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U2‘s Bono urges Germany over Africa aid

Tue, 15 May 2007 17:24:07 +0300

BERLIN - Bono urged Germany on Monday to use next month‘s Group of Eight meeting as a platform to push for more aid for Africa. "We know that we have your support and that Germany will keep its promises," the U2 frontman/activist said.
"As a result of the (Cologne) resolutions, today 20 million more African children are going to school," he said.
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BONO TO APPEAR ON "IDOL GIVES BACK" ON BEHALF OF ONE: THE CAMPAIGN TO MAKE POVERTY HISTORY

info@partnerwithastar.com — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:52:01 +0300

"AMERICAN IDOL" SPECIAL TO RAISE MONEY AND AWARENESS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST EXTREME POVERTY IN AFRICA AND THE U.S. TUESDAY, APRIL 24, AND WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, ON FOX
As part of his ongoing efforts to fight AIDS and poverty in Africa, U2's Bono will participate in the IDOL GIVES BACK fundraising special airing Wednesday, April 25 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX. The two-night special begins airing Tuesday April 24 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT).
The Irish singer will meet with the six AMERICAN IDOL finalists to talk about the work of ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History (www.one.org) and how the IDOL audience can help. The IDOL contestants also will perform "American Prayer," a song written by Bono and Dave Stewart about the AIDS emergency in Africa.
Bono joins an illustrious group of celebrity participants on the special, including Celine Dion, Kelly Clarkson, Gwen Stefani, Earth, Wind & Fire, Il Divo, Keira Knightley, Hugh Grant, Josh Groban with the African Children's Choir, Jack Black, Helen Mirren, Rascal Flatts, Quincy Jones, Carrie Underwood, Annie Lennox and many more.
IDOL GIVES BACK will raise awareness and funds for Charity Projects Entertainment Fund (CPEF) and other organizations that provide relief programs to help children and young people in extreme poverty in America and Africa. Corporate sponsors of IDOL GIVES BACK are led by News Corporation, Ford, Coca-Cola and AT&T. Allstate and ExxonMobil will make matching contributions to Save the Children and Malaria No More, respectively, via CPEF.
On the performance show Tuesday, April 24 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT), the Top 6 finalists will sing "life anthem" songs of compassion and hope, in keeping with the IDOL GIVES BACK theme. After the show, viewers will vote for their favorite singers via toll-free numbers and text messages, as usual, and corporate sponsors will donate money to the charity.
The special two-hour results show Wednesday, April 25 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) will be a star-studded evening featuring live performances from the AMERICAN IDOL stage as well as the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, where Ellen DeGeneres will serve as host. Viewers will be able to make their own donations via toll-free pledge lines and the Internet. Ford will contribute generously by producing a very special music video that will air on Wednesday night. This video, as well as other music segments from the night, will be available for download after the show. Proceeds from the money generated will be contributed to IDOL GIVES BACK.

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Bono And Edge Items Help Raise Millions For Hurricane Katrina Fund

info@partnerwithastar.com — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:50:24 +0300

Iconic items belonging to U2 pair The Edge and Bono helped fetch $2.4 million (£1.2 million) on Saturday (21Apr07) at an auction to benefit musicians who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina.
The Edge's beloved Gibson Les Paul guitar sold for $240,000 (£123,000), while Bono's sunglasses fetched $20,000 (£10,200) at New York's Hard Rock Cafe for Music Rising - a charity fund set up by The Edge after the 2005 natural disaster.
Other musical items sold were Jimi Hendrix's 1966 Red Fender Mustang guitar, Bill Clinton's saxophone and a pair of John Lennon's round sunglasses.
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’We Cannot Leave the People in their Hour of Need’

info@partnerwithastar.com — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:14:07 +0300

U2 lead singer Bono, 45, discusses African despots, the lack of progress in sub-Saharan Africa and the appropriate standards for development aid. In isolating corrupt politicians, he argues, we must not forget the people.
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Bono praises Reid on AIDS funding

info@partnerwithastar.com — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:31:19 +0200

U2 frontman Bono smiles during a May 5 appearance at Music Hall at Fair Park in Dallas. Bono, an advocate for ending AIDS in Africa, praised Senate Majority Leader Harry Reidâs efforts to secure funding for global AIDS programs.
Bonos praise for Reidâs leadership on the issue marked a change of heart for the Irish singer.

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Church joins One path to aid poor

info@partnerwithastar.com — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:24:42 +0200

During morning services at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Glenwood yesterday, parishioners received a new accessory: white plastic bracelets inscribed with the word "One."
Like the yellow cancer-awareness bracelets popularized by bicyclist Lance Armstrong, the white bracelets are a marketing device. They are symbolic of the One Campaign, an effort to end global poverty that's spearheaded by Bono, frontman of the rock band U2.
In addition to ending extreme poverty, the campaign has adopted the Millennium Development Goals, a blueprint established by the United Nations for improving the lives of people in developing countries by 2015. The goals, which have been endorsed by 190 countries including the United States, also include halting the spread of HIV/AIDS, empowering women, providing universal primary education and reducing child mortality.
"We as Christians need to think of other ways to make a difference," Thomas Hart, an Episcopalian and spokesman for the One Campaign, told St. Andrew's parishioners in a presentation after the morning service. "The policies that our government adopts can really help."
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Bono for NERCHA

info@partnerwithastar.com — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:22:40 +0200

WORLD famous Irish rock star and U2 lead singer Bono has donated more than E35 million (US$5m) to the National Emergency Council on HIV and AIDS (NERCHA) through his philanthrophic initiative (Product) RED. NERCHA Director Derek von Wissell yesterday told The Swazi Observer that the funds generated through (Product) Red were administered by the Global Fund, adding that Swaziland and Rwanda were chosen by the latter to be the first showcase countries to receive the financial assistance from the Bono-led initiative.
von Wissell explained that Swaziland was chosen as a âshowcase country,â by Global Fund, because of its strong track record within the Global Fundâs performance-based model of grant evaluation.
âIncome generated by (RED) products will support Global Fund-financed programmes that positively impact the lives of women and children affected by HIV and AIDS in Africa. Swaziland and Rwanda were chosen as the first countries receiving Global Fund grants that will benefit from income generated by (RED). While RED funds are not additional to the grants already approved by the Global Fund Board, (RED) income will replace resources earmarked for these grants in the Global Fund âpotâ, freeing up these resources for other grant renewals or future funding rounds,â he said.
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Bono targets HIV in Africa with licensing deals

info@partnerwithastar.com — Tue, 6 Feb 2007 09:58:05 +0200

His Product Red joins with companies to market to 'conscience consumers.' The proceeds go to combat AIDS and its effects. The donation agreements, which typically run for several years, are negotiated separately with each partner. American Express, for example, donates at least 1% of what consumers spend using its Red credit card. Gap hands over half the profit from its Red clothes. Red has to balance maximizing donations with allowing its partners enough profit to make it worthwhile. To prevent the brand from being diluted, only one company in each sector (clothing lines, cellphones, credit cards) is allowed to use the Red brand. For all its fanfare, Red's model of tying a good cause to a product, known in the business as "cause-related marketing," is fairly familiar. "It looks as much of a mind-set as a demographic," said John Hayes, American Express' chief marketing officer. And because it is a growing one, "if we don't go and salute those people with a product meeting their needs, someone else probably will."

Video Alert: Bono Interview now on EUX.TV

info@partnerwithastar.com — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:19:54 +0200

Bono attended the WEF meeting in Davos to pressure Western governments into delivering on their commitment to tackle poverty. Bono has been a regular at the World Economic Forum for the last few years
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"We are going to find out very soon. In particular this German G8, which is gonna be at Heiligendam," Bono said. "It's two years on. It's time to take the temperature. There were some serious promises made. Cheques were signed, but as we know, people sign cheques... they like signing them, particularly politicians, but they don't like cashing them. That's what we are going to find out.

Blair, Bono Tout Helping Africa at Forum

info@partnerwithastar.com — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:43:12 +0200

British Prime Minister Tony Blair and musician Bono on Friday urged countries and companies that have pledged to aid Africa to keep their promises and their helping hands extended. Bono, who last year launched his Red campaign to raise money to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Africa, was more direct. He said corruption "is Africa's No. 1 problem. Above HIV/AIDS, above malaria, above catastrophe and conflicts."

Bono To Be Honored At NAACP Image Awards

info@partnerwithastar.com — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:52:39 +0200

U2 frontman Bono's prolific charity work has earned him the prestigious Chairman's Award at the 38th annual NAACP Image Awards.
National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People Chairman Julian Bond says, "(Bono) has been an inspiration to many people around the world through his music and humanitarian efforts."

New medium is Bono's message

info@partnerwithastar.com — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:14:52 +0200

Today Bono is as well known for his political activism as for his songs, and he uses the concerts to encourage his fans to support his favourite charities. He mixes his political evangelism with the concert performances to such an extent that they almost become interchangeable. Consequently, technology is to the fore in spreading his message. Mobile phones beeped all around the stadium with a personal SMS from Bono entreating them to visit the global action event of the moment, www.makepovertyhistory.com.au This site was set up to promote an event claimed to be the biggest anti-poverty rally ever. It took place the following week in Melbourne, under the banner of Make Poverty History.

Rock 'n' Religion: U2-charist

info@partnerwithastar.com — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:15:59 +0200

rish rock star Bono has used his celebrity status to draw attention to various global ills, including AIDS and poverty.

At 7 p.m. Sunday, the music of Bono and his U2 bandmates will be part of a "U2-charist" worship service at St. James Episcopal Church in Manitowoc.
"Singing and dancing will be highly encouraged," said Anne Schuette, a St. James member who was doing her own jig in the center aisle last Sunday at a technical run-through.

McAlpine said U2's music will not be the sole focus of the service, which will include scripture reading, communion and prayers.

Rockers Geldof and Bono Urge Merkel to Help Africa

info@partnerwithastar.com — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:16:09 +0200

Live Aid legend Bob Geldof and Irish rocker Bono of U2 have called on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to help Africa's poor while her country holds the presidency of the Group of Eight nations in 2007.

In a guest commentary in the German mass-circulation daily Bild, Irishman Bob Geldof said 2007 will be an important year for Germany.

"Let us hope and pray that Germany and its chancellor, Ms. Merkel, will at last get politicians to act," Geldof said in Bild's Tuesday edition.
Irish rocker Bono has also been courting Germany to help Africa. He and German Chancellor Angela Merkel exchanged a much-publicized embrace at the Davos global economic summit a year ago.

Bono has urged wealthy nations in the past to grant debt relief to poorer nations.
According to the Financial Times (FT), Bono's London-based campaign group called "Data" plans to set up an office in Berlin next month along with Geldof.

Geldof's coordinator in Germany, Jeremy Gaines, told the newspaper that the two celebrity musicians want to work with German filmmakers and television broadcasters to draw attention to Africa's development needs.

Bono designs guitar for children's charity

info@partnerwithastar.com — Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:08:48 +0200

A guitar designed by Bono is to be auctioned off in aid of a children's charity.

The U2 singer provides a centrepiece for the new Born To Rock exhibition at Harrods in London, which celebrates the history and influence of the electric guitar.
A host of big names have customised guitars for the project, and Bono's features images from his children's book 'Peter and the Wolf', published in aid of the Irish Children's Hospice.

The guitar will be auctioned in aid of the charity.

Bono to Receive Honorary Knighthood

info@partnerwithastar.com — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 21:30:36 +0200

DUBLIN, Ireland Â Irish rocker and humanitarian Bono will become a knight of the British empire Â but the U2 frontman won't be called "Sir."

Britain confirmed Saturday Bono will receive his honorary knighthood from the British ambassador to Ireland, David Reddaway, in a Dublin ceremony shortly after New Year's Day.
In a letter to Bono released Saturday, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the singer's lobbying had forced wealthy nations to focus on increasing aid to Africa.

"I know from talking to you how much these causes matter to you," Blair wrote. "I know as well how knowledgeable you are about the problems we face and how determined you are to do all you can to help overcome them. You have tirelessly used your voice to speak up for Africa."

Blair said he hoped to keep working with Bono "to work together to maintain momentum on Africa, and ensure leaders around the world meet the promises they have made."

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info@partnerwithastar.com — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:49:54 +0200

By Brian Williams
NEW YORK - We are just back from a whirlwind tour of three nations in Africa. In Africa, the tour continued Wednesday, where we left the Irish rock star-turned-humanitarian Bono.

The man from Ireland, who is greeted as if he were a visiting head of government, met with John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor, the president of Ghana.

Bono considers the high-level meetings a necessity. But he prefers to approach the problem at the ground level. ÂWho here is going to school?Â Bono asked Nigerian kids during the trip. As their hands rise, the rock star has made a connection with them.

It's important to remember, in this land of old and new, where we saw a village elder Â a member of the local school PTA Â who brought his electronic PDA to a meeting in Nigeria, most Africans don't know who Bono is. They just know that he's out to help them by raising billions, along with awareness.

ÂLook at these kids,Â Bono insists to NBCÂs camera crews. ÂCome on over here! Look how royal they are Â the most beautiful kids on earth!Â

Bono says, over and over, ÂThis is what it's all about, in microcosm, right here.Â

The people who are already part of the struggle Â part of the daily effort in Africa Â have instantly allied themselves with Bono.

"It's not charity, it's just an investment in the future of the developing world,Â says Richard Feachem, the executive director of Global Fund, an organization dedicated to fighting AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. ÂIt's a kind of tough love."

ÂIt will give us hope,Â says village nurse Hannah Ndabi, Âas well as people in the community, that somebody is coming to see our needs and maybe support us in the near future.Â

ÂThe story we need to communicate is what Africa is doing for itself. And because Africa is sick of aid, they don't want aid,Â Bono says. ÂThey need aid in this moment of their development, but actually what they really want to do is trade.Â

Because a life in rock music has been very good to this man who grew up in lower middle-class Ireland, he says now it is his turn to go after TB, malaria, HIV and poverty Â while there is time.

ÂWe have written off the continent of Africa, and history will not be kind to us for that,Â he says. ÂGod will not let us do that. These people Â their lives Â before God, are as valuable as yours and my children.Â
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Bono And The Christian Right

info@partnerwithastar.com — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:53:26 +0200

The members of the Irish rock band U2 have always believed that their group was about something more than making records and playing concerts.

The themes of their music, often about social injustice, ranging from the American civil rights movement to genocide in Bosnia, have helped them sell more than 130 million albums around the world and gross nearly a billion dollars on the concert trail. And offstage, their lead singer, known by his teenage nickname "Bono," is equally impressive. His political activism, working to help erase Third World debt and supplying Africa with AIDS drugs, has made him a political force.

Correspondent Ed Bradley takes a look at U2 and the double life of their lead singer.

After 25 years of touring, most critics say U2 is as good today as theyÂve ever been, still selling out some of the worldÂs largest stadiums and arenas when touring around the globe.

"It's only rock and roll where people are burned out at 40. I want to see what can happen with a band if they keep their integrity, keep their commitment to each other, and can we create extraordinary music," says Bono, speaking to 60 Minutes while on tour in Milan, Italy this past summer.

"You know what would have happened Â and I'm not making a comparison, because I don't feel worthy to touch their hem Â but what would have happened if the Beatles lived, and didn't, you know, disappear up their own arses but actually stayed in contact with the world, were awake. Didn't let their money buy them off. You know I'm still hungry. I still want a lot out of music," Bono says.

Bono has said when fans are screaming, it's not about the band, it's about them. "It's unexplainable what a song means to you. Because, remember, songs, it's not like a movie you see once or twice. A song, it gets under your skin and that's why [we] abandon ourselves to it," says Bono. "It has a sense of kind of uplift, of getting airborne."

"Everything feels possible. And maybe more things are possible than we think," he adds.

And at every concert, the band tries to make that happen. Before the show, fans are asked to join a campaign to help end world poverty. And during the performance, Bono sings of social justice and argues for religious harmony.

BonoÂs passions are shared and supported by the band, drummer Larry Mullen, Jr., bassist Adam Clayton and the guitarist who calls himself "The Edge."

"I think early on the heroes that we had were people like Bob Marley, John Lennon, The Clash," says The Edge. "And those bands all had the same combination of rock 'n roll, the rage, railing against injustice. And the politics. We connected with that in a major way."

The four of them formed their bond and their politics as teenagers in Dublin, Ireland. Larry Mullen wanted to start a band to play in pubs. Instead, he got one intent to take on the world.

Mullen says being Irish helped shape the bands' political and social concerns. "I mean we lived all our lives with the terrorist situation in northern Ireland. And with the British army and seeing that on the news night after night, atrocity after atrocity," he says. "But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America."

In 1980, American music fans embraced them. By 1987, following their masterwork album "The Joshua Tree," critics began to call them the biggest rock band in the world. Tours and CDs since then, including their latest, have added to their popularity.

But along the way, they found another calling: getting help to the starving, troubled continent of Africa. The band did their part at the 1985 Live Aid concert.

Bono continued on, behind the scenes and in front of news cameras, to lobby world leaders to action.

Bono once said, "I'm available to be used, but I'm not a cheap date." And he stands by that quote. "No, I'm not a cheap date. I'm in the checks business. You know, and not just people signing the checks, but people cashing them. And I'm ready to spend my, whatever you want to call it, the currency of my celebrity, if thatÂs what it takes to get there."

He gets a lot of credit for lobbying President Bush, who he has met several times. Today, the Bush administration contributes to one of his biggest causes, AIDS medication for Africa.

"People openly laughed in my face when I suggested that this administration would distribute antiretroviral drugs to Africa," Bono remembers. "They said, 'You are out of your tiny mind.' There's 200,000 Africans now who owe their lives to America."

How does he get support for his projects? "It was probably that it would be really wrong beating a sort of left-wing drum, taking the usual bleeding-heart-liberal line," says Bono.

Instead, he enlisted the ruling right of American politics.

"Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency. I was saying, 'This is the leprosy that we read about in the New Testament, you know. Christ hung out with the lepers. But you're ignoring the AIDS emergency,'" says Bono. "How can you? And, you know, they said, 'Well, you're right, actually. We have been. And we're sorry. We'll get involved.' And they did."

His proudest achievement may have been helping convince the G8 industrial nations to sign an agreement that will forgive more than $40 billion in loans to Third World countries, 18 of them so far.

"And these countries, instead of paying that money servicing old debts, can spend it on health, education and infrastructure in the countries. It's an amazing achievement," says Bono.

But for all his success as an activist, Bono remains a rock star at the core.

He and the rest of the band members have vacation homes in the South of France, the epicenter of celebrity lifestyle.

How did he end up in the South of Frances, as opposed to Italy or Spain?

"There's been, always been, an Irish/French thing going back to what's called the Flight of Earls. And in the 19th century. So, they're very tolerant of loud Irish people here, as you can see," says Bono laughing. "As you can see I like to keep a low profile," he adds.

Fact is, Bono's celebrity profile could hardly be bigger. Rock star sunglasses aside, he dispenses with it as much as possible.

Bono doesn't travel with security and doesn't have a posse. "I've always, you know, our thing, and being in U2, is like, how do you be, but not have to have all that b******t that goes with being famous and so, answer number one, live in Ireland. Ok? That helped," says Bono.

Bono also jokes about keeping his low profile in the South of France. "Why live in France? Because the French are so snobbishÂ. The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you."
Truth is, Bono and the band are treated like royalty on the French Riviera and spend as much time there as possible.

On tour last summer, they commuted to many of their European concerts from the South of France in a private jet.

Poking fun at themselves is something they do well, and often. At the height of their early fame almost 20 years ago, Frank Sinatra joined in at one of his Las Vegas concerts.

"During the show, he stood up, he stopped us and made us kind of stand up and do the wave thing. And we were dressed in, you know, rags, just in comparison," remembers Bono. "And he just stopped. He said, 'You're number one all around the world.' He said, 'Look at you. You haven't spent a dime on your clothes.'"

Today, they do spend millions on their concert production. Every detail of their sets is state-of-the-art, even a cappuccino machine under the stage.

And the attention to detail goes for the music, too. The band gets a lot out of their instruments. Part of their secret is guitar technology.

"It's like a programmable switching system. So I can go through any combination of effects," explains The Edge.

But Larry Mullen makes his job as simple as possible. He doesnÂt do big drum solos. "It's fairly simple and straightforward. But because of myÂI'm not that good. And I concentrate quite hard," he says, laughing.

Mullen and Clayton focus on creating the engine that drives the music. Bono and Edge are the navigators, trying to take each song and each concert to new heights, every night.

This is where the band's two worlds collide. Their global fame has given Bono a political voice. U2Âs politics give their music a little something extra.

And Bono is confident U2's music will be remembered in the future.

"Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away," says Bono. "But our music will be here in 50 years and 100 years' time. Fact that our songs occupy a sort of an emotional terrain that didn't exist before our group did."

Bono's Charity Starts Podcasts

info@partnerwithastar.com — Tue, 5 Dec 2006 00:05:38 +0200

Bono, U2 frontmanÂs social awareness group launches a monthly audio series on World AIDS day, writes Red Herring. The podcast, published every Thursday, intends to extend the charityÂs anti-poverty message to trendsetters through a series of podcasts to commemorate World AIDS day.

ÂCelebrities will continue to weigh in on issues, while weÂll also [spotlight] people who are working in church basements and on college campuses to get people to help,Â says Meighan Stone of ONE.org.

Independent publishers, business of all sizes including home businesses and corporations have begun to use podcast as a tool to market themselves. Now the technology has been used for charitable purposes.

I am not by all means surprised by this news, podcasting should have been used in many more applications and busineses. Just that I canÂt keep the excitement for myself.
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Bono's charity goes local

info@partnerwithastar.com — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:45:02 +0200

MAKE Poverty History campaigners are planning to launch U2 lead singer Bono's charity retail scheme in Australia in the coming year.

Concert organiser Hugh Evans is in discussions with Australian retailers about a local version of the (Product)Red brand founded by the U2 singer.

As the campaign to end Third World poverty continues, supporters can relive the concert last month that launched the movement in Australia with a DVD. And Saturday's Herald Sun will bring it to you free. For an exclusive preview of the DVD, log on to our special report.

The cream of Australia's music industry, along with U2's Bono and The Edge and Pearl Jam, is featured in two hours of performance and behind-the-scenes footage.

Half of the profits from the sale of brand name (Product)Red goods are donated to the Global Fund helping women and children with HIV/AIDS in Africa.

The US and UK products include Armani sunglasses, Converse sneakers, Apple iPods, and American Express credit cards.

You can collect a copy of the exclusive DVD free on Saturday from newsagents across Victoria when you buy your Herald Sun.

DVD stocks are limited and there will not be an opportunity to order the DVD when newsagents run out.

Bono paints for charity

info@partnerwithastar.com — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:51:08 +0200

You remember your art classes at primary school where you had your mini easel and those poster paints? When you thought a single blue line at the top of the page and a green one at the bottom would constitute for the sky and the grass? Then a red square with a squiffy triangle on top in-between two lumps of cauliflower green smudges on a brown line showed a house and two trees? Well imagine a grown man doing this in black paint portraying an image of himself under the name 'Peter' and a wolf symbolizing the devil. Sounds a bit bloody stupid doesn't it? But if your Bono you can just about get away with it.

Rewind to August 2002 and the worlds greatest rock band, U2 reached their UK leg of their Elevation Tour. After playing sell out nights at London's Earls Court, Bono left the venue straight away every night and flew back to Dublin to sleep with his dying father. Leading up his death Bob Hewson (Bono's dad) was helped through his final months from the Irish Hospice Foundation. A year later Bono wanted to give something back to say thanks.

The hospice came up with the idea to ask Bono to draw illustrations for a book based on the children's' novel 'Peter and the Wolf'. The trouble was that they had over 60 pages to fill by one of the busiest men in the world, so they asked Bono if he would sketch a small drawing every time he took a flight. Bono however had a better plan. If he was going to do something, he would do it properly. So he turned up in his painting overal equipped with paint and paper at the home of one of the organizers home and painted all day. With the help of his two daughters, who wanted to show their love for their Granddad, the paintings were finished and would be published in a book from November in Ireland, America, Ireland and the UK.

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The auction takes place at New York's' Rockefeller Center on November 21st. Leading up to the date the original paintings have been exhibited in the States, Ireland and are currently on show in the UK at Christie's. We attended the private view attended by The Edge and Dave Stewart and of course Bono. Rock star, Gavin Friday, who helped produce the book, introduced Bono onto a small podium in front of the invited crowd. The U2 star couldn't resist banging the infamous auction hammer to ask for silence after the welcome applause he was given. He told how much the charity meant to him and how he found his love of music through his Granny's piano. He touched the audience hearts explaining his love and loss of his father, only days before he told a British tabloid how he nearly calls him on a regular basis and the sorrow when he realizes that he was no longer there after picking up the phone.

After his speech we joined Bono admiring his own work in the gallery, which he modestly reviews as 'Pretty Good!' Bono can't do nothing wrong and we can exclusively reveal that if plans go according to his wishes he will be hitting the UK with his boys in 2005. Let's just hope he can enjoy the after shows this year.

American Idol to go to Africa, Bono announces at symposium

info@partnerwithastar.com — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:40:03 +0200

Heres a scoop! American Idol will soon go to Africa to become its usual sensation there. This pearl of wisdom dropped from the lips of the one and only Bono.
Asked if he is a fan of Americas hottest TV show and if he watches it, Bono laughed; "No, but I will now!"
The rock king of U2, one of the worlds most active philanthropists, fighting AIDS, poverty and injustice all over the world, was the guest last week at a symposium put together by Time Warner.
The audience was stellar - director/actor Sydney Pollack, stars par excellence such as Robert Duvall, Kevin Bacon, Timothy Hutton, Christine Baranski, Roberta Flack, Jane Seymour, Russell Simmons, Steve Buscemi and Meryl Streeps "find," the fabled performance artist Sarah Jones of Bridge and Tunnel fame.
Lots of other type "stars" as well - Jonathan Alter, Richard Cohen, Ron Delsener, Kenneth Cole, Maria Cuomo, Campbell Brown, Terry George, Chris Blackwell, Jeff Greenfield, Agnes Gund, Charlie Rose, Jeff Koons, Ray Kelly, David Lauren, Sheila Nevins, Lou Reed, Jeff Bewkes, Rick Stengel, Moby, Billy Norwich, Marshall Rose, Faye Wattleton, Elie Wiesel, Roger Waters, Brian Williams, Sherrie and David Westin of Sesame Workshop and ABC. And many more I didnt see.
http://www.u2france.com/spip.php?article10129

Bono: Sex Talks in Churches are 'Critical' in AIDS Battle

info@partnerwithastar.com — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:41:55 +0200

U2 lead singer Bono, left, speaks to the media beside Congresswoman Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, center, and Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, Friday, March 2, 2007, in Oakland, Calif. Lee welcomed the rock star and international AIDS activist to Oakland to learn about how the global HIV/AIDS epidemic is impacting the African American community in the United States and the efforts being made to stop the disease. Lee, Bono, and Dellums participated in a roundtable discussion with local faith leaders on the role of the faith community in helping fight the disease.
The singer met last Friday with clergy, non-profit groups and people infected with HIV at Allen Temple Baptist Church in East Oakland, noting the disproportionate amount of black people affected with AIDS in the region.
"We're at the epicenter here in East Oakland of a new rise of the AIDS epidemic in the United States," Bono noted, according to the Kaiser Network, "But I'd also say we're also at the epicenter of the resistance to that epidemic."

Danny Schechter: An Open Letter To Bono Re: Debt Relief

info@partnerwithastar.com — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:46:54 +0200

The News Dissector has a request for your upcoming special edition of Vanity Fair: Link the growing debt burden of Americas and the better-known debt problems in Africa.

Bono is in the news. (When is he not?) This time, the world's great rocker is being named to edit a special edition of the Vanity Fair, the gliteratti magazine that influences our national buzz machine and cultural zeitgeist. One of his stated missions is to offer compelling non-stereotyped stories about the fight against AIDS and for debt relief in Africa that compassion fatigued Americans will tune in to.

As he reaches out to touch an American nerve, I am reaching out to touch his. I am doing so in the spirit of Nelson Mandela, with whom I did five films, and who once surprised me at a press event by staring right at me and asking - with a big smile - "Remember Me?" I know Bono remembers me. In fact we were both at Mandela's big anti-AIDS concert in Cape Town some years back. I was filming it; he was starring in it. We had a long talk.
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/836

Bono on the Run to Tackle AIDS and Poverty

info@partnerwithastar.com — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:48:10 +0200

Bono accepts at the chairman's award at the 38th NAACP Image Awards, Friday 2 March, 2007, in Los Angeles.
(AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
U2's Bono recently called Oakland's black community in California the 'epicentre' of a new wave of AIDS infections.
"I'm a spoiled-rotten rock star, I know that, but I have a loud hailer and I'm going to use it," the frontman for U2 told reporters at a news conference after two hours of closed-door meetings at Allen Temple Baptist Church. "I've come as a student, really."
The 46-year-old Irish musician - renowned for his work on international debt relief and HIV, particularly in Africa - visited Oakland at the request of Democratic Representative for Oakland Barbara Lee. She said Friday's event was "another attempt to break the silence with regards to this global HIV pandemic", which affects African-Americans disproportionately in the US.
"We're at the epicentre here in East Oakland of a new rise of the AIDS epidemic in the United States," said Bono. "But I'd also say we're also at the epicentre of the resistance to that epidemic

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/bono.on.the.run.to.tackle.aids.and.poverty/9772.htm