The Launch of ONE Voice at the San Remo Music Festival!
The month of February means one thing in Italy – The San Remo Music Festival. The whole country stops what they are doing and comes together as one to watch the five day festival. What better opportunity for ONE to get its messages out and hopefully to influence the Italian government as chair of the G8 this year? With great help from some well-known Italian and International artists, we put together a bespoke Italian film for the festival – ONE Voice.
ONE Voice features some of the world’s finest actors, musicians and sports personalities talking about the campaign in Italian. Artists include: Ben Affleck, Antonio Banderas, Andrea Bocelli, Bono, Penelope Cruz, Matt Damon, Bob Geldof, Thierry Henry, Idris, Jovanotti, Laura Pausini and Giuliano Sangiorgi.
We were lucky enough to get the film aired live last night at the Festival and on RAI Uno (a major mainstream Italian TV channel). I’ve just found out that it was watched by more than 11 million people. So all the hard work everyone put in to make this a success has been worth it and hopefully more people will watch it going forward and therefore get involved in the fight against poverty.
(Transcript in English below)
Every three seconds a child dies from extreme poverty
Someones daughter, someones son
This year Italy, as host of the G8, can help beat poverty and disease
World leaders can stop this
One more personemaillettervoice could make the difference between life and death
We dont want need your money
We need your voice
By coming together as ONE we have made great progress
But there is still much more to do
This about justice, not charity
Please join us
Thank you
-Katie Hayes, Campaigns Coordinator
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February 19, 2009 at 2:40 pm
This is good!
F.
February 20, 2009 at 7:38 pm
This is a GREAT video, Katie – thanks for posting it. I love the fact that Andrea Bocelli (sp ?) took part in this video because he is well-regarded in his homeland of Italy and thus will raise the positive profile of ONE there. And, as always, I love to watch Bob Geldof and Bono speaking in a the various languages of the G8 – just wait until we get to Russia! (smile)
Good to see that ONE International is starting out early building support for the goals of ONE in the country where this year’s G8 summit will take place and in a country that has fallen way behind in keeping their promise to the world’s poorest people…..Let’s hope that it all works.
ALWAYS ONE in the Spirit, debbie
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April 3, 2009 at 9:09 pm
i love is it.