I hope that you got a chance to watch the Live 8 Concert last Saturday; we watched almost all of the 8-hour broadcast. Some of the MTV/VH1 hosts got pretty annoying after a while, and the televised broadcasts rarely showed an entire performance of a song. However, there were notable exceptions, like the awesome performances by The Who and the reunion of the original Pink Floyd members. And the sheer diversity of performers was pretty cool…
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the Live 8 concerts were held in nine venues throughout the world and are almost exactly twenty years after the Live Aid concerts that Bob Geldof also organized. Unlike Live Aid, though, whose purpose was to raise money to combat poverty in Africa, Live 8’s purpose is to raise awareness about poverty in developing countries in order to pressure leaders attending the upcoming July 6th G8 summit in Scotland to do more for the world’s poorest countries. As Bob Geldof states, “in 2005 it is your voice we are after, not your money.”
The ONE Campaign is:
a new effort by Americans to rally Americans – ONE by ONE – to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. The ONE Campaign is engaging Americans through a diverse coalition of faith-based and anti-poverty organizers to show the steps people can take, ONE by ONE, to fight global AIDS and poverty.
Show your support for this worthy cause by visiting the ONE Campaign’s Action Page and making your voice heard through some of their suggested methods.
