Yesterday celebrated that day in 1969, when Yoko Ono and John Lennon invited the world into their honeymoon bliss. The event coupled with a song-writing session with Timothy Leary, started the iconic bed-in series, and brought the concept of a Peace In forward.
Yesterday was the International Day of Peace, and an Art Production Fund brought Yoko Ono’s anti-fracking initiative to Times Square. The words “Imagine Peace” flashed hourly across the three largest screens in Times Square, thanks to an initiative by the Times Square Alliance public art program. American Eagle, MTV and Viacom joined in and displayed the message in 24 languages.
http://artistsagainstfracking.com/
John Lennon’s widow also awarded a peace prize to Russian band Pussy Riot at a ceremony attended by the husband and daughter of one of the jailed punk rockers. “Pussy Riot stand firmly in their belief of freedom of expression,” Yoko said in a New York hotel.
The biennial LennonOno Grant for Peace went to Pyotr Verzilov, husband of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, one of the arrested band members. Last month, a Moscow court sentenced Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alyokhina to two years in a labour camp after an impromptu performance in an Orthodox cathedral.
Amnesty International calls them prisoners of conscience.
Other recipients of the LennonOno peace awards include Rachel Corrie, the American activist crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in Rafah in 2003, and the late writer Christopher Hitchens.
Posted by Suzanna Bowling
on September 22, 2012. Filed under ENTERTAIMENT,FAMILY,Family,Headliners,Music,NEWS,Spiritual Healing,Times Square Community.
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