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Jump To Comment: 4 3 2 1"But Mary, didn't Geldof say that this was it, after this we can say we tried? I remember hearing him say that."
Twas Bono
"Bono and Geldof face the difficult task of ensuring that the plight of sub-Saharan Africa remains to the fore front of the media."
But Mary, didn't Geldof say that this was it, after this we can say we tried? I remember hearing him say that. I imagine he'll go back to his media enterprise and the G8'll go back to selling weapons to lunatics and keeping their foot pressed tightly on HIPC throats and the whole thing'll be forgotten about (by the mainstream of the north's media) for another couple of decades.
Northern N.G.O.s, war criminal politicos, and celebrities are not the solution. The people of the HIPC's are the solution. They must and will fight neo-liberal policies and sponsored instability.
can give ONE example of how either Geldof or Bono have differed in their "demands" from the already rejected Brown plan on debt reduction, then I'll buy a ticket and a wristband.
This "protest march and gig series" are Blair directed shams, nothing has been suggested which goes further than the position already discussed during the London / Washington summit.
If you think the Davos Switzerland 2005 World Economic Forum held under the title "Taking Responsibility for Tough Choices" was somehow made more democratic or relevant to the millions who have died in the meantime through poverty, or war, or disease, or lack of water, or hunger, or lack of drugs for want of patent permission by the presence of Blair, Bono and Bill Gates on the stage, then you don't get further than GO. What is most offensive is that whilst the irish government refuses to expand its aid and honour its previous commitments, the english speaking commercial media are happy to *spin* the whole event as "the irish conscience to the british imperial guilt".
Enough is Enough.
If the world had been fair in the first place, neither U2 nor Bill Gates would ever have approached multi-millionaire status. Yet, instead we have a world where Bono could say to the non-elected directors of world economics "my job is to tell you when you get it wrong". He's failed his job. Now it is for history to correct the wrong and see him judged.
When the blood is squeezed, add a dash of weak words loudly spoken for the worst after-taste imaginable.
"The danger is that once the Live 8 gigs have been played many will believe the fight to be over."
i thhink this quote is a good appraisal of the problems of spectacular demonstrations and such like. live 8 and MPH are spectacular in the sense that they rely totally on those in power to effect their demands, which itself relies on the unspoken presupposition that the powerful wil listen to their subjects if only they are asked. participation in events takes the form of spectation, turn up to gigs, go to events- all the while there is no question of the power hierarchies inherent in world economics that create these problems. in fact as a lobby group or campaign MPH actually reinforces the legitimacy of the powerful by saying that only they have the ability to effect these changes.
my own view on mass mobilisations and state power is that the state will only change policy if the refusal to do so is of worse consequence (for the state) then doing so. so these huge once off PR stunts don't really threaten state power, the state can downplay the negative PR by a few paltry gestures, such as Brown wearing the bracelet or a highly publicised cancellation gesture, but this obviously doesn't amount to anything like what is needed to truly 'make poverty history'. the only way to make power change policies is by constant pressure, not large spectacles. the management of the world economy in the interests of first world elites is too beneficial to be given up without a fight. such a fight bwould involve a fundamental rethinking of the way the world is run, so by allowing these once off events the G8 nations are actually being done a great service by Geldof and co.
MPH provides us with a perfect example of recuperation, don't be fooled.