Live 8 fun but…revolution?

by limbic on July 2, 2005

From: Why it’s so easy for everybody to love Live 8

We have repeatedly been told that this weekend’s Live 8 concerts and the Make Poverty History protests around the G8 over the next few days are going to ’tilt the world on its axis’. However, a word of advice for all those enthusiastically embracing that ambition. History suggests that the world is rarely radically changed by protests which are sponsored by the British government and the entire political class, supported by the Church of England and the Pope, mobilised for by the BBC and all of the other major media outlets, and which even have the blessing of the chiefs of police.

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