DN!: EXCLUSIVE: Yoko Ono on the New Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:58:53 -0400 DEMOCRACY NOW! DAILY EMAIL DIGEST October 16, 2007 = = = = = = = = = * DN! is hiring * Full-Time Broadcast Engineer http://www.democracynow.org/jobs.shtml = = = = = = = = = TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!: * EXCLUSIVE: Yoko Ono on the New Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, Art & Politics, the Peace Movement, Government Surveillance and the Murder of John Lennon * 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 ³Imagine Peace.² It will light up every year between October 9th, the day of Lennon's birth, and December 8th, the day of his death. 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