Remember Bono’s “Fish Can Fly” t-shirt design, with a fish traversing the moonlit, starry sky? The shirt was introduced in 2008 for the Hard Rock Cafe’s Signature 25 Series, is printed on EDUN shirts and benefits African farmers and wildlife habitats by sending 15% of the sale proceeds to the Conservation Cotton Initiative launched by […]
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Meet Bono's Hero on World AIDS Day, 2010
World AIDS Day is Wednesday, December 1, 2010. It is a day we set aside to remember those lost and those who are living with the disease. Eight years ago on this date in 2002, Agnes Nyamayarwo made history alongside Bono & other AIDS activists as they spoke before an enthusiastic audience at the University […]
The Edge Returns to Moscow
It was March 1989 when The Edge joined Peter Gabriel, David Byrne, Brynsley Forde (of Aswad), Annie Lennox, the Thompson Twins, Chrissie Hynde, Jerry Harrison, and Karl Wallinger (of World Party) in Moscow to support Greenpeace’s efforts to educate and impact environmental change in the Soviet Union. As Greenpeace put it, “The gathering in Red […]
The Performance of U2's Life
If anyone wondered how U2 landed on the map as a global music force to be reckoned with, here is the 12 minutes that forever changed their career from a quarter century ago.
Aung San Suu Kyi Demonstrations
CNN is reporting that demonstrations are planned across the globe marking Aung San Suu Kyi’s 65th birthday and calling for her release from house arrest. Political leaders are also trying to put the pressure on the government to release Suu Kyi. President Obama said, “I once again call on the Burmese government to release Aung […]
Bono Bracelets Now Available
In October, 2009, many of you may remember Bono’s friend and AIDS activist Agnes Nyamayarwo as one of the speakers at the U2 Conference - The Hype and The Feedback. Bono personally funded the antiretroviral drugs for Agnes and a group of women in her village of Kampala, Uganda back in 2002. It was that […]
Bono on Kenyan TV
Shhhhh. Don’t tell anyone, but I forgot to include this in the new OTR column that I just posted tonight. Oh, well. I’m getting old. They say memory is the second thing to go as you get older. (I don’t remember what’s first.) So, anyhoo … this is a 20-minute interview that Bono did on […]
Meet The Woman Who Inspired Bono
Many fans who attended the U2 Conference last October had the wonderful opportunity to hear Agnes Nyamayarwo, Ugandan nurse and activist, speak about her life. She was introduced by Bono via a taped message. The lucky fans who attended the concert in Raleigh that weekend even heard Bono give a shout out to Agnes directly […]
Edge Has an Angel
We’re a bit late on posting this, but hopefully “better late than never” still applies. I’m talking about Edge’s participation in an Irish fund raising project called Angels - Beacons of Hope, which involved him painting an 8-foot tall angel. Thanks to “gaving” for posting this photo in our forum: The project launched back in […]
More Help for Mothers of the Disappeared
In addition to the Mothers of the Disappeared group U2 sang about in 1987, there’s another organization working hard to find missing family members from the “Dirty War.” This article published today by CNN informs us of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (known more commonly by the Spanish acronym: EAAF). As many of the leaders […]