Live 8 - Making Poverty History? Or Entrenching Our Irresponsibility? By John Bunzl, Trustee, International Simultaneous Policy Organisation The very name "Live 8" used for the rock concerts being held around the world on 2nd July to coincide with the G-8 meeting of the world’s richest nations indicates a focus on just eight politicians. It thus implies that just eight people could, if only they are sufficiently pressured, change the world by finally making poverty history. Bob Geldof KBE certainly seems to agree that these eight people have this within their power when, in referring to the original Live Aid concerts, he recently said, "We couldn’t change politics 20 years ago. It was a different world. Now it’s not a charity, it’s about political justice." Live 8, he says, "has to be this