This is going to be short, because I don't feel like getting into the subject into extreme detail. However, if anyone looked at the cover of the Sunday Toronto Star they'd notice that it was the Live 8 edition and that the cover story was entitled "Will it help her?" with a large picture of a young girl working in a field in Niger, two years into a famine. It was followed by an article that gave the answer: No.
No, Live 8 won't help the girl in Niger, or any of the other children dying everyday in Africa because of poverty. First: Africa is big. You can't find a blanket solution for a whole continent. Second: Widely acknowledged, most of Africa is corrupt. In most cases the governments pilfer the aid money anyways. Why send them more money when it's not even going to make it to that dying child that the idiots running Live 8 told you to care about. A much more logical campaign would have been to call for more African government accountability, and a fairer trade from the Western nations. But they didn't do that, because that's not what Live 8 was about.
No, Live 8 was about making the West feel good.
Yup - Basically.
It's almost like "I signed a petition on this website! I am helping Africa get better! :)"
"I bought one of those white bracelets! I am super!"
I enjoyed watching some of performances for Live 8 nonetheless...
Live 8 wasn't about giving money... hence why the tickets were free. It was about sending a message to leaders of the G8 nations.
Now I'm not saying it's gonna work, that's hard to say. But it wasn't about giving money.
Live 8 was totally about money Chris. I was about gaining enough momentum to force the G8 nations to cancel debt, and send them more aid. Double the aid. Double the aid for corrupt governments to squander. Fuck the idiots who thought that up. We have problems here we need to deal with first.
humhum, i didnt even know about it till the day it was on. and i didnt go to it. i saw the petition to send to the government though and even if its for whatever underlying reason u claim it to be. if theres a chance it helps, its theres a chance the letters go to world leaders for something, at least the idea of it was in the right place. i saw no harm in taking a few mins to just sign up and send it just in case it helps a bit.