In New York, Metallica, Mariah Carey and… Joe Biden at the bedside of the planet! Behind this event, which has been held every year for ten years at the end of the United Nations General Assembly, is the philanthropic NGO Global Citizen, an international digital platform created by Australian Hugh Evans and which wants to bring together”globalized citizens“made aware of the scourges of famine, underdevelopment, climate change or discrimination.
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To win a ticket to Central Park, Manhattan’s huge green lung, you had to register on the Global Citizen website, sign petitions and send messages on social networks to put pressure on the planet’s political leaders and economies.
Broadcast on many TVs and platforms, the New York concert was held simultaneously with another in Accra, Ghana, despite the time difference.
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President Joe Biden and his wife Jill assured in a video message that the United States is committed to “fight” for the climate and adopted a law this summer that includes $369 billion in investments for “improve health, promote justice and create clean energy“.
The two leaders of the Democratic majority in the Senate and in the House of Representatives, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, took the stage in person to defend Washington’s environmental policy.
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Before them, the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen was also at the Central Park concert to tell the “citizens of the world (that she had heard them)“.”We must end famine (…) Europe mobilizes €600 million for food security in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific“, he assured.
The voice of the small countries of the Pacific and the Caribbean, threatened by global warming
But after five hours of mini-concerts and consensual messages from political leaders and American corporate sponsors of the festival, it took the power of the metal sound of the legendary hard rock group Metallica to enliven the thousands of fans gathered in Central Park. The nearly 60-year-old Californians delighted their audience for an hour with a version of their legendary title “Nothing Else Matters” sung by Mickey Guyton, who lays claim to America’s first black country music artist.
The “Global Citizen Festival” also vibrated thanks to the dynamic young Italian rockers of the Maneskin group and the New Yorkers of the Jonas Brothers, one of whose three brothers is married to the star of Indian Bollywood cinema, Priyanka Chopra, godmother of the ceremony in the central park .
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World-renowned New York pop artist Mariah Carey performed an upbeat version of her classic “Hero,” accompanied by ballet dancer Misty Copeland.
Between two mini-concerts, political and business leaders took turns on stage. Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley broadcast the alarmist messages of her counterparts from small Pacific and Caribbean countries threatened by global warming, who have been hammering home all week at the United Nations. “Yes, my friends, our time is running out“, he warned.
Violence against women has also been reported: an Iranian lawyer who took refuge in BerlinAnuscheh Amir-Khalili, evoked on stage the death in Iran of the young Masha Amini arrested by the morality police, sparking demonstrations and their repression.
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“I saw my sisters fleeing aggression, oppression and feminicide all over the world (…) We must speak up for oppressed women“, he launched, the serious mine, under the applause.
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