bonojr62
Refugee
Just curious how many Blue crackheads have signed the One campaign and or wear the white band?
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bonojr62
Refugee
lol i prefer the wristband a lot of ppl ask why it says one lol. Give you a chance to spread the word around.
Sevikins
Refugee
Some people tend to say it's a knockoff of the Livestrong band but I don't care, I'll still wear it.
Please check out my thread here in FYM about what those who wear a white band could be doing to make poverty history, which is the whole purpose of wearing a white band.
http://www.whiteband.org
http://www.whiteband.org
LoveTown
Refugee
I wear it, and I have passed them out to clients, co-workers and friends.
nickypiemcg
The Fly
A bit off topic but I'd really like an economist actually tell me what the effects of implementing all the suggestions of the ONE campaign (or the makepovertyhistory campaign) would be in the west. I wear the wrist band and kind of support it a bit blindly (those videos on the website really got me!) but alot of people just say "tax the rich" or "tax the corporations". I'm no economist (more of a biologist and soon to be lawyer, maybe!) but surely taxing the rich would mean they would spend less? So if they're not buying as many goods surely the people that manufacture/sell/supply/maintain those goods will suffer? If anyone would like to answer this that would be great. At the end of the day though I'll still support the campaign but I don't think we in the west can call ourselves "civilised" while we let people die in the 3rd world die for no good reason. I mean what is civilised? Having a fancy bottle of wine at a posh restaurant or preventing a child dying? I know which one I'd choose.
verte76
Blue Crack Addict
I've signed onto the campaign and have a white band, but I don't always wear it. I guess that's kind of stupid.
coemgen
Rock n' Roll Doggie
I've signed and I wear.
Irvine511
Blue Crack Supplier
bought mine at the first Philly show -- wearing it today.
MrsSpringsteen
Blue Crack Addict
I've signed and I wear mine, am wearing it today. I try to wear it almost every day, unless I'm really dressed up and it doesn't look right w/ my jewelry and/or outfit 
I know that's disgustingly vain.I don't have a Lance band or any others, just the One
I know that's disgustingly vain.I don't have a Lance band or any others, just the Onebonojr62
Refugee
Irvine511 said:
same here
Here is an article that concisely explains what The ONE Campaign is really all about (and it's not just white bands, folks)
washingtonpost.com
High-Profile Help for Africa
By Sebastian Mallaby
Post
Monday, May 23, 2005; A19
On the question of Africa right now, the Bush administration is up against Nelson Mandela, Tony Blair and the rock star-industrial complex, not to mention Sun Microsystems and Pat Robertson. It's one of those occasions when the sole pole in our (supposedly) unipolar world looks pretty much surrounded.
The sainted Mandela, who packs more moral authority than any man alive, visited President Bush last Tuesday to urge further efforts to help Africa. Blair's foreign minister was in town at the same time, reinforcing the same message. Mandela urged Bush to launch a new Africa initiative, perhaps around the time of the United Nations summit in September. For the Brits, the forcing event is July's Group of Eight summit, which Blair will host in Scotland.
Now add in the rock-star factor. Bono's U2, which has sold more $12 albums than Bush has ever won free votes, has been playing concerts all over the country. Some way into each performance, Bono interrupts the music to deliver variations on this riff: The first time I heard about America, he says, it was because a man had landed on the moon. But now I want to talk about my generation's challenge -- not putting a man on the moon but bringing mankind back down to Earth by addressing extreme poverty.
Take out your cell phones, the riff continues; make this place into a Christmas tree.
And with that, the lights go out, leaving darkness punctuated by the fairy lights of 10,000 waving gadgets. "There's some light in the world," Bono's voice calls out, proving that rock stars can say ordinary things and yet somehow sound profound. "We are powerful when we work together as one." One, as it happens, is the name of the multimillion-dollar Africa campaign as well as of a U2 love song. With the lights still down, Bono begins to sing and the campaign begins to do its thing on the large screen behind him. An invitation flashes up urging fans to text-message their names to the One campaign's number, and pretty soon a zillion bytes are zinging to a special aerial on the roof, erected by Sun Microsystems. The aerial relays the info to the campaign's database, and a few of the names appear like movie credits on the screen. The fans get text messages right back. Please visit http://www.one.org/ . And thank you, from Bono.
Bono is not One's only weapon. A who's who of stars illuminates the campaign's TV commercial, which was produced by the marketing genius who did the iPod advertising. Because it features the likes of George Clooney and Cameron Diaz, the commercial has been given free airtime by MTV, ABC and Fox.
Film star, schmilm star: Celebrity endorsements are not exactly novel. But among the Hollywood royalty, there is one incongruous figure: the avuncular, silver-haired televangelist Pat Robertson, he of the Hollywood-equals-cesspool rhetoric. Robertson appears on the One campaign commercial right before Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, the rapper whose main contribution to the world is Bad Boy Entertainment.
Robertson? Ah, this is the political strategy. Past efforts to mobilize Americans behind development issues -- to make this place into Norway or Denmark -- have aimed for a left-center alliance. One's message mavens aim instead for a coalition of the flanks: for Bill Moyers liberals and lovers of Christian-contemporary music. Last year a version of this left-right pincer helped get an Africa trade bill through Congress; liberal development types made common cause with churches and the business lobby. Today, One is betting that the televangelist-Bad Boy, sects-and-violence combo can build a permanent big-tent movement: a sort of AARP for Africa.
So the Bush folk are pretty much surrounded. Even though they have already launched two major Africa initiatives -- the Millennium Challenge Account aid effort and the president's initiative on HIV -- it's a pretty sure bet that, in the run-up to the G-8 summit and the September U.N. gathering, the Bush administration will have to do another something. The White House has gotten the message that Britain and other rich countries will be announcing bold pro-Africa initiatives. If the United States aspires to lead the world, it cannot stand there empty-handed.
But the real test for the administration -- and for the One campaign and its allies -- will be the initiative's content. If the announcement is mainly smoke and mirrors -- for instance, a debt-relief proposal that's paid for out of the financial reserves of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank -- that won't be much of a triumph. If on the other hand the administration makes a strong announcement involving real new money, the question is going to be whether Congress will fund it.
That's the ultimate One challenge. The campaign wants to boost U.S. development spending by 1 percent of the budget, a sum equivalent to around $25 billion a year -- enough to bring the American contribution up to European levels as a share of GDP. But when the administration recently proposed a modest $3.3 billion extra for all foreign operations, the House leadership cut the proposal by nearly 80 percent, preferring to protect programs such as ludicrous domestic farm subsidies.
So the One campaigners are off to a good start. But the lobbies on the other side are going to take some beating.
mallabys@washpost.com
washingtonpost.com
High-Profile Help for Africa
By Sebastian Mallaby
Post
Monday, May 23, 2005; A19
On the question of Africa right now, the Bush administration is up against Nelson Mandela, Tony Blair and the rock star-industrial complex, not to mention Sun Microsystems and Pat Robertson. It's one of those occasions when the sole pole in our (supposedly) unipolar world looks pretty much surrounded.
The sainted Mandela, who packs more moral authority than any man alive, visited President Bush last Tuesday to urge further efforts to help Africa. Blair's foreign minister was in town at the same time, reinforcing the same message. Mandela urged Bush to launch a new Africa initiative, perhaps around the time of the United Nations summit in September. For the Brits, the forcing event is July's Group of Eight summit, which Blair will host in Scotland.
Now add in the rock-star factor. Bono's U2, which has sold more $12 albums than Bush has ever won free votes, has been playing concerts all over the country. Some way into each performance, Bono interrupts the music to deliver variations on this riff: The first time I heard about America, he says, it was because a man had landed on the moon. But now I want to talk about my generation's challenge -- not putting a man on the moon but bringing mankind back down to Earth by addressing extreme poverty.
Take out your cell phones, the riff continues; make this place into a Christmas tree.
And with that, the lights go out, leaving darkness punctuated by the fairy lights of 10,000 waving gadgets. "There's some light in the world," Bono's voice calls out, proving that rock stars can say ordinary things and yet somehow sound profound. "We are powerful when we work together as one." One, as it happens, is the name of the multimillion-dollar Africa campaign as well as of a U2 love song. With the lights still down, Bono begins to sing and the campaign begins to do its thing on the large screen behind him. An invitation flashes up urging fans to text-message their names to the One campaign's number, and pretty soon a zillion bytes are zinging to a special aerial on the roof, erected by Sun Microsystems. The aerial relays the info to the campaign's database, and a few of the names appear like movie credits on the screen. The fans get text messages right back. Please visit http://www.one.org/ . And thank you, from Bono.
Bono is not One's only weapon. A who's who of stars illuminates the campaign's TV commercial, which was produced by the marketing genius who did the iPod advertising. Because it features the likes of George Clooney and Cameron Diaz, the commercial has been given free airtime by MTV, ABC and Fox.
Film star, schmilm star: Celebrity endorsements are not exactly novel. But among the Hollywood royalty, there is one incongruous figure: the avuncular, silver-haired televangelist Pat Robertson, he of the Hollywood-equals-cesspool rhetoric. Robertson appears on the One campaign commercial right before Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, the rapper whose main contribution to the world is Bad Boy Entertainment.
Robertson? Ah, this is the political strategy. Past efforts to mobilize Americans behind development issues -- to make this place into Norway or Denmark -- have aimed for a left-center alliance. One's message mavens aim instead for a coalition of the flanks: for Bill Moyers liberals and lovers of Christian-contemporary music. Last year a version of this left-right pincer helped get an Africa trade bill through Congress; liberal development types made common cause with churches and the business lobby. Today, One is betting that the televangelist-Bad Boy, sects-and-violence combo can build a permanent big-tent movement: a sort of AARP for Africa.
So the Bush folk are pretty much surrounded. Even though they have already launched two major Africa initiatives -- the Millennium Challenge Account aid effort and the president's initiative on HIV -- it's a pretty sure bet that, in the run-up to the G-8 summit and the September U.N. gathering, the Bush administration will have to do another something. The White House has gotten the message that Britain and other rich countries will be announcing bold pro-Africa initiatives. If the United States aspires to lead the world, it cannot stand there empty-handed.
But the real test for the administration -- and for the One campaign and its allies -- will be the initiative's content. If the announcement is mainly smoke and mirrors -- for instance, a debt-relief proposal that's paid for out of the financial reserves of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank -- that won't be much of a triumph. If on the other hand the administration makes a strong announcement involving real new money, the question is going to be whether Congress will fund it.
That's the ultimate One challenge. The campaign wants to boost U.S. development spending by 1 percent of the budget, a sum equivalent to around $25 billion a year -- enough to bring the American contribution up to European levels as a share of GDP. But when the administration recently proposed a modest $3.3 billion extra for all foreign operations, the House leadership cut the proposal by nearly 80 percent, preferring to protect programs such as ludicrous domestic farm subsidies.
So the One campaigners are off to a good start. But the lobbies on the other side are going to take some beating.
mallabys@washpost.com
starsgoblue
Blue Crack Addict
nickypiemcg said:
The End of Poverty by Jeffery Sachs, a economist who has worked with impoverished countries for over 20 years.
The foreword is by Bono actually, but what's eye opening is what Sachs has to say. WONDERFUL read.Here's his site based on the book: http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/endofpoverty/
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