Live 8 to breathe life into Africa?

In case you haven't heard, Live 8 is "10 concerts, 100 artists, a million spectators, 2 billion viewers, and 1 message... To get those 8 men, in that 1 room [at the approaching July 6th G8 meeting in Scotland], to stop 30,000 children dying every single day of extreme poverty." Artists at the UK concert include Coldplay, Elton John, Keane, The Killers, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Mariah Carey, Snoop Dogg, U2, and others. There are large concerts in each of the other G8 nations (even Russia--although I don't recognize any of the listed bands) and in Johannesburg, South Africa. Free tickets were given out by radio/text contests, so they plan to gain proceeds via DVD sales. But mostly, they want to the overwhelming attendence of their concerts to pressure the G8 into cancelling African debt, doubling aid, passing fair trade laws, and increasing AIDS research and accessibility to expensive AIDS treatment. While this is an unprecedented event (as far as I know...Woodstock was just a hippie convention but didn't have global aims, right?), how much will it accomplish? My guess is, not very much. Don't get me wrong--the idea of celebrities using their star power for worldwide charity is very very cool. But Live 8 simply states it's goal for helping Africa, w/o providing much reason why it should be done besides the cliched appeals to pathos that we've all heard before..."Each day, xxxxxxxx^z*y children die daily to poverty and hunger." I don't mean to sound cruel, but the reality is that more debate needs to be done to convince people like President Bush. Heck, even I'm not convinced that cancelling all African debt, doubling aid, and passing fair trade laws are sound ideas (I'm sold on AIDS research already). I'm not against those ideas, but I have heard the opposite side of those arguments, that Africa should learn to pull itself up etc. etc. that even Keane could not woo my beliefs to the Live 8 cause with just a kick-ass song. Snowball's chance in Texas that Bush and other world leaders would be touched by the attendence of Live 8 and change their minds. Still, this is unbelievably cool. I have to rent to dvd when it comes out.