Names in the news

[Ivo Skoric]

I just want to mention two pieces of news maybe of interest to this 
group.

The U.S. peace protesters in London (proud of our country, ashamed by 
our president) were lead by an ex-Vietnam war veteran turned peace 
activist Ron Kovic.

Former bass player of Nirvana, Krist Novoselic is running for the Lt. 
Governor of Washington state. Krist's both parents are from Croatia 
(island Veli Iz, I believe, but it may be Mali Iz...), and he went a 
couple of years to the high school in Zadar. After Kurt Cobain's 
death, Krist started two bands - Sweet 75 and Eyes Adrift - that both 
kind of failed, so this summer he announced that he was giving up on 
his rock-star career.

Krist is passionately political. During Nirvana years he steered the 
band into doing two benefit concerts for women in Bosnia (in San 
Francisco and Los Angeles in 1993). Later he became a founder of 
JAMPAC (a union-like organization that represents rock musicians) 
that succesfully fought the "harmful to minors" label in Washington 
State. Krist is adamant supporter of proportional representative 
democracy, that would ease the grip of only two political parties on 
the US democracy. Also, as a proponent of medical marijuana, he is a 
regular at Seattle Hempfests. I probably don't need to mention that 
he opposes Bushites.

Related web sites:
novoselic.com
eyesadrift.com
fixour.us
murkyslough.com

ivo

ps - check this out: 
http://www.digitalnirvana.net/happening/interviews/02.27.94.html
(guess who was the guy that translated articles for Arkzin - there 
were just 2 or 3, because Arkzin kind of went under...)