Happy Christmas: WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It)
source: http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/11/27/happy-christmas-war-is-over-if-you-want-it/
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“WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It)” is a documentary short film created by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. As 1969 came to a close, Lennon and Ono’s ideas about their protests against the Vietnam War grew beyond printing a few posters. As Ono notes in the documentary, Lennon was the one who dreamed big. “I said let’s have T-shirts,” Ono remembers, “and John said, ‘Let’s buy billboards.’” The posters were displayed as billboards in twelve major cities across the world. And the message appeared not only in mass-produced posters and postcards, but also in large newspaper ads, as well as on the radio and television. It was the first major multimedia campaign for peace.
In 1971, Lennon and Ono, with the Harlem Community Choir, recorded their message as a peace anthem, a song that has also become a Christmas standard: “Happy Xmas (War Is Over).” According to the John Lennon Museum, Lennon wrote the song as an attempt to get people to see war at a grassroots level and for them to take responsibility for the world around them.
So this is now the beginning of the Christmas season. And what have you done? The opening lines of the song, sung so nonchalantly by Lennon, serve as a call-to-action for us all. The holidays become critical moments in the year for personal assessment, to review our choices. And to make things better. If you want it.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution vintage photographs, a memorable slide show and the documentary short film. In addition, access is provided to the full version of the new feature-length documentary film, “LENNONYC.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/11/27/happy-christmas-war-is-over-if-you-w...
In 1971, Lennon and Ono, with the Harlem Community Choir, recorded their message as a peace anthem, a song that has also become a Christmas standard: “Happy Xmas (War Is Over).” According to the John Lennon Museum, Lennon wrote the song as an attempt to get people to see war at a grassroots level and for them to take responsibility for the world around them.
So this is now the beginning of the Christmas season. And what have you done? The opening lines of the song, sung so nonchalantly by Lennon, serve as a call-to-action for us all. The holidays become critical moments in the year for personal assessment, to review our choices. And to make things better. If you want it.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution vintage photographs, a memorable slide show and the documentary short film. In addition, access is provided to the full version of the new feature-length documentary film, “LENNONYC.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/11/27/happy-christmas-war-is-over-if-you-w...
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