For those of us who like U2, here is the activist side of Bono.
“That’s not a cause. That’s an emergency.”
Commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
May 17, 2004
Transcript
Video of the speech (Note: you will have to fast forward at least half of the video to get to the start of the speech)
Update: You can fast forward the video to 1:56:13. Thanks Arun for the update.
bono was at the Yahoo! campus the other day.
Posted by bluesmoon | November 10, 2005, 2:31 pmi heard this the date it was on u2.com last year. And since u have talked about bono, i cant keep my mouth shut
. He has been an activist right from their first album. There was fire then(Sunday Bloody Sunday,1984) and it is there even now. (Love and Peace or Else, 2005)
Here’s some more of his activist side.
1) http://www.data.org
2) http://www.makepovertyhistory.org
3) http://www.one.org
And before i conclude my specch
, a small snippet from his song “Peace on Earth” from the Album “All that you can’t leave behind” (2001)
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Heaven on earth, I dont need it now..
I am sick of all of this, hanging around..
I am sick of the sorrow, I am sick of the pain..
I am sick of hearing, again and again..
that there’s never gonna be…
PEACE ON EARTH..
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Posted by anonymous | November 11, 2005, 12:26 am