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It's ptretty outrageous when one considers the
American establishment almost certainly gunned the guy
down to prevent him taking up political work.
--- Jim Yarker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Roper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 2:14 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Novi Sad's Lennon Street...
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> More important, what would John Lennon have thought
> of
> this?
>
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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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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