{"id":10233,"date":"2013-03-14T14:07:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T20:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=10233"},"modified":"2013-05-18T21:55:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T03:55:37","slug":"bono-on-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/bono-on-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Bono on poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/bono_the_good_news_on_poverty_yes_there_s_good_news.html\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After fighting against poverty for the last 25 years, Bono was asked to share his story and his dreams at TED.<\/p>\n<p>Turning from rockstar to &#8220;factivist&#8221; Bono points out that in the last 25 years we now have 7526 less children dying per day. Things ARE getting better &#8211; but there&#8217;s still a lot to be done.<\/p>\n<p>Like he did at <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/bono-takes-the-pulpit-at-georgetown-university\/\" title=\"Bono takes the pulpit at Georgetown University\" target=\"_blank\">Georgetown last year<\/a>, Bono quoted Wael Ghonim, who launched a Facebook group that spurred the uprising in Egypt last year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to win because we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand politics. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to win because we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t play their dirty games. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to win because we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have an agenda. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to win because the tears that comes from our eyes actually come from our hearts. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to win because we have dreams. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to win because we are willing to stand up for our dreams. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to win because the power of the people is so much stronger than the people in power.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>What stat stands out to you the most during the video?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A big HT to <a href=\"http:\/\/charlestlee.com\/humanitarian\/bono-the-good-news-on-poverty\/\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Lee<\/a> for pointing this video out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After fighting against poverty for the last 25 years, Bono was asked to share his story and his dreams at TED. Turning from rockstar to &#8220;factivist&#8221; Bono points out that in the last 25 years we now have 7526 less children dying per day. Things ARE getting better &#8211; but there&#8217;s still a lot to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/bono-on-poverty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bono on poverty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[589,3976,1553,1291,11],"class_list":["post-10233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-take-action","tag-bono","tag-data","tag-poverty","tag-ted","tag-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-2F3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10528,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233\/revisions\/10528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}