New limited-edition U2 t-shirt launched to mark human rights day – News

Posted by Jonathan on Dec 14, 2012 in amnestyinternational, Charities and Benefits, charitiesandbenefits, edun, hardrock, News & Rumors

Hard Rock project will benefit Amnesty’s human rights work

Amnesty International,

Hard Rock has launched a new limited-edition U2 t-shirt to mark international human rights day (10 December) and raise funds for Amnesty International.

U2 joins a legendary roster of rock icons – including The Who, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Jon Bon Jovi, Shakira, Ringo Starr and John Lennon – as part of Hard Rock’s “Signature Series”, which has helped to raise millions of dollars for charitable causes worldwide.

The “U2 Signature Series: Edition 30″ t-shirt is being produced through a partnership between EDUN LIVE and Hard Rock, and will be available online and in Rock Shops at Hard Rock Cafe locations in London, New York and Dublin, with 15% of the retail price benefitting Amnesty. It will be available in Hard Rock Cafes, Hotels and Casinos worldwide from February 2013.

The U2 Signature Series t-shirt is printed on a navy blue EDUN Live t-shirt made from 100% African cotton (image available).

The shirt, which costs £20.45, features an image of an electric guitar with angel wings, emblazoned with the words “JUSTICE,” “HUMANITY” and “EQUALITY.” A barbed wire is seen wrapped around the neck of the guitar. The back of the t-shirt bears the signatures of each member of U2 – singer Bono, guitarist The Edge, bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen, Jr.

U2′s The Edge said:

“I hope this t-shirt generates loads of cash for Amnesty International and their tireless work towards the release of prisoners of conscience all around the world.

“Plus there’s a guitar on it – so it’s a win-win as far as I’m concerned.”

Amnesty International Campaigns & Communications Director Thomas Schultz-Jagow said:

Buy the t-shirt at hardrock.com

“We are thrilled that U2, Hard Rock and EDUN have generously offered to support Amnesty International in this high-profile way.

“We have a history of working with all three, and the combined power of us all coming together on this project will make a huge difference by raising awareness of our human rights work around the world.”

Hard Rock International’s Senior Director of Brand Philanthropy Annie Balliro said:

“We are proud to support Amnesty International and aid in the fight for human rights worldwide through the Signature Series programme.

“Hard Rock is honoured to have U2, legendary musicians and dedicated activists, join with us to raise funds and awareness for such an important organisation.”

Copyright © Amnesty international, UK.

Bono talks at World Bank Headquarters – News

Posted by Jonathan on Nov 17, 2012 in bono, News & Rumors, Political News, politicalnews, washingtondc, worldbank

As written in the Wall Street Journal’s blog from November 14, “even Bono is worried about the fiscal cliff.”

As taken from their website:

The lead singer of Irish band U2 says spending cuts that hit in January would devastate programs to help the world’s poor, leading to more than 60,000 deaths.

“There’s real jeopardy,” Bono said Wednesday at a discussion at the World Bank with bank President Jim Yong Kim. “I’m still terrified of people wrestling the wheel of this mad lorry that they’re driving off the cliff.”

Sequestration — a package of automatic spending cuts set in motion last year — would slash funding for U.S. programs grouped in the federal budget as “international affairs” by 8.2%, or $4.7 billion, in the current fiscal year. Bono said that includes about $2 billion from anti-poverty programs, such as treatment for HIV/AIDS, on which he focuses at his anti-poverty advocacy group, ONE.

“We know there’s going to be cuts,” he said. “We understand that. But not cuts that cost lives.”

You can watch the full 55 minute video of Bono above.

Bono’s Beautiful Daughter Quietly Stuns In NYC Appearance – News

Posted by Jonathan on Oct 26, 2012 in evehewson, Miscellaneous News, miscellaneousnews, News & Rumors, newyork

By Wendy Geller, Stop The Presses!

U2 frontman Bono may be one of the world’s highest-profile musicians, but you wouldn’t know it from the low profile his family tends to take. Case in point: The rocker’s 21-year-old daughter, Eve Hewson, who’s been building an acting career in an understated, non-splashy fashion. Not too many people are familiar with Hewson’s stunning looks–have you seen her before?

The beautiful blue-eyed brunette–the second-oldest of Bono and wife Ali Hewson’s four children–stunned onlookers in New York at a screening of her new film, This Must Be The Place, which co-stars Sean Penn and Frances McDormand.

The movie competed at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and will go into limited release domestically on November 2. Hewson plays the teenaged Mary, a friend to Penn’s portrayal of an aging Dublin rock star seeking revenge for his father’s torment at the hands of a Nazi guard.

The Irish-born Hewson, who lives in Brooklyn, made her feature-length acting debut in the 2008 drama The 27 Club. She also features prominently in Irish band the Script’s music video “For The First Time.”

Copyright © 2012 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.

Bono fights poverty, ex-Harvard head takes on Winklevoss twins at tech talk – News

Posted by Jonathan on Oct 20, 2012 in bono, Business News, businessnews, dublin, News & Rumors, oneorg

Ciara O’Brien, Irish Times

SOME OF the world’s top technology entrepreneurs mixed with well-known names in Dublin’s Mansion House yesterday as the F.ounders conference began.

Bono addressed the gathering as the co-founder of charity One International, an organisation that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease. He compared aid for struggling economies to start-up funding, and said One wants to be the NRA [National Rifle Assocation] of the world’s poor. “It’s much feared but well organised,” he said.

Bono appeared on stage with One executive director Jamie Drummond to discuss the campaign and how technology has helped empower people. “The 21st century began last year in Tahrir Square, where the model of power over the millennia – the pyramid – was inverted. You have this incredible thing that technologists have known for years: the network effect,” he said. “Received wisdom is not going over very well. Everything has changed … The more of it that is available, the easier our job.”

Transparency is the “vaccine” for the “biggest killer disease of them all”, Bono said.

The F.ounders conference is an invite-only event limited to 200 of the most influential tech leaders, and a few special guests. Director Barry Sonnenfeld and former US treasury secretary Larry Summers joined YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, Flipboard’s Mike McCue, and Yandex’s Arkady Volozh for the two-day event. Topics for discussion included the future of the web, technology and the economy, and politics and revolution.

The conference has been called “Davos for Geeks” because of the opportunities for networking that it provides. The “fireside chats” revealed some interesting titbits.

Summers took on the topics of how technology had impacted ON the economy, and redressing the gender balance in the industry.

“I think there’s a great deal One can do that is both pro-diversity and pro-meritocracy by giving everybody more of a chance,” he said.

“There’s a great deal that smart employers are increasingly doing to widen the sets of talent that they are able to recruit, and to recruit more women. I think the world is making progress, but . . . I’d like to see it making more progress.”

The former president of Harvard was asked about his dismissive remarks on the Winkelvoss twins, who sued Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly stealing their social network idea.

” You learn some things as a university president. One of the things you learn is that if undergraduates are wearing a suit and tie at 4 o’clock on a Wednesday afternoon, there are two possibilities. One is that they’ve got a job interview; the other is that there’s something a bit off about them. The Winklevosses did not have a job interview that afternoon.”

F.ounders continues today.

© 2012 irishtimes.com

The Edge spotted with Bryan Ferry on stage – News

Posted by Jonathan on Sep 28, 2012 in Edge, england, london, Miscellaneous News, miscellaneousnews, News & Rumors, northernireland

On September 27, 2012, U2′s The Edge was seen on stage performing with Bryan Ferry at the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital Friendship Ball in London, England. They played the Irish folk song “Carrickfergus”, named after the town of Carrickfergus in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.