HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS TO ATTEND
     FREE CONCERTS IN EUROPE AND AMERICA,
     WHILE BILLIONS WATCH ON TV
     AND PARTICIPATE ONLINE
     TO DEMAND G8 ACT TO END POVERTY
     
     HERE’S THE PROBLEM: Every single day, 50,000 people are dying, needlessly, of extreme poverty. More than were dying at the time of Live Aid. Dying of AIDS, dying of hunger, dying of diseases like TB and Diarrhoea. Dying, often for want of medicines which we can buy over the counter in a chemist.
     
     HERE’S THE OPPORTUNITY: On 6 July 2005, the 8 leaders of the world’s richest and most powerful countries meet for the G8 summit in Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland. Around the table will be George Bush, Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schröder, Silvio Berlusconi, Paul Martin, Junichiro Koizumi and Vladimir Putin.
     
     In front of these 8 men will be a costed and cogent plan - the result of a year’s work by the Africa Commission - a plan to drop 100% of the debts owed by the world’s richest countries by the world’s poorest countries, to double the amount of high quality aid which is spent in those countries adding an extra $50 billion, and to change the injustices of the trade laws so that those countries can build a future for themselves.
     
     These 8 men will have it in their power to save literally millions of lives. There’s never been an opportunity like this before - and may not be again in our lifetime. The G8 could put an end to the greatest scandal of our time!
     
     HERE’S THE EVENT: At the G8 summit, those 8 men will have the choice to change the way our world works; but they won’t unless enough people tell them to.
     
     That is why LIVE 8 is happening. To make them do the right thing.
     
     It happens alongside a huge international campaign - the Global Call To Action Against Poverty - Make Poverty History in the UK, Bono’s One Campaign in the USA - millions of supporters in 71 countries, including all the G8 countries.
     
     20 years on Bob Geldof, the driving force behind 1985’s Live Aid, has consistently refused to revive Live Aid - but he now believes this July’s G8 conference is a unique opportunity. "Charity will never really solve the problems. It is time for justice - and 20 years after Live Aid, people now demand it of these 8 men."
     
     LIVE 8 will be held on 2 July 2005. Five simultaneous free concerts are confirmed with the cream of international rock and pop artists performing in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and Philadelphia. Hundreds of thousands will attend with billions more watching the international broadcasts.
     
     Historic venues have been selected. Hyde Park, London, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Philadelphia - the Cradle of America and the Live Aid City in 1985, the historic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and the staggering Circus Maximus in Rome - and plans for concerts in the other G8 capitals are being developed.

Originally Posted By Agustin (15 JUN 2005 1:52pm)

Any idea which four songs will be?

Originally Posted By Agustin (15 JUN 2005 1:52pm)
Too good to be true!

Any idea which four songs will be?