the imagine peace giveaway is closed
In honour of the unveiling IMAGINE PEACE TOWER in Iceland the AIU website launched a giveaway with a beautiful Yoko Ono Imagine Peace related prize, and the winner is...

download & print war is over artwork to remember john lennon
Yoko Ono: "Please print & display in your window, workplace, school, street, car, computer & elsewhere over the holiday season. On December 8th, 11.15pm (your local time) remember John by taking a moment of quiet reflection. If you would like to play or sing the song "Imagine" and imagine a world of peace, just know that we are all together at that moment in every time zone, as IMAGINE PEACE makes its way around the world - every hour for 24 hours."

"i still talk to john"
Scotland On Sunday (December 16th 2007): Yoko Ono: "I don't think John's life is finished. When you listen to his music he's still there, especially at Christmas-time because it's so close to the anniversary of his death. It feels like he's omnipresent. You know how we think of God as the only one who is? So, in a way I don't think of that moment as the end of his life."

the final ballad of john and yoko
Chicago Sun-Times interviewed photographer Allan Tannenbaum about his new book with photos of John Lennon and Yoko Ono: "They were absolutely a good fit. Yoko has this bad rap and that's unjustified. I saw a lot of love between them, and that comes through very strongly in the photographs. Most of my photographs are of them together because they were such a complete unit. They were two artists creating simultaneously."

many faces of yoko
Photo galleries of Yoko Ono from different decades, as well as other related photos.

yoko ono supporting AIDS charity LIFEbeat
From the press release: "BID 2 BEAT AIDS, an annual auction of rare and autographed items from stars in music, film, Broadway, sports, politics, and television. (--) Yoko Ono fans will be pleased to see a custom designed iPod in the auction. Yoko also signed a copy of her latest CD, “Yes I’m A Witch” especially for the auction."

the new ONO remix NO NO NO climbs the charts
The remix hits #3 on the Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play Chart (Issue Date: 12-15-2007)

yoko ono imagines peace with the world: reprise
An article by Wendy Hsu. The longer version will appear in the November issue of RVA Magazine.

peace bed amerika vs john lennon
The U.S. vs. John Lennon, directed by David Leaf and John Scheinfeld, will be released on December 8th 2007 in Japan with the title Peace Bed Amerika vs John Lennon.

mail fat budgie for xmas
Daily Record: "Christmas cards with a drawing by John Lennon are to be sold again by Oxfam. His yellow Fat Budgie picture was first used on the charity's cards in 1965 - at the height of Beatlemania. They have been reprinted for the first time this year with his widow Yoko Ono's permission. She has already ordered 200 of the cards. She said: "John supported Oxfam so it is wonderful that his illustration can continue to help Oxfam in its important work." Lennon gave them permission to use the drawing, which was taken from his book A Spaniard In The Works."

disco four - pet shop boys
A remix of Yoko Ono's Walking on Thin Ice is featured on this record.

jonas mekas is carrying the flag of avant-garde art
Baltic Times (November 14th 2007): “It shouldn’t be a museum, that is, ... a place devoted only to its collections ... It should be a place for living and working artists, working in film, video, computer, mixed media fields from all over the world, to present their works ... It should carry the flag of the avant-gardes of all the arts,” Jonas Mekas wrote in a message to Kristijonas Kucinskas, Director of the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, on his vision of what the center should be."

uncut celebrates the best of 2007
Press release: "Uncut – the UK’s most authoritative music and movie magazine – is rounding off it’s 10th anniversary year with a special all-star end of year extravaganza. (--) the January issue is presented in a card envelope and features John Lennon’s 30 greatest songs, as voted for by a host of rock luminaries including Brian Wilson, John Lydon, Liam Gallagher, Yoko Ono, Neil Young, Mick Jagger and Roger Daltrey. This month’s free Give Peace a Chance CD is dedicated to Lennon."

dream power john lennon super live 2007
A concert in Japan on December 8th 2007 will feature Yoko Ono and an all-star cast of Japanese musicians celebrating the work of John Lennon.

yoko ono in honor of ms. magazine's 35th anniversary
"In honor of Ms. magazine's 35th anniversary, we asked a variety of women from across the country, and around the globe, to reflect on feminism. How has it changed their lives over the past 35 years? Where is it going in the next 35 years?"

Yoko Ono: I don't think we should be intimidated by the people who started to smear the name "feminism." Feminism is celebrating the feminine quality in all of us, embracing men who wish to cherish their feminine side as well. Change the name and they will intimidate us again.

a night with yoko ono in brazil in november
Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, November 8th 2007. Also an exhibition by Yoko Ono will open in Brazil (Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil) on November 10th 2007.

"John Lennon originally donated the use of his
Fat Budgie drawing as an Oxfam Christmas card in 1965"