McCartney Times

NEW YORK — No one noticed. Thousands of people were milling beneath the flashing, pulsing, gyroscopic billboards in New York’s Times Square, as they do every night. But not a soul, as far as I could see, looked up and saw the billboard inviting them to “Imagine Peace.”

The message — the latest in several decades of peace activism by Yoko Ono — appeared on a screen at Broadway and West 45th Street at exactly 8:22 p.m. Spelled out in black letters on white, it lasted three minutes.

As Russia wages war in Ukraine, the same message (an instruction? a plea?) has appeared every night this month — not only in Times Square, but also in London, Los Angeles, Milan, Melbourne and Seoul. A limited edition “Imagine Peace” print is being sold by Circa, the platform behind the billboard program, with the proceeds going to the U.N. Central Emergency Response Fund. Meanwhile, London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, is inviting people to a march to express solidarity with Ukraine this Saturday. Participants will walk past Ono’s “Imagine Peace” billboard at Piccadilly Circus ahead of a vigil at Trafalgar Square.

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Source: Yoko Ono is known as a peace activist and as the woman who broke up the Beatles. There’s a lot more to her. – The Washington Post