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This lady is so cute and so cool - PEACE ON EARTH kids, spread it like peanut butter. Her birthday message is profound - the accompanying map is AMAZING - more and more people have got enlightened RIGHT ON !!! i bet there's more of us than there are of them. i love you
http://imaginepeace.com/This lady is so cute and so cool - PEACE ON EARTH kids, spread it like peanut butter.... more
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In 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, with the Harlem Community Choir, recorded their message against war 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 assessments, to review our choices. And to make things better. If you want it.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution photographs, as well as the classic Christmas music video.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/john-lennon-happy-xmas-war-is-over/In 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, with the Harlem Community Choir, recorded their... more
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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-want-it/“WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It)” is a documentary short film created by... more
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WASHINGTON – A "substantial" number of the roughly 100,000 U.S. combat troops to be pulled out of Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010, will remain in the war zone through at least the end of this year to ensure national elections there go smoothly, senior Obama administration officials say.
That pacing suggests that although Obama's promised withdrawal will start soon, it will be backloaded, with larger numbers of troops returning later in the 18-month time frame.
Obama was to announce his strategy Friday at the sprawling Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, where thousands of Marines are soon heading to another war front, Afghanistan.
The administration now considers Aug. 31, 2010, as the end date for Iraq war operations.
That timetable is slower than Obama had promised voters, but still hastens the U.S. exit.WASHINGTON – A "substantial" number of the roughly 100,000 U.S. combat... more
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December 8th serves as Remembrance Day for John Lennon.
On December 16, 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono launched a large-scale multi-media campaign for Peace. Originally used in a tribute to John for the ImaginePeace.com website last December, this rare footage from the Lennon Film Archive remembers John as the world knew him - a passionate activist, musician and human being.
Remember - War Is Over! (If You Want It)
To find out more go to imaginepeace.comDecember 8th serves as Remembrance Day for John Lennon.
On December 16, 1969 John... more
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It's hard to believe that we are still struggling with the same issues. For IMAGINE PEACE news and the rest of the website, go here
http://www.imaginepeace.com/news.htmlIt's hard to believe that we are still struggling with the same issues. For... more
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In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview. This was in the midst of Lennon's "bed-in" phase, during which John and Yoko were staying in hotel beds in an effort to promote peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries traditional pen sketches by James Braithwaite with digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit, and timeless message.In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel... more
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From Yoko Ono's YouTube page this is a great reminder that "War is Over If You Want It." Incredible archival footage with the message, the means and the ways to get it out into the world.
You can find the War Is Over poster on Yoko's site and post it in your window, in your car, etc.:
http://imaginepeace.com/news/archives/3587
Shine on John and Yoko.From Yoko Ono's YouTube page this is a great reminder that "War is Over If... more
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(Happy Xmas Kyoko
Happy Xmas Julian)
So this is Xmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Xmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Xmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The world is so wrong
And so happy Xmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let's stop all the fight
A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Xmas
And what have we done
Another year over
A new one just begun
And so happy Xmas
We hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
War is over, if you want it
War is over now
Happy Xmas (Happy Xmas Kyoko
Happy Xmas Julian)
So this is Xmas
And what have you done... more
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