Live 8
4 July 2005 @ 10:39
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I must admit, I didn’t actually watch Live 8. Yes, I sat, as a child of two, all day watching Live Aid (I had the mumps and saw the whole thing from my Dad’s knee!), yes, I to have the ‘Make Poverty History’ banner up: but Live 8 just seemed so ineffectual. OK, so the idea behind it was very important, and getting world-wide constant coverage for the ‘plight of Africa’ (as it is always called) is ‘worthy’ (well, what other word can you use?!); but, then, what difference will it make? What Live 8 fails to take in to account is, even if the West cancels the debt - which, although it would be a good start, it will never be an end - capitalism will still need a weak area in order than the West can be the most powerful. By its very nature, capitalism needs poverty. |
