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Post by Nancy on Dec 21, 2012 10:08:02 GMT -8
“We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up.” ¯ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Associated press, December 21, 2012:
"Times Square is going to be celebrating peace.
An event late Friday night (tonight) is expected to draw a crowd to sing John Lennon's "Imagine" as Yoko Ono's anti-violence film "Imagine Peace" plays on Times Square's giant billboards.
It's scheduled to take place shortly before midnight. The event is a collaboration between Ono and groups including Times Square Arts, Art Production Fund, and Make Music New York."
I've heard that this is the last day of the old world and the beginning of a new world based on peace. Let it begin with me.
Happy Solstice Fellow Peaceniks!
I Love You, Nancy
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Post by Roberta on Dec 21, 2012 10:45:10 GMT -8
Thank you for this Nancy!
All Bed-Inners for Peace are welcome to join me on Friday, December 28 at 3pm in New York Park, to be photographed with 2 Arbor Day trees I donated to Glendale Parks Dept. this year. New York Park in on New York Avenue, just north of Foothill (the former LaCrescenta TJ's corner).
One tree is in honor of peace in the Middle East (an olive tree), the other for a nuclear weapons-free world (a redbud tree). I will bring the letter I got from the parks services manager to the corner tonight.
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Post by Roberta on Dec 26, 2012 18:31:02 GMT -8
Playing fast and loose with the threads again, here's the MPV in Sunday's "In Theory": www.glendalenewspress.com/opinion/pas-1221-in-theory-finding-peace-after-a-difficult-year,0,6338830.story I've enlisted John and, who knows, maybe even Harry, anyone else what to join us picturing peace? Thank you for this Nancy! All Bed-Inners for Peace are welcome to join me on Friday, December 28 at 3pm in New York Park, to be photographed with 2 Arbor Day trees I donated to Glendale Parks Dept. this year. New York Park in on New York Avenue, just north of Foothill (the former LaCrescenta TJ's corner). One tree is in honor of peace in the Middle East (an olive tree), the other for a nuclear weapons-free world (a redbud tree). I will bring the letter I got from the parks services manager to the corner tonight.
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Post by Nancy on Mar 22, 2013 9:12:20 GMT -8
Yoko Ono Tweets Photo of John Lennon's Bloody Glasses in Plea for Gun Control By Jon Blistein | Rolling Stone – 21 hours ago
In a show of support for gun control, Yoko Ono yesterday tweeted a photograph of the bloodied glasses her late husband John Lennon wore the day he was murdered. Accompanying the photo was the message: "Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980."
An activist for many causes – most recently drumming up support to stop fracking in New York – Ono turned her attention to gun violence with a series of tweets that all included the image, which she also used on the cover of her 1981 album Season of Glass.
Another tweet read, "31,537 people are killed by guns in the USA every year. We are turning this beautiful country into a war zone." And, more personally, "The death of a loved one is a hollowing experience. After 33 years our son Sean and I still miss him." Yesterday also marked the 44th anniversary of Ono and Lennon's wedding. In honor of the anniversary, Ono also tweeted, "We decided that if we were going to do anything like get married that we would dedicate it to peace," along with a link to her site ImaginePeace.com. There she had posted a few photos from their wedding along with a 1971 interview the two gave to Rolling Stone, in which the couple talk about protesting for peace.
"We think that peace is only got by peaceful methods and that to fight the establishment with their own weapons is no good, because they always win and they’d been winning for thousands of years," Lennon says in the clip. "They know how to play the game 'violence' and it's easier for them when they can recognize you and shoot you. They don't know how to handle humor, and peaceful humor. And that's our message really."
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