former Executive Producer for Tribune Media Services, the media syndication arm of the Tribune Company, and a 10-year veteran of Tribune. Her other pursuits involve writing historical fiction and research in the fields of Slavic and German history, as well as general European cultural and intellectual history. Zupko studied musicology, film, and drama at the University of Chicago and media theory at the University of Texas, where she received her M.A.

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