Take a look at this article in the San Francisco Chronicle with Bono
talking about the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty and how
we are working, as ONE, together and making real progress. You can also
tune into their three part podacst about their meeting at
www.sfgate.com/blogs/podcasts

U2’s Bono makes fiery case for rocking the world with ambitious mission to eradicate global misery

“Wearing pink-tinted, wraparound glasses beneath a beat-up, perfectly
molded straw cowboy hat, the U2 front man said that although the United
States has much work to do and more money to give to fight poverty and
AIDS, the Bush administration had gone from a “standing start” to
tripling its aid to Africa over the past four years. He singled out the
president’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which has put a
quarter-million Africans on antiviral medication in the past year.
It is an amazing thing he’s pulled off,” Bono said. “Three years ago,
people would laugh openly, in your face, at the idea that we could work
with the administration on this stuff.

The firebrand rock star, in town for two sold-out shows earlier this
week at the Arena in Oakland, has been signing up audience members for
his One Campaign to Make Poverty History all along the “Vertigo” tour,
which has been playing to packed houses in America and Europe since
March. He hoped to get a million people; he got 2 million.”

Click here to read the full article

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