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 [...]
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 [...]
Dear Family of Peace Too many innocent people & children are victims of tragic shootings. Let's stop criminals getting guns. Yoko Ono Lennon http://bit.ly/dmPRzh Sign The Petition. Close The Loophole. Background Checks for all sales at Gun Shows http://bit.ly/NOguns
by Christine Gray (Principal, Oakton Elementary School), Oakton Elementary's Blog The Wish Tree Project, sponsored by OES Art Teacher, Sarah Brooks, began this week. Students are welcome to write down their wishes and hang them on our wish tree. Our Oakton wishes will be collected on International Peace Day and mailed to the Imagine Peace Tower in [...]
Now, I have complete trust in the next, next, next generation! Thank you for showing us how wise you are!!! With people like you, we will be more than okay. Thank you, thank you, thank you! We love you! yoko
A Nice Round Number By John Cory, Reader Supported News 1,000. A nice round number. 1,000. Doesn't even need a decimal point. One thousand is just a number. But what's in a number? "A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy In The White House" by Arthur M. Schlesinger. "Anne of The Thousand Days" by [...]
I AM ANGRY by John Cory, Reader Supported News I am angry. I'm tired of pundits and know-nothing media gasbags. I'm tired of snarky "inside politics" programming. I am sick of the bigotry and hatred of "birthers" and faux patriotic cranks and their GOP puppet masters. And I'm really pissed at the Democratic Party that [...]
Early advocates of celebrating Mother's Day in the United States envisioned it as a day of peace, to honor and support mothers who had lost sons and husbands to the carnage of the Civil War. In 1870 - nearly 40 years before it became an official U.S. holiday in 1914 - social justice pioneer Julia Ward Howe issued her famous Mother's Day Proclamation, which called upon mothers of all nationalities to band together to promote the "amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace."
On the eve of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will address the “For a Nuclear Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World” International Conference at the Riverside Church. The UN Secretary-General’s participation in the international conference reflects the urgency and importance of the engagement of grassroots peace and disarmament [...]
Brazil Ministry Of Peace by Malcolm Forest Brazil is privileged for it is seen as a country that has not fought any international wars in more than 64 years. It has suffered, though, a lot from violence in its cities and in the country. Children and youth are very much affected and are for the [...]
by Rachel D. Vancelette, Italian Vogue Yoko Ono receives 2010 Distinguished Service To The Visual Arts Award From Art Table. Because she "continues to provoke the future" The 30th Anniversary honored Yoko Ono, avant-guard visionary and philanthropist for groundbreaking work in art, music and filmmaking, who has challenged all traditional boundaries in her long and [...]
Dear Family of Peace, The following message came from Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys: "A few friends and I are meditating at the same time twice a day: 9:30am and 6:30pm Eastern Standard Time, for about an hour and half. We are picturing smashing apart all of the cancer cells in the world. We [...]
Enjoy a once-in-lifetime experience while supporting the work of the RFK Center. Bid for a Walk through Strawberry Fields in NYC with Yoko Ono. All proceeds go to The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights.
Humanity’s Team is collecting 50,000 signatures to persuade the United Nations to declare a Oneness Day, a day set aside and embraced by individuals, communities and nations for humanity to celebrate, discuss and experience our commonality, while still acknowledging and respecting our beautiful cultural diversities…a day to unite in Oneness for the greater good of the Human Family. Click HERE to sign the petition
Dear Friends, I just watched the #smilesfilm! It blew my mind! In fact, tears ran down my face and there was no stopping. I just didn't know that there are still so many beautiful people on Earth, since i am reading the papers every day of murders, bombings, and major pollutions caused and hidden to [...]
Yoko Ono with Autism Speaks co-founders Bob & Suzanne Wright. To kick-off the eve of Autism Awareness Month and celebrate World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD), Autism Speaks hosted a reception on March 31, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt in New York City. Over 150 individuals representing more than 12 countries attended the reception to celebrate the third [...]
Dear Friends, Join EARTH HOUR and turn off your lights at 8.30pm local time for one hour this Saturday 27th March. I will be thinking of all of you when I do it here in my apartment. Lots of love, yoko
Hi YOKO and IMAGINE PEACE team!! We would like to share our little clip from last summer festival at Camp Bestival (UK) with you. During the 3 days we made lots of creative animal costumes with the kids and had a wall dedicated to Peaces Wishes... WE MAKE PEACE is an international non-profit organization working [...]
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." ~ Margaret Mead Dear Peace Friends, Thank you to all of you who voted to Establish a U.S. Department of Peacebuilding! For the 2nd year in a row, this idea was voted as [...]
Hooray for our family of Peace! We are Top Ten now. Keep IMAGINE PEACE in your heart. We are together. love, yoko