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Live Aid 1985
Bob Geldof and Midge Ure were popular musicians in the 1980's who were particularly concerned about famine in Sudan and Ethiopia. They created a song called 'Do They Know It's Christmas" which made around 8 million pounds for charity. Following this success, they arranged a 16-hour conert broadcast via satellite from Britain and the US. They reached an audience of 1.9 billion and raised over $140 million for charity. -
Battle in Seattle
The WTO Ministerial Conference in 1999 had protests happen outside after pressure to change trade rules to favour poorer countries. This protest outside the WTO Conference attracted some 50,000 protesters from all over the world - for the most part being organised on the internet. Representatives of over 700 organisations were present, attracting media attention, highlighting the ups and downs of globalisation. This was the first but definitely not last of its kind. -
GCAP
The Global Call to Action Against Poverty was founded, encouraging alliances between trade unions, youth groups and religious groups to form. They had a platform based on some key issues, social, political and economical. -
Live 8
A following arrangement made by Geldorf in 2005 saw a purpose of pressuring G8 nations to pledge more aid to Africa, resulting in $50 billion aid package being arranged in the Gleneagles summit. -
Avaaz
Avaaz is a global organisation which encourages political and global awareness and action. In their first year they presented a petition to the G8 conference. With over 400,000 signatures from people from 193 countries, it showed that the world could band together for a singular worldly cause, all thanks to globalisation. -
Earth Hour
The first Earth Hour takes place in Sydney. Run by WWF, the first Earth Hour went from one city, to over 150 nations in 2013. This attracted people by doing something simple to collectively join together for a mutual cause. This was made possible by the effects of globalisation including the media, internet and social media.
