Abstract
The organizers of Live 8, the week-long, celebrity-driven musical campaign for increased aid and debt relief for poverty-stricken nations, plugged their July 6 concert in an Edinburgh stadium as "a celebration of the largest and loudest cry to make poverty history the world has ever seen." By rush hour the next morning, four coordinated bombings in the London transit system had stolen the show from the wellorchestrated international extravaganza and handed the microphone to Tony Blair and George W. Bush. Talk about a vast right-wing conspiracy: the London terrorists could not have done more to strengthen the hand of the world's richest states against dissident voices in the West and beyond if they had actually been in cahoots.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2005
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2005 Association of Concerned Africa Scholars. This article first appeared in Bulletin of the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars 71 (2005), 7-10.
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Recommended Citation
Carapico, Sheila. "Killing Live 8, Noisily: The G-8, Liberal Dissent and the London Bombings." Bulletin of the Association of Concerned Scholars71 (2005): 8-11.