Many of you probably couldn’t make it to our live pop-up concert at the Tate Modern in London on June 12 and 13 for agit8, but never fear – we’ve recorded many of the performances and will be rolling them out for you to listen to over the next few weeks. The musicians covered some
Day Two of agit8 live in London had another incredible line-up of artists, and the crowds were even bigger than the day before. Tom Jones and Jools Holland kicked the music off with ‘Lord Help’ and Jake Bugg did an incredible cover of ‘Universal Soldier’ originally made famous by Donovan. Romeo from The Magic Numbers
Lately, we’ve been obsessed with the Vine app, a mobile app that allows you to create 6-second video clips. So we thought it would be fun to record a few of them to show you what it was like to be at the Tate Modern in London for our live agit8 pop-up concert yesterday. Here’s
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A view of the stage from the crowd We kicked off our agit8 protest songs project in a the BIG way yesterday: By hosting a free, two-day pop-up concert of about two dozen acts at the Tate Modern in London. Buskers, actors and up-and-coming artists shared the spotlight with top UK acts like KT Tunstall,
Providing electricity to 1.2 billion people who don’t have access to reliable sources of energy is a key component to ending extreme poverty worldwide by 2030, says a new World Bank report. In this video, World Bank Vice President Rachel Kyte explains why people living without electricity is such a crucial part of a country’s
Forget “be the change” – try being the “momentum”! A few months ago, Bono made a really huge statement during his TED Talk: Extreme poverty can be virtually eliminated by 2030. If it sounds too good to be true, consider this: it’s going to take an extraordinary amount of support from both activists and world leaders
How do the US government, NGOs, the agriculture policy community and activists plan to get world leaders to prioritize chronic malnutrition at this year’s G8 Summit? By working together – and here’s a video to prove it. This morning, USAID Administrator Raj Shah joined a Google+ Hangout – a group video chat – with ONE’s
Today, at 12:15PM EST/9:15AM PT, ONE will host a Google+ Hangout featuring USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah on how the US and the global agriculture policy community plan to put nutrition on the G8 agenda. Dr. Shah will be joined by Tjada McKenna, Deputy Coordinator for Development at Feed the Future; Tom Hart, ONE US Executive Director; Lucy Sullivan,
Bono talking to Charlie Rose. Photo credit: Rose Guerin/Charlie Rose Inc. Our ONE members know that Bono is just as much an activist as he is a rock star – you see it in the work he does with ONE during every campaign. But for those of you who know him mostly as the front man of
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After journalist-turned-agriculture activist Roger Thurow witnessed the famine in Ethiopia in 2003 first hand, he dropped everything and devoted his life to answering this mind-boggling question: Why are Africa’s small farmers some of the continent’s hungriest people? Kudos to Roger for not only being brave enough to ask this question, but for doing all the research to
Alright. So, you’ve signed ONE’s petition to end chronic child malnutrition for 25 million children (or if you haven’t, click here right now to sign it, then come back!). You’re now part of ONE’s global food revolution, a movement of nearly 250,000 ONE members around the globe who care about this specific issue. Err, now
It’s undeniable. China has a huge presence in Africa. Many Africans can point out Chinese-funded buildings, roads and mines, and it’s not uncommon to see more than a few Chinese faces around construction projects and efforts across the development sector. As the country moves toward the up and up both economically and as a world
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