Last Friday, Red Pepper took part in Radio 4's The Message programme to debate the role of celebrity-led media-oriented campaigning in light of the Geldof-Make Poverty History phenomenon. The programme can be heard on the following link:
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G8 debt relief scam: Africa needs justice!
Casual readers of the newspaper headlines could be forgiven for believing that the leaders of the richest and most powerful countries have had a miraculous change of heart. If the papers are to be
believed, the key decades-long demand of the global justice movement — debt cancellation — had been agreed to, thanks to an unlikely alliance between Tony Blair's British Labour government, leading aid agencies and pop "legends" Bob Geldof and Bono. However, the devil is in the details, as Australia's Green Left Weekly's Norm Dixon discovers. [Full article]
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p28.htm
Posted by: Norm Dixon | Monday, 27 June 2005 at 07:45