Lookie what mimi found. Our lovely Coldplay boys went to a visited corn growers in Mexico in support of MTF today and I found some piccies:

 

 

"Alejandrino Flores shows Chris Martin, vocalist of British rock band Coldplay, how to plough corn in Santa Isabel del Tepetzala, Puebla, Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2003. Coldplay will perform in Mexico City on Sunday and Monday and are visting Mexican corn growers to support Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte"

He's shaved his hair again, he looks good :D, although everytime I see him he looks more thin - eat boy eat!!

 

 

"Alejandrino Flores shows corn fields to Chris Martin, vocalist of British rock band Coldplay in Santa Isabel del Tepetzala, Puebla, Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2003. Coldplay performs in Mexico City on Sunday and Monday and are visting Mexican corn growers to support Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)"

Heehee, look at Guy:

 

 

"Catalina Flores gives fresh corn to members of the rock group Coldplay, from left to right, Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman, Will Champion, and vocalist Chris Martin in the village of Santa Isabel Tepetzala, Puebla, Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2003. Coldplay will perform in Mexico City on Sunday and Monday and are visting Mexican corn growers to support Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) "

Thin Chris again:

 

 

"Chris Martin, vocalist of British rock group Coldplay, walks through corn fields in Santa Isabel del Tepetzala, Puebla, Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2003. Coldplay will perform in Mexico City on Sunday and Monday and are visting Mexican corn growers to support Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign.(AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) "

good pics thanx mimi ;) :kiss:

thx :)

great pics Mimi thanks

For anyone who's interested at all in Fair Trade and lives in the UK, there will be a pull-out in tomorrow's 'Guardian' on what fair trade is actually about and a few quotes and things by 'famous' supporters, including Thom Yorke and Desmond Tutu. :D

Got to read that, as i would be interesting...

Horay! For the people who support the campagne...

i got that cd aswell....gud tracks on there and all 4 a gud cause

 

Look at Chris face awwww

And the little boy awwww!

i know that piccie is sooooo sweet

oioi :wink3: nice pics

and yup, I'm DEFINITELY gonna get me hands on tomorrows Guardian

Me too!!!

Oooooh, dear Mimi, thanks for the pics...

It's really great to see all the band there, 'cause in Haiti (or Tahiti?) just Chris went...

cough cough and me 4 the pix aswell as mimi lol and i got that cd and its great

what cd, megahun?

The accompanying article to the pics:

 

NOPALUCAN DE LA GRANJA, Mexico (Reuters) - Chris Martin, vocalist for the music sensation Coldplay, nearly stepped on a rattlesnake as he strolled through a cornfield in Mexico Saturday.

 

Martin, Coldplay guitarist Jonny Buckland, drummer Will Champion and base player Guy Berryman took a day out of their mini Latin America tour to visit farmers in Mexico who say free trade and competition with developed nations is killing them.

 

 

The band is in Mexico to play two concerts and push the "Make Trade Fair" campaign, spearheaded by the British Charity Oxfam, ahead of meetings next week by World Trade Organization (news - web sites) countries in the resort town of Cancun.

 

 

Farmers in developing nations like Mexico say they cannot compete with the multimillion dollar subsidies afforded to their counterparts in developed countries, particularly in the United States.

 

 

"See, I couldn't work here just because of that," Martin told peasant farmers, his eyes on the baby rattlesnake at his feet on a corn growing cooperative in Puebla state, about 90 miles south of Mexico City.

 

 

"You have to deal with foreign imports coming in and then there's the snakes."

 

 

Coldplay's Martin and Buckland will head to Cancun on Tuesday to meet with WTO chief Supachai Panitchpakdi and present him with a petition called the Big Noise and which carries the weight of over 3 million signatures.

 

 

The petition demands an end to agricultural dumping and export subsidies and includes the signature of South African former Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who became the one-millionth person to join the movement in June.

 

 

Farm reform is central to WTO negotiations on lowering trade barriers, but disagreements still run deep ahead of the Sept. 10-14 gathering in Cancun.

 

 

Success in the farm negotiations is widely seen as crucial to the outcome of the Doha round of free trade talks launched in the Qatari capital in November 2001 and ambitiously scheduled to be wrapped up by the end of next year.

 

 

Coldplay does not expect to change the world but they hope that through their music they may raise the awareness of their fans to the plight of the poor in developing countries.

 

 

"We see ourselves as a billboard for an idea, not as the solution," said Martin as he strolled through cornfields, chewed on sweet corn cane and took a turn at driving a horse-drawn plow.

Thank youuuuuuu, hun!! :smug:

No problem Noni anything for you and the rest of the "coolest people in the world" :D