LIVE 8 Concert Kick Off With Celebrities, Activists and ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History

LIVE 8 Concert Kick Off With Celebrities, Activists and ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History

Activist Training and Rally to Call for Historic Deal at G8: End Global Aids and Poverty

WHAT: On Saturday, July 2nd, ONE volunteers from across America will join celebrities and local dignitaries at an activist training session and press conference/rally to kick-off Philadelphia Live 8 Concert efforts. Speakers will highlight the massive nationwide grassroots movement calling for 100 percent debt cancellation, more and better aid and trade justice for the world's poorest nations.

Following the press conference, millions will gather at LIVE 8 concerts across the globe to put positive pressure on world leaders in advance of the G8 Africa Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland on July 6-8th.

Philadelphia is just the first stop for the grassroots leaders, who represent delegations from all 50 states. They will then continue their journey on to Gleneagles, sending President Bush to the G8 on a wave of support for doing more to fight global AIDS and extreme poverty.

At the G8 Africa Summit, world leaders will meet to discuss the major social, political and economic conditions that contribute to poverty. The eight presidents and prime ministers of the G8 nations will be presented with a workable plan for better international assistance, 100 percent debt cancellation and trade reform -- and an historic opportunity to end poverty and save millions of lives.

WHEN: Saturday, July 2, 2005 8:00 am ONE Volunteer Activist Training 9:00 a.m. Press Conference and Rally

WHERE: Philadelphia Museum of Art (Behind the museum, next to the media tent)

ONE is composed of America's most well-known and respected non-profit, advocacy and humanitarian organizations including founding members Bread for the World, CARE, DATA, Plan USA, International Medical Corps, International Rescue Committee, Mercy Corps, Oxfam America, Save the Children, World Concern, World Vision and many others. For more information, please visit ONE.ORG.

CONTACT: John R. Chambers, +1-202-572-2859 or +1-202-285-0448 cell, for ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History.

PRNewswire -- June 30

Source: ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History

Web site: http://www.one.org/

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