Geldof supports free trade!
Thanks to the
House of Dumb for reminding me to post about
this:A bold plan by Irish rocker-turned-activist Bob Geldof for multi-city concerts to combat poverty in Africa ran into flak when it became clear how few black artists are involved.With the arguable exception of Mariah Carey, none of the headliners for the centrepiece Live8: The Long Walk to Justice concert at Hyde Park in London on July 2 are black, let alone African.
I heard about this on the radio when I was out for a spin on Friday in my globalised Hyundai. The sainted one's explanation was that few African performers were of superstar status. That may well be so but I thought that these Live8 chappies believed in Fair Trade - you know, the kind of thing promulgated by the
Trade Justice Movement whose website tells us:
Together, we are campaigning for trade justice - not free trade - with the rules weighted to benefit poor people and the environment.
On that basis shouldn't Saint Bob be weighting his hiring policies towards the employment of African performers even if they aren't superstars?
posted by David Farrer at 19:49
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