Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watarts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watarts!mupmalis From: mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (mike upmalis) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: "USA for Africa" trash... Message-ID: <8408@watarts.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 15:37:18 EST Article-I.D.: watarts.8408 Posted: Mon Apr 15 15:37:18 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Apr-85 23:22:19 EST References: <93700002@hpcnoa.UUCP> <2905@dartvax.UUCP> Reply-To: mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (mike upmalis) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 38 Summary: In article <2905@dartvax.UUCP> merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) writes: >> >I could deal with a video that, intersperced with shots of "my favourite >popular stars singing their hearts out for the starving children of Ethiopia >and Africa" (I know Ethiopia is in Africa. Let me finish) they show me >some of those starving people in Ethiopia. I've never really dealt with the >whole topic. The best I've done is gone a whole day without a meal...just >snacks. But, of course, the fifteen year-old Michael Jackson fans would go >"Oooh! Grodey!" and shut off the set. So they give us the sanitized version. > >And now, for chrissakes, the Canadians are making one, which is almost as >boring, but at least it doesn't sound like a Pepsi Commercial. ("We are >the world, we are the pepsi generation...") > An important thing to remember not to many years ago there was a concert for the people of Biafara. And a decade later, a concert to raise money for MUSE in New York. People donating their talents for a good cause is not new, what distresses is the consequences or lack of success of what happened. Canada has donated ~20 million dollars in money and products to famine relief, the video, Tears are not enough (which does show the children of Ethiopia) has raised ~200,000 dollars so far. Should they have not bothered, after all ~200,000 will only save about 100,000 lives. Should the people who skipped lunch on selected Wednesdays and gave the 2 to 5 to 20 dollars to charity not bothered? Charity is bits and pieces of effort of a large umber of people, while I can say that I don't like the american song, and that I am uncomfortable with this method of raising funds, that any success, or the keeping in the awareness of the public will still be a part of the solution. I don't know what you base the attack on the Canadian music scene on, You can here the song on the American album and judge for youself, I urge you first to listen before you decide, I consider it a stronger policy.. -- ~~ Mike Upmalis (mupmalis@watarts)