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Yoko Ono
Imagine Peace
Today, we spend the hour with Yoko Ono: Artist, musician, peace activist. She joins us in the firehouse studio just days after returning from Iceland where she unveiled a project 40 years in the making—the Imagine Peace tower. Dedicated to her late husband John Lennon, the tower shoots light into the sky and bears the inscription “Imagine Peace.” It will light up every year between October 9th, the day of Lennon’s birth, and December 8th, the day of his death.
October 16, 2007: Imagine Peace: Yoko Ono on the New Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, Art & Politics, the Peace Movement, Government Surveillance and the Death of John Lennon
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