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Event: 2015 Global Citizen Festival
When: Saturday, September 26, 2015 @ 12PM
Hot Spot: Central Park, NYC ~ Watch the LIVE STREAM at globalcitizen.org!
Deets: For the fourth year – World leaders, celebrities, and 60,000 global citizens gathered in Central Park at The Great Lawn to help end extreme poverty by 2030.
Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay, has signed on as an ambassador for the anti-poverty group Global Citizen, and will serve as the curator of its international music festival for the next 15 years, said Hugh Evans, the chief executive of the Global Poverty Project, which oversees the campaign.
What Is Global Citizen?
The fight for justice has never been easy. But human history has always been shaped by the courageous actions taken by those with a vision of a better world.
From the civil rights movement to the end of Apartheid, people with a belief in a better world have sparked and spread their passion for progress to families, communities and countries across the globe, building justice movements that have changed society forever.
As Global Citizens, we stand against the greatest injustice of our time: extreme poverty. We’re fighting because we know that a world that deprives 1.2 billion people of their basic rights and opportunities is unjust, and unacceptable. We’re fighting because we know that we must be the ones to do something about it.
As Global Citizens we celebrate the efforts made to cut extreme poverty by half, but recognise more still needs to be done. We know that people living in extreme poverty are working hard to break the cycle of poverty themselves, but that we need to learn, and take action, to change the rules that trap them in broken golobal systems that have been in place for far too long.
Lineup: Pearl Jam, Ed Sheeran, Beyoncé, and Coldplay! Common, Tori Kelly, Sunidhi Chauhan and more!
Hosts: Stephen Colbert, Salma Hayek Pinault, Deborra-Lee & Hugh Jackman, Kerry Washington, Olivia Wilde
Spotted: Chris Martin, Ed Sheeran, Olivia Wilde, Beyoncé, Coldplay, Pearl Jam, Stephen Colbert, Salma Hayek Pinault, Deborra-Lee & Hugh Jackman, Kerry Washington, Olivia Wilde, Common, Tori Kelly, Sunidhi Chauhan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Malala, Bono, Malala & more! For a full Who’s Who List click here!
For more information visit http://www.globalcitizen.org.
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