Live Aid

The original Live Aid was an awesome, beautiful, and generation-defining event. It's incredible that Geldof is going to do it again. Perhaps the most unbelievable part of this is that it needs to be done again at all - the West seems to have slumped back into its comfortable ignorance of the sufferings of people in the third world.

This is a powerful quote from Geldof himself:

Still 20 years on, it strikes me as morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

He's right.