Bono vows civil disobedience in poverty fight
Bono said he’ll join a campaign of civil disobedience if rich countries don’t do more to fight world poverty.
“The people I represent -- the activists from my community -- will take a very, very different tack in the next few years if these trends are to continue in Africa,” the U2 lead singer said Tuesday at the Dublin release of a U.N. report warning that international programs to help poor nations out of poverty are failing in many countries.
“I am ready to march with my activist friends in campaigns of civil disobedience,” he added. “We are about to get very noisy, we are about to bang a lot of dustbin lids. This issue is the defining issue of our time and some of us are ready to really work on it.”
From Associated Press
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