Soapbox Blast from the Past: Yoko Ono on her 91st Birthday
Keeping my Powder Dry from Bomb Cyclones and Atmospheric Rivers
Today is Yoko’s 91st birthday, so while we are here in California are trying to avoid Rain Catastrophe™ I am posting a replay of my interview with Yoko:
Pebble People.
CLICK YOK'O’S PHOTO TO LISTEN TO THE REPLAY
Pebble People
This week, Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox will be rerunning our
classic interview with legendary,
Yoko Ono Lennon.
In this primary season of
Robber Class Party A vs. Robber Class Party B
electoral frenzy,
it's super important to remember that elections are at best,
irrelevant to our daily lives, and at worst, harmful to
peace and prosperity and should be just a miniscule part of our activism.
Yoko exhorts us to be "Pebble People," to choose
healthful, peaceful, and helpful alternatives in our
daily lives to improve ourselves and our communities.
There is also a special treat, Cindy's daughter, Carly, recites her
poem, A Nation Rocked to Sleep, that she wrote
shortly after her brother's death in Iraq:
(CLICK HERE FOR SHOW DOWNLOAD).
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Wow. This is a historical interview, Cindy! I really appreciate you sharing it with all of us. Yoko has certainly gotten some bad press over the years, but she sounds like a sage philosopher in this interview. She must have something special to attract an artistic genius like John Lennon. I'm very proud to call you my friend- thanks!
I never had much use for Yoko because I always thought she broke up the Beatles. I listened to half the interview and kept saying, "she's right." We can't change THE world. But we can change OUR world.
Then I woke up at 10:30 tonight and couldn't get back to sleep. I remembered her talking about how she dealt with the lies being told about her.
I did a quick search on CIA, John Lennon, and murder and came up with some interesting results.
Then tonight, in addition to having an earth shaking revelation about my art, I thought...
WHAT IF...
...the Beatles were a CIA/MI6 psyop gone wrong?
We KNOW the whole 60s counter culture "movement," including psychedelics, was part of MK Ultra. How else could the Beatles soared to the stratosphere so fast?
We KNOW Oswald did NOT kill JFK.
We KNOW Sirhan did NOT kill RFK.
We KNOW James Earl Ray did NOT kill MLK.
We know the CIA/MI6/Mossad are behind all the evil in the world.
We know King Charles has cancer...God's "kill switch" in the "inbreds?" (Dammit, couldn't help myself.)
We know the media LIES. Sorry for taking so long to get to the point.
We know the Beatles were gifted musicians but unlike many celebrities today they also had a soul...remember Rubber Soul...that album was ground breaking...perhaps the beginning of the end?.
If any Beatle would have awakened to what was going on, it would have been John and, maybe, Yoko could have been the trigger...Hiroshima, etc.?
Yoko's right on... we can change our world...ourselves first. Before you criticize the mote in your neighbor's eye, remove the logjam from your own.
Once that's done, we can work to change our communities. God knows I can't feed a dying child in Gaza, but I can feed people in my own community who are starving.
Maybe...just maybe...if enough people...and it does NOT take a lot...help enough people around us...we CAN begin to change the world.
God bless you, Yoko, and I apologize for what I used to think.