give peace a vote
It is "a part of the Voters for Peace Pledge Coalition. We are working in partnership with more than two dozen organizations to build a national bloc of peace voters that politicians cannot afford to ignore. Take the pledge today!" Yoko Ono has pledged her peace vote.

while nixon campaigned, the FBI watched lennon
International Herald Tribune (September 21st 2006): "The FBI's surveillance of Lennon is a reminder of how easily domestic spying can become unmoored from any legitimate law-enforcement purpose. What is more surprising, and ultimately more unsettling, is the degree to which the surveillance turns out to have been intertwined with electoral politics. At the time of the John Sinclair rally, there was talk that Lennon would join a national concert tour aimed at encouraging young people to get involved in politics - and at defeating President Richard Nixon, who was running for re-election. There were plans to end the tour with a huge rally at the Republican National Convention."

yoko ono on john lennon and the FBI
ABC News (September 6th 2006): "John Lennon's perceived "threat" to the U.S. government is the highlight of a new film that documents his transformation from pop idol to political activist and offers a fresh look at this former Beatle's career. "The U.S. vs. John Lennon" will be released later this month. Yoko Ono cooperated with the filmmakers, opening her archives of rarely seen footage of the couple's fight for peace. "One thing that brought us together was the fact that both of us were rebels in so many ways," she said."

Apple trailer: The U.S. vs. John Lennon

berkeley art museum's grapefruit exhibition from october 18th
From the museum press release: "The Berkeley Art Museum is delighted to present an exhibition of Yoko Ono's instruction paintings selected from that groundbreaking publication. Gracefully expressive, enchanting, and original, the paintings are presented as wall texts that fill the gallery in the same way that paintings on canvas do. However, the conceptual nature of the art offers the beholder a means of taking the paintings home in the form of a do-it-yourself idea."

john lennon super live in japan on november 4th
Information from the press release: The concert will be held at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo. The concert is a charity, aiming to build schools for children in Asian and Africa. Yoko Ono is scheduled to appear, along with Japanese artists. The actress Rie Miyazawa will recite Lennon's Imagine and Love. Yoko Ono's message: "Even now, there are more than 113 million children who are unable to learn due to war or poverty in this world. I believe that having a dream for each person will change the world."

sean lennon releases 'friendly fire' album in september
UPI (July 12th 2006): "Sean Lennon, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, is releasing his second album, "Friendly Fire," on Capitol Records in Hollywood. In the eight years since he released his first album, "Into the Sun," the 30-year-old musician has stayed out of the spotlight -- although he has been actively involved in projects with Ben Lee, Thurston Moore and Ryan Adams, as well as with his mother. After releasing "Into the Sun," Lennon said in a statement, he became "disillusioned with the machinery of the industry." He never stopped playing, but did so more "discreetly." "'Friendly Fire' is an experiment to see what it might be like to do music more publicly again," Lennon said. A short film accompanies the album, which has a trailer on Sean Lennon's Web site."

a new magazine with yoko ono related articles
You can order a new magazine with three Yoko Ono related articles: War Is Over! in Tokyo, Yoko’s 1964 statements translated from a rare documentary film by Nagano Chiaki, and Yoko’s feminist satire (1973), “The Saga of Japanese Men Sinking” (translation). These articles appear in Josai University’s Review of Japanese Culture and Society Vol. 17 (December 2005) Special Issue = 1960s Japan: Art Outside the Box

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