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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
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

Shit, the songs are better than the newest versions at least. one is actually a parody of the new version, another has george bush commentating on us policy...wicked!

what?


Ammedment of Press release

15.12.2004 13:03

To clarify
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
mail e-mail: doyouknowitscapitalism
- Homepage: http://www.bandaid.dissent.org.uk


Axis of Justice

16.12.2004 16:48

Tom Morello of Audio Slave and Serj Tankian of System of a Down operate the Axis of Justice site which raises funds for progressive issues. They have released the Axis of Justice Concert Series which features Tom Morello, Serj Tankian, Jurassic 5, Pete Yorn and other bands. Pick up the CD! Definately more worthwhile than Band Aid!

Not just a Band Aid
- Homepage: http://www.axisofjustice.org/


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