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The Black Eyed Peas brought Rita and Steven Marley on stage to sing Get Up, Stand Up. Steven looks and sounds amazingly like his dad.

Alot of people in the crowd are waving items imprinted with www.one.org they have a petition that states:

“WE BELIEVE that in the best American tradition of helping others help themselves, now is the time to join with other countries in a historic pact for compassion and justice to help the poorest people of the world overcome AIDS and extreme poverty.

WE RECOGNIZE that a pact including such measures as fair trade, debt relief, fighting corruption and directing additional resources for basic needs – education, health, clean water, food, and care for orphans – would transform the futures and hopes of an entire generation in the poorest countries, at a cost equal to just one percent more of the US budget.

WE COMMIT ourselves - one person, one voice, one vote at a time - to make a better, safer world for all.”

It sounds good. It will take hard work from the groups they've partnered with and a commitment from individual African leadership. That is the toughest struggle with the issues facing that continent. Mugabe is not the only rithless dictator.