(get it? Like Live Aid?)
Live 8 is a series of concerts and events across the world which are being staged to highlight the problem of global poverty. It’s a chance for ordinary people to call on world leaders at this year’s G8 summit and tell them to put a stop to the needless deaths of 30,000 children every single day.On 6th July 2005, the leaders of Great Britain, the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia will meet at Gleneagles in Scotland to talk about world affairs, including Africa. They will be presented with a workable plan to double aid, drop the debt and make trade laws fair.
The G8 summit is our opportunity to demand that the world’s most influential leaders take action now.
Live 8 has organised concerts in Philadelpia, Berlin, London, Rome, Paris and Edinburgh, with 100 artists, a million spectators, two billion viewers and one message: Make Poverty History. link
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Americans are very quick to send money oversees to help poor people. We should focus more on helping our own people out of poverty. No one outside the U.S. is going to send money to our country to help our people.
It is time we stop blaming ourselves for the plight of everyone else. It is time to take responsibility for our ownand let others focus on the rest of the world. Cut off our foreign aid to other countries and we will see a change in attitude from other nations.
-Clarke
Clarke-
What criterion do we use for defining “our own people”? Is it racial? National? Religious? I think Jesus would say that everyone in the world is “our people,” because everyone on the world is his people.