Action in St Petersburg in memory of Victor Jara

May 10, 2008

At night on the 9th of May the advertising posters, walls, crossing at the Concert hall «Oktyabrsky» featured the stencils with portrait of the Chilean singer Victor Jara. At the Victory Day on the stage of this hall Alexander Rozenbaum gave his concerts, and stencils were placed by members of DSPA (Resistant movement named after Petr Alekseev, Petersburg unit of the international revolutionary socialist movement).

By this action they made to understand that as all permanent visitors of our site, they remember the sacrificial fate of Victor Jara and about how caressed singer if the neo-liberal democracy dared to speak of.

In the middle of 90s in one of the interviews Rozenbaum said: «Pinochet destroyed only three thousand of those who stood up against his regime with weapon in hands. Among them was a commonplace bar musician Victor Jara, who was made God knows what. And he just went with all to agitate».

http://www.rozenbaum.ru/public/index.php?type=2&id=2&id2=17

The DSPA site writes: «Chileans are of different opinion about Victor Jara. Two years ago the central TV channel of this country held an open nationwide contest to name the most favourite singer of Chile. For two hours the whole country participated by telephone calls, SMS messages and e-mails. In the result out of 10 contestants Victor Jara was the first one. And this is despite the fact that songs of Jara were not played not only in the years if the general Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, but afterwards — in the course of transition to democracy. They did not recollect Jara, as explained by the Chilean TV employees, not to re-open old wounds. However the Chileans did not forget the man, who was tortured to death by the military coup participants».

See:
http://www.dspa.info/content/view/532/108/

The words «commonplace bar musician» - are an eternal brand, but not for Victor Jara.