Bed-ins for peace
The bed-ins for peace were two week-long nonviolent protests against wars, intended as experimental tests of new ways to promote peace. As the Vietnam War raged in 1969, artist Yoko Ono and her husband John Lennon held one protest at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam and one at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. The idea is derived from a "sit-in", in which a group of protesters remain seated in front of or within an establishment until they are evicted, arrested, or their requests are met.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the first day of their Amsterdam bed-in | |
| Date | March 25–31, 1969 and May 26 – June 1, 1969 |
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| Location | Amsterdam, Netherlands and Montreal, Canada |
| Type | Occupation protest |
| Theme | Peace movement |
| Cause | Vietnam War |
| Target | World media and political leaders |
| Organised by | John Lennon and Yoko Ono |
| Participants | Timothy Leary, Tommy Smothers, Derek Taylor, Abraham Feinberg, Dick Gregory, Murray the K, Al Capp, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Williams |
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The public proceedings were filmed, and later turned into a documentary Bed Peace, which was made available for free on YouTube in August 2011 by Yoko Ono, as part of her website "Imagine Peace".
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