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Muhammad Ali

Bono’s Bandwagon

By Irish America Staff
December / January 2001

December 1, 2000 by Leave a Comment

U2 frontman Bono could be spotted on the east Coast this fall as he visited both the United Nations and the U.S. Congress with his plea for the G7 nations to drop the third world debt. With 21.1 million signatures, the "Drop the debt" petition is the largest single-issue petition ever gathered and counts the Dalai Lama, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Muhammad Ali and Bob Geldof as some … [Read more...] about Bono’s Bandwagon

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