Bono, your sunglasses could feed a starving child for a year...

[sophuda]

I had a feeling that this version of Live Aid (Live 8, if you will) would have some negative feedback and I was sort of right; in today's Toronto Star (in France do they call their newspapers 'Etoile' and 'Soleil'?) there were a plethora of articles on the issue of African Aid and especially about how effective Live 8 really was. My opinion is

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[mmoszczynski]

Yeah the whole live 8 thing seems to be a lot of hot air. While I do favour more aid to Africa, I'm ind of proud of Paul Martin refusing to commit to a number he doesn't think he can attain. It's so easy for Schroeder to say he'll donate 0.7% when his party's about to lose power: he'll just blame it on the new girl when those targets aren't met, and they won't be, because all the European countries are running deficits and in the end people care way more about their own benefits than Africans', Pink Floyd reunion or not. Not that Bush is really on the right track either, but concerts like this just make people feel good about issues without doing anything about them. It's almost more harm than good.