Bono and Russert on Live 8
Bono was on Meet the Press today to discuss the upcoming Live 8 efforts to end poverty in Africa. The transcript is here. A few highlights:
One billions dollars is all it would take to save a million lives from malaria, with bed nets, etc., $1 billion. Four billion dollars, you could change the world. From the United States, an extra commitment of $4 billion.....there's a tsunami happening every month in Africa, but it's an avoidable catastrophe. It is not a natural calamity.
On the issue of whether he and Bob Geldof are being used by Blair, Bush and others in power:
Am I being used? In a certain sense perhaps, but it works both ways. If they deliver, we must deserve applause. We must give the respect.
And on the debt issue which they've delivered in this last week, they deserve credit. If they blow it, then they deserve our boos and our hisses and they will lose our audience, and our audience is a big audience. I don't mean the U2 audience, but music constituency. They're the floating vote. They're the people who haven't made up their mind where they're going to vote.
For more information on Live 8:
On July 6th, we finally have the opportunity to stop that shameful statistic. 8 world leaders, gathered in Scotland for the G8 summit, will be presented with a workable plan to double aid, drop the debt and make the trade laws fair. If these 8 men agree, then we will become the generation that made poverty history.
- One.Org: The campaign to make poverty history
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