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LIVE 8 - The Long Walk To Justice

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS TO ATTEND FREE CONCERTS IN EUROPE AND AMERICA, WHILE BILLIONS WATCH ON TV AND PARTICIPATE ONLINE TO DEMAND G8 ACT TO END POVERTY

HERE'S THE PROBLEM… Every single day, 50,000 people are dying, needlessly, of extreme poverty. More than were dying at the time of Live Aid. Dying of AIDS, dying of hunger, dying of diseases like TB and Diarrhoea. Dying, often for want of medicines which we can buy over the counter in a chemist.

HERE'S THE OPPORTUNITY… On 6 July 2005, the 8 leaders of the world's richest and most powerful countries meet for the G8 summit in Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland. Around the table will be George Bush, Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schröder, Silvio Berlusconi, Paul Martin, Junichiro Koizumi and Vladimir Putin.

In front of these 8 men will be a costed and cogent plan - the result of a year's work by the Africa Commission - a plan to drop 100% of the debts owed by the world's richest countries by the world's poorest countries, to double the amount of high quality aid which is spent in those countries adding an extra $50 billion, and to change the injustices of the trade laws so that those countries can build a future for themselves.
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