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Bob Geldof, the Irish rocker who spearheaded the Live Aid concerts in 1985 to raise money to help alleviate famine in Africa, announced the Live 8 shows Tuesday at a London news conference. The concerts are timed to anticipate the G8 summit that gets underway a few days later in Scotland, where leaders of the world's eight richest nations will meet to discuss world issues
This is without doubt a moment in history where ordinary people can grasp the chance to achieve something truly monumental and demand from the eight world leaders at G8 an end to poverty," Geldof said. "The G8 leaders have it within their power to alter history. They will only have the will to do so if tens of thousands of people show them that enough is enough
Geldof said the focus this time is on raising awareness, not money. The goal is to encourage G8 member nations — the U.S., Russia, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan — to increase aid to impoverished Third World nations and to cancel those nations' debts to the world's richest countries.
We will not tolerate the further pain of the poor while we have the financial and moral means to prevent it," Geldof said Tuesday. "What we started 20 years ago is coming to a political point in a few weeks. What we do next is seriously, properly, historically and politically important
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