Friday, April 27, 2012

A Q&A With George Clooney on Sudan



Q&A with George Clooney: Hollywood Legend Talks Sudan, Satellites and How to Stop Atrocities -- Time

If you wanted a celebrity to adopt your cause, you’d pray for George Clooney. The 50-year-old gets to address Congress, the National Security Council and the U.N. General Assembly, meet U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and have dinner with President Barack Obama. He is resourceful enough to rent a satellite and point it at Sudan. He is also dedicated: the week before his arrest outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington in March, he took his sixth trip to South Sudan since 2005. TIME’s Africa bureau chief Alex Perry spoke to him there.

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My Comment:
I may differ with George Clooney on a number of political issues, but mega kudos for the excellent work that he is doing in the Sudan.

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