Bed-Ins for Peace

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Bed-Ins for Peace were a series of nonviolent anti-war protests in 1969 in which John Lennon and Yoko Ono invited the media into their hotel bedrooms to promote world peace.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf anti-war demonstration
nonviolent protest
peace campaign
hasAssociatedPerson Derek Taylor
Timothy Leary
Tom Smothers
surface form: Tommy Smothers
hasCountry Canada
Netherlands
hasCulturalContext counterculture of the 1960s
hasEndTime 1969-06-02
hasGenre conceptual art
protest art
hasLanguage English
hasLocation Amsterdam
Hilton Amsterdam
Montreal
Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal
surface form: Queen Elizabeth Hotel Montreal
hasMediaCoverageBy international press
newspaper reporters
television journalists
hasMotive opposition to the Vietnam War
promotion of world peace
hasNotableEvent Montreal bed-in recording session
hasNotableOutcome iconic photographs of Lennon and Ono in bed
increased global attention to peace movement
hasOpposedConflict Vietnam War
hasOrganizer John Lennon
Yoko Ono
hasParticipant John Lennon
Yoko Ono
hasStartTime 1969-03-25
hasTheme celebrity activism
media spectacle
pacifism
hasTimePeriod 1969
hasVisualSymbol handwritten peace signs on hotel walls
posters reading Bed Peace
posters reading Hair Peace
inspiredWork Give Peace a Chance
mainActivity inviting press into hotel bedroom
staying in bed in a hotel room
slogan Bed Peace
Hair Peace
usesMethod media-focused protest
nonviolent resistance
performance art

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Yoko Ono notableWork Bed-Ins for Peace
Give Peace a Chance associatedWithEvent Bed-Ins for Peace
this entity surface form: Bed-ins for Peace
Bed-in for Peace in Amsterdam partOf Bed-Ins for Peace
this entity surface form: John Lennon and Yoko Ono peace campaign