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October 11, 2010

Lennon Ono Peace Award Winners Given Out on Lennon’s 70th Birthday
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And Saturday marked what would have been John Lennon’s seventieth
birthday. His widow Yoko Ono commemorated the day by awarding the Lennon
Ono Peace Award to filmmaker Josh Fox, director of the documentary
Gasland, writers Alice Walker and Michael Pollan, and food safety
spokesperson Barbara Kowalcyk.



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