I just signed it. It was a really easy process to sign the list. 50,000 people die of poverty or illness every day in Africa.
30,000 of those are children. So, I couldn't really see any good reason for not signing my name to a petition that could help persuade the 8 most powerful men in the world (who are meeting up in Scotland on wednesday) to try to make moves towards drastically reducing those figures.
If you're interested, you just go to
http://www.live8live.com , type in your name and country and press send. You don't have to give an email address (unless you want to), they don't want money or credit card details or anything like that. Just your name.
I hear that there wasn't too much pre-publicity in the States about Saturday's Live8 show in Philadelphia, and yet over a million people turned up to show their support, which is great to hear. Of the highlights I saw on tv, it looked like headliner Stevie Wonder was a lot of fun, starting with Master Blaster and finishing with Superstitious. Can't say fairer than that, really. The Who were incredible at the UK show (although there's only two of them left since bass-player John Entwistle passed on).