Band Aid 20 - The Real Story
Do you know its capitalism | 14.12.2004 16:27 | G8 2005 | Culture | London | World
Do they really give a fuck at all’ is the CD released by the Free the World Collective. The CD is a response from the anti-capitalist movement with several spoof versions of the Band-Aid 20 single, a song almost beyond parody. Diverse in their messages and themes, the songs are about understanding that we don’t exist separately from the “world outside our window”, that we are all part of that world and have the power to change it.
2004-12-14
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CD release exposes truth behind Band Aid.
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.
Download the CD:
http://bandaid.dissent.org.uk
More information:
Dissent network http://www.dissent.org.uk
World Development Movement http://www.wdm.org.uk
Contact: 07904 452 297
Email: doyouknowitscapitalism@yahoo.co.uk
Email:
doyouknowitscapitalism@yahoo.co.uk CD release exposes truth behind Band Aid.
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.
Download the CD:
http://bandaid.dissent.org.uk More information:
Dissent network
http://www.dissent.org.uk World Development Movement
http://www.wdm.org.uk Contact: 07904 452 297
Email:
doyouknowitscapitalism@yahoo.co.uk
Do you know its capitalism
e-mail:
doyouknowitscapitalism@yahoo.co.uk
Homepage:
http://bandaid.dissent.org.uk
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Fuckin hell
15.12.2004 01:22
what?
Ammedment of Press release
15.12.2004 13:03
The World Development movement have not been involved with this project- we have only placed their website address in order that you may be able to access more information on issues of trade justice, debt and poverty. They have run a seperate and unconnected alternative lyrics to the Band Aid single.
The free the world collective is involved with the Dissent! network but does not inanyway represent the views or opinions of all groups involved within the Dissent! network.
The statistic that the UK taxpayer has spent 80 billion on the war in Iraq is incorrect. The figure should read 6 billion with a total of an 80 billion budget projected for combined US/UK military expernditure
apologies to confusion this may have caused
free the world collective
e-mail:
doyouknowitscapitalism
Homepage:
http://www.bandaid.dissent.org.uk
Axis of Justice
16.12.2004 16:48
Not just a Band Aid
Homepage:
http://www.axisofjustice.org/