CGI : Saturday Night, Live and a Success!

Shakira and Wyclef!

After a performance by Shakira and Wyclef that brought the crowd to their feet, Shay thanked everyone involved.

Some quick last pics in a moment.

Wyclef

Next: Wyclef performed, with some CGI-related ad-libbing.

Hooting and Hollering

After Alicia Keys performed “Superwoman” MTV’s Shay walked around the audience to talk to folks.

One of the two students he stops talked about the ONE Campus Challenge. For the challenge, she explains, students receive points for raising awareness for ONE and the fight against global poverty. She gives examples of ways to gain points in the challenge, like writing Letters to the Editor of your local paper or having your dean declare your campus a “Campus of ONE.”

Then there was lots of hooting and hollering;)

Bill

(paraphrased)

Bil Clinton: ‘We want to make a movement feel to this. Private people doing public work. You can work on a political campaign. You can get involved in a cause…

We live in a short attention span society. If you want people to do something, they have to know how to do it immediately…

Young people from the ages from 16-30 are more involved in the kind of work we’re talking about here tonight than at any time in history. We’re riding the tide…

I’ve got a lot of confidence in the younger generation. What the technology and the Internet and avenues like MTV give us is more and more ways to make an impact…

Find something you can give. Maybe it’s not food or money. Maybe it’s clothes you can donate. Find out what you can do.’

Bill’s goal: to get 100% of the young people to see this as a part of citizenship.

How Do We Find the Time?

Nick from New Jersey University asks: “As college students, we’re incredibly busy. How do we find time to support causes like ONE.org.

Chris says: “I bet if you had AIDS, you’d find time to work on it.”

Bill Clinton, on a more serious note, says (paraphrased) “You start from where you are. Volunteer an hour, two hours a month. Just start. Don’t get hung up that what you can give isn’t enough. You have to start from where you are.”

Chris Rock’s Reward

Sway asks Chris Rock, what’s the reward for kids to do this work?

Chris jokes, “When you talk to kid, if you want them to go blank - just say “in the long run…”

Then Chris says, any time you help someone, you get a reward.

He mentions that he and his wife help out a village in Africa. And that his kids send their clothes to kids in Africa. Later, they get photos back of the kids in Africa wearing his kids’ clothes.

“And it makes you feel so good…A lot of people call you up for help, but they don’t really need help. When you help someone out who really needs it, you feel really good.” (fully paraphrased.)

Shakira and Alicia Keys

Shakira speaking about the importance of young activism. Alicia Keys speaks about “Keep A Child Alive” and their new initiative for AIDS drugs.

Roundtable Guests

Bill is introducing the people people here for the roundtable. He quickly highlights some of their remarkable work:

• Bono for his highly successful campaign to cancel debt in developing countries.
• Shakira and Alicia Keys for their work with Keep a Child Alive and to expand access to AIDS drugs.
• Chris Rock for being extremely involved in rebuilding in the aftermath of Katrina
• Wyclef for his inspiring work as an advocate for the people of Haiti

[Note- not even close to a full description of each of the above’s work and involvement.]

President Bill Clinton

Clinton is thanking MTV for working with him on this project.

He says today young people have more power to make change than at any other time in human history - highlighting the impact of, among other things, the Internet.

He says if young people want to see the 21st century that they want to live in, we must do 3 things.

1. Make a contribution to society by doing honorable work
2. Be intelligent and active voters and participants in our democracy
3. Be civil servants

This is why they’re expanding the Clinton Global Initiative to young people: to “CGI U”