06 July 2005

As Murrayfield gears up to host pop stars and supergroups on the first evening of the G8 summit, ActionAid’s Brendan O’Donnell speaking from the ActionAid ‘Get on Board – Jo’burg to G8 bus’, said: "When the amplifiers are switched off, the challenge will be to change the energy into empathy, the concern into commitment. Activism must rock and not just the music."
 
ActionAid’s Get on Board bus left Johannesburg in March and has travelled through Africa collecting messages from thousands of African people to deliver to G8 leaders. The messages are a challenge to the world’s most powerful leaders when they gather this week in Gleneagles to make crucial decisions about global poverty.
 
Brendan O’Donnell and fellow bus traveller, Kenyan Ivy Maina, will be available for interview during and after the Live8 Edinburgh concert. At the concert, the ActionAid bus will be parked at the East Stand next to the Clock Tower.