NEW YORK, August 26, 2010 Legendary artist, musician and peace advocate, YOKO ONO, announced today she will be holding several events in Iceland on October 9th to promote peace throughout the world and to celebrate what would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday. The Lennon Ono Grant for Peace 2010 The LennonOno Grant for Peace [...]
CHALK4PEACE is a Global chalk art project about PEACE.
How to organise a CHALK4PEACE Event: What young artists need from you: Chalk, Places to draw, Water, Nourishment, Buckets, Paper Towels, Ladders, Safety, Organizers, Photographers, Volunteers.
Chalk this event onto yout 2010 calendar today – September 2010!
For more info: www.chalk4peace.blogspot.com
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Dear Family of Peace
Too many innocent people & children are victims of tragic shootings.
Let’s stop criminals getting guns.
Yoko Ono Lennon
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Sign The Petition. Close The Loophole.
Background Checks for all sales at Gun Shows
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Strawberry Fields is a living memorial to the world-famous singer, songwriter and peace activist, John Lennon.
Conceived by Yoko Ono, who worked with landscape architect Bruce Kelly and the Central Park Conservancy to create this 2.5-acre meditative oasis, Strawberry Fields was officially dedicated on October 9, 1985 – the 45th anniversary of John’s birth.
FOURTH ANNUAL SIMULTANEOUS PHOTO SHOOT SCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 10th WORLDWIDE Worldwide Moment (www.worldwidemoment.org) has scheduled its fourth annual simultaneous photo shoot for October 10, 2010. Worldwide Moment is an organization that works to generate cultural awareness, peace, and international community through art. Worldwide Moment, with help from Yoko Ono’s ImaginePeace.com, is engaging people from every [...]
We are delighted to report that the National Peace Academy has now offered its initial programs, the International Institute on Peace Education in Colombia and the Peacebuilding Peacelearning Intensive in Ohio, USA, and both were very well received. Look for further reports on both programs in our September newsletter along with information about future programs, [...]
www.tibetinsong.com About Tibet In Song In 1995, a young Tibetan musicologist named Ngawang Choephel travelled to Tibet to make a documentary about traditional Tibetan folk music and dance. After filming for two months, the Chinese government arrested Ngawang, held him incommunicado and sentenced him to 18 years in prison, saying that the Fulbright scholar had [...]
Blooming lovely – ex-Beatle’s “Octopus’s Garden” in Liverpool by Natalie Evans, Click Liverpool Work on restoring the garden at John Lennon’s Liverpool childhood home its 1950s state is starting to show results. University history experts have teamed-up with the National Trust to replant the garden at the house named “Mendips” in Allerton. Students Christina Asher, [...]
Weekly Events at the Spread Peace Café by Tysha Tinney, Spread Peace Café Thank you for your support. The Spread Peace Café is was created because of the work the Tams and the Tinney’s did – together – at Spread Peace Reno. For every meal served one is delivered to the homeless. We have done [...]
Hiroshima marks 65th anniversary of American atomic bombing Friday August 6th marked the 65th anniversary of the US dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. US Ambassador to Japan John Roos became the first official representing the United States to attend the annual ceremony in Hiroshima. UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon also attended. The [...]
Human trafficking is the third largest criminal industry in the world and it is thought that 1.2 million children and young people are trafficked every year for sexual exploitation and cheap labour. Inspired by The Body Shop’s founder Anita Roddick and her commitment and passion for justice, The Body Shop is proud to continue her [...]
by Brendan Carroll, The Jersey Journal Midori Yoshimoto is a professor of art history, gallery director, and curator. As a former employee of Jersey City Museum, I had the good fortune of working alongside Midori on several occasions. Midori routinely brought her students to the museum to visit its permanent collection, temporary exhibitions, artist talks, film [...]
The John Lennon Box Of Vision This is the exact same JOHN LENNON Box of Vision that will be stored inside the JOHN LENNON TIME CAPSULE. In celebration of the 70th anniversary of John Lennon’s birth, it will only be manufactured and available for a limited time. (Each copy will be uniquely numbered.) The unique “artist’s [...]
Ringo Starr joined the Seminole Tribe of Florida & Hard Rock International’s Haiti Relief Efforts at Hard Rock Cafe at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Hollywood on 15 July 2010. Ringo accepted a check from the Seminole Tribe & Hard Rock for $197,500 on behalf of the WhyHunger Foundation and Yele Haiti to [...]
by Aaron Voldman, The Peace Alliance A few weeks ago I asked everyone to vote for Kevin Sanchez, a young peacemaker, to keynote the Campus Progress National Conference about the Youth PROMISE Act. With all your help, we catapulted Kevin to the top three of a contest with 213,000 votes cast, and secured him as [...]
Vote for John Lennon HERE. The magnificent Great Britons Set is one of the most exciting collections that the Royal Mint has ever produced. With so many Great Britons who have excelled in the political, scientific and literary fields, the Royal Mint carefully chose a selection of some of the greatest men and women in British [...]
Dear Friends It is my greatest pleasure to present this book MIRACLE APPLES to you for your consideration. Let me explain how I came across this book, and what the book is about. I was sitting in the lounge of JAL in Tokyo waiting to go back to New York. I picked up this book from [...]
Every Wednesday, a Peace March is arranged in downtown Fredrikstad, Norway, Europe. It starts at 18.00 in front of City Hall and lasts for one hour. Some times there are many participants, at other times there are just four or five. You can walk with us for five minutes or the whole hour. The main [...]
An animated interview of John Perkins, author of ‘HoodWinked’ and ‘Confessions Of An Economic Hitman’ Copyright of the audio belongs to John Perkins. www.johnperkins.org Animation by Studio Joho: www.studiojoho.com, email info@studiojoho.com CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN by John Perkins This book gives you a true picture of American world politics that we have not [...]
Happy Father’s Day! I know that our kids will be blessing you on this day. Usually, we women, wearing many hats, tend to leave it to our kids to bless you. But I’d like to make a point for this Father’s Day that we, women, appreciate and bless you, too. For centuries, we have been [...]
