hello guys,
once again Bandaid 20 did a great song or let's say a great job doing this track for the hungry people ... god help them ... check it out ...
Bandaid 20 - Do They Know It's Christmas ?
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by DJ_NO² » Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:31 pm
the new BandAid 20 song (UK)? It involves artists such as Paul McCartney, Sugababes, The Darkness, Busted, Will Young, Robbie Williams ,Madonna and Jamelia. The last BandAid song was made in 1984, this is the newer version.
The Band-Aid 20 rehashing of 1984’s ‘Do They Know it’s Christmas’ perpetuates racist and untrue myths about the reality of development in Africa. Children do not starve in Africa because ‘nothing ever grows’ and ‘no rain or river flows’ but because poverty and inequity are conditions of our globalised economy.
The Band-Aid release is part of a wider PR offensive before the launch of the ‘Commission for Africa’ and the G8 summit to be held in Scotland next year. Aid relief and sticking plaster solutions create the impression that the ‘powers that be’ are taking action. In reality effective action against poverty would damage the western economic interests which Blair and his G8 friends represent.
The message is not that the people of the African continent don’t deserve our help and solidarity but that Africa isn’t going to be helped by people who see the continent as a potential market or by a population who, once a year, become swept along by government spin and allow their consciences to be bought by a bad single.
From 1990-1997 the global south repaid £55 Billion more than it received in aid.
The 1984 band aid single raised £9.5 million.
The 2002 G8 summit in Evian cost £400 million.
The war in Iraq has so far cost the UK taxpayer £80 billion.
The Band-Aid 20 rehashing of 1984’s ‘Do They Know it’s Christmas’ perpetuates racist and untrue myths about the reality of development in Africa. Children do not starve in Africa because ‘nothing ever grows’ and ‘no rain or river flows’ but because poverty and inequity are conditions of our globalised economy.
The Band-Aid release is part of a wider PR offensive before the launch of the ‘Commission for Africa’ and the G8 summit to be held in Scotland next year. Aid relief and sticking plaster solutions create the impression that the ‘powers that be’ are taking action. In reality effective action against poverty would damage the western economic interests which Blair and his G8 friends represent.
The message is not that the people of the African continent don’t deserve our help and solidarity but that Africa isn’t going to be helped by people who see the continent as a potential market or by a population who, once a year, become swept along by government spin and allow their consciences to be bought by a bad single.
From 1990-1997 the global south repaid £55 Billion more than it received in aid.
The 1984 band aid single raised £9.5 million.
The 2002 G8 summit in Evian cost £400 million.
The war in Iraq has so far cost the UK taxpayer £80 billion.
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by System.S » Mon Dec 20, 2004 5:08 pm
ahaaa nice nice, thanks dude,
i also heard they are doing a remake of WE ARE THE WORLD, a new version of it with new well known artists as well. not the BANDAID but a woman, grr forgot her name, any way ill do a research and tell u more about that project.
thanks again
i also heard they are doing a remake of WE ARE THE WORLD, a new version of it with new well known artists as well. not the BANDAID but a woman, grr forgot her name, any way ill do a research and tell u more about that project.
thanks again
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