"No, I guess we don't. I don't think that debt relief for Africa is a good idea at all. It won't put food in any hungry bellies, it'll just make the potentates and dictators even richer, enabling them to buy more guns."
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its not about that, it was to make it clear to the world leaders that their people want what they're intending to do, and to make it clean to the people watching who may noyt have been alerted to the plight already
"fuck geldof, fuck tony blair and fuck africa.
try fixing what's wrong with your own friggin countries (of which this bread and circuses shit is a primary symptom, by the way) before you go messing with other people's.
how DARE you bleeding-heart halfwits flush billions of dollars down the bottomless toilet of "international aid" when there are people homeless and starving on your own filthy doorsteps."
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this perticular movement was to put one very large ammount into africa, and in one fell swoop of aid, fairtrade and european parliment governing of the gorilla states really make a difference to these countries,
there are people starving in america because you all vote for it, you all vote in lower taxes at the expence of people who really need help getting it, just because america doesn't work does not mean that noone should even attemp helping africa
'Um...there were over 1 million people AT the concert in Philly...I was one of them. There were way more than 3 million watching cross country.
Sam'
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there were 2.8 million people who watched it in the USA live, while 8/10 people who have acces to tvs and radios in the WHOLE world watched it, if america watched it as as many people in every other country did, something like 99% of the wealthy world would have showed to the 8 most powerful men in the world that they are for world issues
