by Ted Nunn, Change.org, 16 Feb 2009 HR 808 - legislation to establish a U.S. Department of Peace - was reintroduced into the U.S. House of Representatives on February 3, 2009, by Congressman Dennis...
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ART Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator: The way I see it: artists on politics Does art make a difference? Yes, in the sense that it very often anticipates things. That is the case for Picasso’s Guernica,...
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President Obama and First Lady Michelle: Youth Inaugural Ball at The Washington Hilton “I’ve been looking forward to this ball for quite some time because, when you look at the history of this campaign,...
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Social tweet-up to help raise funds for clean water in developing countries Forty years after John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged a Bed-In for Peace, The Beatles Revolution Lounge at the Mirage, Las...
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Stella McCartney gets Gwyneth Paltrow and Keira Knightley to model Comic Relief T-shirts by Hilary Alexander, Daily Telegraph, 02 Feb 2009 Stella McCartney has designed a range of limited edition T-shirts...
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by Bill Lattanzi Hi All. I rarely ask for mass action, but my wife’s SPARK program, that works with Boston’s most vulnerable kids, is under threat by budget cuts… but also up for a big...
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by Alicia Bridges, Perth Now. AFTER 15 years as one of the two artists behind Basement Jaxx, Simon Ratcliffe remains almost entirely anonymous. A career of international hits and critical acclaim has...
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Hi Yoko, My commitment to creating a peaceful world begins in the elementary school where I work. Iles Elementary School is applying to become an International Baccalaureate School, and we are an O Ambassador...
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Released on 21 January 2009 Available via Amazon Japan 01. The GOASTT : The World Was Made For Men 02. Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band : Ask The Elephant! 03. If By Yes: You Feel Right 04. The GOASTT:...
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Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) has been sworn in as the 44th US president of the United States of America. He is the first African American to hold the office. An estimated two...
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by Sue Gilmore, Contra Costa Times, 19 Jan 2009 Beating swords into plowshares is about as noble an antiwar notion as they come, but Sarah Cahill of Berkeley is taking the Old Testament injunction...
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Ben97, Jean-Patrick Berthiaume and Serge Grenier of the Neorhino party pushed their idea for a bed-in at Parliament Hill Friday. (CBC) A Quebec-based fringe party is calling on the public to protest...
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WAR IS A RACKET by Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler This was first printed in 1935. It was reprinted in 2003. (read some here) AN EARTH SAVING REVOLUTION by Teruo Higa (translated into English) THE...
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14,994 VOTES - #2 in TOP TEN! Ideas for Change in America - UPDATE Ideas for Change in America is a nationwide competition to identify the best ideas for change in America. The top 10 ideas will be presented...
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On November 7, 2008, at 9:45 am, the 500 people attending the Alliance for a New Humanity Human Forum in Barcelona took a vow for non violence in their thoughts, speech and actions. Each person decided...
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Following the milestone success of her two consecutive #1 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Chart singles No, No, No (The Remixes) and Give Peace A Chance (The Remixes) , seminal pop culture icon Yoko Ono...
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Times Square, New York (W46th St & Broadway - to the left of Virgin Records) IMAGINE PEACE January 9th, 2009 yoko ono Imagine peace! It’s hard to kill people when we’re imagining peace. There...
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6th Street & K Street NW, Washington DC, USA 20001-2646 [map] Photos by James Rawlings. IMAGINE PEACE January 9th, 2009 yoko ono Imagine peace! It’s hard to kill people when we’re...
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The Price of Silence Created in 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) set forth the basic rights of every human being, yet 60 years later in places the world over, violence, poverty and...
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Yoko Ono to speak at Stanford By Cynthia Haven, Stanford Report, 19 December 2009 John Lennon once called her “the world’s most famous unknown artist: Everybody knows her name, but nobody...
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On New Year’s Eve 2008, a MySpace friend wrote to me and asked: “What can I do to help the Peace Movement?” This was my reply: Dear Jake This is an age where one hero cannot conquer...
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Out of the blue and without any announcement, Yoko Ono’s “IMAGINE PEACE” billboard appeared in the city of Canton, Ohio, around the beginning of December 2008. I heard this news...
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MIAMI BEACH, FL.- ArtCenter/South Florida (“ACSF”) proudly partners with curator and artist Carolina Salazar to present Love Cures, a contemporary charity art auction exhibition benefiting the advancement of...
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by Deepak Chopra, Tikkun, 1 Jan 2009. The following is a memo to Barack Obama from Deepak Chopra: PEACE You have been elected by the first anti-war constituency since 1952, when Dwight D. Eisenhower...
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Major Yoko Ono Retrospective at Baltic by Brenda Burrell, The Photography Pages A big show like this hardly needs introduction and there’s room to be wary of promoting celebs, but do go and see this,...
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September 11, 2009 – January 10, 2010 The exhibition examines chance as a major composition principle in modernism from the early 20th century through the 1960s. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington...
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Enthusiastic, big and a little clumsy, Po works in his family’s noodle shop while daydreaming about becoming a Kung Fu master. His dreams soon become reality when he is unexpectedly chosen to join the...
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Warrior/pacifist princess nausicaa desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet. This film is anti-prejudice, anti-cruety, and anti-war, without...
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The Ghost of A Sabre Toothed Tiger Last minute gig - Monday 12 Jan at the Living Room at 6:30pm. The Living Room 154 Ludlow Street, (between Stanton and Rivington), New York, NY 10002 [map] Tel: 212-533-7237 www.livingroomny.com Directions:...
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An exquisitely animated, overwhelmingly acclaimed adventure epic. Inflicted with a deadly curse, a young warrior named Ashitaka sets out for the forests of the west in search of the cure that will save...
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June 25–September 13, 2009 Seattle Art Museum Target Practice is an international, historical survey of the attacks that painting endured in the years following World War II. For the artists in the...
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The Stenersen Museum Stenersenmuseet, Munkedamsveien 15, N-0125 Oslo,Norway The main entrance is from the Concert Hall terrace Phone +47 23 49 36 00 Fax +47 23 49 36 10 Email: postmottak.stenersen@stenersen.museum.no Post: PO...
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A quite exceptional event, “Vides” (vacuums) is a retrospective of empty exhibitions since that of Yves Klein in 1958. In almost a dozen rooms of the National Museum of Modern Art, it assembles...
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13 International Art Fair ART MOSCOW Venue: Central House of Artists Russian Federation, 119049, Moscow, ??. ???????? ???, 10/14 [map] Showdate: Wed 13 - Sun 17 May 2009 Opening...
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Chimera Music presents: The Ghost Of A Saber Toothed Tiger: Sean Lennon & Charlotte Muhl If By Yes: Yuka Honda, Petra Haden, Yuko Araki & Hirotaka “Shimmy”...
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