If you are in an unsigned NZ band, have a studio quality recording of a song, are prepared to donate a small fee (hopefully around $20) to production costs and are interested in including your song on a charity album for the Tsunami disaster relief fund then please contact me on:
info@vague-mag.com
If you are a promoter/distributor/producer and feel you could help get this project off the ground and want to help those people who really need it in the Tsunami affected areas then please, get in touch!!
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With all due respect to everyone ...
With all due respect to everyone affected by the tsunami, and those doing all they can to help, does anyone else find it biazarre that we can conjure up this much love and money for the cause, when we just keep on ignoring the 150,000 people who die of AIDS in Africa every year?
Even more bizarre because AIDS is something we can do something about, earthquakes and tsunamis we cannot...
the plight of aids sufferers in africa ...
the plight of aids sufferers in africa doesn't make good tv. Wiping away 150,000+ people in the space of a few hours? far more shock value.
Africa doesn't tend to get the attention required for such outpurings of public sympathy (and cash). Genocides, famime and disease there are all considered less important than brad and jen's breakup - sad, but true.
It's great to see the level of public response to this disaster though.
It's not bizarre, it's the affect of ...
It's not bizarre, it's the affect of the media. The graphic and shocking events of the Tsunami disaster are on everyone's tv screens every day, the AIDS and famine problems in Africa and worldwide, unfortunately, are not considered newsworthy at the moment. Also many New Zealanders will have known, or known of, people who were lost in this disaster.
You're right, we can't prevent a Tsunami by donating to those that survived. If, however, we are able to encourage people to get into the habit of giving, then it will make it easier to persuade them to keep on giving to help the myriad of less fortunate people around the world.
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...also people respond when they can ...
...also people respond when they can see that their contributions make an immediate impact. The current contributions are a relatively simple short-term response to a sudden overwhelming desperate need.
Other situations like the AIDS problem in Africa do get an occasional boost in the media, but most people don't have the energy to take on a cause - particularly one in which politics play a part - and fight loudly for it day in day out for years. The same will be true when the immediate need of the tsunami victims has diminished, and the victims are battling the longer term social and political effects.
And there *are* people still fighting those other causes. I certainly didn't raid my World Vision contributions to Tanzania to find some extra cash for tsunami victims. It's just not viable to keep hyped up over a particular issue for any long period of time - it's too exhausting - so ultimately you'll just have to be satisfied with a few dependable people offering regular small contributions with little hoopla. Sure, encourage people to give a little more if they can, but I'm tired of hearing people complaining about how blinkered and selfish we all are because we're Not Giving Enough.
Please can we keep this thread for ...
Please can we keep this thread for people who want to help with this project. If you want to make wider social comments can you start another thread. Thanks.
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good point. Hope the album idea gets ...
good point. Hope the album idea gets off the ground - both for the charity reason and to raise the profile of any bands that might end up associated with it (sound of half the musos on here hearing 'commercial success' and running like hell away from here, while the rest franticly search for a song they can send off).
Fair enough. By the way, for those ...
Fair enough.
By the way, for those with not so much talent or money to give, there's a new txt fund just started by wrord vision. txt 'donate' to 883 and they bill ya $3. That's do-able.