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Thread #82177   Message #1516510
Posted By: GUEST
06-Jul-05 - 06:21 PM
Thread Name: Every 3 seconds...a child dies...Live 8
Subject: RE: Every 3 seconds...a child dies...Live 8
Well....it's 11.10pm here in the UK and I've literally just finished watching the incredible Annie Lennox deliver her speech about Making Poverty History, to tens of thousands of people in Murrayfield Stadium and that fine lady spoke every word with such heartfelt passion that it made me get up and come here to write this.

Her words 'Piers' and her views are what this whole campaign is about. (Well done for being there, by the way!)

At times she could barely hold back her emotions but the crowd went absolutely wild at the end of her speech. She outshone everyone else that I've seen so far in the whole of this spectacular week. You felt that she meant every single word, espcially when she finished with her words for the politicians which were that if they still choose to ignore how the world is feeling about all this, then they do so at their own peril.

Good for you Annie!....You tell them!! Thank you for putting into words what so many of us are feeling!

If ANYONE has a link to the concert and Annie's speech I'd be very grateful, as I'm sure that others would like to hear what she had to say and how she said it.

Lizzie