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in the book edition Bono bottom lines his beliefs re: Fair Trade – shopping is politics. Every time we are spending money, we vote. Totally thought provoking. The bottom line – trade is good only when it’s FAIR.
Rhythms of Redemption shares that Bono’s wife, Ali has just launched her own Fair Trade fashion line 
She originally made her children’s clothing. Why? As stated in ROR – she did not want to think another mother’s child was being exploited in making her children’s clothes. We’ve all heard the reports of child/slave labor in other countries. Exploitation? Justice? How do they walk hand in hand?
What can we do as a generation to change circumstances? What can we do as a generation to give hope to the hopeless? We can do something … day by day … person by person, dollar by dollar. The first step to change is awareness. Once we know … we are no longer able to say “I didn’t know.”
As Bono said at the Labour Party Conference, November 2004, “We are the first generation that can look extreme and stupid poverty in the eye, look across the water to Africa and elsewhere and say this and mean it: we have the cash, we have the drugs, we have the science – but do we have the will? Do we have the will to make poverty history? Do we?”
Fair trade is a beginning. Helping and aiding groups … reaching out to countries is a beginning. We can do this. We can be that generation … people helping people … step by step.
Take a step!
