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When I read Kosta's great reflections I thought about how Russia stopped
issuing postage stamps picturing Nelson Mandela after the Yeltsin takeover.
(I don't know what took their place - perhaps a series of Sammy Davis Jr.
commemoratives?) and also, of course, Havel's claim of being "influenced,"
or whatever, by John Lennon.
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More important, what would John Lennon have thought of
this?
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> [Not that I have anything against John Lennon, but I
> have a problem with the
> DOS authorities of Novi Sad inviting Yoko Ono to
> comemorate a street in
> Lennon's name after she organized an "Albanian
> refugee benefit concert" in
> New York, when the CNN spotlights were firmly
> embedded on the region every
> single day and NATO's planes were obliterating
> Serbian cities, but probably
> doesn't even know or care about the plight of
> Serbian refugees over the past
> ten years. Note, Ono didn't stage a "Peace Concert"
> or an "End the War
> Concert", but an "Albanian refugee benefit concert"
> thus clearly taking NO
> POSITION on NATO's brutal aggression.
> Furthermore, I think that wiping the name of a
> Serbian leftist, who
> fought in the Spanish civil war, off of Novi Sad's
> city map, when hundreds of
> other streets could have been chosen instead to name
> after Lennon, further
> illustrates the callous disregard of the DOS
> authorities to Yugoslavia' s
> long 20th century tradition of resistance to fascism
> and acts of
> internationalist solidarity with other progressive
> forces around the world
> (this follows Kostunica's elimination of
> Anti-Fascist Resistance Day as
> well!!!).
> This is yet another small symptom of the DOS
> authorities attempts to
> reprogram Yugoslav and especially Serbian society
> into the codes of 21st
> century colonialism, rewire it into the "high-speed"
> lanes of today's new
> servility and repackage it as yet another commodity
> for the global market -
> an "investor friendly" place, full of "hip"
> pro-Western NGO-types who tell
> great jokes about the backwardness of their own
> people, who are apparently so
> ignorant that they "only know about Novi Sad, well,
> Belgrade at the most",
> while for their part the new, more cosmopolitan
> Serbs - who btw raise their
> daughters "in the spirit of rock and roll, to give
> [them] a wider perception
> of the world" - fawn over individuals that are so
> unlike stale, old, and
> useless, Spanish Civil war resistance fighters and
> have actually really "left
> a mark on the world's cultural heritage" in a "new
> trend of honouring
> worldwide cultural icons in [Yugoslavia]".
> Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against John
> Lennon (once again), its
> just that the context in which this particular
> commemoration is occuring in
> and the way it's being covered by the BBC are a very
> interesting example of
> the way neoliberal, and especially Blair/Gidden's
> cuastic brand of "Third
> Way" propaganda appropriates what are considered
> counter-cultural trends to
> its own very establishmentarian positions. Nothing
> new of course, but just
> something to definately pause and to mull over for a
> second...]
>
> Friday, 7 September, 2001, 17:22 GMT 18:22 UK
> Lennon Street planned for Serbian city
>
> Lennon: Seen as symbol of peace and freedom
>
> John Lennon is to have a street in Yugoslavia's
> second city, Novi Sad, named
> after him as part of a new trend of honouring
> worldwide cultural icons in the
> country.
> The former Beatle's name will replace that of a Serb
> who took part in the
> Spanish civil war in the 1930s.
>
> There is a growing fashion in Yugoslavia for naming
> roads after artists and
> sportsmen, rather than following the tradition of
> honouring prominent
> politicians.
>
> "We decided to name this street after a man who left
> an important mark in the
> world's cultural heritage," said Vladimir Vrgovic,
> the president of the
> commission that made the decision.
>
> Spirit
>
> "We have printed out the board with John Lennon's
> name and we have decided to
> invite his widow Yoko Ono and son Julian to attend
> the opening ceremony."
>
> Yoko Ono recently opened the renamed John Lennon
> Airport
>
> The idea to name the road after the musician, who
> was murdered in 1980, came
> from Vrgovic's daughter.
>
> She first came up with the idea in 1998, he said.
>
> "I raised my daughter Milena in the spirit of rock
> and roll, to give her a
> wider perception of the world, unlike many of her
> peers who only know about
> Novi Sad, well, Belgrade at the most."
>
> Peace
>
> The star has already had a street named after him in
> Russian town of
> Chelyabinsk, and Liverpool's airport was recently
> renamed John Lennon
> Airport.
>
> The star's image is also a symbol for peace and
> freedom at Prague's Lennon
> Wall, which was originally a makeshift billboard for
> dissidents during the
> communist era.
>
> Meanwhile, in London, fans have been given the
> opportunity to see 150 of
> Lennon's paintings and sketches, including 13 which
> have not been seen in
> public before.
>
> The art, which depicts Lennon's relationship with
> Ono and their son Sean
> their lives, is on display in west London's Harbour
> Yard gallery until
> Sunday, 9 September.
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