Couldn't even stay in a messy bed? Lol https://twitter.com/718Tv/status/1402112629892648960
As the Vietnam War raged in 1969, John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono held two week-long Bed-ins for Peace, one at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam and one at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, each of which were intended to be nonviolent protests against wars, and experimental tests of new ways to promote peace. The idea is derived from a "sit-in", in which a group of protesters remains seated in front of or within an establishment until they are evicted, arrested, or their demands are met
They spent their honeymoon in the presidential suite (Room 702) at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel for a week between March 25 and 31, inviting the world's press into their hotel room every day between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.
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During April 1969, Lennon and Ono sent acorns to the heads of state in various countries around the world in hopes that they would plant them as a symbol of peace.
I could keep posting funny shit from this article but it would just be be whole wiki page
Last edit: funny interview with some asshole RW cartoonist during the "bed-in" https://youtu.be/iYxFO8o-t2E
Idk, talking to some cool older people I know who live in that time, the actual line between the two was murky. If you were a "politico" (the term they used back then for people who did hardcore anti-Vietnam activism and worked in other causes) you probably also had long hair, smoked pot, dropped acid, and went on on a road trip to the southwest. At least according to one old time anti-war guy I used to drink with the hippy "drop out" culture was a good way to get-out-of-dodge if you political activism got you in trouble. If the FBI showed at your parents place there was a whole host of communes in California that'd let you crash off the grid for a few months in.
But maybe these guys were romanticizing things.
You're probably right that I'm drawing a line where one might not have necessarily existed. I'm speaking in broad terms and what results, if any, came from them.
I'm also brain poisoned by the association of Charles Manson to that whole culture. He is the epitome of hippy for me.